I decided to make stairs for one of my cats after a few failed attempts to jump on the couch resulting in her falling onto her back. She is 16 years old and on the larger side, so any unnecessary stress on her body is bad. I looked online and found pet stairs for sale for anywhere from $40 to $300, the cheaper ones were quite ugly and seeing as they would remain in my living room for the foreseeable future I would have to look at the eyesore every day. So rather than spend hundreds of dollars I came to the conclusion that building my own was the best option.

I happen to be very cheap person, also I hate pointless waste. My boyfriend and I make regular trips to our local dump and we rescue any and all materials that we can. It just so happened that I had TONS of finished plywood scraps that we saved from a landfill, so I decided that's what I would use to build my pet stairs.