Customer Reviews

K&H Faux Suede Thermo Kitty Mat

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I have previously purchased (several years ago) a Thermo Kitty mat that looks the same as this one. The electrical unit in the first one I first purchased is approximately the length of the fleecy cover. I was unpleasantly surprized to discover that the heating unit in the newly purchased mat is only a small square, leaving approximately 2/3rds of the total mat surface unheated. I returned it immediately and purchased a competing brand that heats the entire bed surface (or close to it). My two arthritic and very elderly cats (17 and 18 years old) love their heated beds and stretch out full-length. I don't think they would be as comfortable if they had to curl up tight to get the benefit of the heated area.

Thermo Kitty Mat--It seems that those of us in search of a heated bed for a convalescing or elderly pet are a captive market. This unit is a case in point. The exterior shell is a zippered fleece fabric pad with a thin piece of foam folded inside. The heating unit is a simple low wattage element encased in a plastic cover. That's it. Not only is there no thermostat control, there's not even an on/off switch--you have to plug/unplug the unit to turn it on or off. That's a pretty basic design flaw. This would be a bit of a ripoff at half the price; unfortunately, from what I can tell, it's more the rule than the exception. Every heated pet bed I've looked at is similarly flimsy in design and construction and outrageously overpriced. Anyway, you've been warned...

We have three cats and they very often pile on top of each other to get a piece of the mat. They especially love it in the winter time. However, our only complaint is that the fleece mat is easy for the cats to take off. I don't know how great it is for the cat to lay directly on the heat mat.... Our cats get a ton of use out of it, so I think it was a very worthwhile purchase.

The mat is 12x24, the heating pad part is 10x10, meaning less than half the mat is heated. But, in truth, maybe the deceptive size of the pad doesn't matter, because if you hold your hand on the mat--well, the portion the heating pad is in--you can almost feel a slight bit of heat. Almost.

Save your money.

This product does exactly what it is designed to do, with zeal. The only problem is, my cat doesn't care. It's just one more thing I've dropped mega dough on that it has purposefully ignored, for no other reason than to torment my soul. On the other hand, it was pretty interested in the box it came in.

If you're interested in this product, you really should take a look at the video review. I did and I ignored it. And I'm very, very sorry that I did.

I just bought our second Thermo Kitty Mat. I did it despite the very clear video review/warning about how K&H cheapened the product--with the heated coil covering less than half the pad.

Why did I ignore that review? Because we already have one pad from K&H--the identical pad, as it happens, that we bought a couple years ago--and it had the coil running the entire length of the pad. I refused to believe that K&H would intentionally cheapen the product and not make clear to customers that the heating coil was so small.

I was wrong. The pad just came. And sure enough, the heating coil covers less than half the pad. I find this not only blatantly false advertising, but I will make sure that everyone I know who is interested in purchasing this product hears about it.

I find it absolutely incomprehensible that K&H would cheapen a previously excellent product and not disclose that the heating coil was so small in relation to the length of the pad. Yes, your cat, as ours, may love the heated part. But you're not getting what you pay for, your cat will have a pad that's largely unheated, and that's wrong. Period.

I bought this mat for my elderly cat because I like to keep the temperature cool in the house and I was worried that she might be too cold. She spends a lot of time on it, but when she is not there, another of my 4 cats is usually there. It took a couple days for them to realize that the mat was heated, but once they did, they love it.

I assumed that the heating element would be roughly the same size as the bed, but it's much smaller. I already own a pet bed this size that has a heating element which is almost the full size of the bed, and I thought that I was buying the same thing. The heating element on this is less than half the size of the bed, which seems pointless. I'm sending it back.

It seems this mat has received many bad reviews for the heating element. That may have been the case in the past, but the product I just purchased has a 20"x5 1/2" heating element. The pad itself (made from quality materials) is 24"lx12"w. My cat loves this mat, and it stays very, very warm.