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
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. 🤷♂️
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.
Mine will only sleep on my hip. If I roll over and he falls off? Back on other hip.
That seems wild but adorable.
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.
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 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 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
I like to lay on my side in bed and read, and my cat will snuggle up in front of me. Often I’ll later flip around, and we’ll have each others’ back.
I tend to flip around a lot before falling asleep, so she’ll usually go lay at my feet (preferably on my blanket), but she’s good as long as she’s close.
Don’t cats have a protective instinct as well, where they face away from one while being comfy together?
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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