Cat Activity Centers
What is a Cat Activity Center?
Plainly put, a Cat Activity Center is a multi-use element in your home exclusively for your cat where they can do all types of activities; mainly: play, hide, and sleep. Activity Centers are great for together play, solo play, and multiple cats playing at once.
You can always change up HOW you play with it to keep your cat on their toes by game cycling or cycle them in and out of playtime like with any other toys. Keep it out all the time for a place of comfort, put it away when you’re not using it and bring it out for playtime every day or every few days, or rotate between a few different ones, having one out when the other is away to constantly be flexing your cat’s mind and muscles. And always be changing up the Goosie Games you're playing together. The Ripple Rug and Play Cube can be deconstructed or folded up and put away for easy compact storage.
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Ripple Rug
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Play Cube
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Cat Trees
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Our Favorite Activity Centers
Ripple Rug
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Can change the orientation of the rug every time you play with it by securing different touch points
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Holes have safety slits and can also be cut wider for larger cats to prevent your cat from getting stuck in a hole.
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Really engage your cat’s curiosity with its holes, finding new spaces, places, and ways to navigate through
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Made in the USA of recycled water bottles
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Nonslip bottom
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Neutral colors
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Can be rolled up for compact storage
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47”x35”
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$50
Play Cube
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Smaller and more affordable than the ripple rug
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Slightly limited in how you can switch things up. Can add blankets over top and/or orient it in different ways so the different holes and long sides are changing spaces.
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Can have every side on it or change it up by taking off some of the walls and making it front-less, roof-less, or take off the short sides and turn it into a tunnel, or flip them backwards and make a double bed (great if you have two cats! And they can boop each other through the holes on their shared wall!)
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Buy multiple and build mazes for your cat
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Sturdy felt material makes it so kitty can not only go in and around it, but also climb on top of it.
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Lucy’s tip: attach some rug grips on hard flooring to make sure the play cube doesn’t slide across the floor.
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Colorful and cute
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Can be deconstructed for compact storage
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17”13”x13”
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$32
Cat Trees
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Gives your cat vertical space. Vertical space is important for cats to have a vantage point and see the entire room from a higher position as they would naturally in the wild in real trees.
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Can utilize tall or short trees, bed huts, or scratching posts depending on how you are incorporating them into play.
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What makes them special is your cat can CLIMB them, the Play Cube is great for hiding and the Ripple Rug for running and burrowing on the ground, but trees give them a different physical direction of enrichment.
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Can vary from basic posts and perches to extravagant fortresses depending on your budget and personal taste.
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Prices and sizes vary
Who Activity Centers Are Great For
While Activity Centers are a good investment for any cat parent to add more daily enrichment and satisfy your cat’s need for novelty, they’re exceptionally great for
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those who might be short on space, who live in an apartment or have roommates and their cat needs a dedicated area to be theirs without disturbing the peace.
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Cats who get bored easily can get reignited by a new space to play or changing up their environment
They’re an easy way to change up your cat’s environment without completely changing yours.
A great Activity Center is a triple threat. It can be used to play, sleep, or hide:
Play
Some Goosie Games are made to be played with these activity centers, but others can be modified to incorporate them. Like the game Corner, it’s directed to play around a wall or door corner, but if you live in a studio that’s not an option, or it wasn’t until you play it around the Ripple Rug or Play Cube for kitty to chase around its corners and now it’s Corner Tugs, accessible to a small space!
Favorite Goosie Games with Activity Centers:
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Normally we don’t love these short wand teasers but you can play with a lot more precision and get more active with these teasers when you’re playing with an activity center than you can with a traditional long wand with a string.
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Best with trees
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Multi-cat households
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Hide
Kitty can use the play cube or Ripple Rug like they would their tunnel and run in and out of it, or use it as a safe space to hide. They can also hide in their condos on their cat trees or underneath/behind the base pieces.
Lucy’s tip: drape a blanket over the Play Cube if kitty wants to feel more cozy or protected in their space
Sleep
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Cat trees often include beds or condos for kitty to sleep.
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Kitty can get cozy and sleep inside the Ripple Rug.
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The Play Cube comes with a bed cushion for kitty’s sleepytime comfort.