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01-28-2012, 07:26 AM | #1 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Canton, GA
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| Pet Window Perch - Suggestions Please I recently got rid of the daybed in my office which is great but now Sophie Kate has lost her place to lay and look out the window (and that makes me sad). I have been looking for something to replace it that will allow her to lay down and look out the window and have found a lot of cat perches. They are the perfect size but I have to figure out a way for her to get on to the perch. Ideally I would like to find something with stairs that lead to an area for her to sit/lay down and look out the window. I am heading to Petco this afternoon but if anyone has a suggestion please let me know.
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01-28-2012, 11:13 AM | #2 |
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| Well, there are a lot of different kinds of pet steps around but they can get costly. I used to use an end table for my other dog to sit on but he got there from the couch. We did have a trunk upstairs that he would jump on to get up on his other table. I guess that was his version of pet steps. Pet steps would be the easiest for you pet if you don't have any extra furniture to use. |
01-28-2012, 12:50 PM | #3 |
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| I've also made a simple "one step" step by covering a foam block (purchased from a "foam" store for about $20.00 with a piece of upholstery fabric, from the scrap bin of the fabric store for less than $10.00. I don't really sew, but I can manage to do a simple "cube". If you wanted multiple levels, you can either buy the pre-formed foam, or a couple of different sized blocks placed next to each other. |
01-28-2012, 09:52 PM | #4 |
YT 1000 Club Member | The least expensive one that I have is... An Ottoman, to a Chair Seat, then (placed closely) to a Bedside Table covered with a Towel, which is pushed up against the Window Sill. HA, both of mine can lay and watch out the window.
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01-29-2012, 02:37 AM | #5 |
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| OUr Susie cannot get up on the sofa or the bed and hubby has made steps out of getting 2 plastic steps from a houseware's store and cutting the legs down on one of the steps to around half way of the first one and then covering the slippy plastic surface with 2 pieces of carpet and then screwing the 2 steps together to stop them parting. |
01-29-2012, 04:38 AM | #6 |
Paris: Always in my ♥ Donating YT Member | Smart hubby! |
01-29-2012, 05:08 AM | #7 |
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| I bought a cat window perch for mine Yogi loved it
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01-29-2012, 05:29 AM | #8 |
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| Thank you all for the suggestions, I went with the Cat perch and a set of stairs. I need to set it all up today so Princess can watch over her neighborhood.
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01-29-2012, 09:52 AM | #9 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Michigan USA & Sheffield UK
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| I put a table that's window height right in front of the living room window and covered a pillow with fleece that coordinates with my room colours. I used to keep the oak steps to my sleigh bed in the living room in front of the table so ZoE could scamper up, but now that she's older & bigger, she just goes from the chair to her window perch, so the steps are back in the bedroom. I remember posting a similar thread when I first got ZoE, as I'd moved to a house with no sliding or french full length glass doors, and all the windows are 30 inches (or more off the ground). I felt horrible that she couldn't see out. I specifically had a custom built-out window put in my last house when it was built that had a ledge about 5ft wide and 14 inches deep, and was only a foot of the ground, so my last yorkie, Chelsea, could see out. She loved to lay in the window and watch the neighborhood activity. Sorry the pics are dark....I don't know what to change the camera setting to when shooting towards light...but it at least gives you an idea as to my set up.
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01-29-2012, 10:02 AM | #10 |
YT 1000 Club Member | Gees do I know what you're talking about ! My Becca has the same point of view.
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01-29-2012, 01:26 PM | #11 |
Katie Scarlett's Mommy Donating Member | I was thinking a cat perch as well. Right now we use the chaise lounge section of our couch. LOL. Katie Scarlett uses her puppy stairs to climb up to the couch and then she is at the window.
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01-29-2012, 01:31 PM | #12 |
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| I didn't add that we used a set of stairs to get there
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01-30-2012, 03:08 AM | #13 |
Paris: Always in my ♥ Donating YT Member | Paris would sit for hours in a chair by the front windows watching his kingdom go by! Before he was blind of course. |
01-30-2012, 04:40 AM | #14 |
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| Has anyone thought of or used those cat seats that suction to a patio door, etc.? I think I read they hold up to 15 or 20 pounds. Might be an idea if someone has a balcony. I have a balcony & used to let Princess up on this chair but she's waay too nosy, and thinks no one has a right to be in this entire complex except us-so the chair had to go.
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01-30-2012, 05:02 AM | #15 | |
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