My cat is sleeping in his cat bed!

[matt_mcl]

@Cowboy8467

I wish I knew how to get my cat to use a scratching post. I swear he uses pretty much every single thing in my room but the scratching post for his claws. The bed, rug, couch, and chair are all fair game, but heaven forbid he use the post. :rolleyes:

Are you using a scratching post covered in carpet? Because, although ubiquitous, those things really aren’t all that popular with cats.

For Christmas my mom bought my cat a scratching pad that’s basically a flat box full of compressed corrugated cardboard (catnip included). Anyway Zazou took to it instantly and abundantly and immediately gave up scratching the sofa, which I am very grateful for. It’s retailed as the SmartyKat SuperScratcher+, and I imagine you can find it or an equivalent product at your local pet store. Just put it next to whatever the cat is scratching.

[dwyr]

@pinkfreud

Our youngest cat, Dali (12 weeks old) often sleeps on top of our oldest cat, Nermal (19 years old). Awwwww!

That is just the darlingest thing ever.

[Tim_T-Bonham.net]

@matt_mcl

Are you using a scratching post covered in carpet? Because, although ubiquitous, those things really aren’t all that popular with cats.

It’s also a bit inconsistent to them – scratching on the carpet on this post is OK, but scratching on the similar carpet elsewhere in the house is bad?

[Pushkin]

We used to have a kitten who slept on a blanket in one of those plastic storage boxes for around the house. Feeling frivilous we picked up a catnip spray for him and sprayed the blanket. Going against cat tradition he couldn’t stand it and slept perched right on the edge of the wall of the box, itself only two or three centimetres wide.

Our current cat has no problem, sleeping on a pillow, ontop of an insulating polystyrene slab, in side a large cardboard box on its side, all in aid of keeping him warm :rolleyes: That cat’s a… well a pussy to be honest. For the size of him, he has a hard time defending his territory without a human to hand.

[Tastes_of_Chocolate]

@WhyNot

Oh! It’s the Easter Kitty!

Does Bailey leave the rest of your plants alone? I’d love to make a kitty bed o’ grass for my land sharks, but I’m afraid it would dilute the “No plants! Bad kitty!” message we generally try to send.

Having grass for the cat to chew on doesn’t seem to save any of the other plants he might have a hankering for. Pretty much any plant with long bladelike plants gets a mohawk in my house. What the grass does seem to do is keep down the amount of hairball problems we get. Bailey has very long, thick, silky fur, and hairballs get to be a problem.

[Cat_Whisperer]

@pinkfreud

Our youngest cat, Dali (12 weeks old) often sleeps on top of our oldest cat, Nermal (19 years old). Awwwww!

You should send that picture to Stuff on my cat. com. I like to put hair clips on their tails (the kind that have the jaws that wrap around the tail, not pinch it - they can fling it off easily enough).

I think all cat toys should have a money-back guarantee if they don’t have anything to do with it. We’re not too cheap to buy toys for our girls; we just know how futile it is. If humans paid money for it, we’re just not interested. Unless it’s a plant or something we’re not supposed to destroy; then we’re probably interested. (We give all new plants coming into the house the cat test first - put it on the floor, and see what they do. If they want to eat it, it goes on a hanger. If they leave it alone, it can sit on a table. The exception is poinsettias, which don’t come into the house at all.)