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| 5070.1 | | TENAYA::KOLLING | Karen/Sweetie/Holly/Little Bit Ca. | Tue Nov 19 1991 19:57 | 3 |
| Some cats like one, some the other. If Tabs is already scratching at
the real carpet, that's a safe bet.
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| 5070.2 | | WILLEE::MERRITT | | Wed Nov 20 1991 08:14 | 6 |
| Make one with two posts...and put carpet on one...and sissle
rope on the other!!!!! I have a very big six tier cat tree...
and that is how it is made....so no cats can complain!! (ya right!!)
Sandy
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| 5070.3 | Rope | BOOKS::GERDE | Cymbal crash 2X only...DTN 237-6302 | Wed Nov 20 1991 08:57 | 5 |
| My vote is for sisal rope. I didn't want to try to explain to any of
my cats why it's ok to scratch a carpeted post, but not ok to scratch
a carpeted floor.
Jo-Ann
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| 5070.4 | | TOOK::DUGAL | Lisa-Marie | Wed Nov 20 1991 09:23 | 8 |
| How do you make a scratching post? I always thought of doing this but
I'm not sure how to tack on the carpet and/or rope. I would be afraid of using
nails because I wouldn't want Tasha to get her claws caught on one and hurt
herself. Glue doesn't seem to quite do the trick either (Tasha keep peeling
back a piece of the couch I keep glueing and taping together over the nice
whole she made).
Lisa-Marie
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| 5070.5 | I don't like the bark; it makes a mess! | JUPITR::KAGNO | Kitties with an Attitude | Wed Nov 20 1991 09:58 | 10 |
| I'm with Sandy --- use both! We have two trees, and the one with sisal
definitely gets the most use. The other has the flat, nubby carpet
that they will pick their claws on, and also claw the bark legs (the
carpet covers the platforms, perches and house). The flat, nubby
carpet is best for scratching. The only time my cats claw the
wall-to-wall is when they see something outside and think they can
tunnel their way out to it by clawing at the carpet by the sliding
doors. Kelsey is notorious for this. We have a possum family that
visits at night and Kels is fascinated with them.
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| 5070.6 | | MCIS5::ENSLEY | | Wed Nov 20 1991 12:14 | 3 |
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Pardon my ignorance, but what the heck is "sisal rope"??
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| 5070.7 | Noah Webster says: | TOMLIN::ROMBERG | some assembly required... | Wed Nov 20 1991 12:20 | 3 |
| Sisal : 1A. a strong durable white fiber used esp. for hard fiber cordage
and twine. Also called sisal hemp. B. a widely cultivated West Indian agave
whose leaves yield sisal 2. any of several fibers similar to true sisal.
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| 5070.8 | Can be purchased at any hardware store | JUPITR::KAGNO | Kitties with an Attitude | Wed Nov 20 1991 13:46 | 4 |
| Or, a simplified version to Kathy's very well stated definition:
Coarse, scratchy feeling rope!!
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| 5070.9 | | TENAYA::KOLLING | Karen/Sweetie/Holly/Little Bit Ca. | Wed Nov 20 1991 13:53 | 5 |
| On the other hand, my cats totally ignored a sisal post I bought for
them. I also have a roll of carpet remnant cluttering up my kitchen
because I haven't figured out how to recover their carpet posts
without the tacks posing a hazard....
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| 5070.10 | | MCIS5::ENSLEY | | Wed Nov 20 1991 14:56 | 9 |
| So, what's the preferred method of attaching rope to a post:
a. Elmer's glue?
b. Tacks/nails?
c. Other
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| 5070.11 | Installation | HOTWTR::DUX_AL | | Wed Nov 20 1991 17:31 | 6 |
| I have a post that has both carpet and sisal rope, two cats, one likes
carpet the other the rope. Spray the post with catnip.
For attaching the carpet I suggest stretching it tight and stapling
with a good staple gun on the seams. For the sisal rope, again staple
on end ans coil it around the post tightly then staple that end..
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| 5070.12 | How arragned? | MCIS5::ENSLEY | | Wed Nov 20 1991 18:27 | 4 |
| RE: .11
On the post with both carpet and rope, how did you "arrange" them,
eg. rope on the top half/carpet on the bottom half?
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| 5070.13 | | MPO::ROBINSON | but it matches my outfit! | Thu Nov 21 1991 08:21 | 7 |
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To attach sissal I used a hot glue gun, a big glob at the
beginning, glue here and there while wrapping, and another
big glob at the end. It worked great, and it has so far
stood up to four cats!
Sherry
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| 5070.14 | it's cheap and chintzy looking but it works | CECV03::GASKELL | | Mon Nov 25 1991 12:20 | 14 |
| I went into a "Dollar" store over the weekend and found a cat scratch
"thing" that I had seen advertised in a Miles Kimbal catalog (for a lot more
than a dollar) so I bought it. It consists of a cardboard tray with pleated
cardboard-sandwich inside, sort of like this
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It has a small packet of dryed catnip to sprinkle inside the box.
IT WORKS!!!!
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| 5070.15 | | MPO::ROBINSON | but it matches my outfit! | Mon Nov 25 1991 12:46 | 7 |
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I found the same thing - cardboard scratch pad - at the Christmas
Tree Shop for 69 cents!! I bought six of them! They're usually
about 5 dollars, and the cats love them.
Sherry
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| 5070.16 | Scratch Pads | MODEL::CROSS | | Mon Nov 25 1991 15:40 | 6 |
| Wow! 69 cents? I think I will buy a half dozen of them and put them
all around my new couch! Perhaps that will FINALLY stop the little
monsters! At the rate they're going, the poor couch should hold up for
about another two months at best! :-)
Nancy
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| 5070.17 | cardboard scratching boxes | MCIS2::HUSSIAN | Christmas is only 4 weeks away!! | Tue Nov 26 1991 11:55 | 4 |
| Roberta--->Don't you have these too? I saw something like this at your
house didn't I?
Bonnie
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