Last month we adopted a wee ginger guy after our previous lovely cat was put to sleep. He’s a little thug but absolutely charming, funny, loves being petted and brushed, plays with his toys, uses the litter tray nicely, and we’ve recently started letting him into the garden with us which he loves.
He likes being up high and for the first week often perched up on a bookcase in the living room, but slept on the couch. Last week he started going up on top of the fridge/freezer and napping there, so like a fool I put a box he had previously been enjoying up there with his blanket in. Now he thinks that’s his bed, and when not being actively involved in the household he hops right up. I know it’s not really any different to our other cat sleeping on our bed or in her own cat bed (she was the one cat in the world who liked an actual bed) but it feels really anti-social - and he also gets down onto the spot where hot drinks are made so it’s potentially dangerous too. If we go through he comes straight down for pets and to play so it’s not that he’s hiding away/scared.
I tried moving his box to the couch where he previously slept but he wasn’t for it. Our last cat went through phases where she’d sleep in one place for a week then stop completely, but she did always default to her own bed. Any tips or am I destined to have a fridge cat forever?
Cat tax paid - extra photos to show he is a happy wee rogue and definitely not hiding out because he’s worried!