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You are here: Home / Pet Blogging / Cat Blogging / And Now We Wait

And Now We Wait

by John Cole|  August 3, 20131:34 am| 47 Comments

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He’s eyeballing it, and there is some weapons grade catnip up top, but Rosie and Lily are staying awake for some reason and he is being cautious.

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  1. 1.

    Ruckus

    August 3, 2013 at 1:36 am

    Any construction injuries?

  2. 2.

    piratedan

    August 3, 2013 at 1:38 am

    just in a mood tonight… so this is going on atm….

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79udf50tqCE

  3. 3.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    August 3, 2013 at 1:39 am

    That cat has more square feet of living space than I do.

    Also, my cat just uses my young son’s bunk bed as a cat tree. Cat gets high perch, son gets purring pet, everyone is happy.

  4. 4.

    PeakVT

    August 3, 2013 at 1:47 am

    I hope you’re wearing your helmet.

  5. 5.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 3, 2013 at 1:52 am

    Make sure your camera is set for video.

  6. 6.

    PurpleGirl

    August 3, 2013 at 1:55 am

    Steve should like that tree a lot. Lots of levels and places to sit and hide. I also like the blue color. Does it have a ramp to the first level box?

    However, you should move it about a foot to the left, away from the end table and the lamp. They are too close. Also change where you have the Cola sign hanging; it might get fixed by Steve. Or he may try to take it down. (Just some ideas based on the Farm Kittens and what they’ve done in their foster home. Cassie has the same tree in the foster kitten room.)

  7. 7.

    MattR

    August 3, 2013 at 1:58 am

    @Ruckus: I don’t see any blood stains in the picture

  8. 8.

    Princess Leia

    August 3, 2013 at 2:03 am

    I think you should catnip all the way up. Just a little bit on each level all the way up. It is an awesome cat tree!

  9. 9.

    Mary G

    August 3, 2013 at 2:06 am

    Congratulations! Hope he’ll use it.

  10. 10.

    eemom

    August 3, 2013 at 2:11 am

    Back from 10 glorious days of almost zero internet access. All’s I know is Manning was convicted and Boss is now Steve.

    If someone could give a quick update re Boss–>Steve, would appreciate.

  11. 11.

    karen marie

    August 3, 2013 at 2:12 am

    All the populated towers that I know about are in front of windows. Not much inducement without the window.

  12. 12.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 3, 2013 at 2:14 am

    GOOGLE BANNED THIS VIDEO!

    It went viral in days…because we’re spamming this ad on every site we can!

  13. 13.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 3, 2013 at 2:14 am

    @eemom:

    Steve is too mellow and laid back to be Boss, is the short version.

  14. 14.

    Ruckus

    August 3, 2013 at 2:17 am

    @MattR:
    That may be the reason for the dark carpet color, to hid the blood stains.

  15. 15.

    Princess Leia

    August 3, 2013 at 2:21 am

    What is the piece on the floor in front of the tree?

  16. 16.

    MattR

    August 3, 2013 at 2:46 am

    @Ruckus: I probably should have magnified the picture before making my comment. I am pretty sure it is just a shadow, but I could be convinced that is a blood stain on the carpet by the leg of the end table

    @Princess Leia: Looks like an extra piece of the tree. Perhaps a ramp between levels that John decided not to attach.

  17. 17.

    wasabi gasp

    August 3, 2013 at 2:47 am

    I showed my lady the Amazon pic of that cat rack and her face lit up like a little girl. She began looking around the room for a place to put it. I could swear I heard her thinking that it looks way big enough for me to share with the cat if I get rid of the recliner.

    That lamp looks doomed.

  18. 18.

    wasabi gasp

    August 3, 2013 at 3:19 am

    Rehber – Malum

  19. 19.

    TriassicSands

    August 3, 2013 at 3:24 am

    Looks pretty scary to me — what no guard rails? Maybe you should put a couple of mattresses under it until he gets used to it.

  20. 20.

    Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn

    August 3, 2013 at 3:28 am

    I’m trying to figure out if that’s a portrait of Charlie Sheen off to the left…

  21. 21.

    Roger Moore

    August 3, 2013 at 3:30 am

    Conservative small town family values in action.

  22. 22.

    Amir Khalid

    August 3, 2013 at 3:37 am

    @Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn:
    That looks like the Grateful Dead band portrait John Cole commissioned from T&H.

  23. 23.

    wasabi gasp

    August 3, 2013 at 3:41 am

    Yolda – Ada

  24. 24.

    piratedan

    August 3, 2013 at 3:46 am

    @Roger Moore: I guess the only follow up question I can think of, does TJ have a sister?

  25. 25.

    wasabi gasp

    August 3, 2013 at 4:07 am

    Yasemin Mori – Ustura (Kırmızı Kurnaz Tilki)

  26. 26.

    TriassicSands

    August 3, 2013 at 4:24 am

    @Roger Moore:

    Sounds like a couple of minor misdemeanors to me. I wonder if murder is a felony in Utah?

  27. 27.

    WaynersT

    August 3, 2013 at 5:08 am

    Nothing about that looks stable.

    Your backyard by december:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q5cCrNGqFs

  28. 28.

    HeartlandLiberal

    August 3, 2013 at 6:04 am

    I am reminded of when we moved into our house over 20 years ago. One of the teenagers on the moving team paused from moving stuff into our master bedroom, peeked inside the walk-in closet, and remarked that it was as big as his bedroom at home.

    Of course John probably has one of these special storage closets in his home: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1ZZreXEqSY

  29. 29.

    raven

    August 3, 2013 at 6:35 am

    This Old House has a segment on using tumbled glass in gardens.

  30. 30.

    ThresherK

    August 3, 2013 at 6:47 am

    “And now we wait…”

    I hope Richard Attenborough will be there to narrate.

  31. 31.

    Bill

    August 3, 2013 at 7:25 am

    Has Steve met the ‘Furminator’ yet?

  32. 32.

    PurpleGirl

    August 3, 2013 at 7:34 am

    @Bill: Cole wrote about Steve and the furminator last week. He liked it a lot.

    Looking at this photo and the Farm Kitten Cam, that board on the floor is probably the ramp to the first level box, which Cole can’t use because of the orientation of the tree in relation to the end table. If you want to see what the tree can look like in use, go to the Farm Kitten cam site:

    http://new.livestream.com/cassieskittenkastle/events/2246087

  33. 33.

    Debbie(aussie)

    August 3, 2013 at 7:36 am

    @Bill: I think Steve was furminated(sp?) before he went the vet. A big success if I remember correctly.

  34. 34.

    Punchy

    August 3, 2013 at 7:55 am

    Which chica is under that sofa blanket?

  35. 35.

    ThresherK

    August 3, 2013 at 8:04 am

    @Bill: Re brushing felines: We are a two-cat household, and have had three of them in a row (18 years and counting) of cats who barely tolerate a bit of brushing, to don’t like it at all.

    It’s easier for me to clip their nails than brush them. And this is with a few different brushing devices. Plus all sorts of things like rewarding them with treats afterwards.

    Any ideas?

    (I am aware of all “cat item purchase price inverse relationship” traditions, i.e. the more something I buy for my cat costs the more chance the cat won’t like it.)

  36. 36.

    Josie

    August 3, 2013 at 8:12 am

    @PurpleGirl:
    You are right about moving the tree and the Coke sign. The tree could be angled to the left so that access to the first level box is better and there is more space all around. My cats tend to like space around anything they climb on rather than to have it hemmed in like that.

  37. 37.

    WereBear

    August 3, 2013 at 8:38 am

    @ThresherK: Brushing is so STIMULATING that a lot of cats can’t take it; then they react with claws and biting. They can’t help it.

    With such cats I do one stroke at a time; keep the implement handy, bring it out with a treat or petting session, and do one stroke…. hours later, another stroke, higher up the body…. hours later, move more towards the head…

    By the time we get to the head (no rush!) they discover the bliss of having their head and face combed, even if we have to use another implement. This becomes the reward, and we can get more done at a session, because they will sit still longer to get to the face skritching.

    A classic mistake humans don’t know they are making is to look at cat brushing the way they do washing a big frying pan; let’s get this thing done.

    While the cat keenly feels every single tooth in the comb, every hair in the brush, and is driven crazy by it.

    Think of what we are doing as those nightmarish radiation-washing scenes in Silkwood; and you will go a lot easier during cat brushing!

  38. 38.

    RSA

    August 3, 2013 at 9:43 am

    I agree that the lamp is doomed. Also whatever is to the right of the cat tree, on the border of the photo.

    Sometimes I’ve watched our cat, trying to figure out how he sees the world in terms of paths, ways of passage from one location to another. I haven’t figured it out, but if Steve were our cat, he’d be standing on the arm of the couch, thinking about whether he can hit that middle box. He’d give it a shot, with unpredictable results.

  39. 39.

    Citizen_X

    August 3, 2013 at 9:58 am

    @eemom:

    Back from 10 glorious days of almost zero internet access.

    Hey, we enjoyed it too.

    What? You set yourself up for that.

    And Cole thought Boss didn’t fit, named him for The Tao of Steve something something. I didn’t get it either.

  40. 40.

    01jack

    August 3, 2013 at 10:03 am

    @RSA:
    I think it would look easily reachable with a parcour off the lamp.

  41. 41.

    gnomedad

    August 3, 2013 at 11:40 am

    Your patience-fu is strong. I’d just plop him down on it.

  42. 42.

    gogol's wife

    August 3, 2013 at 11:48 am

    @ThresherK:

    David Attenborough, please!

  43. 43.

    currants

    August 3, 2013 at 11:53 am

    @wasabi gasp:

    That lamp looks doomed.

    Sure does!

  44. 44.

    Violet

    August 3, 2013 at 12:12 pm

    That is some jungle gym!

  45. 45.

    cindy

    August 3, 2013 at 11:17 pm

    that looks like a pretty sturdy cat tree, but if you can, it should be in a corner, supported by at least 2 walls. definitely should not be adjacent to the table/lamp (or at least move the lamp). when standing free, they tend to become rickety as the cat(s) jump up and around on them. and it might end up as cat/dog furniture (my uncle’s jrt has been using the cat perches).

  46. 46.

    Scott

    August 4, 2013 at 12:14 am

    I have one of those as well. Where I located it, the top shelf is about 2′ from the ceiling AC vent and is the truly contested spot of the place. Hell, i wish I could fit up on it myself these brutal August days.

  47. 47.

    Paul in KY

    August 5, 2013 at 10:19 am

    @ThresherK: Maybe not the right brush. My cats absolutely love being brushed. They love it a whole lot more than I do :-)

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