What is your favourite cat bed?
Friday, May 14th, 2010 at
11:05 am
Looking to buy a nice cat bed for my kitten so he’ll stop sleeping in the litterbox. He likes things that are enclosed and snuggly.
Is there any way I can encourage him not to sleep in the litterbox? I’ve tried to make a cubby-hole with blankets for him. I’ve put a heating pad under a couple of soft shirts and receiving blankets.
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Never in my life did I ever have a cat who would sleep in their bed. But now, I have two. I picked out the fluffiest, most comfortable looking beds I could find. It took about a month for them to start using them but now one, if not both, of them are almost always in their bed. Even though the beds are identical they have even decided which one belongs to who haha.
If your kitten likes enclosed spaces, Walmart sells something call the Kitty Kube. It’s a plushy hollow square with a hole in one side. Nice and enclosed.
JJ.Sorry to disappoint you,but cats and kittens are going to sleep wherever they want.
You are wasting your money on a cat bed.If your kitten likes and enclosed space I would get a box turned upside down with an opening cut out.That way you can have a disposable cat bed.
Most cats sleep wherever they like whether it is a bought "cat bed" or some other place more to their taste.
For that reason and because your cat is a kitten I think you should improvise. If you buy a small cozy hidey-hole bed now it will soon be outgrown.
Try some different sized cardboard cartons. Lay them on their sides so the top flap can hang down and put in some soft material like an old sweater. Let the kitten find these on his own.
The others are right. My 4 cats pretty much sleep anywhere that pleases them. I have a lot of cat beds here and there in the house but only one of them is their favourite. Sometimes, 2 of them wants it at the same time so gets crowded:)
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There is a slight problem with buying cat beds. Cats rarely bother with them. My cats would rather sleep in the middle of the main traffic area of the house. That way they don’t miss any of the action. Other favourites are an old blanket in the front window or wherever the dog happens to be sleeping.