SCRAWLING POST-BED FOR CATS Russian patent published in 2023 - IPC A01K15/02 A01K13/00 

FIELD: animal care.

SUBSTANCE: device for cats is intended for use in sharpening claws, as a cat bed with a play element. The scratching post-bed is made in the form of a flat structure made of honeycomb paper filler with the arrangement of stretched cells perpendicular to its plane. Moreover, the cells located closer to the center of the scratching post-bed are stretched less than on the circumference of the scratching post-bed. The scratching post-bed is made with a closed cavity, in which, during manufacture, a toy element is placed, made with the possibility of movement inside the cavity when raising local sections of the circumferential part of the scratching post-bed, which is made with a central hole. At the same time, the side surface of the central hole is made with a groove in which a latch is placed, in the form of a rigid flat part with a thickness less than the width of the groove, with the possibility of limiting the height of the possible lifting of the circumferential part of the scratching post-bed under external influence.

EFFECT: increasing the playfulness of the scratching post while limiting the possibility of removing the scratching post-bed from the equilibrium position corresponding to the flat shape during use.

12 cl, 3 dwg