darn - I have a cat.
Soooo, how does it SELF-HEAT w/o electricity? Sounds like more Chinese bullshit advertising yet again peddled by WOOT! I remember when WOOT! âwasnâtâ a risky proposition with decent products. Now, itâs cheap, half-assed chinese crap so poor that if it fails or you donât like it, they donât even care if you return it. Nope. They just refund you blindâŚregardless⌠They know it suck or was misleading. Volume? Yes. Quality?..YeahâŚriiiite!
How hot does it get??? I donât want to roast my bunny!!
âSelf heatingâ in this case means âItâs made of insulationâ. Basically, itâs exactly the same as sitting on a blanket. It wonât get any hotter than your butt does sitting in a chair. Depending on your petâs body temperature of course, cats are normally 102 degrees F,
So hereâs an idea⌠donât buy it! Life is too short to spend time ranting about something you clearly donât want/need.
âSelf-Heatingâ⌠Woot, once you mocked others. Now, unknowingly, you mock yourself.
It looks like the bulldog is taking a dump⌠on the brown mat
So not self-heating. It requires something else to heat it. Why canât we start with that? This is why we canât have nice things.
This is NOT SELF HEATING. It absorbs heat from whatever is on it and is no better than a blanket. If you placed a book on it and aimed a temperature gun at the mat it would show the same temperature as the book.
Hi there all! Letâs just pretend that weâre all adults here.
No thereâs no electricity on this. Some materials absorb and retain heat better than others. That is what theyâre going for here.
Also, look at the cute Woot dogs.
I feel like weâre getting a little bamboozled with the âThis product has not been reviewed yet.ââŚfor anyone still interested in this mat - itâs on Amazon with a small handful of ratings here
Stop making assumptions. Iâve had similar in the past from Drs Foster & Smith. They were lined inside with basically space blanket material which reflects the animalâs heat. My pets loved them. These donât mention that but Iâm guessing their similarâŚ
Hi there @carpediemkiddo. It looks like ours have an updated design (compare the photos). Ours likely have a different UPC and/or SKU (ASIN on Amazon) due to this. We can only link to reviews if the UPC/ASIN/SKU match exactly.
I am pleased to see that others recognized the whole "self heating " thing as bogus. Life may be short, but for me, life has to be exact. If you came in to my ER and I said âThis stuff does thisâ and in fact doesnât scientifically hold up, that is malpractice. This is unethical false advertising which may not bother some people. It irritates me and others who are scientifically and more precisely thermodynamically precise. When something is obviously false, we point it out.
Like a previous poster said, if this uses similar material as space blankets (and it probably does) it will be way warmer than laying on a blanket (as most posters suggest). Those things are so good at reflecting heat they quickly feel âheated.â And itâs not bogus. More heat reflected is less heat lost. Your are actually warmer. Itâs possible it works and your dog will quickly learn to seek it out. But the only way to know is to buy one at wrap it around your hand. Youâll know in a minute or so if it works.
Not gonna bother, though. My dealbreaker is the huge triangular brand label on the corner. Looks like something that should be removed before use. I didnât raise my dogs to be shills.
Self Heating statement=BOGUS= 1/0=Cold Fusion. Things that are self heating=exothermic chemical reactions, Fusion, Fission, Biologic systems that break chemical bonds and harness energy (which falls under the first item, chemical reactions). The mat left in a system would eventually be the temperature of that system. It does not heat itself. Energy cannot be destroyed or created. It only changes form. E=mc2. I am reading the book âThe First War of Physicsâ and how Lisa Meitner and Otto Frisch, both physicists living in early â â â â Germany who had to leave because they were Jews, put the puzzle pieces together and were the first to describe nuclear fission. Nuclear fission is a reaction which creates its own heat by converting mass to energy. I do not dispute the fact that it gets warmer, but that is only due to the fact that a biological system which is creating thermal energy transfers the kinetic energy of the molecules to the mat. The mat contributes NO Joules of energy to the process.