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Houzz TV: Watch These Rescued Cats Make a House Their Playland

Spirals, catwalks, tunnels and platforms create a superhighway inside this home in Southern California

Mitchell Parker
Mitchell ParkerDecember 22, 2014
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When Peter Cohen bought his house, it came with a couple of roaming outdoor cats. After tragedy befell one, and nearly the other, he began rescuing cats and bringing them inside his Goleta, California, home (near Santa Barbara). Before he knew it, he had well over a dozen indoor cats.

Video: See the cats in action

To keep them occupied, Cohen, a home builder, began designing and constructing elaborate catwalks, tunnels, platforms and perches throughout his house. So far he’s spent nearly $40,000, including for specially designed closets with exhaust fans to keep litter-box odors at bay. Meanwhile, five Roomba robot vacuum cleaners prowl the floors for cat hair.

In the home office, cats can climb up a rope-wrapped pole and either hop to adjacent platforms or descend a spiral walkway. “I thought maybe the cats would just look at it, but they use it all,” Cohen says. “It’s like a freeway sometimes with them all over the place.”
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In the master bedroom, the cats can enter through a tunnel over the door and make their way up a couple of floating shelves to a loft area with cat beds. Watch the video
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There’s also a pond full of koi fish to hold their attention. Cohen says none of the cats have ever tried catching one. Watch the cats enjoying their indoor playland

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