Cover the center cutout with turf, add scratchers or otherwise decorate as you see fit. Lure your cat onto the wheel and hope for the best.

Evie's owner said that the ragdoll meows at her from another room if she does not tend to her running wheel fast enough.

and this instrumented cat exercise wheel was the result. To pull this off, [Brent] used what he had on hand, which was an M5Stack ESP32 module, a magnetic reed switch, and of course, the cat ...

[Scott Cutler] has a young cat, [Cygnus], that loves to run on a cat wheel and [Scott] had some some important questions about [Cygnus]’s usage of the cat wheel like, how often it’s used ...