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A special delivery isn't just special for you, it's special for your kitty who gets to hop into the discarded box. But don't they deserve something a bit more civilized?

Loyal Luxe, a Quebec-based pet product company, has created the Canadian Cabin, a mini-hunting chalet made out of cardboard that pets (especially cats) can use to play, scratch, sleep and hide.

"The idea for a house in cardboard came from the fact that cats are just crazy about cardboard boxes," company co-founder Maud Beauchamp tells PEOPLEPets.com. "As soon as you leave a cardboard box unattended in your apartment, you find your cat inside!"

Beauchamp and her co-founder Marie-Pier Guilmain are two industrial designers who just wanted some "modern and good-looking" pieces for their pet cats. Their highly-tuned aesthetic craved cool products, but the Beauchamps found them to be too expensive.

So they started working with cardboard, and eventually came up with a prototype of their cat cabin. They used a material that was more resistant than standard cardboard, one that could withstand the many daily scratchings of Guilmain's cat. A year later, the prototype was still in great condition.

To be environmentally-conscious, the Loyal Luxe team decided to take the cardboard scraps and create little ornaments — a fish, a moose head, a bird — that customers can hang on their cabins.

The cabins, which cost about $24, can be purchased in the Loyal Luxe online store, or at select retailers in the United States and Canada. And they aren't just for cats — small dogs, rabbits and ferrets can make great use of them, too.

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