Friday, March 22, 2013

"Fun Finds" Friday

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Today's Fun Find is limited to folks in the Austin, Texas metro area. But that doesn't mean we can't drool over it! This magnificent cat tree is made by the Cat Carpenter, David Murphy. David's the Director of Sanctuary Operations for the no-kill Shadow Cats Sanctuary in Round Rock, TX (a suburb north of Austin).

photo copyright The Cat Carpenter, used with permission

 David has made several of these lovely cat trees for Shadow Cats and the kitties adore them!

photo copyright The Cat Carpenter, used with permission

 But wait! There's more! (We just love saying that)
Take a gander at these fantastic cat shelves and tunnels. Talk about every kitty's Superhighway dream...

photo copyright The Cat Carpenter, used with permission

If you live in the Austin metro area, you can have one of your very own, custom designed to fit your home.
We can really see ourselves sitting in one of these fancy tunnels! If only we lived closer....

photo copyright The Cat Carpenter, used with permission


While you're drooling over these photos, click on over to Shadow Cats and check them out. From time to time, they hold online auctions, and if you have a few extra pennies to spare, you can sponsor one of these lovely sanctuary cats.

Many thanks to David for sharing his story with us - and we so wish we lived closer so we could get one of those cat trees!




21 comments:

  1. I can only dream of those lovely things..I would love a tree to climb but the Blonde would be chasing me up it and sure to knock it over..MOL xx00xx

    Mollie and Alfie

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  2. These are gorgeous...It's a lucky cat that has such a fun amusement park of its very own

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  3. Now they are cool. How clever.
    Have a fabulous Friday.
    Best wishes Molly

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  4. Hi - just stopping by to say that there were no changes made to the managed care ordinance in Chicago that I told you about last week! All went well and the ordinance will continue ...

    Your pal, Pip

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  5. Those are beautiful!!! So nice to see shelter kitties enjoying their space and their views. : )

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  6. If we had a daddy we would ask mommy for one. Mommy is useless and could not put one up and the brothers are just as useless with things like that. But programming computers or teaching school? That's their thing. xoxoxo

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  7. Hi Maxwell, Faraday and Allie,

    Wow, those are AMAZING cat trees and tunnels! We wish we lived close to Austin!

    Hugs to you all,

    Sammy and Moosey (and mom and dad, too)

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  8. Both the trees and the shelf´s is cool !
    Nice to hear that shelter kitties have them to rumble around on/in :)
    HAppy weekend to you !
    XOXO

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  9. Doods! Hint:If you look on David's web page under the 'Cat Trees' section he pretty much shares the instructions in the description so people outside the Austin area can build them! In fact on their FB page(Shadow Cats)today they have piccies of one a lady built from his "instructions" off his site. I LOVE David and Shadow Cats, it's such a pawsome place and so dedicated to all the kittehs (they have 2 fun live cams to watch,Cookie's Place is for the Felv kittehs). Anyhoo..David and all their volunteers are tireless in their care and dedication to all the Shadow Cats. I want a tree so bad but mom even with instructions is hopeless at manual labor stuff.

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  10. Well that is definitely in my neck of the woods! I'm here in Round Rock. Love the shelves! Of course, all of it is awesome and the kitties really seem to be enjoying themselves!

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  11. Wow - now those are some cat trees!

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  12. des maisons de chat magnifiques, un bonheur pour les chats

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  13. Mom loves Austin and has good friends living there. She thinks that these cat trees are so nice that she might need to plan a road trip! Have a great weekend. Purrs and hugs from the kitties at The Cat on My Head, Lily Olivia, Misty May, Mauricio, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Josette

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  14. I saw these somewhere and might even have pinned it. Maybe Hauspanther.

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  15. whoa! those are cool! we don't have that here. wish i have one.

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  16. Ok here's da linky to da plans for da cat trees dat David makes, the link is found under "Resources" on the shadowcats.net website. David says he's very happy to share-they're cat tested and approved by the most demanding cats!
    http://www.shadowcats.net/pdf-files/Shadow%20Cats%20Cat%20Tree%20Plans.pdf

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  17. I would luvluvluv to gift some of those to my former shelter...sigh...so nice

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  18. These are some awesome cat trees. I especially love the cat shelves. That was a wonderfully creative idea!

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    Cindy
    universalcats

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