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March is a month of celebration. Besides rejoicing in Easter Sunday this year, March is always a time for celebrating the births of Mochi and her daughter Marshmallow; Marshy's on the 1st and Mochi's on the 29th. What better way to show you care than to devote time into creating something unique for your loved ones (though it is unlikely that the kitties would be able to tell the difference nor would they care, but that's besides the point).

Initially, we were looking to buy a tunnel for the furbabies but could not find a clear seethrough design that was suitable, so we decided to build our own. The final products turned out better than we thought, and were approved with multiple paws up by our kitties as evident by their actions captured in this video as well as their frequent naps within the tunnels.

Materials used:
1. support frames collapsible circular drying nets found at Daiso Japan store
2. shell/cover we started with basket wrapping plastic for the first tunnel, but it was somewhat flimsy so we used a shower curtain instead for durability on the second tunnel
3. the "glue" bulldog/spring clips to hold them together.

To create the circular support structure for the tunnel, we cut out the nets portion of the collapsible drying nets (meant for drying clothes). For the shell/cover, we then either cut the basket wrapping plastic to the desired dimensions, or bought a shower curtain with suitable dimensions; the length being the desired length of the tunnel, and the width measuring a couple inches longer than the circumference of the circular support frames.

Next, we took one support frame and wrapped one end of the shell/cover around it while using the bulldog/spring clips to keep the shell/cover in place.

Then, at approximately every 12inch interval along the length of the shell/cover, we place a support frame and clip it in place oneatatime until the other end has a support frame. We found that a 10 to 12inch interval provides the tunnel with good stability.