Why do cats like cardboard boxes?

[Tobi]

(08-11-2018, 03:49 PM)Catherine Wrote: Maybe the trick is to put the soft bed in a difficult spot and tell the cat not to go there. 

That sounds like the sensible answer!
Another trick is to be very interested and busy with the soft bed you want the cat to go in, while ignoring the cat of course. Especially if you put a newspaper over it and pretend to read the paper.