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SPRING HOME & GARDEN C5 March 2014 The Outlook, Sandy Post, Estacada News

Make your home a wonderland for cats

Keeping your cats’
environment enter-
taining can help

with bad behavior
aBy KYLIE WRAY
Pamplin Media Group
As a college student
living in Eugene raising a black
shorthair kitten ABOVE: Ash and Elsa were excited about their new garden even before
named Ash, I was introduced to the Animal Planet show it was inished being planted.
“My Cat from Hell,” partly due to the fact that my overly BELOW: Corrugated cardboard scratchers can be the cat’s meow. Ash
energetic kitten started scar- loves to use his various cardboard spaces that are strewn throughout the house.
ing friends and family away from my apartment.
The show’s host, cat behav- iorist Jackson Galaxy, soon
became my cat-training guru.
As a fan of the show, I learned boredom was most likely the
cause of Ash’s crazy behavior.
Jackson Galaxy’s favorite
suggestion for helping a crazy
cat is “catiication”: changing the environment of your home
to better keep your cats enter- tained, happy and on their
best behavior.
Nearly three years, and an- other kitten, later, I’ve slowly Home Values
been introducing ways to
make my newest tiny apart- ment a haven for cats so Ash UP
and Elsa don’t end up bored, and frighten guests away from Interest Rates
our home.
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