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By California standards, this past week has been quite chilly. I also
have an apartment that is singularly hard to heat, as one almost can't tell the difference when the furnace is on unless one is standing within a three foot radius of it. Every morning after breakfast, my girls park themselves in front of the wall unit, and then start complaining when the furnace turns off when the set temperature has been reached. So after that lengthy preamble, Nina has found an ingenious way to stay warm. =o) She gets up on the middle shelf of my book case, then climbs onto the bed but UNDER my comforter, and there she stays, making a little Nina-sized hill in the sunny patch in the middle of the bed. =o) This is when she and her mother aren't lying close beside each other or me. So what tricks have other cats in this clowder learned for staying warm? Melissa |
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"Shiral" wrote in message
ups.com... By California standards, this past week has been quite chilly. I also have an apartment that is singularly hard to heat, as one almost can't tell the difference when the furnace is on unless one is standing within a three foot radius of it. Every morning after breakfast, my girls park themselves in front of the wall unit, and then start complaining when the furnace turns off when the set temperature has been reached. So after that lengthy preamble, Nina has found an ingenious way to stay warm. =o) She gets up on the middle shelf of my book case, then climbs onto the bed but UNDER my comforter, and there she stays, making a little Nina-sized hill in the sunny patch in the middle of the bed. =o) This is when she and her mother aren't lying close beside each other or me. So what tricks have other cats in this clowder learned for staying warm? Melissa My old kitchen range had a pilot light in the oven. Tawny (RB) used to get on top of the stove and lie right in front of the vents from the oven. I guess as he got older, he had trouble getting warm, because he would do this even in the summer. Joy |
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On 3 Dec 2006 22:17:43 -0800, "Shiral" yodeled:
By California standards, this past week has been quite chilly. I also have an apartment that is singularly hard to heat, as one almost can't tell the difference when the furnace is on unless one is standing within a three foot radius of it. Every morning after breakfast, my girls park themselves in front of the wall unit, and then start complaining when the furnace turns off when the set temperature has been reached. So after that lengthy preamble, Nina has found an ingenious way to stay warm. =o) She gets up on the middle shelf of my book case, then climbs onto the bed but UNDER my comforter, and there she stays, making a little Nina-sized hill in the sunny patch in the middle of the bed. =o) This is when she and her mother aren't lying close beside each other or me. So what tricks have other cats in this clowder learned for staying warm? Melissa Dante is an undercover man, too. HE climbs up the side of the bed like a little mountain climber, but UNDER the comforter, and makes that little moving lump in the bed. But for some reason, being under there seems to make him very excited, and he tries to run around under there. Eventually, he sort of explodes out of there with a major case of zoomies. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh Make Levees, Not War |
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On 3 Dec 2006 22:17:43 -0800, "Shiral" yodeled:
(snip) So what tricks have other cats in this clowder learned for staying warm? Melissa Hey, there's this girl! http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overl...tingmytocs.jpg Meg's caption is "IM ON UR OVEN . . . toasting my 'tockz." My little Mimi used to sleep on the radiators. My mom would say, "Your cat is getting a hot @$$." Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh Make Levees, Not War |
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"Shiral" wrote in message
ups.com... By California standards, this past week has been quite chilly. I also have an apartment that is singularly hard to heat, as one almost can't tell the difference when the furnace is on unless one is standing within a three foot radius of it. Every morning after breakfast, my girls park themselves in front of the wall unit, and then start complaining when the furnace turns off when the set temperature has been reached. So after that lengthy preamble, Nina has found an ingenious way to stay warm. =o) She gets up on the middle shelf of my book case, then climbs onto the bed but UNDER my comforter, and there she stays, making a little Nina-sized hill in the sunny patch in the middle of the bed. =o) This is when she and her mother aren't lying close beside each other or me. So what tricks have other cats in this clowder learned for staying warm? Jessie jumps to the top of the aquarium either in the living room or DH's bedroom and lies on top of the light strip. Alternatively she will lie on top of the computer monitor in DH's office. (These spots are determined by where her daddy happens to be at the time since she never lets him out of her sight and wails pittiably whenever he leaves the house). Sammy doesn't seem to need a warm place to lie - I think, being a Maine Coon cat living in Houston, she stays plenty warm enough. Demi is always on a window sill in whichever window the sun happens to be shining. Bandit never leaves my bed any more except to eat and go to the litter box, but lies in the spot next to my bedside lamp. Hugs, CatNipped Melissa |
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Shiral wrote:
So what tricks have other cats in this clowder learned for staying warm? I don't have central heating, but instead have space heaters installed along the walls of 3 rooms in the apartment (bedroom, living room and office - the kitchen has the stove ). The advantage to this is that I can heat one room at a time - when I go to bed, I have only my bedroom heater on, so I don't have to pay to heat the whole place when I'm only in one reoom. When I have the living room heater on, all of them like to lie along the back of the couch and hang their heads over, to best absorb the heat rays wafting up. (Yes, I know, one shouldn't put the couch in front of the heater. But my place is fairly small, and there isn't a better way to arrange the furniture in the room!) When I come home in the evening, of course the heat is off. (Disadvantage to non-central heating: I can't install a timer.) Licky seems to do OK with that, and Smudge is usually outside, but Roxy is not always immediately visible. After I've been home about 5 or 10 minutes, and I still haven't seen Roxy, it occurs to me to check the bed for a Roxy Lump. Yep, that's where she usually is! (Sometimes the Roxy Lump is under a throw rug.) Joyce |
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"Shiral" wrote in message ups.com... By California standards, this past week has been quite chilly. I also have an apartment that is singularly hard to heat, as one almost can't tell the difference when the furnace is on unless one is standing within a three foot radius of it. Every morning after breakfast, my girls park themselves in front of the wall unit, and then start complaining when the furnace turns off when the set temperature has been reached. So after that lengthy preamble, Nina has found an ingenious way to stay warm. =o) She gets up on the middle shelf of my book case, then climbs onto the bed but UNDER my comforter, and there she stays, making a little Nina-sized hill in the sunny patch in the middle of the bed. =o) This is when she and her mother aren't lying close beside each other or me. So what tricks have other cats in this clowder learned for staying warm? Melissa My personal favorite is when the dog and a cat both end up on the sofa while pretending the other one does not exist. Given a long enough period of peace and quiet they will gradually end up rump to rump, sharing body heat while still pretending they are each the only one on the sofa. Jo |
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On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:57:38 GMT, "Jo Firey"
yodeled: "Shiral" wrote in message oups.com... By California standards, this past week has been quite chilly. I also have an apartment that is singularly hard to heat, as one almost can't tell the difference when the furnace is on unless one is standing within a three foot radius of it. Every morning after breakfast, my girls park themselves in front of the wall unit, and then start complaining when the furnace turns off when the set temperature has been reached. So after that lengthy preamble, Nina has found an ingenious way to stay warm. =o) She gets up on the middle shelf of my book case, then climbs onto the bed but UNDER my comforter, and there she stays, making a little Nina-sized hill in the sunny patch in the middle of the bed. =o) This is when she and her mother aren't lying close beside each other or me. So what tricks have other cats in this clowder learned for staying warm? Melissa My personal favorite is when the dog and a cat both end up on the sofa while pretending the other one does not exist. Given a long enough period of peace and quiet they will gradually end up rump to rump, sharing body heat while still pretending they are each the only one on the sofa. Jo Stinky and Dante do that all the time! Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh Make Levees, Not War |
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Kreisleriana wrote: SNIPPAGE Melissa Dante is an undercover man, too. HE climbs up the side of the bed like a little mountain climber, but UNDER the comforter, and makes that little moving lump in the bed. But for some reason, being under there seems to make him very excited, and he tries to run around under there. Eventually, he sort of explodes out of there with a major case of zoomies. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh Make Levees, Not War Or else he finds a lot of heat-seeking Bedmice to hunt! =o) Nina crawled under the covers with me last night and she stayed there ALL night until I announced it was time for Kitty Breakfast this morning. It's nice, she's the first real undercover cat I've ever had. Unfortunately, she does occasionally spot a bedmouse that needs discipline, only to discvoer it makes Meowmie yell "OW! You little *&&^%!!" Melissa |
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