A man couldn't find a scratching post he liked for his beloved cat, so decided to build one in the shape of their neighbor's dog.
"My studio-neighbour had a Labrador that walked in once in a while chewing on stuff I had lying around on the floor, and I just joked one time I would make a scratchpost out of him for my 'Gerrit'.. Which made me think how funny it would actually be so I made one," Erik Stehmann told Love Meow.
The scratching post is called DOG, with a smaller version named PUP. "Because it was such a success to me, I presented it at the Dutch Design Week 2011 next to my other new designs, and since then there are more then 400 cats with DOGs worldwide."
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Erik said some cats might feel a bit intimidated by the the scratching post just like having a new piece of large furniture in the house, but "as soon as they are close enough to smell they seem to realize this isn't a living animal and a sort of relief comes over them as they jump on the DOG and start scratching, looking at their owner with a face that says: 'Am I really doing this?'" Erik said.
"The DOG has much more scratching area then a regular scratch post. Every inch of rope is glued to the polyester base. We use a thick rope to make it very durable and should stand out several years to come," Erik said.
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