♫ Tie a yellow ribbon round the old cat tree.
It’s been 17 years.
Do you still love me?
Scooby
Opie and Zeke
Opie
Opie ROAR!
I built this cat tree out of scrap lumber, rope, and carpet. The oldest photo I found easily was a room photo from 1999 (not shown), but the tree carpet is missing. It may be a little older. I had trouble getting the carpet to stay on. The ropes have been replaced countless times. I found no photographs with Marigold on the cat tree. She used to climb upon it, but just scratches the bottom today. It looks rough, and I thought of getting rid of it, but it is still very popular. I never could find a good place for my pencil sharpener, so it is screwed onto the cat tree for decades, and I still use it! Guess I will have to keep it afterall!
Feline Café 
I thought maybe the cats used the sharpener on their claws, extra feature for them but it’s not about them at all! I hope you pay them rent to have your sharpener mounted on their tree!
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That tree has been loved to death!
The old pencil sharpeners are best. They don’t break the pencils and get them super sharp.
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Right on both counts!
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Lieber Greg,
da hat sich dein Werk ja besten bewährt, wenn die Katzen noch heute auf dem Kratzbaum Platz finden. Ganz toll!
Bei uns liegt immer noch ein Birkenstamm, der darauf wartet vom Mann des Hauses zu einem Katzenbaum verarbeitet zu werden. 🙂
Ich wünsche dir und deinen Katzen weiterhin eine gute Zeit.
Alles Liebe.
Liebe Grüsse
Julia
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Liebe Julia,
Ich baute die Catio und den Katzenbaum. Beide haben viele Jahre gedauert. Ein Katzenbaum gemacht von einem echten Baum sollte beliebt sein!
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Ein sehr kreativer Kratzbaum mit bewegter Vergangenheit. Er wird, wie man sehen kann, ausgiebig benutzt . Wir haben nur einen gekauften Kratzbaum. Im basteln sind wir nicht so gut.
LG Christiane
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Der Kratzbaum ist nicht schön. Es ist sehr schwer. Es gibt ein großes dickes Brett auf dem Boden. Alle meine Katzen wie den Kratzenbaum.
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That is very unique with the pencil sharpener 🙂
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One of a kind!
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that is one well loved tree 🙂
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Better than scratching on the furniture!
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That tree has some serious history!
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Indeed it does. I did not want to post photos of it being used by cats who have passed away.
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what a great idea and it must be very sturdy for lasting this long we,re for ever fixing them at the cats protection.Spike would love one like that. As for the pencil sharpener only you would think of a thing like that what a great idea.
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Way back when, I was too cheap to buy a cat tree.
I do not remember how old my metal pencil sharpener is. Good luck finding one. But I always know where it is. Does anyone else use wooden pencils any more? I do have a lot of wooden coloured art pencils.
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