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?
My 20-year-old baby girl insisted I face her as well. She would paw at the back of my head until I rolled over or moved her in front of me. She only started doing that over the past two years or so, but for about five years she would paw at me to lift the covers so she could snuggle under them or to hold her in my arms.
I had to put her to sleep just over two weeks ago on October 5. I miss her waking me up all the time for snuggles. I would trade every night of solid sleep in the world to have her with me still.
She sounds adorable, sorry you had to lose her, I hope you’re getting through it as best you can. My elderly cutie pie is deteriorating and loudly demands affection sporadically but I know I’d rather have her howling at me at whatever o’clock than not.
Thank you. I’m sorry you’re also caring for an aging pet. It’s hard but they are so, so worth it! Love her and her howls. Try to get pictures and videos of her! And give her an extra head kiss or scritch or whatever she likes best from me, please!
I gave her extra head skritches, kisses and a treat for you! I think she approved.
Big hugs, sounds like she was sweet
Thank you <3
She was the best! My soul pet. I had her for over half my life since she was 4 months old. We had a great life together and I’m so grateful for that, even though losing her leaves a gaping hole in my heart.
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
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.
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. 🤷♂️
Mine will only sleep on my hip. If I roll over and he falls off? Back on other hip.
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.
That seems wild but adorable.
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.
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.
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.
My girl sleeps in my face. Like she’s a pillow that I have to touch. it doesn’t bother me too much because I sleep belly up (yes like a dead person) but when I turn to be on my side, if I’m not facing her, she will stand and go over my head to the other side util she lays down on my face. Not.very gpod.for alergies but I think she is so sweet that I just let her
I also have a queen size and another cat and a dog and all of them sleep with me (not forced but they want so I let)
I upgraded from a twin to queen but now thr cat feels more comfortable in the bed if it’s just us. But I’ve been trained by twin bed relationships to sleep on one side so it’s been an unlearning process. And sometimes when I’m on the side and she’s in the middle I have less space than I did with the twin!
i know… I don’t push my cat either, just sleep in less space lol
My cat used to do this. She always had to be the small spoon
Yeah, I have to be facing him to start, but he often ends up behind me at some point in the night.
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