Floyd and Huckleberry are two incredibly vivacious, outspoken best buddies. They have been best friends ever since they first met, and they spend their days causing mischief around the house as their mother attempts to keep up.
Gentry Sanders, the mother of the two, told The Dodo, “Every day everything is being pushed over, things being damaged, they simply adore playing.”
While they have a lot of toys, Floyd and Huckleberry especially love cardboard boxes. Whenever their mom gets a package, she always makes sure to give them the box it came in, and they love spending hours hanging out in them. Sanders is a graphic designer and creative by nature, and seeing how much her boys love boxes gave her an idea — she decided to use them to build a house.
“I figured I could just use the boxes to make something cute since they were always sitting out in my house,” Sanders said. “I love mid-century style and figured, ‘Why not a mid-century house?’”
Sanders has a lot of experience creating and building various do-it-yourself projects, so she grabbed her supplies right once and started working on the cat housing. She even provided instructions for the craft on her blog so that others may also build it. She assembled it over the course of a whole weekend, with the cats naturally around to keep an eye on things.
“I can’t do anything in my house without them being involved in it,” Sanders said. “They enjoyed chewing and laying on the cardboard once it was sliced. They surprised me by leaving me alone while I painted, although I had planned that during their afternoon sleep.
As Sanders put the finishing touches on the house, she was a little worried her cats would turn their noses up at it and just want their plain old boxes back. She nervously presented them with the finished project …
… and they absolutely loved it.
Floyd placed his catnip banana inside and began munching on it as soon as they saw it, according to Sanders.
Huckleberry and Floyd are absolutely thrilled with their new cat house, and love having a place they can hang out and play together that’s all their own. Even as the days have gone by, the excitement from their new house hasn’t worn off, and they love it just as much now as they did initially.
Since then, Huck has been sleeping there continuously while I work, according to Sanders. “Floyd either sleeps in it or works on tearing apart his catnip toys. Sincerily, I’m astonished by how much they enjoy it.
Floyd and Huckleberry like their unique mid-century cat housing, and they are eager to see what their mother will try to construct for them next.
