Customer Reviews

K&H Pet Bed Warmer, 6 Watts, Medium, 6 By 20 Inches

5 star:		(104)
4 star:		(44)
3 star:		(13)
2 star:		(9)
1 star:		(9)

 

 

I purchased the K & H warmer from PetSmart with the cover, but I've moved the warmer unit between different cat beds. The cover that you can get it for it is a flat mat and good for cool spaces, but for really chilly places like right in front of a drafty window -- putting it under the cover of an oval or "cup" style bed will keep your kitty toasty and happy.

Not only do the warmers fit nicely under the removable cover of a cup or oval style bed, they also slide nicely into most kitty "hammocks" (the sort you can cantilever on window sills). Great for winter bird-feeder gazing!

Safety note: if your kitty "milk treads" a lot and you put the warmer directly under the cover of a cup style bed, make sure to keep your kitty's claws trimmed. Putting the warmer unit underneath the entire cup is a waste because the heat will disperse into the surface below the bed instead of warming your kitty.

If you want to put a warmer in a cold place like a basement or garage, cement disperses the heat too easily -- opt for the outdoor warmer. This one just isn't enough in those cases. The K & H outdoor kitty warmer uses 40watts instead of 6, but keeping your kitty warm and healthy is worth it.

For indoor and "upstairs" use only, 6 watts worth of warmer pad is positively great, and it uses less electricity than a bulb-style night light.

We have an indoor cat who is getting up in years, and is always looking for something warm to lie on. Since I have trouble typing with a cat on the laptop, I bought one of these heaters a few years ago.

They have about the right amount of heat for an indoor cat who is just cold-basically it is about the equivalent of sitting on a chair that a nice warm human just got up from. FYI 13 watts is about the equivalent heat from two old-fashioned Christmas lights.

One caution- this is only the heating element. It is made out of vinyl, sort of like an icepack, and is probably not something your animal will want to sleep on directly. It definitely needs a cover of some type. If you animal is a chewer or scratcher, you will probably want a zippered pouch for it.

The size makes it a very tight fit into the bottom tube of one of those scratching post/houses made out of carpeted cardboard tubes. It is flexible enough to roll up and surround the cat on three sides, which he loves.

Luckily the first one of these I bought came with the fleece pouch, and I could just replace the heater in it with this one. This is handy, because each of these heaters (3 in total) have lasted about one year and then stop heating.

I wish they were more robust, but $25/year really isn't all that much in the cat ownership financial picture, so I just pay it and shut up.

3 stars only because I only use these indoors, and my cat is pretty docile, so there is no reason these things should keep failing so often.

I ordered this for my little yorky because my bedroom can get cool in winter and I wanted to make sure she was warm. Her little bed was quilted so I just put it on top and added a little blanket to cover it and now she sleeps nice and cozy on it. She used to sneak in my bed in the middle of the night but now she stays in her cozy bed.

This is a great heater. In the winter, I keep one in each cat bed. In the summer, I keep one only in the basement bed. At 6 watts of energy usage, I can justify it, especially now that my cat is almost 20. (I'm going to try the 40 watt outdoor one in the basement, though, as another reviewer suggested.)

In a wicker cat "basket," I place the heater under a doubled pillowcase or light acrylic throw, depending on the season and location of the bed.
I've been using pet warmers for about ten years or more and have tried other brands when I couldn't find this one. K & H always works right out of the box and keeps on working, though, yes, eventually I do need to replace them. Now I buy K & H only when replacement time comes.

Cats are living longer these days, which means that they're living with some of the aches and pains of old age longer. This bed warmer is great for keeping kitty comfortable. Besides, what could be cuter than a warm, toasty cat curled up in a wicker basket on a winter's day?

This product is PERFECT for your pet on those chilly nights. We have 2 boxers that sleep in separate beds and they used to sleep in tight little balls but now they lie sprawled out from one end of the beds to the other!

The warmer doesn't get too hot (which is good) so you have to place it under a slender piece of material or it doesn't work very well. For example, one of our beds is a normal egg shell with a fabric cover and we have the warmer inside of a pillowcase and zipped up between the fabric and egg shell and it works great. On the other bed, it has a thick pillow as a base so we had to put the warmer on top of the pillow and then cover it with a blanket; otherwise, with the warmer under the pillow the top of the pillow never got warm. The key thing to remember is that these are WARMERS so they don't feel warm enough to a person but they get PLENTY warm for a pet.

Update: 01/23/2012
These warmers are both still going strong/warm... they have been used nightly for anywhere from 8 - 10 hours for 4 months out of the past 3 years. No problems at all! We will buy these again if the need arises and I recommend them without a doubt to anyone that is looking for an affordable warmer.

I have two large dog beds that have a heavy canvas cover. I ordered a K&H pet bed warmer & a PetSafe warmer at the same time and put one of each in the pet beds and put the beds next to each other.

The K&H pet bed warmer did a better job of warming through the canvas cover & 1 of my dogs spent quite a bit of time sleeping on that bed (sprawled). The bed with the PetSafe warmer got sporadic use & I had to really lean into the bed to feel the PetSafe's warmth.

If my dog hadn't chewed up the cord, I would have returned the PetSafe & gotten another K&H. I ended up purchasing another K&H.

This is the 6th K&H pet bed warmer I've bought, and I've been very satisfied with the quality of K&H products. Each bed warmer has lasted years (literally) before eventually heating too low for my cats' comfort, but I do keep the pads on 365 days a year for my elderly cats. At first I bought the warmers with outer covers, but I found an alternative: 14" x 20" fleece pads which are very, very soft and washable. My Geezer-kitties love the fleece, and although I clip my cats' claws, these fleece pads are thick enough to provide protection when my kitties knead. I get these fleece pads online from a rescue cat organization, so purchases help rescue more cats. You can find them in the online store at: http://va.siameserescue.org/ My younger cats only use bed warmers during the colder months, but my Geezer-Meezers spend their days and nights snuggling on the fleece and K&H warmers! Anything to soothe their aches and pains. Getting old is hell!

Pet Bed Warmer Small 4 Watts - 8.5" x 9.5"

My cat loves it. When used continuously during cold climate, it last only about a year. I have purchased two within the last two years. The price is right.

My older cat just loves her heated bed. She has to have it because she has arthritis and is just so small and gets real cold without it. The heated bed itself is a lifesaver and works very well. But I've gone through two of these heated pet warmers. This last one only lasted about 12 months. I'm about to purchase my third heating pad. So, if it's important enough to you to keep your animal warm, it will cost you about $30 a year. Perhaps other people have had better luck...but a year to 18 months is all I've been able to get out of mine.

I chose this because I can heat the place that my cats have already picked as their favorite sleeping spot rather than buy a separate heated bed then try to find somewhere suitable to put it and hope they use it.

I bought the pad in the squarish shape to best fit inside the designated cats' cushion on their kitchen chair. I put the pad inside the base of the cushion and laid an extra layer of fleece on top of their cushion just to make sure it didn't get too hot.

I have two elderly Birmans and live in New England so it's fairly cold in the winter but the heated pad has given the cats a source of steady warmth without requiring a change in their routine.