Cat and Radiator
cadilla...@mediaone.net
is firing, they get very hot--too hot to touch. For some reason, my cat
Mooshie likes to sit right with his rump almost touching a radiator. He
isn't sick, the house isn't cold (usually 68-70 degrees), and he has a
nice fur coat. So, why does he do this? It can't be comfortable. Our
other cat does't do it. Any ideas?
Wolf
<cadilla...@mediaone.net> wrote in message
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Well, cats do love warmth of any sort, especially if they have arthritis. I
really don't have any other ideas than those. Cats just love the heat.
Wolf
Sherry
Who knows why they do things they do?? I had a cat who would lie in the
fireplace ashes unless we latched the glass doors where she couldn't open them
(and she was white!!) . I'd guess Mooshie knows better than to let herself get
burned? (I say this, with a cat right here with singed whiskers from
candle-sniffing). Funny things they do, huh?
Sherry
kenlondon
In the house we lived in 2 houses back we noticed that it would get
very cold. Our cat would park himself on the heat register.
Cats love the heat. I would not worry about it.
In the last house we lived in one of our cats would
sit on the radiator in the hall.
The house temperature would be around 65-68, the
cats prefer warmer temperatures. When the
summer comes our cats prefer 90+ degrees rather
than the comfortable AC.
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meursault
kenlondon wrote in message <3C892F0F...@beld.net>...
<snip>
>>In the last house we lived in one of our cats would
>sit on the radiator in the hall.
>
One of our cats would perch right in front of the hot air grill. When the
furnace cycled off he would start clawing the register. This made a most
annoying sound.
--meursault
Natalie
My parents have a traditional fireplace in their living room, with the
hearth being surrounded by bricks. The bricks in the middle are only
about 6 inches away from the coals of the fire and get absolutely
scorchingly hot, yet every cat that's ever been near them has pressed
his back up against the hottest bricks (and usually gone to sleep).
I think cats must just enjoy being *really* hot :)
Natalie
Baby Strange
<cadilla...@mediaone.net> distracted me with:
I have hot-water radiators, and even when they are too hot for me to
touch for long, the cats *LOVE* them. They particularly like the big
one in front of the living room window--not only can they lounge on
it, but they can look out the front window, too. Martha, the kitten,
lies belly-down on top of it with her legs stretched way out so she
can really press her belly against it.
I think cats just love heat. My sister has an attic room in her house
that can get well over 100 degrees during the summer, and her cat goes
up there and hangs out. DS goes up to check on her, but the oven-like
heat doesn't seem to bother the cat at all--she rolls over on her back
and purrs and wants her belly rubbed, while us hairless apes are
sweating bullets.
Cats are just *weird*. That's the best explanation I have for 90% of
the things they do.
cadilla...@mediaone.net
<babystrange...@earthlink.net> wrote:
Thanks, and thanks to every one who responded. I'll stop worrying that
my cat is cooking his organs by getting so close to the radiator. It's
funny that cats are so different. My big kitty has a plush double coat,
and in the summer when it's hot and humid, she likes to park herself on
the granite hearth in the living room, which is always cool, or in the
kitchen, in front of the air-conditioning duct. Kitties ARE funny guys.
