Man Transforms Home into a Cat Paradise [Video]

• Peter Cohen slowly turned his home into the perfect cat paradise when his cat was injured in an accident.
• He created elevated cat walks, bridges, and tunnels, and adopted even more cats into his growing cat family.
• He was also inspired to launch a nonprofit that helps raise funds and awareness for research on cat diseases.

A man has turned his home into the perfect cat paradise.

When Peter Cohen bought a house back in 1988, he found two feral cats living in it, so he decided to keep them.

Sadly, both were hit by cars and only one survived. Peter knew she had to be an indoor cat now, so he made sure to transform his home into the perfect space for her to live in.

Peter owns a construction company, so he didn’t hold back on the designs. He drew most of his inspiration from “The Cats’ House” by Bob Walker.

He then adopted two more cats to accompany his first one.

He started adding elevated catwalks and surfaces for his cats to walk on along the walls.

It soon became a “never-ending hobby” for him when he saw how much the cats loved them. And as he added more catwalks, he added more cats.

Soon, he had 15 cats living in a cat paradise.

He said, “By giving them lots of walks, bridges, tunnels, etc. to explore and live in, we provide an interesting world for them. Cats are like any sentient being. They need an interesting environment to live and prosper in.”

Peter also launched a nonprofit aimed at raising funds and awareness for the deadly disease, Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP).

This passion started when one of his cats, Miss Bean, was diagnosed. He got her into a drug trial, but her immune system eventually became too damaged to recover. Miss Bean sadly didn’t make it, but the same treatment later cured Smokey, another of Peter’s kittens.

Peter realized that the research on FIP simply “need more money to do wider drug trials to get these and other promising drugs to market.” So he launched the nonprofit, ZenByCat, which donates ninety cents of every dollar raised toward the research — with the remaining 10 cents covering overhead and awareness expenses.

He said, “We can’t solve the world’s problems. but I can solve this tiny problem for these cats.”

Peter’s house was revisited by Houzz TV when he had 22 cats:

Having added 2 more cats, Peter’s “House Of Nekko,” which is Japanese for “House of Cats,” is now home to 24 cats living their best lives in a cat paradise.

Peter hopes that his story will inspire others to make a positive difference in the world, no matter how small.

Source: Inspire More