Just curious. If we’re sharing the bed and I roll to not face her, my cat yells and marches over in front of whatever side I’m now facing and if there’s not enough room, that’s a problem for me to fix.
Just curious if this is standard cat behaviour or another adorably needy quirk of mine?
Not only facing me, but up IN my face to the point where it’s hard to breathe.
3AM:
“This is not close enough. I want to be within you, Father” - my cat every night
Our cat will put us to bed. When we turn the light off she will lay on my hip for 5-15 minutes then once she’s convinced I’m asleep (I’m not) she will hop off the bed and go do cat things (she tells us it’s catslified and we can’t know she does these cat things). She sometimes will lay on my wife for 30 seconds, maybe a minute but always lays on me. She’ll pace around too until I lay on my side so she can put me to bed.
In the winter she’ll come back and snuggle up with one of us because she likes the warmth and we keep it cooler at night. In the summer she’ll lays a bit further away near one of us (usually pinning the blanket down so I can’t get up). She is truly a creature of habit.
Haha… our older cat will actually start crying at us when it gets close to bed time because she likes to sleep on the bed with us. Once we are safely in bed, she will crawl up and meow in my face until I pet her for 10-15 minutes, at which point she is usually satisfied and will go sleep at the foot of the bed. Sometimes she will curl up on my legs for a little while, but she never stays there.
We have one that does the hip thing, another that sleeps near the feet end. The first cat I had was also a feet sleeper but would sometimes snuggle like the small spoon. If I were to move at all, it was off to the couch and staring at me.
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My siamese liked to sleep between my legs, my tortie likes taking the pillow as her property and my other cat waits for me to stay still, then she very gently lies parallel to one of my arms or legs.
My cat used to do this. She always had to be the small spoon
My cat exhibits the same behavior
Glad mine isn’t the only one!
I have one that does this, too.
It usually doesn’t last super long; I get too hot with him near my chest, and he gets antsy if I’m not perfectly still. 🤷♂️
Yeah, I have to be facing him to start, but he often ends up behind me at some point in the night.
Mine will only sleep on my hip. If I roll over and he falls off? Back on other hip.
That seems wild but adorable.
Similar, but with my feet/ankles. She wants to be close, but isn’t a big fan of petting. I’m not always great at respecting that desire, so we compromise like this.
I’ve yet to meet a cat that doesn’t love a well done headscritch.
I have two cats, one does this.
If I adjust at all he jumps off the bed, grumbles and runs to the hallway. Then he glares at me from the darkness until he’s sure I won’t move again and comes back to sit in the exact same position.
Brush your teeth, and use mouthwash!
“You’re coming in hot!”
You have a Schrödinger’s cat. It needs to be observed in order to collapse its wave function, or it can’t know what state it’s in.
You should probably get another one so they can observe each other.
This might be blasphemy in this sub, but my dog has to sleep on my pillow. Doesn’t matter if there is another of the same pillow right next to it. She has to have some part of her body on the same one I’m on. Usually, she’ll be there before I get to bed and hogging the whole pillow.
I don’t have a cat.
Cat 1. Sleeps at the end of the bed. Cat 2, 3, 4 will sleep against my butt, not usually at the same time. Cat 5 sleeps on my second second pillow. Cat six sleeps against my chest and screams at me as he crawls back in to place after I roll over.
Too many cats.
It depends how much tossing and turning I’m doing. If I can find a comfortable spot and I’m not moving around too much, he’s the little spoon. And glares at me until I tuck him in.
If I’m moving around a lot trying to get comfortable, he’ll go sleep at my feet.
