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Why is that every time we spend a bit of money on our feline babies they show absolutely no interest in the new purchase at all?
Well for once one of our cat inspired ideas has worked!
Bella is our least tolerant cat, by that I mean she is not at all tolerant of all the other cats that live in our house. Which is fair enough as she is a cat and by nature they quite like being on their own.
Next door have a wendy house in the garden which is unused by the current residents so Bella makes it her day home and leaves our house after breakfast only to return at night for her dinner.
As my husband worries about her so much and is forever outside calling her I thought it might be a good idea to build some sort of cat house in our garden that Bella could call her own but without forcing her to use it and pissing her off even more. I went online and purchased a cat maisonette which we duly wedged into the huge Buddleia bush in our garden. I made sure it was high enough up so that certain cats in our household couldn’t get in, especially Scooter, our hypothyroid boy who bullies Bella tirelessly but is crap at jumping up anywhere. I attempted to put Bella in the tree house but of course, being a cat she wouldn’t go near it and the only cats that have been near it for the last six weeks have been William and Blini so naturally I thougth it was a failure.
But, yesterday morning when I went out to feed the chickies and the bunnies, there was Bella, sitting on her blanky in the house, looking a touch worried but none the less using our special purchase. When Thomas got home last night she was in it again and this morning she was sheltering from the pouring rain in it. I felt a bit sorry for her this morning, so I got a really warm towel out of the airing cupboard and rolled it into a sausag shape for her to snuggle in to and she is still there!
Not only does it make her feel safe and dry but it is also the perfect platform in which to watch the sparrows and starlings on our birdfeeder, therefore killing two birds with one stone… Oh, maybe not the right thing to say. The birds are safe and high up too, honest.
