Hah

[desperance]

New shelves? = cat gym! Look, Chaz, we can touch the ceiling! We can has battles, ten feet above the floor! We can make the new shelves swaaaaayyyy...!

*hastily screws new shelves to the wall*

Comments

[athenais.livejournal.com]

You are really very good to them to provide such excellent toys.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

You should try scaffolding... As an older kitten, Iskander thought our builders were supplied just to amuse him and he certainly made the best of them. They still have scars, apparently.
Have you considered marketing a range of flat-pack shelving as a cat gym/toy? I'm sure there's a market. ('Chaz's Kitty Climbing Circus: keep fit and keep books for cats and their people.')

[wishwords.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid someone beat him to it: http://www.catsplay.com/modular_playgrounds.php3

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Ah, but those don't provide book storage also...;-)

[wishwords.livejournal.com]

Good point.

[wishwords.livejournal.com]

Cat owners are completely responsible for bookcase companies including an anchor system in their packages now. No, it has nothing to do with toddlers. It was cats!

[abrinsky.livejournal.com]

For us it was old shelves but new cat which resulted in:

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Hee. How high did he get...? (My boys have advantages, there's a progression from chair to filing cabinet to redundant monitor to shelf-top; but their tails brush the ceiling when they're up there. And they can pull the wallpaper off from the top down, that's fun...)

[abrinsky.livejournal.com]

nearly to the top... then fell off, scattering the pile of books all over the floor.

At least they now have outside as a playground (but this just gives us headless rats).