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Squishy’s BlanketPad

January 14th, 2009 by monnibo | Pets, Sewing, Whiskers on Wednesday

If your cat or dog is like my Henry, his (or her) fur accumilates wherever they decide to bed down often. For me, that’s my bed, beside my head.

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And for the longest while, I just put a blanket down for him which I washed when it was necessary. As you can see, I use a twin duvet so Henry literally has half the double bed. As my duvet cover (strangely…) got furrier and furrier I decided to sew Henry something a little squishier to sleep on. So I went to Dressew, my land of sewing goodness, and picked out a fuzzy, durable fabric I thought he’d like. I chose something in a colour that would hide his fur, should it accumilate.

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I also picked up some cotton batting, but if you have a spare flat-ish pillow, or something of the cushiony-sort that you’d like to make use of, that would work too. I lay out the cotton batting and just quickly covered it with some leftover fabric to contain it.

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Then all I needed to do was put a zipper into the yellow fabric so that I could remove it and wash it whenever I wanted/needed! (That’s one thing I’ve never understood about dog beds… how do you wash them? You’d need a steam cleaner for some of those really big ones!) Then you give the lovely gift to your fur-baby to test out:

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100% Approved.

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8 responses about “Squishy’s BlanketPad”

  1. Serena (Savvy Verse & Wit) said:
    January 14th, 2009 at 11:18 am

    Henry is adorable! I love that you took the time to make him a squishy bed!

  2. Chan said:
    January 14th, 2009 at 11:19 am

    Henry is a lucky boy. (And some dog beds DO have zippered covers.)

  3. Aunt Kathy said:
    January 14th, 2009 at 12:21 pm

    What a lucky kitty

  4. Fern said:
    January 14th, 2009 at 1:20 pm

    Henry is just too adorable :) I’m glad he liked it…somehow, my cat likes to sleep all the places we don’t want her to.

    By the way, I just gave you an award – take a look at my blog to see! :)

  5. Ruth said:
    January 14th, 2009 at 1:35 pm

    Dogs like stinky beds! It ruins the great smell if you wash it, you know. (wink)

  6. Anita said:
    January 14th, 2009 at 5:06 pm

    Love all the photos but that last one is just adorable!!! That was very thoughtful of you to make Henry his own bed! I’m glad that he loved it! :)

  7. Bubblesknits said:
    January 14th, 2009 at 10:34 pm

    Now my cats are jealous. Give Henry some love for me. :-)

  8. Z said:
    January 15th, 2009 at 12:32 pm

    What a handsome chap!
    I have 2 furry beasts that forever have me sleeping in a little pile of cat hair..I should definitely try this :)

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