A scratching post assembly is provided for cats, and other pets, which comprises an upright elongated post which is covered with carpeting, or equivalent material, and which is detachably mounted on a base which, likewise, may be covered with carpeting, or equivalent material. In accordance with the invention, the post is readily demountable from the base, and the base is formed of two hinged sections which may be folded against one another, so that the assembly may be packaged to occupy minimal...

Habitats for housing and displaying animals having compartments stacked and/or side-by-side. Walls and doors can be plastic, acrylic, laminate, and glass. Doors walls, and floors can be see-through, and/or colored allow. Letters can spelling "CATS" can be mounted to walls form ledges, crevices, hiding spaces. Geometrical shapes such as circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles are mounted and/or free-standing to allow changing, and/or cleaning. Side compartments allow animals to be hidden. Doo...

An automatic dog or cat feeder has a plurality of pairs of water and food bowls in a horizontally rotative tray, and a cover assembly for the rotative tray and having a front opening exposing only one pair at a time of the food and water bowls. The cover assembly contains a clock controlled drive mechanism for stepwisely turning the rotative tray member so that one pair of its pre-filled food and water bowls is exposed at the cover assembly front opening during each successive day during the aut...

A cat toilet assembly is disclosed. The assembly includes a box-like hollow enclosure having upstanding interconnected sides, one of which has a discharge passageway therethrough. The top of the enclosure is open and is normally closed by a selectively operable hinged trap door arranged below the top edge of the enclosure. Cat litter is received on the trap door which may be opened when it is desired to separate excrement from the cat litter. A screen member is disposed at a downwardly directed ...

The embodiment of this invention is disclosed, which describes a cat litter box, which will allow cat owners to change litter without having to touch or manipulate the soiled litter. The device consists of a box within a box. The inside box is made with swinging trap doors on the bottom of the interior part of a shell of the device. This allows the cat litter to flow freely from the interior shell to the bottom half of the exterior shell. The bottom half of the exterior shell contains a garbage ...

A vertically elongated column, either square or round in cross section, is covered by tightly wound rope which is wound in a helix around the column and is affixed thereto by glue and recessed nails. The column extends upwardly from a horizontal base. The rope is densely wrapped around the column so that none of the column surface is visible between adjacent loops of the rope.

A device for supporting an unattended fishing rod while fishing; the device including a tripping mechanism activated by a fish nibbling at the bait, so as to jerk the line and thus securely hook the fish, the device also including a holder insertable into the ground, the holder supporting the fishing rod handle.

A pigeon trap including a two-level walkway and a locking mechanism barring entry of animals such as house cats and other predatory quadrupeds of comparable size. The upper level walkway is or is covered by a hinged deck plate which remains in a tilted, off-horizontal position as long as there is no weight on it, and in this position it exerts an upward force on one end of a pivoted balance beam through a rod connecting the two members. This causes the opposed end of the balance beam to be depre...

A base 12 supports small disposable containers 18 in an array. Each container holds a portion of litter 20. Containers are preferably transparent or translucent. In preferred embodiments a hinged grille 14 assists in the locating of containers within the base and serves to conceal the upper rims of the containers. A containment rim 16 is optionally provided for better keeping litter within the box. Container may be reused, or sealed with a snap-on lid 26 and disposed of without cleaning. Veterin...

A bird trap and cat feeder for catching birds and feeding the birds to a cat. The trap designed to catch birds the size of a sparrow while releasing smaller song birds, wrens, swallows, or the like. The feeder providing means for continuously supplying a cat or neighborhood cats with sparrows to eat.