Old Cat's Bottle

blossomhill_2

Cat lovers might recognise this conversation I had with DD last night

Me: Heating won’t come on, engineer is coming Monday
DD: Oh well it’s not too cold is it

DD: (seeing me filling a hot water bottle) Oh is that for me, how sweet of you, actually I am rather cold
Me: no, it’s for Old Cat under her padded quilt
DD: ok, she will feel the cold
Me: here you are (handing her hot water bottle)
DD: no, I don’t want to deprive Old Cat, she probably needs it as she is thin
Me: it’s ok, Old Cat had two
DD: Now I KNOW you are mad!

purple.sarah

Awww, that's sweet. Last winter we adopted 3 feral kittens who had been born outside in the snow. Then our old boiler gave up the ghost and it took our landlord ages to get it fixed. That winter, the kittens room was the only one that had heating, we only had one portable heater and put it in there because we figured they had been out in the cold for long enough!

blossomhill_2

Ooooh, a "kitten room" - I hadn't thought of having one of those! You sound as soft as us Sarah! We are planning to take in some (more) ferals soon

Dollardog

That sounds a bit like me, my central heating packed up a few years ago and I can't afford to have it fixed.
I bought three of those oil filled radiators, one for in the bathroom - I have a canary in there, but the radiator also helps stop the pipes from freezing, it is only set very low. One is in the back room, where my old dog sleeps, that is on most Winter nights if it is cold. The other is in the front room where I sit and work, I just put another coat/jumper on or do a hot water bottle to stuff up my jumper, if I am really cold, I put it on for half an hour or so every now and then!!

lostinrates

I hope old cat is cosy!


We have heating going in this autumn, we haven't had it for two years. The dogs have had a heater and a heat lamp, even the chickens had a heat lamp, and the oldest horse and a heat lamp hung very high and so she could stand under it or not, but we......we mainly froze (cantankerous woodburner, and plug in heaters when I was scared the pipes would freeze.).

Dog dog is already feeling the cold this year and we are having a new puppy join us in four weeks, so I might have to get something temporary rigged up very, very soon, (dog dog sleeps in a duvet so soon warms up once she is tucked in, I am not keeping her in the cold.

Tiglath

We've been known to leave the heating on all day in winter even when we're at work, in case the cats get cold ...

rising_from_the_ashes

What a bunch of softies - may I join?

I used to live in a very old cottage with no heating or double glazing - it was reg 4 deg inside when I woke up :eek:. (ETA just noticed all the layers on the bed! Ohhhh remember it well brrrrrr)

I used to worry about Smudge getting cold ......

scaredy_cat

I remember waking up when i was about 11 or 12 and there was frost on the inside of the windows! i don't seem to remember getting many colds though!

bacardi66

I know where you're coming from! I haven't put the heating on this year as my house is very old and costs a fortune to heat - but while I shiver my elderly cat is tucked up with microwaveable heat pad and a fleece rug!!

And his dinner came from M&S and mine was from Lidl.....

lostinrates

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

What a bunch of softies - may I join?

I used to live in a very old cottage with no heating or double glazing - it was reg 4 deg inside when I woke up :eek:. (ETA just noticed all the layers on the bed! Ohhhh remember it well brrrrrr)

I used to worry about Smudge getting cold ......

Last year on one of the coldest nights I left a heater on all night in the kitchen and filled the woodburner one last time before bed.

In the morning as I came down stairs the sitting room felt much warmer and after I restarted the woodburner I rushed through to the kitchen thinking 'it will feel like a normal house' a rush of war. Air hit me in the face and I almost skipped with joy to the thermometer .. Which read...






Three degrees. Pfft.

Anyway.the dogs were under their lamps and the cats and I had an electric blanket, we survived. Still, glad not to be facing it this winter.

Fire_Fox

My Lulu has a puffa type coat of mine that lives on the floor or my bed all winter, she sleeps underneath/ inside it, leaps on and plays with it. :rotfl: I also leave the heated underblanket on 24/7 in winter on the overnight setting, apparently cats should not have external heat as such, only little more than body temperature.