What you need:
Cardboard/wood or any kind of base.
Rope/string – basically any kind of fibre you think your
cats will want to attack (ours go nuts at everything that moves but they have a
special bond with string.)
Fevicol or similarly strong adhesive.
Too much patience.
As with every craft project of mine, I sat on the idea way
too long. But I finally pushed myself to go get the required materials and sat
down to begin around 11 in the morning.
I had barely touched the cardboard tube with the string when
it was decided that we’ll have to take the cats to the vet for a pending
vaccination and to put a thermometer up their bum.
Back home and after lunch, I stuck the first few lengths of
string alternating between the adhesive and the string. Around this time, I began
to question my ambitious goal of covering the entire surface of the tube with
string.
Two hours later, I was still at 40%. Remember the part about
patience? I think I have too much of it for I continued to do this
mind-numbingly monotonous job. The wife saved my life by playing some
interesting music meanwhile.
Two more hours later, I had 20% of the adhesive left and had finished 200 gms of string – everything I had bought in the morning. The tube looks like a decent scratch post now.
But there’s one tiny little problem.
The cats won’t go anywhere near it.
Moral of the story: The landlord is going to throw us out because our dear cats are going to continue with their scratch-practice on the sofas.
