cats and waterbeds ??
Barbara Pruyn
Can you let the cat on the waterbed, or can he (accidentely) scratch the bed
so badly that it starts leaking?
Should you just avoid having cats in the same room as where the waterbed is?
Barbara
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Dawn Bunting
> I have a question if there is anyone who has a cat and a waterbed.
>
a comforter over the bed during the day, and other than that not worry about
it. They've never done any damage.
Dawn Bunting
> I have a question if there is anyone who has a cat and a waterbed.
>
Diane Mackay
: Barbara Pruyn writes
: > I have a question if there is anyone who has a cat and a waterbed.
: > Should you just avoid having cats in the same room as where the waterbed is?
I have 2 cats and a waterbed. I have a mattress pad, sheets and a
comforter and haven't had any problems. They both sleep on the bed and
try to squish me out. They LOVE having their own comfy, warm, waterbed ;)
Adam Felson
a puncture. However, I only let my cat kneed on the covers.
Tiffany Ho
Barbara Pruyn <barb...@sun.com> wrote:
>I have a question if there is anyone who has a cat and a waterbed.
>Can you let the cat on the waterbed, or can he (accidentely) scratch the bed
>so badly that it starts leaking?
>Should you just avoid having cats in the same room as where the waterbed is?
>
>Barbara
I had a cat and a waterbed once. And one day while I was at work, Mocha
was playing with one of those little foam balls on the bed. The ball got
stuck between the frame and the mattress and when she put down her paw to
get it, she punctured the waterbed.
It didn't start to leak until I put weight on the bed - when I woke up
the next morning, my bedroom floor was a little lake. I got rid of the
bed the next day.
Mary
Michelle Magnusson
>From: barb...@sun.com (Barbara Pruyn)
>Subject: cats and waterbeds ??
>Date: 13 Dec 1994 13:16:13 GMT
>Barbara
Hi there!!
We have four cats and a waterbed and we just put comforters over the bladder
and then the sheets, it keeps their claws from going through even when they
walk by your head when sleeping.
Michelle
Pamela Kock
> I have a question if there is anyone who has a cat and a waterbed.
> Can you let the cat on the waterbed, or can he (accidentely) scratch the bed
> so badly that it starts leaking?
> Should you just avoid having cats in the same room as where the waterbed is?
I've known people with cats and waterbeds, and offer the following
suggestions: Keep the claws clipped, so they're reasonably dull. Always
keep sheets and blankets on the bed, so that the liner is never exposed
when the cat is around it. Avoid playing with the cat on the bed; you
can let him on the bed, but try to help him associate it with rest and
relaxation, not playing with claws out. Put something next to it he can
use as a "step" instead of having to jump/climb on it from the floor.
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Paul S. Haring
Softsider waterbeds are much less vulnerable to cat claws than regular hard-
sided beds. If you're getting a new bed look at the softsiders. Both my
cats sleep on the bed all the time, and in it under the covers all night
long, never a problem. I _DO_ lock them in the bathroom whenever I unzip
the thing for inspection tho...
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Rob Drake
: I have a question if there is anyone who has a cat and a waterbed.
: Barbara
i have a cat and a waterbed. depends on the kind of waterbed and the kind of
cat. I have one of those waterbeds disguised as matresses (unzip it and 8
water columns lie inside). BUT the import thing is the cat. My cat doesnt
use my bed as a scratching post and when he does "massage" his claws on my
bed before sleeping, its not enuff to do ANY damage at all to anything.
so rest assured that your waterbed will still be there in the morning :)
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Jackie
>I have a question if there is anyone who has a cat and a waterbed.
>Can you let the cat on the waterbed, or can he (accidentely) scratch the bed
>so badly that it starts leaking?
>Should you just avoid having cats in the same room as where the waterbed is?
I had a softsided waterbed, so that was always thick enough that the
cats couldn't possibly do any damage. When I moved in with my SO,
he had a regular waterbed, but we had a thick matress cover that covered
the entire bed. Syzygy was declawed by this time, but there are holes in
the sheet where her back claws have caught and she definitely has done no
damage to the matress cover. We also keep a comforter on it during the day.
Jackie.
Please note that my views probably do not necessarily match those
of my employer.
Sharon Beth Willoughby
Dawn Bunting <dbun...@FirePower.COM.> wrote:
>Barbara Pruyn writes
>> I have a question if there is anyone who has a cat and a waterbed.
>>
>a comforter over the bed during the day, and other than that not worry about
>it. They've never done any damage.
I've also had a waterbed and several cats for years. Unfortunately, I
have had to repair my bed a couple of times (I have a little waterbed
repair kit that has the glue and several heavy duty patches). I have a
thick mattress pad and keep the bed covered during the day but have
occasionally left it bare (and forgot to shut the door) when I was doing
laundry. I also recall one hectic morning when I didn't bother to make
the bed (don't tell my Grandma). I didn't discover my error until halfway
through the next night when I woke up soaked.
Moral of the story - Successful keeping of both cats and waterbeds
depends on your housekeeping habits.
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Elizabeth Brooks
>I have a question if there is anyone who has a cat and a waterbed.
>Can you let the cat on the waterbed, or can he (accidentely) scratch the bed
>so badly that it starts leaking?
>Should you just avoid having cats in the same room as where the waterbed is?
>Barbara
We don't have a waterbed anymore (the landlord we had before we moved to our
current residence wouldn't allow it because he didn't want the hardwood floors
damaged), but when we did, we had cats on the bed with us all the time. They
did puncture it, but only when we didn't keep the covers pulled up. The
punctures were usually just pin-holes which could be patched with just the
patching glue, though there were the occasional actual tears that required
patching material and glue. If you keep the covers, especially a thick
comforter or heavy quilt, pulled over the mattress, you shouldn't have a
problem with kitties putting holes in the bed.
Elizabeth Brooks
Siona
special with
the beds. I'm the only one who's ever poked a hole in the bed!
NANCY
crawl under the blankets and lie on the sheets where it is nice, warm and snug.
Of course it helps to not play with the "furcoats with razor blades" while on a
waterbed!
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My husband and i have a waterbed, too, but it's the kind with the tubes, not
the big mattress of water. Maybe that makes a difference. The tubes are inside
a zipped up mattress-like shell with a liner and foam rubber between the tubes
and the top of the shell so it would be pretty hard for the cats to get their
claws into it. We also keep it covered with sheets, blanket, comforter AND the
"kitty comforter" (which keeps their little kitty hairs off our sheets) :)
Cathy
(mom to Bouggie, Pumpkin, Nasty and Steve)
DianneGC
no problem with the softside, but Tinker is the reason we had to get rid
of the regular bed...even though she's also declawed. Those rear claws
can do some damage from one "mighty" leap! (of course, I could have
patched the hole that was created when she jumped, but was ready for a
softside, anyway!)
Dianne