Does Your Cat Climbs Your Curtains ? What Can You Do About It ?
Anyone who has a cat will tell you that they love to climb. All cats love to climb, just think of those images of lions sitting in trees in Africa. Why do cats love to climb and how can you cater to this if your cat is an indoors cat?
It is of course hard to say why cats climb unless you get into the mind of a cat, but it is most likely that it is a cat instinct. It’s certainly a wonderful technique for cats to avoid predators such as dogs, and I have often seen cats sitting on the branch of a tree smirking at a barking dog below.
And a tree is far safer to sleep in than the ground.
And of course the cat is a predator as well as prey, and cats will happily go straight up a tree if they can see something tasty in the branches like a bird. And they are particularly good at this at night when they are best able to catch many small nocturnal furry animals which live in our trees.
So you can see some powerful reasons why animal experts seriously recommend that pet cats be kept indoors 24 hours a day, or at least all night.
So if you do the right thing and keep your cat indoors 24 hours a day can you expect him to forget about his instinct to climb? No you can’t. If he has nothing to climb then he will find something. Most commonly the back of your couch or your favourite curtains. It wouldn’t be the first time that a homeowner has come home from work to find their favourite curtains together with the curtain rail in a heap on the floor after the cat has tried to climb the curtains.
So if you have an indoors cat you have a little dilemma to solve. If you can’t dissuade him from climbing what do you do? Luckily the answer is very simple. You buy him a piece of dedicated cat climbing furniture which gives him a place to climb away to his heart’s content, where he can find all sorts of nooks and crannies to investigate, where he can sleep in the branches and all of it is done without any damage to your furniture.
It’s called a cat tree.
Cat furniture such as this often goes by the name of cat trees, or a cat tower or gym, but it’s a piece of dedicated furniture which is designed so that cats can scratch, play and climb as much as they want, where they can do as much damage as they want, and you don’t need to care.
It’s cat climbing furniture any cat owner shouldn’t be without.
As you can see it’s unrealistic to hope that your cat will forget about climbing. Simply buy him a good cat tree and he doesn’t have to forget about climbing, and he won’t be ruining your furniture or curtains.
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