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Finished the cat paths! (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Vodulas@beehaw.org to c/diy@beehaw.org

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We finished the last piece of the cat path I posted about earlier! This one goes from the laundry room, to the stairwell, and then into the guest bedroom on the upper floor (yes, I know the carpet needs replaced in that closet). They are already using them and seem to love the new path already.

https://imgur.com/a/QExCWgN

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[–] herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's awesome, but I was very confused by the first picture. I thought you ran ducts all through your house like a giant hamster cage. Very cool though!

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 7 points 1 year ago

I thought 100% the same thing. I was real concerned until I looked at the second pic and went back to the first one and saw the hole in the wall.

And I concur, kitty is gonna love this for his life.

[–] Vodulas@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Hahahaha! No, just the shelf and the portal next to the dryer hose

[–] rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I bet the blanket on the shelf will be popular when the dryer is running!

[+] LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] Vodulas@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He is a Pomeranian/husky mix. We just adopted him and his sister about a month ago, and our least confident, but largest cat needed a confidence boost. We gave it to him in the form of putting holes in the walls

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just a heads up: cats get a confidence boost from how stuff smells.

Even when neutered at an early age, they have a highly sensitive nose, plus a vomeronasal organ, they keep rubbing their smell and saliva onto everything, and are highly territorial regarding anything smelling "not right".

If you plan on having more than one cat, also plan on sticking to a strict cleaning policy to reduce odors and keep the ones left as uniform as possible, before the cats "fix" it for you.

Personally, I'd be wary of a carpeted floor, any carpet-like surfaces, or letting cats get into high places that can turn into waterfalls or allow them to piss on the ceiling... and I seriously wish that was hyperbole.

(Source: lived with dozens of cats, the remaining 5, both males and females, can still get into a pissing and puking contest when some chunk of floor, furniture, clothes, or whatever, "smells wrong")

[–] rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

vomeronasal

Unrelated, but this term sounds like something I experience when I barf...

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Surprisingly, somewhat related in a circuitous way...

Vomero is a neighborhood in Naples, on top of a hill and directed to upper-middle and higher class. The etymology mix is interesting: its name comes from a villa on there, which has a relation to agriculture, which uses plowshares, aka "vōmer" in Latin... which also was an informal word for penis (then again, what wasn't in Latin)... but it stuck to the nasal bone with a shape similar to a plow.

"Vomerò" is also the first person singular of the future indicative for the Italian vomere, or "I will vomit" (...not to be confused with the Latin "vomitorium", although that one's etymology also comes from vomit)... and arguably, a plowshare is the part that "vomits" earth while plowing.

So you weren't all that far away: if you vomit, chances are your vomeronasal organ, named after the bone shaped like the tool that vomits while plowing, will get a whiff of whatever goes through.

[–] rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for indulging my inner etymological nerd! That was great. And unexpected. I wonder what the townfolk feel about that?

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I only lived in Naples for a short time many decades ago, but there was the occasional joke of going to vomit after partying at the pubs/clubs/discos up there. It didn't feel like they took the relationship too seriously; after all, the words are accented differently, and one is a noun while the other is a verb conjugation.

[–] streetfestival@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

That is sooo cool!!! I love the pooch in the pic: "I'm too big for the cat path" :P

[–] circularfish@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is wild. Mine would be raising a racket at 3am playing in the tubes. Is it relatively quiet?

[–] Vodulas@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

They can be kinda loud when they are playing on the ones in the hallway, but that wall is the other side of our closet, so it is mostly muffled thumps. Not enough to keep us awake or wake us up, but loud enough that you can hear when you are awake

[–] rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yo, thanks for the followup! Looks like a lot of fun for them, and for you to build. Thanks for sharing. It makes so much h sense now 😺

[–] Vodulas@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Funny you should say that

[–] rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha idk what to say, I grew up around cats. They know what's up! You looking at me? Great shot!

[–] Vodulas@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

She jumped up there immediately after we finished cleaning up. I was walking up the stairs and she just looked at me like, "Why are you interrupting my nap?"