Living in NYC and going from rental to rental, I gave up on all the "damage free" versions of everything when I learned how easy it is to spackle nail and screw holes. I've painted every rental I lived in, so I have to repaint the walls anyways. For anybody worried about damaging the walls, I have had MUCH worse damage with command strips, double sided tape, etc ripping off massive patches of drywall than I ever had with nails and screws leaving holes so don't be afraid to use those in your rental :) I'm really excited to cat-ify my new apartment and your videos are a massive help

An alternative to burning the edge of the carpet is to paint the bottom edge with wood glue. A carpeting salesman suggested that to me when I bought a remnant to use as the rug in the living room rug for my first apartment. I painted the edge to about an inch in and let it dry completely before I flipped and positioned it. It worked fine.

Happy cats 🐈 🐈‍⬛ happy home ❤

great ideas, especially anchoring to the bookshelf instead of the wall 🐈‍⬛

I LOVE CATS SO MUCH!!!! I'm happy that others do, too. Someone dumped (ughhhhh) a cat in my neighborhood, so a neighbor called me. She's now #7, and so I'm figuring out ways to enrich her life, as she's not interested in integrating into the other cats' space YET. She's in my spare room (I leave her door open all day). She has a window catio, which she loves, but I'm also building her an 8ft high catio that fits right into a tree that she'll be able to access via a tunnel/cat run. I think she will be thrilled with it. I'm halfway done. I do hope she comes out, and decides to be part of our family, but it is scary, I know (6 other cats, 6 dogs, and an African sulcata tortoise). I visit her all day long to love on her. She's VERY affectionate, but jumps at every little noise (poor baby). She's also a catch and release cat (left ear tipped). She seems quite happy to be here, thankfully (coyotes, bobcats, owls, hawks,mtn lions, etc). I bring her her favorite treats throughout the day (sardine juice, canned catfood, and rare meat). Thus far, I have 3 full-size catios, and 4 window catios, with more on the way. I'll be connecting them via cat runs, up high. I don't really have anything inside the home, aside from cat towers, so after my outdoor project is completed (not sure I'll ever be done tho, haha), I'll add some goodies inside. Thank you for what you do !!!!

Such a well thought out renter-friendly solution for catification❣🐈Even for non-renters it's a great way to utilize the furniture you already have.

This is awesome! Thanks so much for thinking of everything and sharing with all the cat lovers!

You are a treasure to all indoor cats around the world. We just bought a place and I'm going to use your videos to guide on my projects for building best roaming places for my 2 little ones... ❤

This was great. Most catification for apartment videos includes wall-damaging aspects. Thank you!

I love that your channel is dedicated to catification!

Great idea. Currently figuring out access points for my two kitties in my new condo. I may try this with a server cabinet I plan to buy for the dining room. Thanks for your time making these videos, much appreciated!

Excellent tutorial. Extremely creative and thoughtful. I have one cat, Ms. Puff and she runs around my house doing the headless chicken dance. I tried a second cat, and they just did not get along. Fortunately, my son was looking for a cat so she moved in with him. Giving Ms. Puff ways to climb and play are priorities. Thank you for the ideas.

Your videos are always so helpful! My sister and I have one cat - our landlord is wonderful, but says no more cats. We know she gets bored even though we try our best to keep her entertained. Before I watched this I thought this could be our answer! Although it was an excellent idea as always, we are both in our 70's and have no power tools. This is probably a stupid question, but is there any way to maybe repurpose a ladder for her to climb on to get to the top of a bookcase? Would that be dangerous for her? Greatly appreciate all of your videos, please keep them coming. God bless you and your adorable fur babies! 🙏💕

Instead of drill screws in studs or a brick wall you can use height adjustors (used in legs of tables or cabinets to level them) Just put them on the end of a 4x4 wooden plank just shy of the height of the rooms and tighten them. These can even be put in the middle of a room. And you can put the walkways by connecting them to these wooden pillars. No need to screw anything to a wall and everything is adjustable. Linking a video where they are using sections of pipes screwed together and held in place by a hydraulic shaft but this is cheaper and fully customizable. kzfaq.infoaWx0jm7055M?feature=share

Where I live the walls are cement and it's hard drilling holes. I use my book shelves and cat trees and one way down is on my husband's desk. lol We don't have dogs so they run around and around the apartment.

very thoughtful of you to consider renters' issues. loved seeing your cats. love the classical music. well done!!

Thanks for showing other options for this

Another option I have found is using 3m glue brackets with the removable glue you simply pull down the glue comes free and they go up to 25 pound holding power they come in all sorts of things from hooks to brackets to hangers and just the glue strip you can stick on a bracket bought from the hardware store

Thanks for the great ideas.

Great job! Thanks for sharing.

Thankyou for sharing.

Amazing!!! Thank you so much for this awesome solution!!

I found carpet remnants at the local Dollar Tree - 1 x 4 (feet) that work great on top of my bookshelves. I also found a cardboard cat house at Aldi for $8 that I put on top of one (anchored to the shelves so it doesn't slide off). The cat house comes with two sections of corrugated scratch pads. I removed those and put part of an old bathroom rug in the house - they love sleeping in their little house.

Great❤ thanks

Yes that’s very helpful. I don’t have sturdy bookcases but maybe the wardrobe could be used. Good ideas thanks. I’ve got plenty of carpet so that helps.

Thank you sooo much !!!!

Brilliant!! It’s just what I need in my studio. Thank you!!!

what a great video for renters thank you from melbourne

Yup, this is part of my four-wall living room cat parkour. I have the IKEA Hemnes TV stand, with single bookcase on each side, connected with the bridge. There is a 5 ft. cat tower on one side to access the top of the entertainment center, and staggered shelves on the other side. Its was easy and cheap. Menards sells 24" x 36" carpets for $1.88 that can be cut in half to wrap two shelves. Got 8 ft. MDF board and cut in into 15" segments. Shelf brackets are cheap. Used glue gun and construction staples to affix carpet to boards on underside of boards. Last week, I picked up 15" round boards which I'll cut in half to make half moon shelves, for another parkour wall. Found a carpet store that gives away free cardboard tubes from carpet rolls, so I'll wrap those with sisal rope, and put a 2x4 down the inside to add sturdiness. I figure I have 80 to 100 holes to patch and repair when my lease is up. 🤣🤣

Really ingenious!! Happy cats ! Thank you for your videos :) I subscribe

Thank you so much ❤❤❤

This is a fantastic idea!!! Love the habitat for humanity restore recommendation too

At the end of last year I bought a new fridge-freezer to replace the tiny one built in under a counter in my kitchen (though I still need to preferably sell it or otherwise make it go away! I’m going to move a cupboard into its space from across the room, then *finally* buy a dishwasher to go in that space next to the sink 😃 playing kitchen tetris over here!), and one of the factors that went in to my choice was one with a flat top without any vents or operational elements, so that my cats could go on top 😊 Bit of a variation on your solution, but while I’m not a renter anymore, you at least don’t need to make holes in the walls to repurpose existing furniture/appliances for your cats to make use of too (provided you’ve got a way for them to get up and down!) The new fridge is a massive 2 meters tall, and right now their access route to get on top is a very makeshift solution involving a sturdy tall box (that once contained my kitchen bin!) stacked on top of a storage ottoman… this sounds much worse now I’ve written it down than it is in reality, and I promise it’s all fully secure! I can comfortably stand on the storage ottoman safely and nothing wobbles 😅 I need to have a huge clearout of all the boxes and old stuff that’s accumulated here, and since I don’t have a spare room or a garage the bit between my kitchen and living room has turned into the “junk zone”, and I’m looking forward to replacing that bin box hack with a few shelves for them to jump onto instead! They do love sleeping on top of the fridge, or just surveying the space/watching me while I cook! They also manage to squeeze up on top of the kitchen cabinets from there too, though there’s really not enough height between them and the ceiling (18cm) to be that comfortable, alas… I also want to make a skyway around the room too, with a big long shelf going above the big window to span the two sides of the room, and maybe some different kinds of wall catifications stretching from the window up to the kitchen… I think I should *just* have enough space because that’s a 25cm gap above the window, if I can find a shelf/bracket system that can get as close to the top of the window recess as possible, and then figure out the spacing at each end for them to get up onto the window shelf when there’s not a load of headroom for them to jump! My catification is definitely all still a work in progress 😸

Love this idea.

Great ideas thank you 💫

Great idea 👍

Brilliant! 👍👍💖💖

Just the tips for handling the carpet was worth me subscribing. Thank you!

Excellent video.

I really like this idea. I'm not very handy myself, but I could probably tackle this. Thanks for the video and the clips of your happy cats!

Very good idea !

I love your ideas!

Yeah mine climbs on top of the fridge and let's her paws 🐾 hang off and watch me, lol

Very helpful. 😊

I Love my four rescued cats. You explain everything so well! Thank You so much!

Your videos are excellent and you are very knowledgeable/informational, THANIYOU! If someone rents they should not be drilling holes in walls without permission, and expect to pay for a professional to restore/repaint the entire wall if they do. I have had tenants fill holes with toothapaste, and they always leave the property in worse condition.. One should expect to leave a home in the same condition they entered, or indemnify the owner.

Very nice job! ❤ Great work 🌹❤️

Gracias por los consejos Francisco, un saludo desde España.

I love your well-loved books on your bookshelves

Very nice, Thank you SO MUCH😂

thank you for this, moving soon and definitely want to keep my monkey happy.

Awesome! Thanks for all you do! Now make them and sell them ;)

This is brilliant!! I want to do this as i have two ferals and the male one i can tell needs more stimulation. For us with little carpentry experience could you PLEASE make another video showing how you attached the shelves to the pole. Also, are the horizontal wood pieces going from the bookcase to the door screwed into the wall too? Thank you! New subscriber ❤

Im going to look for free bookcases ,, hopefully, 2 or 3. Im going to leave the shelves empty, cutting squares and or circles on oppsote ends so the 2 kitties can climb up them (1 kitty is 12 ill secure ramps eith carpeting for her to rasily travel) to the top. Ill buy s fee planks for running , making them not yo far apart securing them with hardware for the zoomie times. TY i wanted to secure them to the walls. I know how moe with the tip you gave. I do have a few hesvy rocks I'll put in the bottom also for added weight. Thanks so much! Lolol they'll love these!

Спасибо, такой вариант мне подходит.

"Calisto, Skyfall, and *Mister Muffin."*

I have 3 cat trees in my front picture window close enough to easily jump and levels staggered so they can jump up from tree to tree.

Stud? In the UK we have brick walls.

I have a question please....How wide are the catwalk shelves?

Do you recommend the stud finder you're using? I haven't found many with good reviews

you can find carpet cut outs at dollar tree

Yes, but I rent furnished. And I don't have a cat. Oh well

My cat prefers the floor 🤷‍♀️

Where can I find a husband like you? The perfect Daddy for my 5 cats.

POV - you're a woman watching this with no tools, space, or skills.

Get to the point!

THERE IS NOTHING CALLED AN INDOOR CAT! That is like saying indoor horse. Keeping a cat inside is animal abuse. Cats are meant to roam and have independence, if you can't give a cat, or any animal for that matters, what it needs to have a healthy, normal life, DO NOT GET AN ANIMAL!

That is amazing I just ordered an extra large cat tree but this looks like he would like it also. I think I will get a book shelf n cut holes in shelves to go from one to the next. I go to the library for books. Thanks 😊.