Whenever there are boxes around my kitties love getting in them and chewing on them, don't know what that is about. They also love fleece so I put one of our fleece blankets in a flattish box and it is my big kitties new favorite beds.
I then had a regular size box and make a big squishy bed out of it by putting old sweaters and things in it and well they avoided it like the plague. While I was cleaning today I decided to cut that box in half and use the bottom half as a bed, put some fleece blankets in it and had the big kitty take it for a test sleep. She loved it and while she was in the bottom half I look over and the little one is in the top half. So I got two beds for the price of one, well for no price at all actually. I don't know why we had the box but it was from my husbands work. I didn't put any blankets in and the top half of the box and the little one seems to love it so now they have their choice of padded or non padded.
Here they are in their new box beds:
If you are the artistic type you could decorate them and they you wouldn't have cardboard boxes around your house but I am not and anything I did would probably be more of an eye sore than the sight of a box.
I also found a use for old pants, apparently the little one loves sleeping on old pants. I gathered up a bunch of old pairs and didn't know what to do with them, they were holey in places and ways that can't really be salvaged, since I have ZERO sewing skills I wasn't sure what to do with them. I left them lying around and the kitten just loved lying on them. I have my childhood toy box next to my bed and it holds my t-shirts and would get pile with things on top to the point I would not longer be able to get into it so I wanted to do something with it that was useful but also let me still get into it. I ended up putting the pairs of old pants on it and it is where the kitten curls up every night. Someone with sewing skills could probably make a blanket or something that looks nicer than pairs a pants laid on a toy box but for me it works, it's in a dark corner of my bedroom. In the picture you can see the indent the little one has made on the top left of the picture and the collection of black fur she has left too.
We ALWAYS have cardboard boxes lying around everywhere. They're our kitties' favorite toys. They play hide and seek in the boxes and sometimes dive into them. And no, they are no decorated. No one here cares that much about how they look!
ReplyDeleteBeds, on the other hand, are another story. Our cats have never had beds. They sleep wherever the heck they want. On the sofa, chairs, our bed, floor, whatever.
I think the beds came out of the fact that when we first got our cat we were living in a room and there wasn't a lot of room for her and so we made a specific space for her with a bed and she really loves them. Our new kitten, not that new she is 3, has only lived in the apartment we have now and there is room for her to find her own space and she doesn't prefer the beds like the other one. She does use them but not too often. She is the one who loves sleeping on clothes so beds made from clothes are her fave, the toy box with the old pants is her night spot. She sleeps there when I go to bed.
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