Cat people - is your bedroom off limits?

[Schune]

I want to preface this post by saying that I love my cat Allen. He is the most loving creature in the world (except around my dad :lol:) and he will be with me until he dies or I die.

That being said, he does shed. A lot. He’s a medium length mutt and though I do brush him, and he loves to be brushed, it never gets all the hair off. The end result is that the comforter on my bed is saturated with cat hair. Even after washing/drying it at the laundromat, it’s still got hair on it.

I recently got a beautiful antique bedroom set and I want to add to it by buying a nice comforter set, and by nice I mean $100+. He’s got his own personal bed atop my bed, but most times I come home from work and find him stretched out on the comforter snoozing.

Despite how much I love him, the hair does bother me. Has anyone made their bedrooms off limits to their kitties? Or should I relent and just vacum my comforter each morning?

Thanks

[tabula_rashah]

I can’t imagine making my bedroom off limits to my kitties- Seriously I can’t go to sleep unless I know Kahli is in the room with me. When I buy bedding, furniture, etc I make sure I choose stuff that is cat friendly and I’m perfectly happy to trade having my kitties in my life for not having the nicest in bedding

[Diamondindykin]

Can you put a sheet over your new comforter during the day? It is easier to wash and dry than a big comforter. Another thing to try is getting him a heated bed. That way he would be more apt to sleep on it rather than your comforter.

I don’t lock my cats out of our room because they sleep with us. Most nights we have at least 3 of the 5 in our bed:lol:

[Simkie]

Cats are not allowed in the bedroom, period.

That way there is no hair on bed linens or cats stuck in closets or puke to step in right out of bed.

[Sport]

Ours don’t just sleep on top, they wait for us to leave, so they can burrow in under the blankets.
I come home at night to 2 lumps under the blankets.

[allikat819]

[QUOTE=Diamondindykin;6198753]
Can you put a sheet over your new comforter during the day? It is easier to wash and dry than a big comforter.[/QUOTE]

This is what works for me. I don’t keep the room off limits, but I throw a large easily washable sheet over things I don’t wish to have cat hair all over. Especially my pillow. Because breathing cat hair really aggravates my allergies.

If it’s not a big deal for you to block off the bedroom, I don’t see why you couldn’t. But in my experience anything that has been off limits is SUPER FUN for them to try and get into.

I guess my cats win the battle. They rule my house :lol:

[ravenclaw]

[QUOTE=Simkie;6198771]
cats stuck in closets or puke to step in right out of bed.[/QUOTE]
Gee, that sounds familiar. You forgot the part where you step in the cat puke right after you have put on clean socks. :lol:

We tried banning our cats from the bedroom. I think we did sleep better during that time. But now they’re back with us again. Usually we have 2 or 3 cats on the bed with us (we have 6 cats total). We have decided that the advantages of having them sleep with us outweigh the disadvantages.

We do put a big fleece throw on top of our comforter. It helps with the hair a bit…unless it gets bunched up or unless a cat tunnels underneath it.

[onelanerode]

Cat is not allowed in the bedrooms, mainly because of allergies. Dogs aren’t allowed in either. I know she sneaks in when she gets the chance, but thankfully with DH working from home, she doesn’t get the opportunity to be in there very long.

At night she’s closed into a spare bedroom because we like our sleep and she has a penchant for chewing on power cords. The spare bedroom has the elliptical (cord is fully removable and is stored in closet, whose doors she has not yet managed to open), two cat trees and a bunch of toys, one of which is the ball-on-a-track … she usually has a good round with that around 3 a.m. most nights. :winkgrin:

[Bacardi1]

Another person with cats (& dogs) on the bed.

I buy inexpensive easy-to-clean cotton blankets as a top layer to keep hair at a minimum

[AlmostDun]

Cats have been sleeping in or on my bed my entire adult life. I briefly experimented with covering the whole bed with a sacrificial sheet to protect the bedding underneath. It didn’t work. The spouse can’t be trusted to make the bed, and most of my cats have been bedding burrowers anyway. I’ve learned to select bedding which washes easily.

[oliverreed]

I hate sleeping without my cats! We banned the brand new baby for a while because he was so tiny DH was afraid he’d roll on him and suffocate him in his sleep. Now he’s big enough to be back.

[ChocoMare]

Nope, all cats are banned from our bedroom.

A) If Mr. ChocoMare felt a cat on the bed, he’d wake up swinging and said kitty would go flying. It’s just a reaction. He loffs them, just not in bed.

B) One kitty has a penchant for peeing on my side of the bed. Don’t know why. Never pees anywhere but the box normally.

C) One kitty likes to massage your head during the night. I’d never sleep with claws in my hair! (I know this cuz she sleeps with my friend when she stays over in our guestroom… she gets little sleep due to Petals’ “kneading.” :lol:)

[Schune]

I do love it when Allen sleeps with me- although not so much when he plops on my stomach at 5am, purring like a weedwhacker to get me to feed him :lol:

Sometimes he does sleep in my room at night with me, sometimes he doesn’t, as I’ll find incriminating white/beige hairs on the couch and accent chair; but those are easy to clean with a sticky roller. I also don’t think he’d take too kindly to shaving…

I may try to implement a no-cat policy in the bedroom once I get new bedding (have to wait until the bunkie board comes in), but if he doesn’t like it I’ll just accept my hair-filled life lol.

[bird4416]

Ban the cats from the bedroom? I think not. What would life be like without a cat licking my face at 4am or making biscuits in my hair in the wee hours? Not to mention the purring that sounds like a creaky porch swing to soothe me to sleep.

:lol:

[BravAddict]

My parents never let the cat in their bedroom. He was, of course, curious and would love to dart in and wander around if the door was open, but they would eventually shoo him out and he’d wander somewhere else.

Timmy was never asked whether he “liked” being banned from the bedroom, or the counter tops, or dining room table. He was (consistently) shooed off of/out of inappropriate places and eventually adjusted to the fact that those places were not part of his universe. He called for his breakfast from outside the bedroom door.

He was allowed in my room, though

[leilatigress]

Cats are allowed in our bed only when we are sick. I have allergies to them and they prefer to sleep together on the night stand. I actually put my pillow up in the closet before I leave for work in the morning and vacuum the bed weekly. We have a duvet cover over our comforter and that gets washed weekly as well. They can curl up with me for the most part but sometimes my allergies keep them at bay. I wouldn’t give them up though, getting my nose bitten at 5am so I can roll onto my back to have him land his substantial self on my chest and start rubbing and purring to get me up is heaven!

[dressagetraks]

I have only one working interior door in the whole house - to my store room. The rest of the house is fair game, including my bedroom. Can’t imagine not having cats in bed.

I thought I had shedding cats until I adopted the Bernese Mountain Dog. However, SHE is not allowed on the bed, simply due to size. Me plus five cats in a twin bed is already no vacancy; impossible to stick a 100-plus pound dog in there, too. She fortunately got the “not allowed on furniture; got it” message very quickly; she’s sensitive to verbal reprimand. I haven’t seen her or her hair on any piece of furniture, bed included, in a few years. Dog in the floor; cats on the bed.

[lilitiger2]

Cats for sure in the bedroom, but my DH did try to ban them for a while. Now, however, they are with us. One likes to snuggle with his back to me, streeeeeetch out his paws to my husbands bare back, then suddenly dig those claws in. DH wakes from a sound sleep -“JESUS!” and I swear kitty is grinning in the darkness!! Same kitty sleeps on top of me every night, right on my face or my shoulder, can’t imagine going to sleep without it!!!

But I do understand the no kitties in bedroom thing. I like the idea of a sheet but neither me nor DH are reliable bed makers and they are “burrowers”. Also they like to rattle the door knobs of whatever room they are banned from, not a soothing sound to sleep to!!

[fooler]

As our now deceased kitties aged the would leave us barfs and bits of kitty litter on the bed during the work day. So in self-defense I purchased inexpensive waterproof mattress cover. Purchased at Big Lots, around $25 for a king size. The cover is a cloth material on top lined with plastic underneath.
This was placed over the bed every morning so any little messes did not result in changing the bed linens. Easy to clean up messes and wash the cover at night so it was ready for the next day.
FYI - the top cloth material got softer with repeated washes. It allowed our kitties to sleep on the bed, it was theirs after all :lol:.

[jenm]

I can’t imagine not having my kitties snoozing away on my bed.

I so splurge on high thread count sheets, but use a down comforter with a duvet cover. I have a cat with medium length hair, but rolling the cover with a pet hair roller seems to work. I agree with the others who suggest using something inexpensive to cover up something nice.