A simple shaker style table in white oak, finished with spar urethane and kitty approved.
The breadboard ends on the panels were an education on this one; on the top they aren’t strictly necessary, but I felt they were needed on the lower panel so that the movement of that captive panel wouldn’t rack the legs. Found out I prefer making the tongues with a router rather than the dado set on the table saw.
K, so, I have a different take on this based purely on the cover photo, title, and the fact that the community is the last thing I look at.
We have a cat who was very fat, and when we were told he was prediabetic, we got serious about getting his weight down. After some weeks of hard work, he lost enough weight that he discovered he could jump up onto things and into places he never could before, because of his weight. One of these places was a narrow ledge between a decorative column and the wall in our front room. When he first did it, we noticed and congratulated him, and now whenever he jumps up into that spot he yowls until we acknowledge his feat.
So when I saw your title and picture, my first thought was that it was something similar: your cat being obscurely pleased with jumping up in this table.
Nice job in the table. And congrats to your cat.
It’s kind of the opposite with Miss Chiff; she’s a tiny cat, she topped out at 8.2 pounds, and she’s actually quite athletic. But it just doesn’t seem to have occurred to her that she could jump 6 to 8 feet straight up. I’ve never seen her jump much higher than a couch arm in a single bound. She’ll make multiple jumps to get up somewhere.