When I get a chance to build something, like a house for my new cat, I take advantage of it.  I mean, why waste your time building something that already exists?  It really didn’t take that long.  I sketched it on an envelope and built it in the equivalent of an afternoon’s worth of time.

I made this house for my cat, Olive. She enters through a door in the bottom side and then ascends a ramp, which boosts her to the upper level. The front wall is plexi-glass, the floor is 2.5 inch thick old sheepskin rug, and my wife made some small paintings that hang on the walls. There is also a big cardboard scratching porch. Cats love to scratch and relax on cardboard. The top is removable and the glass slides out for maintenance.

Yes, that’s a deceased mouse on her porch.