Today brings us closure on the fate of the cardboard cat house. Just to remind you, here’s what it looked like when we first put it together:
![](https://practice.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/blog_hilbert_cardboard_house.jpg)
Here’s what it looked like a week later:
![](https://practice.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/blog_hopper_cardboard_house.jpg)
And here’s what it looks like now, after it’s been so thoroughly trashed that the cats have lost interest in it:
![](https://practice.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/blog_cardboard_cat_house_end.jpg)