Okay, I am clearly in the mood to check out silly things all day long. I just can't get over how amazing some of these cat products are. You can't go to just any pet store and buy them. Any chance I get I clip and save these to my blog for later reference. Those items sit here never to be purchased.

I laugh at myself, but you know, I'm not the only crazy girl in the office that does that. My good friend and co-worker, Agent V, collects items in her Neiman Marcus basket. Thousands of dollars worth of clothing and then she just cancels it all at the end of the day.

I get it you know. It's a stress reliever. We sit here all day long staring at the computer working our butts off, answering phones, faxing and completeing this request and that request and never take a break. We're not allowed to walk around the office and be seen socializing. We're not really allowed to take a lunch break, though it's an unspoken issue never to be discussed in the open. So, rather than rest our eyes from the PC we just sit here and stare at pictures or the like. Me, I like to look at kitty stuff, write, and let my mind wander for a bit. Just until the next phone call or the next fax.

Today I've been running across so many cute items that I've already left several individual posts, but there are so many that I can't sit here thinking of things to write for each one soI decided to just post the pictures. This way I'll just have a little something to look back on if I ever have $300 or so to waste I can just come back and search the history. Isn't it a great idea? Much better than a wisty thingy. Those are a bit of a pain in the ass to use. OH, must remember to search for a book like widget for blogs! Or like a feed reader that scrolls your blog feed. YEAH...Doing that now!

This little thing is so cute! I know my kitty would love it. I bet you think I get paid for this don't you. I don't. Not any of it. Not a click or a purchase. I'm just window shopping. Hmmm...I should rename my blog in fact.

You know, this made me think about something. I don't have any babies, but I do have a spare room. I should furnish it and find a way to turn everything into a cat playground. Would that be sick?

I get I could totally make one of these!!!

Now this is what I call innovative. A glass Litter Container? INSANITY! I love it.

SEE! I'm not the only idiot that thought of it already! I need a Kitty Tv!!!

My cats would be so happy and I'd probably be able to keep them out of the living room more often. They may even enjoy simply staying in the room. No, who am I kidding. My cats are nuts.

Freakin' deviants! Still, they'd be spoiled rotten in their own room. Actually, they already have their own room. The day bed is all theirs and there's room on all the book cases for them to jump around and lounge, but it's just not good enough. I could do better.

One day my precious kittehs. One day, and if Rigid doesn't get a job soon I'll allow you to claw his eyeballs out. We'll post them back to England too. That'll show him.

Kitty Loo Grassy Thingy

Okay, clearly I am obsessed with a litter box solution. I had seen these things for minidoggies, but they were for real grass. Looks like they went ahead and did what I wanted to do in Australia. The only problem is who picks up the poo? There's a lovely resevoir for the kitteh peh, but what do you do if your cat has a bad diahmareah? Speeeeew! Imagine having to slop up kitteh diahmareah....* LIKE, GAG ME WITH A SPOON *  * LIKE....GROSS!!!!*

Perches have been on my wish list for a long time now. Earlier this year I had a bug up my butt to find a way to make them myself. It wasn't easy and I never did get around to even begin buying the tools that I would need or the supplies, but I did at least figure out a few things that could easily get me started. Unfortunately they were ugly. I mean...FUGLEH.

It was really discouraging especially when Rigid and I started arguing in the middle of the store. Clearly one of us needed tea and the other needed to eat. Suffice it to say that the project never got started. Instead I bought supplies to make a frame. I never did get around to making the frame either. I was going to work on making my own picture frame. I even bought a way. The wood and saw are all still sitting there in the garage waiting for me to get around to it, but nothing. So why do I complain when I buy Rigid a guitar only to find that he's not interested in learning to play that guitar after all. I mean, you ask for a guitar, beg for it in fact then let it sit there when you get it. It's gathering dust in a corner of the house somewhere...

 

Alright that's enough complaining. The perches were what I wanted to discuss here. These are the cutest I've seen so far though I wouldn't be okay with the fur lining since the cat hair will just get completely stuck in there and will eventually be impossible to remove. Plus really....can you see me adding more material to my walls? Talk about an allergen trap. I'd be taking shallow breaths before you can count to 10. What a fantastic idea though and it looks as if it would be really easy to attach to the wall too

Itchynee is where you'll find these lovely furry cat perches. Look at that picture up there. That cat looks like it's having a blast, but would it be able to withstand the load from 5 cats? Not that they'd bombard it all at the same time just that...well, they can be a little rough, especially Grendel the youngest and largest of them all. He's also the only male. Eek...

I've been perusing the internet this morning just to see what I could find. I suppose I'm not really in the mood to do anything worthwhile and I'm too lazy right now to try anyway so here's the best that I can come up with. And trust me, these are some really great ideas. I want the perfect litterbox, cat tree that i could spend hours staring at and some perches that they could climb around on.

Those few items would make my cats very happy, but the problem is that I have 5 cats so anytime I switch to a new litterbox that I adore I may have to buy more than 2...how do you do that on a scant budget? I suppose I could try most of these things out on my own, but Rigid can't exactly help me. He's not the most creative person in the world and well...kind of boring. Doesn't even bother trying. Guess I'll have to do it myself.

Now this litterbox would be ideal. It's got a perforated top which the one at the pet store did not. Along with a very Ikeaesque look the box comes with it's very own scooper that includes a small litter brush in it's design.

They sell reusable blue liners that would make cleaning these boxes super easy. I always knew there had to be an easier way to use liners and not thrown them away. It seems so idiotic that no one thought of it before. Maybe they did and I just missed it. It was something I have been thinking about for a long time as well.

I recently discussed it with Rigid and he thought it was a great idea. Too bad we lack the resources and the ingenuity to pull it off ourselves...or could it be a lack of ambition? Don't know. Ideas are always floating out of our heads, but never onto a piece of paper or an actual prototype.

This is exactly the liner that I had been thinking of. Something sturdy that would be able to withstand the clawing, but collapsable to make it easy to clean after disposing of litter.

Seems like a great idea, but in practice I have no idea. I'm hoping that I'll be able to afford these things soon. I could really use about 3 or 4 litterboxes and they seem to take up so little space that 4 boxes would be just fine. Okay, I can deal with 3, but I really would rather have 5. One box per cat. It's silly, but I'm positive that it would help them be just that much happier.