Where does your cat go when it's hot?

[BigPawsBrown]

My fat ginger lad is usually an 8-hours-a-night boy in our bed but the heat is too much for him at the moment.

We've put a fan on and he is lying on our wooden laundry baskets right in front of it with his feet hanging off. He keeps waking me when he rolls over because he's so heavy.

He'll be back in the bed when it's cooler.

I luff him.

I have a fan next to the bed & PicklePig is generally to be found sprawled across the bottom of the bed in front of it.
He's taken to miaowing plaintively at me when it's very hot during the day. I checked all the usual things, he had food, water, biscuits, he didn't want a cuddle or treats. I can only assume he wanted me to turn the heat down. I tried to explain that I can't but he's having none of it. He hates the heat. He's a fat black & white lump & he's really feeling it. As am I

Mine lies in a big annoyed lump with her legs and belly sticking up, on the floor, sweating. Mews at me annoyedly, but she does that all the time anyway. I think she's trying to swear.

I sometimes run my hands under the tap to get them as wet as possible and then stroke her to get her nice and damp, which should cool her as it evaporates. Luckily she's a belly-rub give-us-a-cuddle cat so it's easy to rub the whole cat with my big wet paws while she's all stretched out.

Poor thing, I'm glad I don't have a big fur coat to wear in this weather!

In the shade in the garden, with her paws in the pond.

Then comes back into the house for food, walking green sludge all over the carpets.

My cats haven't even looked at their floor to ceiling cat tree that they adore in cooler months. They have taken to flopping down -literally-you can hear the thud, on the wooden floor. All through the day. Especially in the hallway away from windows.

I keep saying it's good none of us are blind cos we'd be tripping over them repeatedly and knowing my luck ending up in a & e.

They do still like a snooze on our beds though, especially when we're in them. I'm glad for that as I like to stick my toes into a warm cat belly and wiggle them if they don't get bitten.

Our cat can't stand even being in the house, he disappears for hours on end and returns covered in twigs and sticky bobs for food then off he goes again.

They are hiding under the patio furniture outside a lot during the day. No idea where they are sleeping at night, so long as it's not my bed I'm happy.

Last night I had all three on my bed which was lovely but also bloody dreadful. I had to sleep in the most contorted of positions and as the littlest is only 11 weeks or so I had to be dead careful not to squish her, as she crawls right Into to my back.
I have not. Slept. Well.

On top of the bed. Even though he's an elderly boy who likes heat for his old bones, the current weather isn't to his taste.

We have a celing fan in the bedroom, he sleeps under that but we put him in the utility overnight on a cotton sheet with all the ice packs out of the fridge on the drainer to cool the room overnight.

On the garden chair in full sun of course (and wingeing at me as he is too hot) Dick.

She was under garden furniture in shade but has just trudged into house. Old, hot, dusty cat.

Fat black boy on top the baby's changing pad looking sad. Reincarnated Hitler cat sat on sofa sad she can't get into the front garden to kill things.

DaintyCat sits tidily in the sun for a while, blinking at it contentedly, then trots tidily upstairs to our bed and arranges herself neatly on it for the day.

FluffyCat used to sunbathe in inelegant positions and then come in, honk sadly at us and flump against the kitchen door (hard, so that it would swing back and thump against the larder). She'd like on the cool tiles for a while looking pathetic, then go back out and repeat. These days she doesn't seem to notice the change in temperature, she's brain damaged and all her old familiar behaviours are gone.

In the day she alternates between under the dining room table, a cool spot on the stairs or lying on the patio in direct sunlight.

At night she is refusing to come in and after a good few nights of chasing her round the garden at 11.30pm in an attempt to get her inside I have given up! Not ideal as I think it is safer for her inside, but we have set the cat flap so that once she comes in in the night she can't get back out again.

Mine seem to like chilling in the flowerbed. Perhaps the soil feels cooler? MKitten is permanently covered in black dust and grime, even sparkly snail slime in the evenings, whilst the debonair MCat is always pristene.

Ours has been out most of the day lying on the patio in the shade where its cooler. She's black and fluffy so I don't envy her one bit in this heat!

Mr Cory rests in his Amazon box, with a fan trained at his tummy. The only fan in the house, I hasten to add.

At night she is refusing to come in and after a good few nights of chasing her round the garden at 11.30pm in an attempt to get her inside I have given up! Not ideal as I think it is safer for her inside, but we have set the cat flap so that once she comes in in the night she can't get back out again.

Ha, I've been through this un-funny rigmarole!! Just FYI, I also set my cat flap to "in only" but my determined bloody ginger boy pushed through it.(breaking it, naturally, cheers for that)

our old victorian terrace is very cool in the heat, so she's indoors snoozing most of the day, and then goes out to do all her Cat Stuff at night instead.

Feisty Tortie has adopted the summerhouse as her den, it's door is always open. Huntercat is spending most of the day under his favourite bush at the front of the house in the thick shade with a good view of the road and a million burrs for me to pick off later.

At night they hunt.

This morning I had a headless mouse and a wee shrew on the hallway mat. Normally it's intestines so they must have caught so much they couldn't eat it all.

Middle cat is spending lots of time outdoors, not sure where.
Youngest boy flopping around in random places in very stretched out positions, even on his back with his legs in the air! He likes chilling out in the shade under the slide too.
Old girl who is long haired and very fluffy has been looking at bit fed up. House is Victorian and quite cool but she looked like she was suffering so I've been leaving the cellar door open in case she wants to cool down down there. Instead I found her curled up on the attic landing, the hottest part of the house.

I don't see much of mine during the day, late afternoon she will come home and relax just outside the back door.

I have a portable air con in my bedroom, she likes to sit be the outflow pipe because it is warm or on me.

My neighbours cat jumped in my window to sit in my shower tray yesterday
Being the soft git that I am, I had a bath so not to wake him