Cat tower

 My cat had started clawing doorframes - over several doors.

Ben suggested I get him a cat tower. We researched.

Meanwhile, I patched the scratches, and I intend to get around to painting them.

I read online that cats hate the smell of Vicks Vaporub. So I smeared the door frames with it, and it works!

Meanwhile, Jerry ordered me one of the towers I had looked at.

I received it and set it up Sat Sept 23

The supplied items included 16 bolts about an inch and a half, and ONE single bolt about 3/8 of an inch shorter. I proceeded to install that one bolt on the wrong place, remove several bolts to find the one, and then do it all over AGAIN!

But eventually, I got it (The instructions were fine, detailed, with pictures - totally operator error.)

I sprinkled it with catnip.

Yesterday, for the first time EVER, my cat came to me when I called him. He sniffed the tower, rubbed his cheek on it. I picked him up and put him on it, and he immediately jumped down.

But today, he was sitting on the window ledge beside it, which has not been his perch before, so...