Has anyone ever mad a cat scratching post?

housemouse100 · 13 January 2007 at 1:21PM

Not sure if this is the correct place, I have an scratching post that the cat has destroyed and pulled off all the carpet, rather than buy a new one at Lidl's I want to recover the original post. I have old carpet tiles but am at a loss as to how to attatch to the middle pole? If any one can offer any idea's I would ve be gratefull
cheers
Housemouse

susank · 13 January 2007 at 2:46PM

Is it a mad cat!!! Use sisal string and wind it round and round after putting glue on the post and they love this.

kate83 · 13 January 2007 at 3:11PM

Probably doesn't help you but I had a leftover bit of carpet (about 1.5m x 1m) and rolled it up, stood it upright and secured it against a doorframe (you can just lean it at a slight angle to the corner of a room) . One of cats used to climb up it and sit on the top (the other one was too fat to get up there!) and they both used it as a scratching post. Only really works if you've got something to secure it against but my cats wounldn't go near a normal scratching post - so this seemed to save my doorframes (most of the time)

alocin · 13 January 2007 at 4:12PM

When one of my parent's cats was an older kitten and just getting into destroying furniture I made one with a bit of carpet off-cut stapled (industrial staples, not ity bity desk type ones!) onto a square of MDF. Then I stapled a length of string with a cat toy onto the top so it dangled somewhere in the middle and sprinkled it with catnip powder. Result - one happy cat and happier parents!

So if you can't find a way to attatch the carpet back onto the pole then that might be an idea - you could probably get a small leftover bit of MDF free from a DIY store or builders merchant.

CoD_2 · 13 January 2007 at 4:17PM

wooden base with two bits of wood nailed onto the bottom lengthways as legs, but nailed alone each side of the plank. thicken wooden bit of wood nailed to the middle and then wrapped in carpet and nailed on. carpet also put across bottom bit of base. (so hard to describe things!!)

Queenie · 13 January 2007 at 4:51PM

Homemade Scratching Post <

only difference to those instructions, I used a long screw

housemouse100 · 13 January 2007 at 5:11PM

thank you, will get bisy with stapler and carpet
cheers

Has anyone ever mad a cat scratching post?

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