Cats spend December trying to get into the tree. Give them something at the base of it that is better than the tree and the problem largely sorts itself out.
The SnowBurrow Christmas Cat Tunnel Bed is a cotton-velvet donut with a zip. Zipped round, it is a 94 cm ring with a padded mat in the middle and a tunnel running all the way through it. Unzipped, it straightens into an S-shaped tunnel across the floor.
Red or green, printed with white snowflakes, with a dangling pom-pom at the tunnel mouth. It sits around the base of a tree like a tree skirt that the cat is allowed to live in.
Good to Know
⭕️ Outer diameter: about 94 cm
🕳 Inner diameter: about 38 cm · tunnel opening 18.5 × 15 cm
🛏 Mat: about 45 cm across, included
🧵 Fabric: cotton velvet
🎨 Colours: red snowflake or green snowflake
Why You'll Love It
🎄 It Goes Round The Tree
Zipped into a ring, it reads as a tree skirt from across the room. The difference is that there is a cat inside it.
🔄 Two Shapes From One Zip
A closed donut bed with a tunnel through it, or an open S-shaped tunnel laid out across a floor. Change it when they lose interest.
😴 Bed And Hiding Place At Once
The padded mat in the middle is for sleeping, the tunnel is for bolting through. Cats use both, usually within the same ten minutes.
🧶 Cotton Velvet, Not Crinkle Plastic
Soft, warm and quiet. Most cat tunnels are noisy nylon; this one can sit in a living room at Christmas without sounding like a crisp packet.
🎾 The Pom-Pom Does The Work
A dangling pom-pom at the mouth of the tunnel is what gets them in the first time. After that the tunnel sells itself.
🏠 Warm Spot For Winter
Enclosed on three sides with a padded base, so it holds heat far better than an open bed. It is the one they choose in January.
🧺 Comes Apart To Clean
The mat lifts out separately, which is the part that needs washing most.
👯 Room For Two
At 94 cm across, two cats fit — one asleep on the mat, one patrolling the tunnel.
🎁 Decoration That Earns Its Place
Most Christmas pet things get used once. This one is a bed first, which means it stays in the room after the tree goes.
📦 Flattens For Storage
Unzipped and folded it goes flat into a cupboard with the rest of the decorations.
Setting It Up
Zip it into the ring, drop the mat in the middle and push it up against the tree base or a radiator. Put a treat at the far end of the tunnel the first day.
Nervous cats take a few days. Leave it somewhere quiet rather than in the middle of the room and let them find it themselves.
Under the tree, where they wanted to be anyway 🎄
