Interior Design for Cat Owners
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Article by: Joey Lewitin Interior Decorating , Gardens and Fountains in the Dark Ages for Cat Owners : Part 1: Protecting your possessions The first thing a cat owner should know about home , Gardening's Most Valuable Advice decor is to keep it simple. Cats are completely convinced that they are in charge, that the house , Choosing Roses For Your Landscape and its possessions belong to them, and that they have every right to break rip or shred anything they like. Even a well trained cat (a possible oxymoron) will occasionally get overzealous, and with an inadvertent sweep of their tail will knock your favorite decoration from its place , Coleus, The Most Beautiful Houseplant. to a pile on the floor. , Hiring A Contractor - 10 Tips This disregard for your possessions, overt or otherwise, requires that you use some strategy when deciding on the placement of various decorative pieces. This is going to amount basically to common sense. Any surface that a cat can reach, they will walk on. Therefore low shelves or dressers should not contain any objects that are fragile. Items should be moved towards the middle of a surface, or back against the wall, , Roller Blinds to prevent them being knocked onto the floor. , How to Make Money at Home Growing Small Landscape Plants on 1/20 Acre or Less Items that have a broad or sturdy base should replace other more top heavy objects. Decorative accents that can shatter, such as ceramics or stone , Gardening Tools- an Overview statues, may have to be replaced by steal or wood. , Hiring A Contractor - 10 Tips One way to display fragile items is to move them up. High shelves that are isolated from cat "stepping stones" will be out of dangers way. The same may be true of tall dressers, although unfortunately some cats will take a tall isolated dresser as a personal challenge, which they simply have to climb. Your decor , Gardening's Most Valuable Advice will have to be matched to the personality of your cat. Mirrors can also provide a problem, as some cats tend to attack their own reflection. If your cat has a problem with this, buying velvet or satin cloth and draping it over the mirror can be a decorative way to solve this. Plant , Tiffany Lamps -- Started From Waste Material. s can be one of the biggest decor , Dryer Fires – Is Yours Ready To Ignite problems a cat owner will face. Your pet can chew on leaves, dig in the soil, , Dryer Fires – Is Yours Ready To Ignite or urinate in them. Luckily, there are ways both to decorate , Fall Bird Feedings around these problems as well as to train your cat out of them. For biting and chewing of leaves, a natural , Hiring A Contractor - 10 Tips spray repellent applied to the plant , Coleus, The Most Beautiful House. will cause most cats to avoid it. To stop a cat from rooting in or excreting in your plant , The Many Advantages of the Pondless Waterfall you have to realize that the dirt in the pot , Water Garden Feature - How To Save On The Pennies And Labour is reminiscent of the cats litter box. In order to change , Plants For Establishing a Hedge in Doylestown Pa. this, use stones , The $27,000 Toilet Seat - A Funny DIY Story or gravel , It’s Easy to Add a New Shower in Your Bath to fill over the top of the dirt. This will remove the cat's fascination with the soil, , Curtains, Windows and Feng Shui and can be a lovely decorative accent to your plant Cat grass , Hillside Landscaping - Properly Watering Hillside And Sloped Landscapes is a special kind of plant , s For Establishing a Hedge in Doylestown Pa. you can grow , The Soil in Our Gardens in your home , First Aid for a Dried Out Hanging Basket that is specifically formulated to be safe , Hostas - Plantain Lily for felines, and to provide them with certain vitamins they may be lacking. Purchasing this can give your cat an acceptable alternative to messing with your plants. , Hiring A Contractor - 10 Tips When you see your cat eating the cat grass, , How to Make Money at Home Growing Small Landscape Plants on 1/20 Acre or Less reward them lavishly. 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You will have to carefully monitor their progress, and only remove protective coverings from your furniture , A Cost Effective Way to Keep Your Gutters Clean Year After Y when you are sure they are safe. , 12 Worst Trees to Plant in Your Lawn While cats are a hazard to most decor, , Fall Bird Feedings planning ahead can minimize these problems. Cats are so difficult to train that it is often easier to simply decorate , The Many Advantages of the Pondless Waterfall around them. Using common sense, and paying attention, should allow you to develop a setting that compliments your pet owning experience. Interior , Choosing Roses For Your Landscape Decorating , Arborvitae - Plants for The Newtown Pa. Area for Cat owners Part 2: Protecting your pet If you own a cat, then designing the decor , Breaking away from white paint walls of your home , Grow Your Own SIMPLE Tea Garden will require taking several precautions in order to protect your pet from harm. Glass , How to Transplant Trees items should be avoided both because they are easy to shatter, and because fragments of glass , Mustard: The Greatest Among The Herbs can then become embedded in your cat's skin. Other items to avoid are those that have sharp edges, spikes, or that have small pieces which can break off and be swallowed. You should also consider whether any object you bring into your home , Water Garden Feature - How To Save On The Pennies And Labour would be unhealthy if eaten by the feline. These items may include plants, , Roller Blinds flowers, , The $27,000 Toilet Seat - A Funny DIY Story and scented candles. Cats are fairly self-sufficient, as well as intelligent, however they are also curious, and you do not want to give them any easy method for hurting themselves. Cats are fascinated by string, as part of their inherent instinct to kill snakes. This fascination may carry over to electrical wires. If you catch your cat attacking or playing with electric , The $27,000 Toilet Seat - A Funny DIY Story cords you should stop them immediately. This is a very dangerous problem that can not only result in the cat electrocuting themselves, but also in causing a fire. , Water Garden Feature - How To Save On The Pennies And Labour If your pet persists in this problem, one way to protect your wires is to wrap them in duct tape. This will make them harder to break through and less appetizing for a cat to chew on. There are also many natural , Improving Deer Quality in Pa sprays which have specially formulated smells that will cause a cat to avoid an area in which it is sprayed. Curtain cords hold much the same fascination that electrical wires do, and they can also be a danger from strangulation. If you have rope that dangles too far from your curtain, the cat may attack it, causing it to tangle. If the cat becomes caught in the tangle itself, it can be very dangerous. Long hanging cords should be tied up out of the cats reach, or cut so that they do not dangle where a feline can reach them. The level of caution you should use is based upon your individual cat. Monitor your pet and your home, , Characteristics of Different Types of Soil and change , Grow Your Own SIMPLE Tea Garden your setting as necessary. Always use caution when bringing a new object into an area, and be certain you don't introduce anything which can be harmful to the cat. Mostly, just use common sense and try to remove any obvious hazards to where they can't be reached. Interior , Mustard: The Greatest Among The Herbs Decorating , Hillside Landscaping - Properly Watering Hillside And Sloped Landscapes for Cat Owners Part 3: The Beauty of Cat Decor For the most part cat decor , The Many Advantages of the Pondless Waterfall is less about being beautiful , What Organic Really Means and more about keeping your pet safe , Mustard: The Greatest Among The Herbs and comfortable. However there are so many manufacturers , Hillside Landscaping - Properly Watering Hillside And Sloped Landscapes of cat products , Selling Your Home - A FSBO's Guide to Keeping It Safe that you can fine almost any of the items mentioned above in several different colors. , Hostas - Plantain Lily Try purchasing items such as litter boxes and scratching posts in matching or complimentary colors. , Hiring A Contractor - 10 Tips If you match the hue to the rest of your setting you may be able to blend them seamlessly into the area Alternatively, you may want to set aside a space just for the cat's things, in order to separate them from the look of the rest of the room. , Curtains, Windows and Feng Shui While this won't completely eliminate the intrusion of cat toys onto your setting, it can allow you to create interplay between the cat's possessions and yours. If your home , Authenticity Of Vastu (Science of Indian architecture) is predominated by a single color , Dryer Fires – Is Yours Ready To Ignite such as green , Curtains, Windows and Feng Shui or blue, , Hillside Landscaping - Properly Watering Hillside And Sloped Landscapes purchasing matching black cat possessions can actually compliment this look. If your colors , Selling Your Home - A FSBO's Guide to Keeping It Safe are more mottled, then patterned cat toys, or subdued sandy colored ones, may be a better way to create equality in the room's hue. The litter box is one of the most troublesome cat possessions to decorate , Gardening Tools- an Overview around. It stinks, it's dirty, and it's generally surrounded by stray litter tramped out of the box by your oblivious cat. One way to deal with this item is to hide it, either in a bathroom, , Ten Things To Consider Before Buying A Bird House or somewhere out of the way such as a closet. If you don't have anywhere to hide it, then you should consider getting a covered cat box. They are much more attractive then leaving the litter bare, and will also reduce the smell. Unfortunately these are rarely attractive, and become dirty easy. To create your own custom covering, get a giant cardboard box and place , Buying The Right Bed Sheets For Your Bed it over the litter. Cut a hole in the front where the door , Grow Your Own SIMPLE Tea Garden is. Cover the box in decorative paper, such as wrapping paper, and then coat this in plastic , Grow Your Own SIMPLE Tea Garden to protect it from moisture. , Authenticity Of Vastu (Science of Indian architecture) This method should only be used in conjunction with an existing plastic , Roller Blinds cat cover; otherwise moisture , Gardening Tools- an Overview will seep into the cardboard and turn it to mush. Cats can make wonderful loving pets. They are fairly self sufficient, and don't require much attention. 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