imo too many cat toys and too much cat furniture is a bit like throwing too many options at a small child. perhaps rather, too many games into a steam library.
cats are not that complex. they're satisfied with a minimum amount of toys, even makeshift, even a singular toy. they don't need a cat tree in every room. or, really, a cat tree at all, if there are other somewhat high places in their regular haunts they're allowed to hop onto. a cat would probably spend most of its time snoozing at desk height by their favorite person. i think a lot of the cat biz with this stuff is mainly boosted by the human impulse to collect things.
i should be cautious about making assumptions, but perhaps in this case, she's trying to make the problem go away by throwing money at it.
you can probably still plunk your speaker around there or wall mount it above the cat tree? skooch the tree like a meter away. just somewhere the cat won't claw on it. if cat stuff is allowed to dominate the whole place (as large as you've said it is), you may end up joining many other men in being stereotypically exiled to a mancave.
'mancave,' there's a word with distasteful connotations i run into a bunch. "her space is everything else," "the bosslady," "she runs a tight ship." the thoughts of passive misogyny. stand up for yourself! sheesh. almost exclusively from men who expect their significant other to do all the housework. they remain willfully ignorant on that stuff. if you're not allowed in the kitchen, maybe stop throwing raw pork in the drawer with the fruit. imagine the wakeup call for divorcee manchildren.
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