Cosy Cat (Snugglesafe)

Member Name: GlitterDiamond

Product:	Snugglesafe
Date:	18/08/07 (63 review reads)
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Advantages: Helps relieve my cats arthritis pain.

Disadvantages: Expensive for what it is.

My beloved rescue cat Chloe use to love jumping up on to the radiators and having a sleep on the towels that were drying there, now however, a mixture of general old age and arthritis prevents her from leaping up to have her nice warm snooze. So after seeing this product in Pets At Home I decieded to get it for her.

It is a bright pink pad, about the size of a dinner plate and around an inch thick. It comes in a cardboard box which has pictures of different animals on, a section of the cardboard is cut away so you can see the SnuggleSafe pad inside. On the box is all the heating information, but it also printed on the pad itself so you don't need to keep the box if you don't want too.

The idea of this product is to provide much loved warmth to any pet. You heat it in the microwave for up to six minutes depending on the power of your microwave and then wrap it in a blanket or something similar before giving it to your pet. Unlike hotwater bottles or heat-up wheat bags, there is no mess to clean up or boiling water to scald your pet should it manage to chew through it. It cost £18.99 from Pets At Home but is also available online from www.snugglesafe.co.uk.

When I got home, I heated the pad up for Chloe then put it under then cushion at the bottom of her bed. She knew something was different and spent a good ten minutes sniffing and pawing at her bed before she finally decieded to lay down. And well! After that she didn't move for the rest of the evening! She LOVED it! The pad stays warm for ten hours so I heat it up for her before I go to bed and then when I get up again in the morning so she has warmth all day and night.

At £18.99 it is rather expensive but Chloe is 21 years old now and her warm cosy bed in one of her remaining pleasures in life so to me, its money well spent. The warmth also helps to soothe her pain from her arthritis. This product would be great for young puppies or kittens who are missing the warmth of their mum and littermates during the first nights in their new home, animals living outside in the winter such as guinea pigs and rabbits, reptiles who need warmth to survive (although the SnuggleSafe heat pad is no subsitute for proper heating equipment), for dogs who live outside in kennels or to eldery cats and dogs such as my Chloe.

Shes had the pad for abput 7 months now and its still in great condition, I just wipe it down with a damp cloth occasionaly, it is important to cover the pad before giving to your pet to avoid them getting too hot, a special cover is available that fits the pad but a old towel or blanket does the job just as well.

Summary: Great idea, your cat (or other pet) will definatly love it.