Seriously. Whether it is in a car, on a plane or just in my living room who doesn’t want to have the window seat? Some windows, however, do not have large enough window sills. That’s where something like this handy Window Mounted Cat Bed comes in handy.
We had to all inspect the Window Cat Bed it first arrived. The pad was a nice soft fleecy material. The frame came in four parts and came with the wires already attached on one side.
While this was mostly easy to put together there were a few tricky areas. The instructions were nearly impossible to follow as the black and white photos were of poor quality (the entire instruction sheet looked like something out of a 40s/50s product right down to the old typewriter font — sorry no photos of said instructions). The side of the blue canvas material were stitched and the plastic frame was supposed to slide in and then the velcro end pieces easily wrapped around the ends of the frame. I say, supposed to, as they did not go in easily. They were sewn just a little too tightly. Especially on one side. The third time trying it and starting with the tighter side first worked, but boy was it frustrating.
No where on the product does it say how large a cat it would hold, but we knew off the bat it wouldn’t hold this big guy. The sisfur monsters only weigh about 8 or 10 pounds so they were the guinea pigs.
The wires were different lengths so it was hard to get the bed straight on the window. The windows were clean but the suction cups came off about an hour after we hung it up. The manufacturer suggested cleaning the cups with alcohol and trying again. We did and they stayed put (but the humans never felt comfortable leaving us with it after they came off and of course fear of me getting on it was a concern too). We have donated this to One By One in hopes that one of the foster families will be able to use it as we feel it is made nicely and if applied to clean windows with clean cups it should stay up. While we can only give this like 3-3.5 stars we haven’t had it long enough to really judge it fairly. If we hear from someone at the shelter we will definitely update our review to share their thoughts on the Window Cat Bed too.
A little straighter and a little sturdier. Makes for a great bird watching perch.
Disclaimer: we were given this product in exchange for our honest opinion.