thanks for the replies -

At least I won't worry about him so much, anymore....

having been an outside cat, I'm sure he's pretty good at taking care of himself, but he's made a cople of jumps where he 'slid' into stuff, and I don't want him pulling down a heavy lamp or something glass (and breaking it) on himself.

Having always had dogs with big wavy tails, we don't have much breakable stuff around, anyway - but then they never could reach higher than table top - at the most.

In most of our rooms, Pixel has one or two head-high perches that are easy to get to in stages, as he seems to like just being 'with' us, wherever we are. But our house is small, (no family room - our living room is where we spend our TV / family time) and everything in there is either people seating ( and accesable to the dog) or VERY high. Not much in between.

I looked at building him a cat-tree for the living room - but since we don't have much floor space to spare, when I saw those KatWallks on the web, I knew I could make some pretty easily myself, and that he would probably like them even better than a 'tree'.

Have you seen their website? http://www.katwallks.com/

man - they look like so much fun, I wish I was a cat!

Now if i can only find the TIME to make them, among the other things on my 'To Do' list!

Laura