According to Bored Panda, which must really be bored, an unidentified homeowner in California, who happens to own 18 moggies, has commissioned a $35,000 home-improvement project by the contracter Trillium Enterprises. The upgrade includes an elaborate system of ramps, walkways, and staircases so the cats can be anywhere they want.
The project is, of course, not for the owner’s delectation, but for his cats. He also “installed a ventilation system, which will ensure that the home stays fresh and the cats stay healthy.”
Voilà—ailurophilia taken to the extreme:
Some misguided souls (I know at least one) are embarrassed to have their cats watch them while they bathe—or do other ablutions.
I guess the guy can afford it:
Now can’t you imagine Baihu, Butter, or Kink enjoying such a setup? Why don’t they have one?
Here’s a gif of a kitten who doesn’t know mirrors:
Finally, here’s a gif (which I can’t embed) of an epic cat fail.
h/t: Steve, Carol
My four black cats have a haystack to play in, which diminishes and grows with the seasons. Plus, Barney has learned to navigate the purlins which hold the barn roof up.
Since I’m rarely in my house anyway, they’d rather be in the barn with me.
My house cats, Clawed Monet and Pewter, are kind of old, so they’d rather just sleep in the chair in my office anyway. L
Are those ramps and platforms self-cleaning?
You just know one will decide to hawk up a hairball in the most inaccessible place possible.
Good catch! I’m short so I often forget to think of the dust accumulation….I wonder what the top of my fridge looks like.
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I can assure you that additional height would not change that.
Send one of the cats up to bring back a report. typed. In triplicate.
No report? No problem.
Ain’t bureaucracy wunnerful?
Hahahaha…. it’s funny how tiny little kittens, like the one with the mirror, can be so full of piss and vinegar!
I could live in that California house. I bet the owners have a housekeeper to corral the dust bunnies on all the extra horizontal and spirally surfaces.
Probably for about ten minutes. Then they’d find a beaten up old cardboard box they prefer.
Is the fish tank just there to tease?
Even those of us who don’t mind being enveloped within a feline gaze while attending to our bathing, one still needs to be careful that the furry one doesn’t slide into the bath and unintentionally hurt its hoomin servant. In those cases, sidling over to the opposite side of the tub before the aquatic stunt takes place is a best practice that I personally endorse. 🙂
That happened to me.
Casper leapt up to the tubs edge, skidded on a wet spot and landed on a large squishy thing.
Did you know that cats have retractable traction devices?
Also good for injecting bacteria under the skin of large squishy things.
😀
My dear departed Smaug used to like to sit on my knee-island and drink the bath water. I refrain from bubbles and bath bombs in the hopes that Foxbat might take up the habit.
Awww that’s cute!
An old cat of mine used to do that too! He really trusted us.
It’s not embarrassment. I just don’t need a cat on my lap while I’m eliminating!
Try 110 pound dog’s snout in your eye! 😀
Does the dog pull up the carpet if you close the door though?
Ha ha! Try five Berners (can’t forget the Border Collie but he’s only 55lbs). The real challenge is taking a break during long hikes or camping when it’s au naturel — they have no mercy!
German Shepherds are psychic.They know when you have just gotten out of the bath and are about to bend over to pick up a wet towel.
I remember my cat Gnasher (named ironically for his sweet and innocent appearance as a kitten, and sadly long gone) when he first saw himself in a mirror. He stared for a few moments, then looked round the back. Finding nothing there, he lost interest and never bothered with a mirror again. I have often wondered what he was thinking.
Imagine spending all that money on the cats and all they want is to play in the box it came in…
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Now can’t you imagine Baihu, Butter, or Kink enjoying such a setup?
Yes. Yes, I most certainly can.
Erm…because I don’t have an extra $35,000? If you do, I’d be more that happy to put it towards such an effort.
I actually do have some vague ideas of doing vaulted ceilings — knocking out the drywall ceilings and running drywall against what is currently the top of the attic, leaving the rafters exposed. With everything properly insulated and finished and what-no, of course. Might well cost about as much as that cat upgrade, to much the same effect. But it’s likely to be years before I’ve saved up enough to seriously think about doing something like that.
Definitely can imagine Butter in a similar setup, because I have seen it. Wish I had a picture… one day I witnessed Butter wedged between the ceiling and the top of a CD-rack, tippy-top of cabinets / bookcase, on the verge of tipping everything over. It looked damned-near impossible that there was any means that Butter could’ve gotten there. I had to rethink the high spaces & how furniture / speakers / bookcases / etc. were laid out to prevent some horrible cat-astrophe… I, too lack sufficient funds to design and implement a feline funland in and around all the high voltage vintage gear.
I have to admit I did imagine what a stuffed Himalayan would look like, posed on the top shelf, before I carefully got him out of there.
I’m not sure which is better in the failed embedding GIF? The “I planned that” attitude of the tail afterwards, or the hell-for leather, all claws extended initial dive.
Anyone notice the shark head high above the tub? Wonder if that’s a little hidey-hole for a moggie.
What happens when you need to nab one or more to take to the vet? Can you imagine — they’d be laughing inside, completely ignoring you with a whisky tail, ever so pleased. Even sardines couldn’t entice them to leave their perch.