Cardboard Cat Cave!

What cat(s) don’t like boxes, or Cat Caves? Our cats sure do! Since it’s the Christmas season, we have loads of cardboard boxes in our garage. So one day, my husband Dave took a huge cardboard box, and took a box cutter and cut out a circular hole. He brought the box in, to see what the cats would do with this enrichment idea. It’s our DIY cardboard cat cave, and let’s have some fun. The cats both explored and checked out the toys I threw in the box, and jumped in the box and playing hide and seek. I also tossed in cat treats and just watched both cats trying to retrieve them. This enrichment idea is so simple, and now it’s a free toy like enrichment to put on our blog. We even put the box on it’s side, or straight up, or upside down, or any which way for a variety, and so the cats don’t get bored.

We have no link to this DIY cardboard cat cave of fun, but we didn’t need too. Let the possibilities with your cats run wild. We would take a variety of wand toys, like the bees, lizards, birds, rats, mice, and try to attract their attention, to paw, and try to chase these toys. Also, I would take this longer wand like toys, that look like worms, and maneuver it back and forth to the inside of the box, back and forth. They enjoyed that a lot. The best to me and my husband Dave, were connecting these tunnel looking toys and as well as our Hocus Pocus 2 pup up tent to connect to the circular area of the box. Pukini loved it, and we Ioved it, when he wiggled his rear end and than proceeded to run right through the tunnel(s) to the box and out of it, and than turn right around and go back out again. It was just hilarious how excited they both enjoyed this free enrichment toy of fun. When you’re looking for a new enrichment idea, you can’t go wrong, because you can get any variety of boxes, and have fun exploring with your cat. Mix it up, and put in some new and old toys, and what’s fun is to see what they can do with their imagination to entertain themselves.