Have you ever thought about the importance of catifying the house where your cat lives ? With so many years of domestication, we end up forgetting the importance of allowing our cat to express its natural behaviors. When we talk about environmental enrichment, we usually associate this topic only with dogs, but felines should also have an environment with cat shelves, scratchers,To learn more about the topic, we talked to Guaraci Cabrera, who, on Instagram, is the gatification expert known as "The Maker." Check it out!

What does it mean to gatify the environment?

Gatification is nothing more than offering shelves for cats, burrows, toys, houses, niches for cats and objects that stimulate the environmental enrichment of the place where it is. According to Guaraci, gatification (also known as verticalization), consists of increasing the territory of cats through structures and spaces of their own aimed at the well-being and quality of life of the animal. TheThe term was coined by writer and feline behavior expert Jackson Galaxy (author of the books "The Cat Charmer", "Catification" and "Satisfy's Catify"). For him, the concept is based on creating a favorable environment for cats and humans, in which every corner of the house is shared.

Cat niches: catification of the environment contributes to your kitty's mental and physical health

Catifying your kitten's environment is no frills. Urban life has reduced cats' space and domestication has limited their natural behaviors, generating problems of anxiety, stress and obesity. It is therefore important to invest in objects and furniture that can help your kitten to have a greater interaction with the environment where it lives. Shelves, for example, allow the cat to stay in an environment where it canThe niches allow them to take advantage of the burrow, the wooden stairs and the whole structure to have fun and spend the accumulated energy.

"Finding places where the cat can observe the street, or birds or small fish, makes it possible for it to connect with its oldest instinct, that of hunter. It is very important to say that the domestic cat needs stimuli and not just a catified space, space is undoubtedly very important, but it is essential to play with the cat and make use of its catification to encourage jumping and climbing.games," explains Guaraci.

The benefits of catifying the environment are not only for cats. A good structure and the use of the right stimuli will also save your furniture from being a feline nail trimmer. For this, it is important to invest in scratchers in the niches, which also serve for the kitten to trim its own nails. In the case of planned playgrounds, you can adapt the structure for the cat with thedecoration of the apartment, without giving up space for furniture and, at the same time, presenting a new quality of life to the feline.