
This is the magic bag. I have opened it up only to have it stomped down so now I leave as is. The magic is not being inside but on top of it. Catnip bag nearby in case there is a need for medication.
Humans have a safe word (not that I would know anything about that!). My cats have a safe spot. The weird part is that it’s not under or in back of anything. If I wanted to, I could scoop them up for a hug, smooch or trip to the vet. It’s a bag.
I change out the bags when they get raggedy. It’s kept in the middle of my family room (and kills any chance of getting into House Beautiful). They will run from any spot in the house to that spot. It’s as if there is an invisible wall protecting them.
Cats are just weird!

Here is Gracie with the old bag. Someone chewed on the edges. I had to buy a pair of shoes so they could have another bag.
Author’s note: I was not able to capture Morgan on it although she uses it too. Mollie, as queen and alpha cat, does not need a box to save her 7 pound self. She rules with an iron paw.
Cute π
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Thanks!
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Hmmm, I was thinking of going to DSW today myself! And my two love the bags also. Love that “she rules with an iron paw!”
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She does. If she is on the king bed and doesn’t want anyone else on it, she will nudge them off with her nose. For some reason no one gives her flak. They just go. No paw wapping, no hisses, nothing. The boss.
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I bought some vegetables from a very smart organic grocery shop which came in a hemp sack stamped with this bag was grown. You have guessed it is my cat’s new bed. She ignores the smart play cat tunnel my daughter bought her.
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They definitely prefer free. There are very few (but a few) things that I have bought that my cats have used.
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I just got a paper grocery bag, which feels like a throwback to my youth, and this is the perfect idea for it. Let’s see if my new cats love the bag. π
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If not, I’ll send my cats over to train.
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I love these pictures, Kate! I love pictures and if they are pictures of the Sassy Cats then I am doubly happy! When our Z Cat was still alive she was all about bags and the crinkly tissue paper that sometimes came in them. Good Morning! I might be absent for the week, we have company coming from Missouri… hoping we can stay tropical wave and hurricane free, ha!
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Enjoy your guests. Hope the weather cooperates!
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It’s home base! I remember this concept from when I was a kid π Your cats are so cute! They are way better than being in House Beautiful any day of the week π
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They are but I’m not telling them that.
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I find it interesting that each of them likes a bag. I wonder if one started it and the others just thought that seemed like a good idea, or did they independently gravitate to a bag? They are the funniest creatures! Always surprising!
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The teach each other things, mostly bad habits. The younger grays started it. Then I saw Hazel there. Maybe it’s the crinkly sound. Then again. They are cats. Maybe it’s just cause.
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I have no understanding of what makes the ‘bag beds’ so appealing….but your cats do look incredibly adorable in the photos!
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I don’t either. Nor do I understand the allure of the hard dining room table. They do mostly sleep on anything soft and cushiony.
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Interesting your cats choose a hard paper bag as a safe spot when there are so many soft and cushy places for them to go and curl up and take in the rest of the world from that safe spot. I sure am learning a lot about cats from you and “cat friend” Carol, having never had cats or been around them myself.
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I never understand that they don’t go into the bag. Mostly cats like to be under, in or behind things so you can’t pester them.
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Cat friend Carol has a Facebook friend who fosters feral kittens. She has them in her home, where Carol tends to hers outside. Carol posted a little video of one of Renate’s feral kitties today – so cute and it was in a box, same size as him and rolling around on his back and pawing at the air, then closing the lid, opening it again and popping out. His name is Simon.
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Sounds like a cutie!
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Yes, she does feature cute kittens and cats on “Renate’s Fosters” … she aims to find homes for abandoned, rescued and feral kittens and cats. Maybe the video of Simon works for you … I’ve copied the link from her FB site: https://www.facebook.com/renatesfosters/videos/vb.723923057683097/1872059076163015/?type=2&theater
Simon in a box is a video she posted on October 12th on her FB site Renate’s Fosters with her stating: This is what I actually meant to post earlier π.
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My very shy cat chose the bed in the guest room as her safe spot. Iβm not sure I could have picked her up for a trip to the vets from there but she would allow just about anyone to pet her (usually it was just me) if she was there. I used to feel horrible for her when we had guests and she had to temporarily give it up. She died many years ago cuddled in my arms on that bed… I know she felt safe.
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Ah…poor kitty. Mollie has staked out a guest bed. She is tenacious. When we have guests she will still go in and lay on it or any clothes they may have on it.
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Olive likes to sit on a single piece of paper…perfectly centered like any good tortie of course.
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Mollie (my tortie) uses a guest bed and chases off anyone who dares to sit with her.
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Teddy likes boxes the best and newspapers come next. Jack just wants to be where Teddy is. There are more than a few catfights happening here.
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They are still not the best of friends? Poor Jack!
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I doubt they will ever be best friends. Teddy was quite happy being an only cat.
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I had a black cat called Lacy that wanted to be an only cat. She was a stray who came to visit, moved inside and stayed. She picked the wrong house as she had to share with another cat. She was never happy about that.
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Too cute. Umm, check your voicemail…I think House and Paws left a message for photo shoot.
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I would be a hit on House and Paws. Toys all over. Catnip widely available both fresh and dried. What’s not to love!
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You’re gonna make all the other kitties jealous with that spread. πΈ
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My previous cat, Karma, would lay on anything and everything. Bags were exciting. Not that she didn’t go inside of things, too, but she laid on everything–even people’s shoes, purses, coats, packages, socks, trash, whatever. And wherever–floor, chair, desk, bed…she needed to claim everything that came into the apartment. π
After Karma I took Annie for my son and DIL after their other cat, Sammy, died because Annie was afraid of their little boys and would hide all day and not come out until they went to bed. She had been a pregnant street rescue cat and I think maybe that is why she is the first cat I’ve lived with who will not go into a box or bag. I think she’s afraid of being trapped in there. She’s extremely shy and has never trusted people, but we have bonded after over a year now and she even sits with me in my recliner and in bed. I think she needed to be an only cat living with a patient older lady who is housebound and rarely goes anywhere–LOL!
Cats! They are all different. Like snowflakes. π
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They are all different. I have 4 and they are as different as…snowflakes!
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That is amusing. I don’t remember that our cats did that, but maybe they did.
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I was surprised at first because they didn’t (none of them) go INTO the bag but laid on top. Maybe because it’s near the fireplace and they liked the ambiance during the winter. However, they are on top all year round.
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I was wondering if the paper reflected their warmth, but that wouldn’t account for their being there in the summer. Very interesting behavior.
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They are cats after all. Best not to try to figure it out.
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Wise words!
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Tigger too!
In bags ~ On bags
In boxes ~ On boxes
And . . . UNDER the bed!
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Cats are crazy!
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How sweet of you to buy more shoes just so the kitties could have another bag π
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I know. It was such a sacrifice!
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So sweet Kate. My aunt’s cat would lie in a brown paper bag, and if it wanted to go anywhere, the bag went too!
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I can see that!
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Scary the first time you saw the bag move ‘on its own’!
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Usually a tail sticks out!
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ha. Not this one as he would get right inside.
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They love to lie on paper, don’t they? Christmas wrapping is such a challenge.
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Hiding inside a bag every now and then sounds good to me!
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Hiding inside I get. Hiding on top, I don’t get.
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I am learning so many things from you about kitty personalities. Wish I had a secret safe bag with invisible walls. π
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Me too. The cats find me for scratches or to feed them no matter where I am. I took a nap this week and woke up to find on sleeping on top of me and another next to me. Really?
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Glad you took one for the team and bought shoes so your kitties could have a new bag!
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I know! I’m such a saint!
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Right?
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Cats are weird? Are you sure? I’m shocked!
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Who’d a thought? Right?
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I totally understand your furfriends… my safe spot is a bag too… or a store what sells bags ;O))) that was super nice to buy a pair of shoes so your Gracie got a mighty fine safe spot ;O))))
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OK, the truth is I bought two pair of shoes (so I could get the BIG bag). It’s the least I could do!
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that was super generous… we always think of our furfriends first ;O)))
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π Yes we do! Two more pair of shoes they get to sleep on top of besides the bag.
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well then… black furryday is near ;O)))
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