I finished it!!! Here is Ollie's Hoopball using James' fantastic instructions. She was a little unsure of it at first, but was sitting on it happily slurping on a small piece of popsicle (her bribe) within 5 minutes (pretty good for a grey

, IMO!). The pics are blurry, well, Ollie is blurry- the camera was focusing on the hoopball and I didn't have time to mess with the settings.
Thanks again James!!
*it won't always be hanging from this light fixture...we don't have any hooks in our ceiling, so I have to wait until we get back to my apartment to hang it up for real!