Kitty Condo
myskaal:
Exactly. Of my 2 cats, one prefers to sleep on my pillows on the bed while I'm not using them. When I am, he finds the rug in front of the computer perfect - even though there's a house full of fluffy comfortable chairs/sofas and a gigantic fluffy dog-pillow (which the dogs don't use either mind you).
The other prefers either the top of my dresser or the tiny crack of space under the stereo/entertainment cabinet.
SaraMK:
My cat's favorite napping place is on top of the keyboard. Unfortunately he must take his naps in 10 second bursts.
He also claimed one of my pillows, and at night he usually sleeps wrapped around my head. Since the weather is turning hot, this is not very comfortable. The train-like purring does not help, either. I've tried to kick him out of the room, but then he sits by the door and yowls like someone is butchering him, so my sleep is not improved, and the other people in the house object as well. I bought him a nice little cat bed, and he promptly peed all over it. However, the dog is strangely attached to it now, probably because the smell didn't quite wash off, so it wasn't a total waste.
I love cats.
witch:
I've just had all the bedroom floors and the corridor stripped back to wood and polished. My ancient grey cat decided she would lay her achy old bones on the polished wood in the corridor at night. Lately it's become even worse, she sleeps on the lino in front of the shower. I have a carpeted lounge with good cat hidey spots, also a proper couch and armchairs etc. She has full access to this room at night because her cat door opens off it, yet chooses to sleep on cold wood in a corridor. So weird.
Now, it's getting colder at night and I don't allow her in my room, because of fur and scratching of rugs etc, so I decided to find her a bed. Maybe she just wants to sleep up the end of the house where I am, gawd only knows why.
So I went to the Warehouse, our equivalent of Wal-Mart from what I read, and had a poke around. I had no intention of buying a $60 or $70 cat bed in a posh shop, that just seems ludicrous to me. So I found a wireframe, oblong, woven basket about 12" tall and large enough for a medium cat to stretch out. (Nice shaded pink to purple stripes woven in too). Half price at $6.97 he he. Got home, put a small old wool blanket to line it, old pillow in the bottom, towel on top, voila, a cat bed. I was tickled pink with myself.
The cat however, was deeply suspicious. Now she and I are not what you might call close. She's a bitch and so am I, we are the last survivors of a much larger pack, with both her son and mine gone (her's is dead, mine isn't), no more dogs and the sad loss of my ferret
it's just me and her, two grumpy old ladies. We don't cuddle, we just talk.
So anyway, I pick her up and stroking her gently, put her in this new bed. She tenses. WTF? Is this anything to do with vets? A piercing look of acute suspicion met my eyes. I petted and gentled her into a lying position, all the time feeling her body ready to leap, as soon as I let go, sure enough she was out of there. :) I tried again after she'd had her wash after tea, no dice.
Then I got cunning. I hid little bits of pate in the corners of the bed and put it in front of the shower. Sure enough, when I got up this morning, she was sleeping in her new bed.
sara_dippity:
Quote from: MoonDragoness on 2007 April 26, 23:57:28
Maybe it's just a case of too much realism?
My cat has the entire sofa to herself, and she chooses to sleep on the floor, on top of a pile that includes an empty plastic grocery bag, my notebook, about six pairs of my husband's dirty socks (ech!) and a can of compressed air.
Who really knows why cats sleep where they do? :D
I think so too. I'm actually shocked that the cats play with the cat toys or sleep in the pet beds at all. And I've had my sim cats sleep on the kitty condo, just not often.
Quote from: myskaal on 2007 April 27, 00:27:24
Exactly. Of my 2 cats, one prefers to sleep on my pillows on the bed while I'm not using them. When I am, he finds the rug in front of the computer perfect - even though there's a house full of fluffy comfortable chairs/sofas and a gigantic fluffy dog-pillow (which the dogs don't use either mind you).
The other prefers either the top of my dresser or the tiny crack of space under the stereo/entertainment cabinet.
Wow, your cat lets you have the pillow to yourself? No wrapping around your head action?
Hey, you know what hack we need for realism? Something that makes the cats seek the most expensive object that is not a pet bed, and that is what they sleep on. Especially rugs. I'll never forget Luv Bug and my mom's antique rug hunting spurt. Every new rug was in the house about 3 min before a fat cat was right in the middle, fast asleep.
auriaux:
I used to make quilts and my cats always wanted to sleep ON the sewing machine, right on the folded project currently being worked on. We also have one cat that always likes whatever seems like a 'new' place. I left an empty laundry basket sitting out the other day (rare occurrence for us) and she hopped right in and slept there all afternoon. Cold empty plastic. Yuck.
But no, my Sims cats never ever sleep anywhere near the condo. I have one set that actually sleep outdoors in the grass mostly, outside the pet house I got for them to breed in. They were my first cats in the game, and I thought they didn't sleep in the condo because it's in the room with the TV, but none of the other cats I've had in game since will either.
Laura
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