Cats like houses and hiding places just as much as they like cat-trees. Lots of cat-trees have a cat house or condo built in.
Cat houses are fairly easy to make (instructions in a later post). My cats also love the soft ready-made houses now available, especially these barrels, which have padded interiors.
Some cats are pretty good at taking over any enclosed space and repurposing it as a cat house.
Below is the most elegant cat-house ever: a Thai spirit house. Now with a resident cat-spirit!




If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it’ll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let’s take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.