We all know that cats are the masters of sleep. Our cats are pros at finding the most comfortable place to sleep, the most restful position to lie in, and then sleeping until they decide it’s time to rise.
Every night, at least two of our cats — Linus and Inca — share our bed with us as well as with our dogs Tiki and Irie. Coco often comes and goes through the night; Lucky sleeps somewhere in the bedroom but often in unusual places like on top of the headboard.
While we love to share our bed with our pets–and we aspire to sleep as well as our cats, we all know that sleeping with pets presents a couple of potential challenges:
- the risk of potty or hairball accidents and the worry of how to clean the mattress
- the risk of added stress on pressure points if a pet keeps you from turning over in the night
Well, we recently had the chance to try out Yogabed, a bed made with YogaFoam™ technology offering the responsive qualities of the material yoga mats are made out of–but better!
Immediately two qualities really stood out at us because they address the very issues that co-sleeping pet parents face. Yogabed offers:
- a zip-off, machine-washable cover so that you can keep your mattress clean and fresh
- the cradling comfort of a responsive mattress so that you don’t wake up with a sore shoulder
In part two of our review, we’ll be sharing how the bed is working for us (and the cats) but first we want to share the unboxing of the mattress. Yogabed is shipped to your home in a BOX. (This is about as good as it gets for our cats…a bed AND a box in one!!)
To set up our new Yogabed, we first removed our old mattress and moved the Yogabed box into the bedroom and on to our platform bed. (You’ll notice that our bed is low to the floor; we still have the legs off the bed as our dog Irie continues to recover after ACL surgery.) The mattress ships free anywhere in the continental United States within five business days (and you receive a 101-night risk-free trial).
We opened the box and, inside, the mattress was secured with a band and was compressed in a bag. (Have you ever bought those storage bags for sweaters and vacuumed out all the air so you can store the sweaters in a small space? It was much like that.)
The box included a small tool like a letter opener to use to puncture the clear packaging, allowing air in the package. We could hear a slight whine, much like air in a balloon.
The bed slowly opened and over the course of about five minutes, as John continued to cut off the plastic covering, the bed gently unfolded into place until it was completely flat!
Inside the bed were two compressed Yogapillows, made of the same special foam. Over the next few hours, these pillows decompressed as well.
Lucky was ready to test the bed within seconds…stretching and pulling his way along the mattress…
…and rubbing its soft surface…
The springy mattress top is absolutely beautiful; you can see the black zipper that allows you to unzip and pop it into the wash anytime:
Over the coming days, we’ll be trying out the Yogabed mattress and will bring you more about the special features of the YogaFoam. So far, we’ve both slept like babies! First, here’s a look at the unboxing of Yogabed!
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We received a Yogabed for our review. As always, we only share products that we use with our own pets and all opinions and statements are entirely our own.
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