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We (or rather, our cat) has had this mat for over two years. She tends to get cold readily and usually sleeps some or all of the night with us. But the rest of the night, and much of every day, she is on the mat. So we figure it must be warming her. She really seems to like it. The mat does make little crunching noises when she works it over with her paws before settling into it, but the crunching is not loud, couldn't wake anybody, and is actually sort of pleasant to hear, somehow slightly comical. It's less garish than it might appear in the photo, not bad at all. After two years, the mat is none the worse for wear. I can contrast this mat with the SnuggleSafe Heat Pad. While us humans have found that it does a good job of preheating our sheets for our feet in the winter, our cat never seemed to like it at all. UPDATE: I originally put this review on another place where an Amazon seller has the identical product. I came back today to buy a second mat. Our cat, Bella, used the mat on "her" chair, but as the weather got colder she often chose to sleep on "our" bed, often right in the middle (I call her spot there "Kansas"), which we didn't much like as it was prudishly effective at preventing our spooning. We took her mat from her chair and put it on the bottom of the bed, in, say, south Texas, and, even though the rest of the bed offers the pleasures of a down comforter, she now sleeps down in south Texas, leaving the rest of the country to us.