This time last year I’d’ve shot milk through my nose at the notion of shelling out for a heated cat bed. I mean, my last cat sneered at cat beds and slept quite comfortably on chairs and “found objects” thank you very much. Oh yes — I had scales on my eyes my friends, but now I see the light. Because it’s not about spoiling the bloody cat – it’s about making her as easy to live with as possible.

Indoor cats cope much better with life if they can see outside – keep ‘em locked in all day, as you should in a country like Australia, and watch your home turn into a late season episode of Big Brother, when everyone turns all sharp-clawed and back-stabby. Give a cat a perch where he can watch the clouds drifting by and the birds poking out their tongues (do birds have tongues?) and you’ll get a much saner pet.

And, being the little, light-boned mammals that they are, cats instinctively seek out warmth. Mei Mei, being a Cornish Rex and all, sleeps where the heater or the hot water bottle are, even if it means sleeping on bare boards, or a bed of nails.

So if I had the spare dosh, I’d get my paws on K&H’s Thermo Kitty Sill. It attaches to your window sill and can support even the porkiest cat, and it keeps Puss roasting nicely at about 102 degrees, which sounds pretty bloody cosy if you ask me. I bet it would also go a long way towards keeping Fluffy’s fluff off your black velvet couch, wallpaper etc. You’ll just have to put up with your non-cat-owning friends shooting milk outta their noses when they see it.

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