Three years ago, I bought my cat a heated mat. My house isn't kept at a particularly high temperature, and cats like their comforts. So if she would just have her own mat, she could always be nice and snug and warm. And she liked it! The instructions say cats shouldn’t lie directly on top, so I keep a towel on top of it.
Of course there are times when she boycotts it. She is a cat, after all. But that never lasts long.
Then came the fateful day that the electrician drilled into the water pipe. When water started gushing out of the wall, he quickly looked around, saw the towel, and asked if we could use that. I figured we could. I have more towels. Surely it’s the heat that is crucial, not the towel.
When the electrician was gone I put a different towel on her mat. But she didn't want it lie on it now. Oh dear! Cats can be so particular about things.
After I'd washed the original towel, I put it back. Maybe this would placate her? A towel that at least looked (actually was) the same as the original one, be it that undoubtedly, it now smelled differently? But she still wasn't having any of it.
The pipe incident was in December. It is now mid-February. And she has now finally accepted the towel! I am glad. Cats…
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