Pets blocking heating vents and fireplaces
Pets lay directly on heating vents or hoses, blocking the warm air and making you wonder why you can't feel the heat. They also sit dangerously close to gas fireplaces, causing genuine worry that they will get hurt. They will even steal your heating pad or warm spot in bed the moment you get up.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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Pets blocking heating vents and fireplaces
- 1Placing a pet bed next to the heat source to share it.Did this help you?
- 2Yielding heating pads or warm spots to the pet.Did this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Check for vent blockage if you feel your homes heater isn't working. You never know!”source ↗
“I have a gas fireplace and my one cat will lay so close to it that I’m genuinely worried she will get hurt.”source ↗
“Also they steal your spot after you get up to grab something cuz its all warmed up from the body heat lol.”source ↗
“the other day I was wondering why I couldn’t feel the heat…. and found these guys on the hose.”source ↗
“My previous, arthritic cat would wait and even low-key bully me to get out of bed each morning so she could take my heating pad.”source ↗
Where this came up
People with this problem also raised
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- 7Furnace lights up briefly then hums and shuts off
- 6Why does my dog freeze and refuse to move when he sees other dogs?
- 4How to stop heat loss through an attic hatch or open carport