House and other equipment for Maine Coon

The appearance of a Maine Coon kitten in the family is not only a joyful event, but also a great responsibility. There are not only fun games with a small pet, but also his upbringing, arrangement of various places for him to eat, relax, play, and use the toilet. You need to buy or make your own house and other equipment for the Maine Coon.

With the advent of a little new tenant in the house, there will soon appear many different things that he needs. Among them are bowls for food and water, toys, a tray, scratching posts, play complexes, baskets for sleeping, houses. It is not necessary to purchase exactly all the items on the very first day. You need to start with the essentials. Considering that Maine Coons are quite large animals and grow quickly, all playgrounds, houses and other equipment should be spacious and comfortable for pets.

In addition to the most necessary things - bowls and a tray, the kitten immediately needs to purchase a scratching post, then you can already have a house, and a play complex, and a sleeping place. You can buy everything together or opt for one or the other. It already depends on the wishes and financial capabilities of the owner.

If you properly equip the place where the cat will sharpen its claws, then furniture and other things in the house will not suffer at all.The main thing is to equip this place right away and show the kitten where it is, what it is intended for. There are several options for scratching posts. The choice depends on the habits of the animal or on how much the owner is willing to devote his time to teaching the baby. He needs to be taught to sharpen his claws in the right place from the very first day of his stay in the house. It happens that the kitten already knows how to do this, the mother-cat showed it to him, then it is better to choose the scratching post of the design that the kitten is used to.

If you decide to purchase equipment in a store, then there are several options.

• Simplest - It is a flat scratching post that can be placed anywhere in the house on the floor or screwed to a vertical surface.
• The vertical option is more interesting. This is a post on a horizontal stand. The top can be decorated with a ball-shaped tip made of fabric or have another plane that serves as a couch for the cat.
• Other models can be presented in combination with play complexes, where, in addition to scratching posts, there are horizontal surfaces, ladders along which the cat can jump, climb, just relax.

When choosing the necessary equipment in the store for your furry friend, you need to take into account the fact that he is superior in weight and size to his fellow breeds, which means that all devices for him must be strong, stable and have more dimensions. Any of these devices for Maine Coon can be made with your own hands, it is completely simple. You can even use a piece of log or wood, but not all domestic cats are ready to use such a device, preferring more softer surfaces.

• For the simplest scratching post, you will need a plank or plywood, a piece of felt, old carpet or thick rope. The board should be long enough for the cat to turn around when it grows up. Nailed on top with nails or screwed a piece of carpet with a screw. Such a scratching post is versatile, it can just lie on the floor, or it can be placed on a wall or cabinet, reinforcing it well.

• It is even easier to make a carpet scratching post. To do this, you need to tightly roll the old piece of carpet into a tube and fix it so that it does not unwind - with tape, ropes. It can be used both horizontally and vertically.

• You can also make a large vertical scratching post with your own hands. A piece of thin pipe or a wooden stick is suitable for the base. They should be long so that the cat, standing on its hind legs, can calmly sharpen its claws. The post is mounted on a wooden support. You can fill any box with cement or tile glue and place a pipe or wooden block there. The liquid hardens - a solid base is ready. The top can be wrapped with thick rope and secured with a piece of old rug.

A rest area or just a ball-shaped tip is also marked at the top. It is easy to do by pushing foam rubber or synthetic winterizer inside and trimming with any fabric. The lower stand also needs to be covered with a cloth, previously overlaid with something soft. Of course, the invention will have to work a little, but the result will delight the pet.

Some people love their pets so much that they are ready to pamper them all the time, since you can buy absolutely everything in pet stores. It is not difficult to find a good house for cats, a play complex, an original bed. All this can be written out on the Internet. And there is another option - to do it all yourself. But since the play complex is already a more complex structure than the scratching post, drawings will be needed here. You should think about what will go there.

Cats love to jump, observe their surroundings.Therefore, in the game complex, you need to provide for several surfaces, ladders, and a scratching post, maybe there will be a house below where the cat can hide if desired. It is better to cover it with fur inside and out, the house will be soft and comfortable. Other surfaces also need to be sheathed with soft material. For a scratching post, coarser surfaces are selected - felt, rope, carpet.

The manufacturing principle is the same as for a scratching post, only it will take much more materials, as well as time. The house needs to be made big, remembering that the animal will grow up. In addition, if there is a cat in the house, then for sure she will have offspring. And in a soft, cozy corner she will be comfortable with kittens. For the house itself, you will need several pieces of plywood, which will then be sheathed with a soft cloth.

By creating a large complex in an apartment for a cat to play and rest, you can think over everything so that it becomes a decoration of the house, coincides with the interior in terms of color... You can decorate the cat town, as your fantasy tells you. If, over time, the coating on some parts of the complex is frayed or torn, it can be updated by inventing another version of the upholstery. You should always ensure that all devices are safe for animals. If a wire has come out somewhere, a nail or a screw sticks out, you need to fix it immediately so that the animal does not get hurt.

Devices can be very different - ladders, hammocks, swings, rings, other exercise equipment for fun and entertainment. Cats love to hide in different places and watch from there. It can be a house in the form of a barrel, but without a lid and bottom, or some kind of tunnel, baskets and boxes that you can climb into. All this, of course, must be carefully fixed, taking into account the sufficiently large weight of the Maine Coon, and originally designed so that it looks like an interesting touch in the house, and not a senseless heap of objects.

If the scratching post is an obligatory and necessary item, then the play complex and the house are additional items. It all depends on the nature and habits of the cat. If she has chosen a place in the house on an armchair or sofa, then you cannot argue with this choice.

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