Does your cat have a bed?

SavingPennies_2

I bought Puss an igloo bed when we got her but she refused to go in it, she just sleeps on chairs/sofa and a cushion on top of a bookcase. Ive been looking at getting her a new cosy more open bed but im wondering if im wasting money. I feel bad she doesnt have a cosy bed of her own but are some cats happy like that? Our house is well insulated so theres no cold drafts or anything.

lostinrates

My cats like their radiator beds but also bully the dogs out of their beds. Buy them a cat bed and they are not interested. They do like sheepskin rugs, so if we want them to settle somewhere in particular we put their sheepskin rug there, but usually it's on the end of our bed. Mostly they sit on us when we are sitting or sleeping, or on chairs/ tops of shelves or the bed when we are not.

Marmaduke123

My present cat has a bed, one of those open doughnut ones with an imitation sheepskin finish. She's had the same one since she was a kitten, 11 years ago. She does sleep in other places too, but never on our laps.

I've had cats all my life and she's the only one whose ever slept in a cat bed!

G-WWBB

Our cats have so many beds, their favourite is our double bed.

All five of them usually like to jump on and settle about 10 minutes before we're due to go to bed, so by the time we come to get in to bed, we have to wriggle our way in like trying to get through a maze!

Their daytime beds consist of either sofas, the stairs (usually when you're carrying a full washing basket and can't see them sprawled out along the step...fun!), the dining room chairs/table, the mat in the living room, the scratch tray (yep, you read right) and a trusty old cardboard box.

We bought beds for them, which they used when they were kittens, before they realised how comfy the rest of the house was. We ended up giving some of the beds to a cattery and the rest we now use for our fosters. I think the only 'successful' bed we've bought was a radiator bed, a couple of ours do still use this occasionally.

RosaBernicia

No... they share mine :rotfl:

I have never bought them cat beds as I've never known a cat that actually slept in them and the flat is too small to be cluttered up with stuff they won't use. During the day they sleep on the sofas, which I cover with throws so that visitors don't have to get covered in hair (Primar7 do short pile throws for £5 which come in several colours, don't catch claws and are warm so they do tend to sleep on them - it also means they can scrunch them up into a pile if they want to be cosier).


Rosa xx

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Erm - one or two.

On the sofa.

Beside the sofa, one box. With another one on top of it.

By the radiator, a denim beanbag.

By the next radiator, a sheepskin. And two boxes waiting to go into recycling that have been colonised.

Then in my room, a cat doughnut on the chest of drawers. Plus my bed. Plus the chair.

And the bed in the spare room.

And on top of the guitar amplifier. And the top of the tumble drier.

And the freezer.

The kitchen chairs. The kitchen table.

The windowsills.

The cat box in the shed. The veggie crate in there as well.


But neither will countenance the radiator bed that Mitzi used to sleep in.

Sooetie

He prefers to sleep on a box in the shed. The box wasn't full so the lid has sagged and it's like a nest. Got himself nicely snuggled in there despite the fact the neighbours cat died there earlier this year.

He probably looks at it as reclaiming his territory as when the neighbours had 12 cats/kittens he was a bit outnumbered!

shjo558

My first cat refused to sleep in a proper cat bed but loved sleeping on an old chenille jumper that sat on top of some drawers in my bedroom.

Two kittens chose me a couple of years ago and I didn't bother getting them a bed as I assumed they wouldn't be fussy for a bed either.

When i got them home, as they were so tiny,I was worried they might get stood on. I decided to cut the side off a cardboard box and filled it with a cushion and some fluffy blankets and kept putting them in there every time they fell asleep on the floor.

Moving on to the present, I still have the cardboard box sitting in my living room as they refuse to sleep anywhere else........

Cats are funny wee things!

lisajane8482

Our cat and kitten sleep 80% of the time on/under our kingsize bed during the day and 100% of the time either on our kingsize bed or our daughters high sleeper on a night. They will occasionally sleep on the cat trees, tip of kitchen cupboards, settee or top of the stairs. We bought a cat bed, was used once, bought a radiator bed which is used to get on the window sill easier and bought an igloo thing that was never used. At the moment they are both asleep at my feet on the settee but when I go to bed they most likely will follow me and spend the night there.

valk_scot

I made mine a couple of Kitty Pi beds which are basically knitted doughnut type beds which are then felted down in the washing machine. The three cats fight like demons to get in one, they ignore the identical second one totally.

During the day they sleep on the floor over the warm spots on the central heating, if it's on. If there's no heating on then one of them sleeps in the vegetable basket, one on top of the wardrobe and the third in the middle of the floor. At night two of them sleep on our bed, the third sleeps on the sofa.

RevolvingDoor

My cats usually end up sleeping on our bed. I have got a furry cat box and they will occasionally use it.