Lucky Cats Delight In Their Homemade Cardboard Lockdown Forts

by Maryjane

13 Aug 2020

Cat-crazed humans are no strangers to building strange things from scratch (especially from cardboard) for their cats. However, the isolation caused by the pandemic has revealed many different sides of people.

For some of us, it meant working out from home, learning new hobbies, and baking banana bread; for others, it resulted in gaining 20 to 30 pounds. Regardless of where you fall on the Covid Productivity Spectrum, you ought to spare a thought for the pets.

Pets, and cats especially, are used to having the house to themselves about 75% of the day. While that's fairly proportional to the amount of time a cat spends sleeping, cats don't really enjoy having their routine disrupted.

Covid has disrupted our cats' routines in unprecedented ways, as they now have to deal with their humans being around literally all the time. To make up for this and to repurpose some of that online shopping packaging that seems to be piling up, people are making forts for their cats out of cardboard boxes!

Maybe you'll find these cats and their fabulous forts inspire you to create something for your own cats: