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The New Cat Tree
Jun. 14th, 2023 09:39 pmWe tried to get the cats a new cat tree for Christmas. That's because the Amazon cat tree I'd gotten for Lucy and Callisto when we moved out here had gotten pretty rickety, courtesy of its screw-and-cylinder design.
So I searched high and low for a solid cat tree like the (ragged but not rickety) one that we'd gotten from Costco right after we moved. Petco was the best place that I could find, which sent me running out to the Petco on island, but they only had smaller ones. No problem, petco.com was the first place I found that would let me order a large, solid cat tree to Hawaii. So I did that about three weeks before Christmas.
One week before Christmas, Petco abruptly cancelled the order. No explanation. No apology. Just a cancellation and (a few days later) a refund of our money.
Merry Christmas.
(I assume the problem was the island shipping, but you'd think a website would automatically deal with that sort of thing, and if not you'd at least get a letter.)
So the cats didn't get a cat tree for Christmas and I decided there was no way to get a large, solid cat tree on island, other than a Costco Miracle or an expensive freight forwarding service.
(I looked at it: a few hundred extra dollars to get a cat tree here.)
Sometime this year I decided to go ahead and just get a new build it yourself cylinders-and-screws model. I mean, it'll probably get rickety eventually, but the orangies have also entirely mauled the nice Costco one, so that stuff falls off whenever it's moved, so maybe the rickety ones are just as good for a few years.
And that cat tree sat in a browser window for months, because it's been that kind of year.
I finally ordered it a few weeks ago and got it today. An hour or so of assembly later .... it's mostly up.
I still need to clean up the area where it's going to go, because there's too much stuff jammed in there. (Mostly boxes of games from the still not finished shelf assembly.) And they did not give me one bolt in the proper size, so I can't safely attach the top section until they either send me a replacement or I see if my dad has a tool to chop down a bolt. (The one they gave me was 10mm too long, and so it sticks out and could impale a cat.)
Anyway, fun times. The cat helped lots.
So I searched high and low for a solid cat tree like the (ragged but not rickety) one that we'd gotten from Costco right after we moved. Petco was the best place that I could find, which sent me running out to the Petco on island, but they only had smaller ones. No problem, petco.com was the first place I found that would let me order a large, solid cat tree to Hawaii. So I did that about three weeks before Christmas.
One week before Christmas, Petco abruptly cancelled the order. No explanation. No apology. Just a cancellation and (a few days later) a refund of our money.
Merry Christmas.
(I assume the problem was the island shipping, but you'd think a website would automatically deal with that sort of thing, and if not you'd at least get a letter.)
So the cats didn't get a cat tree for Christmas and I decided there was no way to get a large, solid cat tree on island, other than a Costco Miracle or an expensive freight forwarding service.
(I looked at it: a few hundred extra dollars to get a cat tree here.)
Sometime this year I decided to go ahead and just get a new build it yourself cylinders-and-screws model. I mean, it'll probably get rickety eventually, but the orangies have also entirely mauled the nice Costco one, so that stuff falls off whenever it's moved, so maybe the rickety ones are just as good for a few years.
And that cat tree sat in a browser window for months, because it's been that kind of year.
I finally ordered it a few weeks ago and got it today. An hour or so of assembly later .... it's mostly up.
I still need to clean up the area where it's going to go, because there's too much stuff jammed in there. (Mostly boxes of games from the still not finished shelf assembly.) And they did not give me one bolt in the proper size, so I can't safely attach the top section until they either send me a replacement or I see if my dad has a tool to chop down a bolt. (The one they gave me was 10mm too long, and so it sticks out and could impale a cat.)
Anyway, fun times. The cat helped lots.