Home and other equipment for Maine Coon

The appearance of the Maine Coon kitten in the family is not only a joyful event, but also a great responsibility. There are not only fun games with a small pet, but also his upbringing, arrangement of various places for him to eat, relax, play, and toilet for him. You need to buy or make your own house and other equipment for Maine Coon.

With the advent of a small new tenant in the house there will soon appear many different things that he needs. Among them are bowls for food and water, toys, a tray, claws, game complexes, sleeping baskets, houses. It is not necessary to purchase all the items on the first day. You need to start with the most necessary. Given that maine coons are quite large animals and grow quickly, all gaming complexes, houses and other equipment should be spacious and comfortable for pets.

In addition to the most necessary things - bowls and a tray, a kitten needs to immediately get a claw-claw, followed by a house, a game complex, and a berth. You can buy everything together or opt for one. It already depends on the desires and financial capabilities of the owner.

If you properly equip the place where the cat will sharpen its claws, then the furniture and other things in the house will not suffer at all. The main thing is to equip this place immediately and show the kitten where it is located, what it is intended for. There are several options for claw points. The choice depends on the habits of the animal or on how much the owner is ready to devote his time to teaching the baby.He needs to be trained to sharpen his claws in the right place from the very first day of stay in the house. It happens that the kitten already knows how to do this, it was shown to it by mom-cat, then it’s better to choose the design that the kitten is used to.

If you decide to purchase equipment in the store, then there are several options.

• Simplest - This is a flat claw point that can be placed anywhere on the floor of the house or screwed to a vertical surface.
• The vertical version is more interesting. This is a column located on a horizontal stand. Upstairs can be decorated with a tip made of fabric in the form of a ball or have another plane that serves as a cat bed.
• Other models can be presented in combination with game complexes, where in addition to clawpads there are horizontal surfaces, ladders, on which the cat can jump, climb, just relax.

When choosing the necessary equipment for your furry friend in the store, you need to take into account the fact that he is superior in weight and size to his brothers of other breeds, which means that all devices for him must be strong, stable and larger. You can make any of these devices for Maine Coon with your own hands, this is completely simple. You can even use a piece of log or tree, but not all domestic cats are ready to use such a device, preferring softer surfaces more.

• For the simplest scratching post you will need a plank or plywood, a piece of felt, an old carpet or thick rope. The board should be long enough so that the cat has where to turn when he grows up. Top nailed with nails or screwed with a screw a piece of carpet. This claw-claw is universal, it can simply lie on the floor, or it can be placed on a wall or cabinet, strengthening it well.

• Carpet claw point is even easier to make. To do this, tightly roll the old piece of carpet into a tube and fix it so that it does not unwind - with tape, with ropes. You can use it in both horizontal and vertical position.

• You can also make a vertical large claw-tip yourself. For the base, a piece of thin pipe or a wooden stick is suitable. They must be long so that the cat, standing on its hind legs, can calmly sharpen its claws. The column is mounted on a wooden stand. You can fill any box with cement or tile glue and place a pipe or wooden block there. The liquid will solidify - a solid base is ready. The upper part can be wrapped with a thick rope and secured with a piece of an old carpet.

At the top there is also a relaxation area or just a tip in the form of a ball. It is easy to do by pushing foam or synthetic winterizer inside and lining it with any fabric. The bottom stand also needs to be covered with a cloth, previously overlaid with something soft. Of course, the invention will have to work a little, but the result will please the pet.

Some love their pets so much that they are ready to pamper them constantly, since you can buy absolutely everything in pet stores. It is easy to find a good house for cats, a game complex, an original couch. All this can be written on the Internet. And there is another option - to do it all yourself. But since the game complex is already a more complex construction than the claw-point, drawings are needed here. You should consider what will be included there.

Cats love to jump, observe the environment. Therefore, in the game complex it is necessary to provide for several surfaces, ladders, also a claw point, maybe a house will be located below, where the cat can hide if desired. It is better to be upholstered with fur inside and out; the house will be soft and comfortable. Soft material also needs to be sheathed and other surfaces.Rough coatings - felt, rope, carpet, are selected for the claws.

The manufacturing principle is the same as for the claw point, only materials will need much more, as well as time. The house needs to be made large, remembering that the animal will grow. In addition, if there is a cat in the house, then for sure she will have offspring. And in a soft cozy corner she will be comfortable with kittens. For the house itself you will need several pieces of plywood, which will then be covered with a soft cloth.

Creating a large complex in the apartment for playing and relaxing cats, you can think through everything so that it becomes a decoration of the house, coincides with the interior in colors. You can decorate a cat town, as the fantasy suggests. If over time, the coating on some parts of the complex is worn or torn, you can update it by inventing another version of the upholstery. You must always ensure that all devices are safe for animals. If a wire has come out somewhere, a nail or a screw is sticking out, you need to immediately fix it so that the animal does not get hurt.

Devices can be very different - ladders, hammocks, swings, rings, other exercise machines for fun and fun. Cats love to hide in different places and watch from there. This can be a house in the form of a barrel, but without a lid and a bottom or some kind of tunnel, baskets and boxes into which you can climb. All this, of course, should be carefully fixed taking into account the sufficiently large weight of Maine Coon, and originally designed so that it looks like an interesting touch in the house, and not a meaningless pile of objects.

If the claw-brush is an obligatory and necessary item, then the game complex and the house are additional items. It all depends on the nature and habits of the cat. If she chose a place in the house on an armchair or sofa, then you can not argue with this choice.

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