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It’s a holiday here in Florida, and Cupcake plans to hang out with her friends down at the coffee shop.
She is getting so well-known there that even though she can’t go inside, they label the cups for her.
Cupcake: Can I have seconds?
Sorry, Cupcake, you’re cut off.
If you are celebrating a holiday today, too, we hope you have relaxing plans for how to spend the day!
Pierre: Is it safe to come out?
Pierre: I better check to be sure the coast is clear.
Pierre: What’s with all the traffic all of a sudden?
Pierre: Whoa, did she see me?
Pierre: Maybe I can go now.
Pierre: Thank goodness she didn’t see me! How do I get rid of her?
Pierre: I might just stay here all day.
Pierre: Someone will distract them before I have to make a run for the litterbox, right?
Our friends at KRUUSE sent us a small Buster Cocoon bed, and when I saw it, my first thought was that it was perfectly kitten-sized. And it turns out I have a kitten in the perfect color to match it the black sample bed.
I set the Buster bed down on the sofa, and Cupcake climbed right into it.
The bed is remarkably plush, with a removable cushion. We have never had cat bed in the house that had a removable cushion, so we didn’t expect to find cat toys under there. I haven’t decided whether Cupcake is just a hoarder, or whether that spot is intended as bonus toy storage.
Unlike any other beds I have seen, the Buster bed is made of a rip-stop polyester material that is really easy to clean. Cat hair doesn’t stick to it, and it’s designed to be water repellent, too.
You can machine wash the whole bed in warm water, if necessary, but the polyester cover is so easy to clean that it has kept me from needing to do that so far.
The Buster cocoon bed is a rounded shape that is perfect for a kitty to curl against the thickly cushioned side. That’s how Cupcake loves to sleep in it.
We have the Buster bed on our sofa. Cupcake often goes to another room to nap, but with the Buster bed in place, she sleeps there instead, spending more time with the family while we’re watching television in the living room.
Cupcake: Really, James Bond again, Dad?
The Buster bed comes in three sizes, and the small size is 18 inches wide. When I first saw it, I thought it looked kind of small, but that was because the sides of the bed are so thick, the center part of the bed where the cat sleeps looks a little bit smaller than I expected.
When I first saw the bed, I thought for sure that only Cupcake would want to sleep in it. Pierre decided to prove me wrong.
Pierre is a lean 11 lb cat, but he fits into the small Buster bed with room to spare. If your cat likes to sleep curled up, the 18 inch small bed is a cozy getaway, even if your kitty isn’t a kitten any more. There are also 25 inch and 29 inch versions for larger cats who like to spread out.
Cupcake gives the Buster bed four paws up… except when she has one paw dangling out of the bed while she snoozes.
FTC Disclosure: We received the Buster cocoon bed from KRUUSE in exchange for our honest review. The opinions in this review are my own and not influenced by any outsider. Sponsored posts always reflect our honest opinions and feature products we use ourselves and love.
You hear all the time that cats don’t like the water. It would be more accurate to say that most cats don’t like the water. Cupcake thinks the water is fascinating.
As soon as anyone turns on the water in the bathroom sink, she stops whatever she is doing to run into the bathroom. She will even stop eating in the middle of eating a meal if she hears the water running.
This happens so often that the humans in the house have to be careful when going about normal sink-related activities. Like any cat, Cupcake moves quickly, and she can show up when you aren’t expecting her. So far, no one has spit a mouthful of toothpaste on her, but there have been some near misses.
She seems totally unconcerned that she gets her ears and head wet while she is hunting the stream of water. Water splashes off of her head as she dives into the sink after her elusive prey, and she continues swatting at the droplets.
Wouldn’t you like to know what she’s thinking? Sometimes it seems she thinks she needs to stop the water from going down the drain. You can see in the photo below she is grabbing the pop-up sink stopper. We came home the other day to find she had pulled it all the way out while the sink was dry and we were away.
Other times it seems she is just interested in grabbing the water as it splashes down into the basin of the sink. She prefers a steady stream of water that creates a ripple of water against the bottom of the sink basin. That seems to be the most fun to put her paws in.
For now, this is her favorite entertainment in the house, and she follows the humans into the bathroom, watching to see if they will turn on the water for her. She watches so intently we are a little worried that she is trying to figure out how to turn the sink faucet knobs!
You can see Cupcake in action below. If the video doesn’t display in your browser, you can view it directly on YouTube.
As you can see, Cupcake is happy to do her own cleanup after playing in the sink. Her preferred level of tidying up didn’t keep her from making wet footprints all over the house, so we try to dry her off after sink time is over.
She acts alarmed if you try to enfold her in one of those big bath sheets, so she has her own, smaller towel hanging in the bathroom. It is always ready so she can have her paws and head dried off before she romps off to make trouble elsewhere in the house.
Do you know any cats who like to play in the water?
