Ideal Room Temperature for a cat

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This question comes courtesy of DH. He asked me to post it here.

He wants to know what the ideal room temperature is for a cat. If they got to set the thermostat, what would it be set on?
 

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Well, considering that they are originally desert animals...I'm thinking REALLY WARM.
 

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Jamie seems to be spending most of his time right now on his perches directly over radiators, or on our waterbed, so I'd say about 27°C /80°F, which is the waterbed setting.
 

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If Ophelia had control of the thermostat, it would be as high as it could go, and she would still try to find a sunbeam to really get toasty.


Trent is very fluffy, so he likes it closer to 65-68 F. He just gets too warm and tries to cool off if it's much warmer than that. You can see where Ophelia's forced snuggles in the middle of summer weren't always welcomed.


Ginger...as long as Meowmy is there, she doesn't care.
Actually, she hasn't really shown much of a preference for temperature yet.
 

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Originally Posted by Satai

BF's theory is 1 degree less than the temperture at which they would burn.
That's definitely Forest!! Tailer's perfect temperature would be whatever temperature it is in DH's lap, and Harvey's is apparently whatever temperature it is behind the furnace.
(Though his evil meowmy has just blocked off his behind-the-furnace access.
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This definately depends on whether you have a longhaired cat. When we turn our thermostat up, Persi will get off of our lap to lay on the hardwood floor.
 

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Originally Posted by Satai

BF's theory is 1 degree less than the temperture at which they would burn.
Sounds about right to me.

Lucky for me I'm always so cold, having 5 of them snuggle up against me everynight saves me on electricity and heating costs.
 

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Cat's actually have a hotter internal thermostat. Cats are normally a little ball of self contained warmth. They can also withstand hotter temperatures of water and general heat.
 

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Radar likes to sit just under the radiator, but I never let it get cold because I have a parrot, they have very high metabolisms and use a lot of their body heat just in breathing and eating! However I would say also that Radar has his nice woolly winter trousers on right now and would not freeze if the temperature dropped a few degrees, I would definitely be more worried about the bird's ability to cope.
 

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UH...considering Trout sleeps like 1 millimetre from the heater so her fur is almost burning...I would say she would have the thermostat set at like 45 celsius..
 

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If you ask Severino he wants it cold because of all his hair...he goes and lays in our bathroom that has a marble floor and is above the cold garage...it's freezing in there!!! Now Joey and Soph like to be warm. It's up to the kitty individually I think.
 

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Ex-bf's Bombay used to reset his thermostat, she constantly turned the furnace up to 85f+
So I'm guessing in the 80-90f range.
She was so insistant that even with no furniture anywhere near it for her to get onto, she still managed to do the jump and bump.
He actually was forced to change it out to a digital with a lockout feature.
 

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Originally Posted by Arlyn

Ex-bf's Bombay used to reset his thermostat, she constantly turned the furnace up to 85f+
So I'm guessing in the 80-90f range.
She was so insistant that even with no furniture anywhere near it for her to get onto, she still managed to do the jump and bump.
He actually was forced to change it out to a digital with a lockout feature.
Ah ha! Pesky humans are no match for feline antics!

Muhahaha!
 

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the only one of mine that seem to like to be hot is Athena and she'll just lay on the floor vent, the rest seem to be happy with what I have it set on (68)
 

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Both of my cats are always sleeping in spots that are warm so I'd say they would like it around 75-80. I keep it on 70-71 though.
 
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