There once was a kit­ten who enjoyed sleep­ing in a lit­tle wick­er bas­ket on the top shelf of my desk. I bought her a green pil­low that had a remov­able case, and stuffed it in the wick­er bas­ket so she would be more com­fort­able. She was very hap­py in there, with her birds-eye view of the entire room, and would spend hours upon hours in the lofty enclo­sure.

Soon, how­ev­er, she noticed that the bas­ket was get­ting small­er. It got hard­er and hard­er for her to jump in with­out knock­ing oth­er things over. Eventually, she stopped sleep­ing in there alto­geth­er, as she out­grew the bas­ket and would­n’t fit in its shel­ter­ing walls.

Eventually, I moved the pil­low to my bed, with­out the wick­er bas­ket, and the cat, no longer a kit­ten, resumed her naps there. The pil­low, on the oth­er hand, remained the same size, and no longer sup­ports the sheer girth of the once tiny feline. However, she con­tin­ues to enjoy sleep­ing on it, and has no prob­lem acco­mo­dat­ing for space restric­tions with an uncush­ioned limb or two.