Heating for older cats?

[WildFlowerBees]

Can anyone recommend a heat pad or something to keep our cats warmer in winter? Last year I put the heating on in the room they were in but seems a bit much! I know there's heat pads. Anyone recommend a good one that's safe to be left when we out all day? Thank you.

We have one of these. you microwave it, and it stays warm hours. Our cat sitter recommended it as lots of his clients use them.

I bought a self heating pad for my old cat.She had kidney problems too, so needed to be looked after.
It was a fluffy cream blanket almost like sheepskin from B&M I think.It really worked.

Thank you!

My cats cuddle together to keep warm when the heating isn't on at night, but for extra warmth they have a cheap duvet with a cosy teddy bear fleece cover. They love it and it's easily washable.

Duvet

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07CNZCJQ2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1

Fleecy cover

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07SDGRBDC/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1

I use our electric blanket on the bed so the cats toasty overnight.

The Bengal had a covered dog bed he loved and I’d put a hot water bottle under the cushion part and drape a fleece over the entrance. You’d see a leg stick out when he was the right temperature, rather like the gauge on Christmas turkeys.

They have lots of snuggly beds blankets humans but often when it's cold and we come home they're in such tight little balls which they do when it's colder. They won't snuggle together. I'll look at the microwave heating pads which they'll probably ignore!

Bear in mind those heating 'pads' on Amazon are not pads at all - they are solid hard plastic blocks. My cat won't go near a bed that has this hidden under the cushion! He reminds me of the princess and the pea Even if I put it just close to one of his beds so he can feel the warmth he won't sleep there. He hates it!

My girl ignored the heat pad when we first got it, so I sneak it under her current favourite bed with some fleece under it and that’s worked really well. Any new items, clean washing, box full of stuff or important paperwork immediately needs sitting on, but she can sense when we’ve actually bought something for her, is deeply suspicious and gives it a wide berth.

I think this is why dog beds worked with our cat, he knew it was a dog bed.

Mine has an electric pad on a timer

We got a heated blanket from Amazon a few years ago when our wee cat got cancer. It made all the difference and now her OAP sibling uses it. She's got arthritis and is so much less stiff when it's on.

We had one of these for late dcat - just a plug in pad. We put it under a fleece but she liked to lie directly on it. We only ever used the lower setting though - top power was known as 'baked cat'.

I use an igloo, with a fleece draped over the top and most of the entrance. She definitely feels toasty warm when she emerges from it!

She never took to the self-heating fluffy blanket, not sure she liked the crackling noise it makes.

I had a pet remedy one. They quite liked it but I think used to find it too hot. The late magic adored my fleece heated throw.

Mine hated it if I ever had a hot water in my bed, wouldn't lay anywhere near it, but he absolutely loved laying under the radiator in my conservatory. Wouldn't lay under the bedroom or living room one just that one. In the end I put an old teddy bedding quilt cover and a teddy bedding bed sheet down on the floor in front of the radiator so he had something comfy to lay on. As soon as the heating went on off he'd scarper into the conservatory and curl and go to sleep. In a morning when the heating was on if he wasn't either laid next to me or at the end of the bed all I'd need to do is look through the gap in the blinds on the French doors in my bedroom to know exactly where he would be. I did have to move him after a while of laying there though much to his disgust cos he'd literally become a furry hot water bottle