nesting/hiding places of cats
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Years ago, when Kitty was young, there were days when I would come home from work and look all over for her without success. One day I saw her prance out from under my bed after I was sure I had looked there and hadn’t seen her. Somehow she just suddenly appeared. Weeks later, I noticed that the scrim or cambric or whatever it is called that covers the bottom of my box springs was torn and hanging to the floor. I crawled under the bed and saw that it was pulled away from the bottom frame. The cat had torn a hole in the scrim and climbed up into the box springs to nest and hide, but her weight was too much for the fragile fabric and had pulled it away from the staples holding it to the frame. So I dismantled the bed, tore off the cambric and stapled a plastic screen material that I got at Home Depot to the bottom of the box springs. When I told the story to people, I heard from others that their cat also climbed up into their box springs or up into the bottom of a chair by tearing a hole in the scrim. — "Habit is a great deadener" Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot
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>… I heard from others that their cat also climbed up > into their box springs… by tearing a hole in the scrim.
We once had a cat who had a litter of kittens up in there.
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If my silverware drawer is slightly open, they will crawl in there and shimmy to the bottom empty drawer. Of course once in, they need help getting out. Both are adolescent kittens that will open cupboards and sit in my mixing bowls. I keep the cupboards under the sink locked as to prevent their curiosities from killing them. Glory crawls inside the rocker-recliners and nest on material that makes for a good hammock.. -Chris
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> I’m doing a project about certain cat behaviors, > the first of which deals with their tendencies > to nest and/or hide, most usually in dark, tight > closed-off places. > I’d appreciate any ideas that might come into > your head, perhaps something your own cat does, > that might be a little bit not-so-obvious. > …places cats like to hide, explore, > nest in, sleep in, hang around in…. > thank you > dita
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I’m doing a project about certain cat behaviors, the first of which deals with their tendencies to nest and/or hide, most usually in dark, tight closed-off places. I’d appreciate any ideas that might come into your head, perhaps something your own cat does, that might be a little bit not-so-obvious. …places cats like to hide, explore, nest in, sleep in, hang around in…. thank you dita
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> I’m doing a project about certain cat behaviors, > the first of which deals with their tendencies > to nest and/or hide, most usually in dark, tight > closed-off places. > I’d appreciate any ideas that might come into > your head, perhaps something your own cat does, > that might be a little bit not-so-obvious. > …places cats like to hide, explore, > nest in, sleep in, hang around in….
In the laundry basket. Under blankets on furniture. Under the bedclothes. In cupboards. Under furniture, particularly on chairs under the table. In drawers (thus my ingrained habit of never leaving drawers open). Between the shower curtain and the liner curtain. Under the bed. In boxes and paper bags. On top of my server racks. In closets. In suitcases. Under my pajama tops- while I’m wearing them. At the vet’s- in my coat, again while I’m wearing it. In their carriers. You name it, they’ll nest/hide/sleep in/on/under it. Laura — One man’s mundane and boring existence is another man’s Technicolor. -Tick, Strange Days
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In paper bags (or any other kind of bag) Around corners (so that they can swat at you as you walk by) In the bathtub (they don’t make that mistake twice, when I don’t see them in there and turn on the water) On window sills (that happen to be above my bed so that they can jump on my head in the middle of the night) On computer desk (under some shelf somehow) On computer chair In closets In the ceiling in the basement where they think that I can’t find them! On top of the fridge On pillows On the toilet (my kitten loves to watch the water spin after you flush, she then proceeds to ‘taste’ the water) Good Luck on your project! Hope this helps. Let me know if you want more ideas 
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> I’m doing a project about certain cat behaviors, > the first of which deals with their tendencies > to nest and/or hide, most usually in dark, tight > closed-off places. > I’d appreciate any ideas that might come into > your head, perhaps something your own cat does, > that might be a little bit not-so-obvious. > …places cats like to hide, explore, > nest in, sleep in, hang around in…. > thank you > dita
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Tigger’s favorite hiding place is the top shelf of the linen closet. Now, in our bathroom, there is a cabinet under the linen closet for dirty laundry, so the linen closet doesn’t even start until about 3 feet off the ground, then has four shelves. I can see how she gets to the bottom shelf, but it beats me how she gets to the top!! Shy’s favorite place is my lingere’ drawer-she also likes playing with the various things she finds there (which is why I have orange-spice sachets in my dresser) Under blankets, preferably when there’s a person under them, too, Inside boxes-even if they have to take out what is already in there. Inside suitcases (or maybe they want to go with us?) On bookshelves, after knocking down a cat-sized number of volumes BEHIND the TV. Under the bed or chair-where they can hide completely. Shy likes reaching her paws out and grabbing, especially at shoelaces. ON TOP of the folded divider between rooms (about 6" wide)-DC likes to sit up there and stare down, looking like a cat-shaped gargoyle. Inside the recliner (which is why it hasn’t been reclined in about 4 years, which was when Tigger and Peaches moved in) On the top shelf of the computer room closet In my husband’s closet, on the shelves of folded clothes (great shedding target) On the shelf in the middle of my stuffed animal collection On windowsills, especially the bay window. — Donna DeVore Metler Music Integration/Orff Specialist Mother to Angel Brian Anthony, 01/01/02 (22 weeks, severe PE/HELLP syndrome)
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> In paper bags (or any other kind of bag) > Around corners (so that they can swat at you as you walk by) > In the bathtub (they don’t make that mistake twice, when I don’t see them in > there and turn on the water) > On window sills (that happen to be above my bed so that they can jump on my > head in the middle of the night) > On computer desk (under some shelf somehow) > On computer chair > In closets > In the ceiling in the basement where they think that I can’t find them! > On top of the fridge > On pillows > On the toilet (my kitten loves to watch the water spin after you flush, she > then proceeds to ‘taste’ the water) > Good Luck on your project! Hope this helps. Let me know if you want more > ideas > I’m doing a project about certain cat behaviors, > the first of which deals with their tendencies > to nest and/or hide, most usually in dark, tight > closed-off places. > I’d appreciate any ideas that might come into > your head, perhaps something your own cat does, > that might be a little bit not-so-obvious. > …places cats like to hide, explore, > nest in, sleep in, hang around in…. > thank you > dita
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Years ago, when Kitty was young, there were days when I would come home from work and look all over for her without success. One day I saw her prance out from under my bed after I was sure I had looked there and hadn’t seen her. Somehow she just suddenly appeared. Weeks later, I noticed that the scrim or cambric or whatever it is called that covers the bottom of my box springs was torn and hanging to the floor. I crawled under the bed and saw that it was pulled away from the bottom frame. The cat had torn a hole in the scrim and climbed up into the box springs to nest and hide, but her weight was too much for the fragile fabric and had pulled it away from the staples holding it to the frame. So I dismantled the bed, tore off the cambric and stapled a plastic screen material that I got at Home Depot to the bottom of the box springs. When I told the story to people, I heard from others that their cat also climbed up into their box springs or up into the bottom of a chair by tearing a hole in the scrim. — "Habit is a great deadener" Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot
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>… I heard from others that their cat also climbed up > into their box springs… by tearing a hole in the scrim.
We once had a cat who had a litter of kittens up in there.
Response:
If my silverware drawer is slightly open, they will crawl in there and shimmy to the bottom empty drawer. Of course once in, they need help getting out. Both are adolescent kittens that will open cupboards and sit in my mixing bowls. I keep the cupboards under the sink locked as to prevent their curiosities from killing them. Glory crawls inside the rocker-recliners and nest on material that makes for a good hammock.. -Chris
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> I’m doing a project about certain cat behaviors, > the first of which deals with their tendencies > to nest and/or hide, most usually in dark, tight > closed-off places. > I’d appreciate any ideas that might come into > your head, perhaps something your own cat does, > that might be a little bit not-so-obvious. > …places cats like to hide, explore, > nest in, sleep in, hang around in…. > thank you > dita
Response:
I’m doing a project about certain cat behaviors, the first of which deals with their tendencies to nest and/or hide, most usually in dark, tight closed-off places. I’d appreciate any ideas that might come into your head, perhaps something your own cat does, that might be a little bit not-so-obvious. …places cats like to hide, explore, nest in, sleep in, hang around in…. thank you dita
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> I’m doing a project about certain cat behaviors, > the first of which deals with their tendencies > to nest and/or hide, most usually in dark, tight > closed-off places. > I’d appreciate any ideas that might come into > your head, perhaps something your own cat does, > that might be a little bit not-so-obvious. > …places cats like to hide, explore, > nest in, sleep in, hang around in….
In the laundry basket. Under blankets on furniture. Under the bedclothes. In cupboards. Under furniture, particularly on chairs under the table. In drawers (thus my ingrained habit of never leaving drawers open). Between the shower curtain and the liner curtain. Under the bed. In boxes and paper bags. On top of my server racks. In closets. In suitcases. Under my pajama tops- while I’m wearing them. At the vet’s- in my coat, again while I’m wearing it. In their carriers. You name it, they’ll nest/hide/sleep in/on/under it. Laura — One man’s mundane and boring existence is another man’s Technicolor. -Tick, Strange Days
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In paper bags (or any other kind of bag) Around corners (so that they can swat at you as you walk by) In the bathtub (they don’t make that mistake twice, when I don’t see them in there and turn on the water) On window sills (that happen to be above my bed so that they can jump on my head in the middle of the night) On computer desk (under some shelf somehow) On computer chair In closets In the ceiling in the basement where they think that I can’t find them! On top of the fridge On pillows On the toilet (my kitten loves to watch the water spin after you flush, she then proceeds to ‘taste’ the water) Good Luck on your project! Hope this helps. Let me know if you want more ideas
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> I’m doing a project about certain cat behaviors, > the first of which deals with their tendencies > to nest and/or hide, most usually in dark, tight > closed-off places. > I’d appreciate any ideas that might come into > your head, perhaps something your own cat does, > that might be a little bit not-so-obvious. > …places cats like to hide, explore, > nest in, sleep in, hang around in…. > thank you > dita
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Tigger’s favorite hiding place is the top shelf of the linen closet. Now, in our bathroom, there is a cabinet under the linen closet for dirty laundry, so the linen closet doesn’t even start until about 3 feet off the ground, then has four shelves. I can see how she gets to the bottom shelf, but it beats me how she gets to the top!! Shy’s favorite place is my lingere’ drawer-she also likes playing with the various things she finds there (which is why I have orange-spice sachets in my dresser) Under blankets, preferably when there’s a person under them, too, Inside boxes-even if they have to take out what is already in there. Inside suitcases (or maybe they want to go with us?) On bookshelves, after knocking down a cat-sized number of volumes BEHIND the TV. Under the bed or chair-where they can hide completely. Shy likes reaching her paws out and grabbing, especially at shoelaces. ON TOP of the folded divider between rooms (about 6" wide)-DC likes to sit up there and stare down, looking like a cat-shaped gargoyle. Inside the recliner (which is why it hasn’t been reclined in about 4 years, which was when Tigger and Peaches moved in) On the top shelf of the computer room closet In my husband’s closet, on the shelves of folded clothes (great shedding target) On the shelf in the middle of my stuffed animal collection On windowsills, especially the bay window. — Donna DeVore Metler Music Integration/Orff Specialist Mother to Angel Brian Anthony, 01/01/02 (22 weeks, severe PE/HELLP syndrome)
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> In paper bags (or any other kind of bag) > Around corners (so that they can swat at you as you walk by) > In the bathtub (they don’t make that mistake twice, when I don’t see them in > there and turn on the water) > On window sills (that happen to be above my bed so that they can jump on my > head in the middle of the night) > On computer desk (under some shelf somehow) > On computer chair > In closets > In the ceiling in the basement where they think that I can’t find them! > On top of the fridge > On pillows > On the toilet (my kitten loves to watch the water spin after you flush, she > then proceeds to ‘taste’ the water) > Good Luck on your project! Hope this helps. Let me know if you want more > ideas > I’m doing a project about certain cat behaviors, > the first of which deals with their tendencies > to nest and/or hide, most usually in dark, tight > closed-off places. > I’d appreciate any ideas that might come into > your head, perhaps something your own cat does, > that might be a little bit not-so-obvious. > …places cats like to hide, explore, > nest in, sleep in, hang around in…. > thank you > dita
Response:
Years ago, when Kitty was young, there were days when I would come home from work and look all over for her without success. One day I saw her prance out from under my bed after I was sure I had looked there and hadn’t seen her. Somehow she just suddenly appeared. Weeks later, I noticed that the scrim or cambric or whatever it is called that covers the bottom of my box springs was torn and hanging to the floor. I crawled under the bed and saw that it was pulled away from the bottom frame. The cat had torn a hole in the scrim and climbed up into the box springs to nest and hide, but her weight was too much for the fragile fabric and had pulled it away from the staples holding it to the frame. So I dismantled the bed, tore off the cambric and stapled a plastic screen material that I got at Home Depot to the bottom of the box springs. When I told the story to people, I heard from others that their cat also climbed up into their box springs or up into the bottom of a chair by tearing a hole in the scrim. — "Habit is a great deadener" Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot
Response:
>… I heard from others that their cat also climbed up > into their box springs… by tearing a hole in the scrim.
We once had a cat who had a litter of kittens up in there.
Response:
If my silverware drawer is slightly open, they will crawl in there and shimmy to the bottom empty drawer. Of course once in, they need help getting out. Both are adolescent kittens that will open cupboards and sit in my mixing bowls. I keep the cupboards under the sink locked as to prevent their curiosities from killing them. Glory crawls inside the rocker-recliners and nest on material that makes for a good hammock.. -Chris
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> I’m doing a project about certain cat behaviors, > the first of which deals with their tendencies > to nest and/or hide, most usually in dark, tight > closed-off places. > I’d appreciate any ideas that might come into > your head, perhaps something your own cat does, > that might be a little bit not-so-obvious. > …places cats like to hide, explore, > nest in, sleep in, hang around in…. > thank you > dita
Response:
I’m doing a project about certain cat behaviors, the first of which deals with their tendencies to nest and/or hide, most usually in dark, tight closed-off places. I’d appreciate any ideas that might come into your head, perhaps something your own cat does, that might be a little bit not-so-obvious. …places cats like to hide, explore, nest in, sleep in, hang around in…. thank you dita
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> I’m doing a project about certain cat behaviors, > the first of which deals with their tendencies > to nest and/or hide, most usually in dark, tight > closed-off places. > I’d appreciate any ideas that might come into > your head, perhaps something your own cat does, > that might be a little bit not-so-obvious. > …places cats like to hide, explore, > nest in, sleep in, hang around in….
In the laundry basket. Under blankets on furniture. Under the bedclothes. In cupboards. Under furniture, particularly on chairs under the table. In drawers (thus my ingrained habit of never leaving drawers open). Between the shower curtain and the liner curtain. Under the bed. In boxes and paper bags. On top of my server racks. In closets. In suitcases. Under my pajama tops- while I’m wearing them. At the vet’s- in my coat, again while I’m wearing it. In their carriers. You name it, they’ll nest/hide/sleep in/on/under it. Laura — One man’s mundane and boring existence is another man’s Technicolor. -Tick, Strange Days
Response:
In paper bags (or any other kind of bag) Around corners (so that they can swat at you as you walk by) In the bathtub (they don’t make that mistake twice, when I don’t see them in there and turn on the water) On window sills (that happen to be above my bed so that they can jump on my head in the middle of the night) On computer desk (under some shelf somehow) On computer chair In closets In the ceiling in the basement where they think that I can’t find them! On top of the fridge On pillows On the toilet (my kitten loves to watch the water spin after you flush, she then proceeds to ‘taste’ the water) Good Luck on your project! Hope this helps. Let me know if you want more ideas
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> I’m doing a project about certain cat behaviors, > the first of which deals with their tendencies > to nest and/or hide, most usually in dark, tight > closed-off places. > I’d appreciate any ideas that might come into > your head, perhaps something your own cat does, > that might be a little bit not-so-obvious. > …places cats like to hide, explore, > nest in, sleep in, hang around in…. > thank you > dita
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Tigger’s favorite hiding place is the top shelf of the linen closet. Now, in our bathroom, there is a cabinet under the linen closet for dirty laundry, so the linen closet doesn’t even start until about 3 feet off the ground, then has four shelves. I can see how she gets to the bottom shelf, but it beats me how she gets to the top!! Shy’s favorite place is my lingere’ drawer-she also likes playing with the various things she finds there (which is why I have orange-spice sachets in my dresser) Under blankets, preferably when there’s a person under them, too, Inside boxes-even if they have to take out what is already in there. Inside suitcases (or maybe they want to go with us?) On bookshelves, after knocking down a cat-sized number of volumes BEHIND the TV. Under the bed or chair-where they can hide completely. Shy likes reaching her paws out and grabbing, especially at shoelaces. ON TOP of the folded divider between rooms (about 6" wide)-DC likes to sit up there and stare down, looking like a cat-shaped gargoyle. Inside the recliner (which is why it hasn’t been reclined in about 4 years, which was when Tigger and Peaches moved in) On the top shelf of the computer room closet In my husband’s closet, on the shelves of folded clothes (great shedding target) On the shelf in the middle of my stuffed animal collection On windowsills, especially the bay window. — Donna DeVore Metler Music Integration/Orff Specialist Mother to Angel Brian Anthony, 01/01/02 (22 weeks, severe PE/HELLP syndrome)
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> In paper bags (or any other kind of bag) > Around corners (so that they can swat at you as you walk by) > In the bathtub (they don’t make that mistake twice, when I don’t see them in > there and turn on the water) > On window sills (that happen to be above my bed so that they can jump on my > head in the middle of the night) > On computer desk (under some shelf somehow) > On computer chair > In closets > In the ceiling in the basement where they think that I can’t find them! > On top of the fridge > On pillows > On the toilet (my kitten loves to watch the water spin after you flush, she > then proceeds to ‘taste’ the water) > Good Luck on your project! Hope this helps. Let me know if you want more > ideas > I’m doing a project about certain cat behaviors, > the first of which deals with their tendencies > to nest and/or hide, most usually in dark, tight > closed-off places. > I’d appreciate any ideas that might come into > your head, perhaps something your own cat does, > that might be a little bit not-so-obvious. > …places cats like to hide, explore, > nest in, sleep in, hang around in…. > thank you > dita
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