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Marshmallow cat beds and silvervine chews

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TrickyD · 31/07/2020 10:17

Do cats love marshmallow beds as much as the adverts say? There are lots on the market via Amazon and Ebay and prices vary hugely.
Can anyone recommend a particularly good one?

A bought some Silvervine chewy twigs for Moppet; she is not sensitive to catnip but seems to like these. However they are quite brittle, not what I would call chewy. Are they safe?

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dementedpixie · 31/07/2020 10:30

In my experience cats shun cat beds in favour of human beds, computer chairs and cardboard boxes!
I've never heard of the chewy things but mine like webbox sticks if they are similar

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TrickyD · 31/07/2020 11:34

She certainly loves our bed, but I was beguiled by an advert showing beautiful cats luxuriating in Marshmallow beds.
Nothing is too good for Moppet.
I will look at Webbox sticks, thanks.

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RuudGullitOnAShed · 31/07/2020 12:22

I too was beguiled ... I purchased two for the two pampered moggies.

They ignored them both.
The Jack Russell commandeered one and squeezes himself in every night.

The other one sat unloved for months - I tried putting it in all their favourite snoozing spots.
I moved it to the spare room to a pile of stuff to donate to the charity shop.

Big cat immediately decided it was the best ever bed and moved into the spare room and sleeps in the bed (which of course, is a small bed that doesn't really fit him)

Toddlerteaplease · 31/07/2020 21:37

@clientlistqueens Ollie has one and barely gets out of it I believe. I know my girls would adore one. But they've already got loads of beds. And Snorg adores her tepee. So she doesn't need it!

QueenCT · 02/08/2020 21:03

He ignored it for 4 months and now won't move from it. 26c and he will still be in it Hmm

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TrickyD · 02/08/2020 21:14

I am edging towards getting her one. But are the cheaper ones as good as the one which keeps coming up on my FB page for £20?

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QueenCT · 02/08/2020 21:16

The one I got was off eBay Grin about £14 I think

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 02/08/2020 21:23

Surprisingly Harry likes his. It was £20 off Amazon and I thought it was going to be a waste of money but it's not.

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Marshmallow cat beds and silvervine chews
Fluffycloudland77 · 02/08/2020 21:38

We always bought ours dog beds. Once he hadn’t slept in it a while so I said to dh I was binning it. Then he started sleeping in it again.

Icequeen01 · 02/08/2020 22:28

I bought one for a new cat to our household as there was a very tense relationship between new cat and the two resident cats. New little cat (she's 10 but teeny tiny) loved her marshmallow bed from the moment she set her eyes on it. We put it up high and she seemed to feel really secure in it. Resident cats seemed to know it was "her" bed and left her alone.

Judystilldreamsofhorses · 03/08/2020 15:45

Our cat sleeps in hers every night, and has done since we got her three years ago.

We started shutting her in the kitchen at the beginning of lockdown when we didn’t need to be up as early (WFH, and her 5am wake ups were just too early - she has a litter tray, food and water in there). The bed is great because we just pick her and it up when we go to bed, and move her!

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TrickyD · 03/08/2020 17:07

Pinksparkly, please do you remember exactly which Amazon bed that was?

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DobbyTheHouseElk · 03/08/2020 17:09

@Judystilldreamsofhorses you have the same cat as I do. Rare to see a white cat. She is beautiful.

Judystilldreamsofhorses · 03/08/2020 17:15

dobby white cats are so pretty! (This one is definitely NOT deaf.)

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TrickyD · 03/08/2020 17:21

Any thoughts on Silvervine flavoured chew sticks? Are they safe?

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DobbyTheHouseElk · 03/08/2020 17:21

Mine is also not deaf.

I got him 18months ago as a traumatised rescue cat. He was only a baby.

He lives the life of Riley here, can hunt in the fields all day long.

Everyone asks if he’s deaf, but no. He grunts when he’s happy. Never known cats to grunt. He purrs as well, but eating and pre snooze I can hear him grunting.

GreenCat44 · 03/08/2020 18:16

My two like silvervine sticks. They usually chew them till the bark is gone (and probably the smell), then I throw them away. Think they're supposed to be good for their teeth?

Judystilldreamsofhorses · 03/08/2020 18:36

dobby our girl is six - she was three when we got her - and the most pampered princess ever. She rampages about the garden for hours, terrorising the birds, but spends most of her time covering the entire house in white hair. She has the loudest ever purr, and is known to do a bit of snoring.

We love her so much, even though she is a wee pest!

Toddlerteaplease · 03/08/2020 19:43

@PinkSparklyPussyCat Snorg is Hmmthat Harry has a pastel pink bed. She thought he would have a darker coloured bed, as befits his dignity!

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 03/08/2020 20:10

@TrickyD this is the link. They had loads of colours when I ordered.
marshmallow

@Toddlerteaplease Harry said to say he didn't choose it, he would have gone for something far more suited to a cat of his standing!

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