Keeping kitties warm

VeggieCatLady

To all you lovely cat owners (otherwise known as humans owned by a cat! ) how do your kitties keep warm in the winter? Do you put the heating on for them them when perhaps you wouldn't just for yourself?

mandrose

I share a house with my mum and her 2 very spoilt (adorable) cats! Our house is kept snug and warm, for us as well as the cats. In case (and believe me it doesn't happen often) they are ever locked out, we have a rabbit hutch in the garden with the door mesh removed. A big fluffy duvet is in there and tucked through into the completely sheltered side of the hutch. Its well sheltered under our wisteria and last year, on one particular frosty day they came out of there lovely and warm when we got home.

Mupette

heating went on timer at the weekend first time this autumn.

Then yesterday i put heating on as Georgie got spayed and i admit i wanted to make sure she was warm and comfortable..

now if my son had said he was cold i would of told him to put a jumper on lol

meritaten

keeping cats warm? you havent noticed those lovely fur coats they wear? or do you think that they cant cope with unheated homes?
hmmmm - My sons cat who lived with us a couple of years back gave the impression that the warmest place in the house was his!
but, once he went outside - his favourite activity was to hide under the box hedge in the hope of catching some birds feeding in the hazel tree next to it! he did this in temperatures of minus 6 to minus 10 and in the snow! he would hide for an hour or more before giving up and coming inside! so an unheated house for a few hours a day? shouldnt be a problem!

rising_from_the_ashes

Mine get hot water bottles:o - but only when it's really cold.

Wee cat has a "house" style bed downstairs which she's not used all summer but caught her in it a couple of days ago (after spending ages hunting the house for her as I'd lost her for several hours:D) - similar to this one http://www.petsathome.com/shop/igloo-plum-and-black-by-pets-at-home-58269 but mine was only £2.99 @ Home Bar*gains!

Big cat likes to sleep in the wardrobe on an old pillow with a fleecy blanket over it - the back joins onto the airing cupboard so it's lovely and warm in there!

Not sure what wee cat will do at night during the winter tho' ... she's only "been allowed" upstairs - by big cat I will add, not my doing;) - for the past couple of months & she usually sleeps in the spare room (he still goes nuts if she comes in my room:() but it's a really cold room....

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

I always tell myself they have fur coats. And one even has furry toes and ears, so she could be at the North Pole before noticing it's a bit parky tonight.

But I had to put the heating on for DD for an hour tonight as her back was hurting. I somehow picked up cushions and dropped them in front of radiators without even realising I was doing it. There is a cat on all but one of them.


That cat is currently huddling up to DD/DD's hot water bottle in her bed.


Owned? Surely not.



I can tell when it's really cold, as the cat won't get off me and will hurl herself at my collarbone/upper chest everytime I'm not actually paying attention to her creeping towards me. But at the moment, she has fallen asleep so soundly on the cushion, she has nosedived into it.


Oh, I forget, there's a fleece lined box in the bookcase next to the kitchen radiator. And a rug directly in front of my bedroom radiator.



Whose house is this again?

Fridaycat

I wouldn't put the heating on just for the cats, if it's warm enough for humans, it is most certainly warm enough for our fur-lined friends

Having said that, I am considering the purchase of one or two of these....

http://www.zooplus.co.uk/shop/dogs/dog_beds_baskets/cushions_pillows/heat_pads_and_heat_pillows/59060

rising_from_the_ashes

Fridaycat wrote: »

Having said that, I am considering the purchase of one or two of these....

http://www.zooplus.co.uk/shop/dogs/dog_beds_baskets/cushions_pillows/heat_pads_and_heat_pillows/59060

That's as bad as my hw bottles!;)

Now, really must toddle off to bed - dog's been shuffling and grumping at me for the past hour or so (when he's ready for bed, that's it;)).

Fridaycat

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

That's as bad as my hw bottles!;)

it;)).

I know, just cant resist the thought of them though... Just imagining them in the little den part of the cat tree , or under the fleecy blanket in the Bengals' bed :rotfl:

Mupette

i know they have fur coats, but georgie's been shaved.. and looks so pityful bless her

Owain_Moneysaver

VeggieCatLady wrote: »

To all you lovely cat owners (otherwise known as humans owned by a cat! ) how do your kitties keep warm in the winter? Do you put the heating on for them them when perhaps you wouldn't just for yourself?

I put the heating on for the neighbour's cat who comes visiting.

You'd think the little beast could at least repay the favour and warm the bed for a few hours, but she comes in for a quick heat and then bggrs off out again. Treats this place like a hotel.