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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When we first brought our kittens home, they loved to hide inside the sofa.  Not under the sofa ... inside.  They'd crawl underneath and find (or create) a hole in the lining material, then climb up inside the frame.

They always came out eventually. They want to feel safe, and enclosed spaces like that feel safe to them. Chasing them was counterproductive, just made them climb deeper into the frame. They came out when they were darned well ready to come out, and not a moment before. [/quote]

My young cat did this when she got big enough to live in the basement at night.  She started life penned in the kitchen then after a month or so she had free reign of the house during the day and confined to the full finished daylight basement where the food, water, cat scratching post, cat bed, and litter box were during the night.

It wasn't long before she got up inside the back of the basement sofa regularly.  We didn't know until clumps of fluff started appearing on the carpet.

I also knew someone who lost a kitten in a small college dorm room for a day.  It fell asleep in the bottom drawer of a dresser underneath a piece of clothing.  It crawled in there itself.  She couldn't see it because it was under the piece of clothing.  She looked in the drawer several times.  She didn't find the kitty until it got very angry about how long nighttime was lasting.[/quote]

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