Conference misery::feline

    I would check in pet stores or pet catalogs.  I recenlty bought
    one which is called a Cat Napper and the platform sits on the window
    sill (with Velcro...so it might wreck the sill) and has brackets
    holding it against the wall.   It seems pretty sturdy, the cats love
    it, and I believe you could open/close any type of window with it!!
    
    I think I spent about $29.00 for mine...
    
    Sandy

    Hi!
    
    I too bought one of the cat nappers. My window opens out.  There is a
    crank for each side to open it.  I bought my cat napper at Caldor's.  
    
    There is only one problem with it.  It does velcro to the window, but
    if your cat is hefty or runs and jumps on it, it will come down.  Shilo
    is still a kitten at 11 pounds and has taken his down already..  We
    really don't want to have to nail it in but it looks like we have no
    other way..
    
    
    Good luck!!
    
    
    *joyce and shilo
    

    
    I bought one at a pet store on rt 9 in Shrewsbury.  I think the name is
    Noah's Ark, it's in a mini-mall somewhat across the street from
    Spagg's.  It has two L-brackets which slip in between the window and
    frame.  Very well made.
    
    I also have a canopy style bought at the pet store heading east on rt.
    9 across from Sears/Filene's mall.  Unfortunately it has velcro but I
    ended up screwing into the frame.  No way would the velcro hold 2 cats
    fighting for sleeping rights!
	
    ...Rania
    

    I have also seen them at the Pet Supply Depot on Rte 9 in Shrewsbury. 
    Don't remember the price however.

    The velcro cat perch lasted about two days with my gang.  These days, I
    just open the windows and the cats happily sit on the sill.  They don't
    seem to care that it isn't flat.  When I'm not around, though, I shut
    all the windows almost all the way in case of thunderstorms, so the
    cats have to find other places to watch the world go by from.  HAving
    them sit on the window silss is sometimes a bit hard hard on the
    screens, too, though this year there doesn't happen to be a bird
    nesting in the forsythia bush in the front, for the first time in
    several years, so there isn't a real convenient and exciting target to
    try to grab or pounce on through the screens!
    
    /Charlotte

    Navajo likes the windows sills, his favorite one comes with the back of
    the couch so he has window all the time....although he was very mad at
    the fan in his bedroom window the other nite :')

    
    I've got one of the velcroed-to-the-sill platforms and it's worked
    fabulously despite much aggressive abuse from multiple cats.  Rocky and
    Blueberry who together weigh in excess of 20 pounds routinely share it,
    with Robin hanging off the side "playing" with their tails.
    
    I think it's all a question of getting the support legs and velcro
    all properly aligned.  I have trouble detaching it myself!
    
    len.
    

Thanks, all. 
I'd seen the velcro ones, but with Sidney at 20# and LaNuit and 12#, I didn't think
it would work. I'll search them out at the recommended places and try one.
I had hoped that the new, wider window sills would be fine, but Sidney doesn' fit, and 
LaNuit, with his balance problems, fits and falls off. So, they went back to tables and
such.
If there are pointers to cat stuff-catalogs, I'd appreciate that as well.
asd

    Cat Nappers (the Velcro kind) are on sale for $19.00 this week at
    Caldors. It's the cheapest I've seen - the usual price I've seen
    at other stores is $29.00.