Why You Should Give Your Cat a Cardboard Box

Give your cat a box! Cats who have boxes have lower stress levels than cats who do not have boxes. Here’s why:

They satisfy your cat’s instinctive need to feel safe and secure with walls on all sides. Hiding isn’t just for scared or shy cats. All cats enjoy it!
They boost confidence. Your cat can rub on the box, which deposits pheromones and makes them feel like they own a little bit of territory in your home.
Cats can destroy them instead of other things in your home. Cats instinctively need to bite, rip, scratch, and chew things. So encourage them to destroy something that was free.

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About Best Friends Animal Society

Best Friends is working to end the killing of dogs and cats in U.S. shelters in part by getting more pets out of shelters and into loving homes.

We’ve come a long way since the first known city reached no-kill in 1994, and now we’re closer than ever to making the entire country no-kill. Today, roughly 2,500 shelters are no-kill throughout the U.S. — and 700 more are just 100 pets or fewer away from reaching that milestone.

Best Friends is committed to working with passionate people like you to save homeless pets through adoption, volunteering, fostering, and advocacy. In addition to our lifesaving centers around the U.S, we also founded and run the nation's largest no-kill sanctuary for companion animals.

Working together, we can save homeless pets in our communities and secure a better future for our best friends. Together, we will bring the whole country to no-kill.