To not want to wash a filthy cat bed in our washing machine?

[PurpleCurtain]

We have a cat - or should I say, my husband has a cat as I'm not an animal person and therefore the agreement is that my husband looks after her and feeds her etc. She sleeps in our utility room, bed on top of our tumble dryer.

We also have a baby on the way imminently. I'm trying to ensure the house is suitably clean for baby's arrival - and asked DH when he last cleaned the cat bed. To be told, probably 9 months ago. I peered in to the cat's bed and it looks FILTHY.

It definitely needs washing but my instinct is I'm really reluctant to do it in our washing machine and follow it up with washing baby clothes etc - is this what others do?! Won't everything be forever covered in cat hair and potentially worse / our washing machine break?

Am I unreasonable to ask DH to take the cat bed down to the nearest launderette?!

Poor little pussycat do you just ignore her all the time? They need love and attention. Fuck your stupid washing machine

Poor op! Don't take these comments too seriously xx

@DrManhattan

Poor op! Don't take these comments too seriously xx

I feel more sorry for the cat!

@KatherineJaneway
Aww the cat won't care. It will find itself some new owners haa

Get a new cat bed and buy vet bed or little blankets to line the bed. Wash regularly ie weekly with a dettol wash. My cat slept on my bed and he had clean bedding every week. Wash the bed monthly. Set a reminder for dh to do the laundry, flea and worming, my cat liked being brushed daily. Next door's cat still comes in for a brush and groom.

@Rosesareyellow

If it’s too dirty to go in the washing machine get the poor cat a new one.

Really!! Just throw it away because you can't be arsed to clean it.

It's not supposed to be disposable - or do you think it will biodegrade?

This thread is really pissing me off. Perhaps, we could have some cat bed rules:

1. Cats dont need beds. They need a warm, dry place to sleep. Newspaper will do.

2.If you MUST buy a bed. Look after it, hoover it and wash it. Refer to point 1 - no bed, no issue.

1. DO NOT be a lazy fucker and throw it away, if/when it needs cleaning. Cat beds are not recyclable or disposable.
2. If you do put perfectly good items in the bin, please extract your head from the large pile of sand it is buried in - before you suffocate.
3. After regaining your breath do some fucking research on this planet that is drowning in cat beds (which are unwanted but have no shit on them - cats do NOT shit where they sleep). Unlike lazy entitled humans who dump their shit EVERYWHERE.

@headintheproverbial

Oh for goodness sake. Get over yourself. The cat and baby are about to live in the same house, presumably for the foreseeable future. What on earth difference does it make if you wash the cat's bed in the machine?! Your poor husband. And the cat.

Yep. I couldn't have put it better myself.

Lol you sound like me - DH has a cat I hate it. So we have an arrangement that he looks after it.

In this scenario personally I'd throw it away and buy a new cat bed!

[quote DrManhattan]@KatherineJaneway
Aww the cat won't care. It will find itself some new owners haa[/quote]
It shouldn't have to