Good cat furniture can keep an indoors cat happy and well adjusted and exercised
Here at The Cat Scratching Post we are strong advocates of keeping your cat indoors. There’s a range of reasons for keeping your cat indoors including the safety of the cat and the safety of our native animals.
Of course if you keep him indoors you then need some good cat furniture such as a cat tree and cat scratching post because he is unable to climb trees and scratch away as he would normally do outdoors.
So if you’re keeping your cat indoors 100 percent of the time how do you keep him happy?
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As already noted a good cat tree and scratching post are essential, and if you train him to use them then you will find that he would use them regularly, and thoroughly enjoy his cat furniture.
However there is more that you can do to ensure you have a happy indoors cat.
It’s perfectly possible to make a run outside the house with an enclosure which allows your cat to play outside without escaping the enclosure, thereby having the advantage of some outdoors time. It’s quite possible to buy excellent cat enclosures or to build one yourself, and you can make them extremely complex and lots of fun for a cat or cats.
It also possible to buy all sorts of cat toys, and an indoors cat and in particular a kitten loves to play with toys.
If your cat is indoors he will still like looking outside. Why not provide him with his own dedicated place where he can curl up and look outside the window? A small cat seat next to a window that is all his own will be a lovely way to provide your cat with some exposure to the sun and a sleeping place that is just for him. Read the rest of this entry