Yeah, so the other day I go to take a short nap only to discover my cat is sleeping on MY side of the bed. Instead of pushing her to the side like I should have, I opt to just sleep on the other side. -And if that weren’t bad enough; I had to go to my closet and pull out another blanket because she was sleeping on mine. :rolleyes:
So why do I feel guilty for disturbing a sleeping pet?!
I mean let’s face it, these little bastards live a charmed life. All they ever do is eat, sleep and poop! While I bust my ass all week at work!
Next time I’m faced with this predicament; That cats gotta go!
not!
Cats have an incredible gift for getting what they want. Something that dogs should learn from. Our cat for example requires a daily petting the moment we come home from work, and if we forget to pet him, he’ll remind us incessantly until we do.
When I am glued to my computer playing poker he always silently approaches my chair and extends a paw whilst letting out a half of a meow to tell me he wants to be brushed or petted.
It’s a shame, because I never say no. Who’s the master?
What I hate is the control he exerts when I’m not even awake. I have woken up many a morning to find myself squished into one corner of the bed while The King is sprawled diagonally across the middle of the mattress. He’s a 12-pound cat, for crying out loud!
When Pixel decides to nap in my lap i don’t move for anything short of an emergency. There have been times when i can barely walk by the time he’s done. A couple of times i had to get up to avoid bursting my bladder. i apologized profusely for disturbing him.
No way will I inconvenience any of our cats just to make myself more comfortable. I think it’s because if I do, I’ll come home one day to find that they have locked me and Tiggrkitty out of the house. Why would she be locked out of the house? Because they know she would let me in!
I know what you mean. I’ve got two dogs. Sometimes I wake up to find myself sleeping in an S shape - one dog pushing at my leg from the right, and the other from the left side of my upper body.
My husband doesn’t like it when I let Yogi in to sleep with us - Yogi will lie down between us with his back to me and push against Mr. SCL with all four feet. Or walk across him to get to me.
I don’t own a cat but I had this experience with one of the cats of an ex. Each time I slept at her place, I would wake up with my head resting on the mattress, while the cat was sleeping on my pillow. I just don’t know how it pulled this trick.
My mom used to have a cat that would sleep curled up in my lap, and if I was very careful I could pick her up, move out of the way and put her back down in the same spot without waking her up.
I don’t go out of my way to not disturb the cat unless she’s asleep at my feet. She likes to snooze under my computer chair, so I have to careful not to roll over her tail. Again.
I can never participate properly in these threads, but I will say I have stepped very carefully around the turtle tank when he is out on the rock and sunning himself. If I don’t he will JUMP! back inside the water, going PLOP!
But I’ve also woken Luna up when she seemed to be having a nightmare. She was sleeping on the couch. All of a sudden, she started moving her paws rapidly, and her tail fluffed up, like it does when she is awake and scared of something. I shook her gently to wake her up, because I didn’t like the thought of my baby having a nightmare. I will always wonder what she was dreaming about that made her get so scared.
My cat has me well trained. There are two desk chairs in my room, and one is more comfortable. When he’s on the comfy one, I never have the heart to shove him off. I pull up the uncomfy chair instead. Actually, if I’m in the comfy one when he arrives looking for a nap, he’ll stare at me with just the right expression… and most of the time I’ll get up.
When I go to my bedroom at night, the Pomeranian I occasionally take care of jumps up on the bed onto the pillow, right in the middle where I lay down. After I’m done washing the face and brushing the teeth, I have to move him, and I always feel guilty. As the OP points out, this guilt is ridiculous. But there it is.
I, on the other hand, DO move a sleeping cat if it’s in my way. One of our cats loves to sleep on the chair in front of the computer. Since we have provided him with a substantial number of kitty-friendly sleeping spots, and he has several other spots that he also chooses to sleep in, I will unceremoniously pick him up if I need to sit in that particular chair.
I will also move a sleeping cat if it happens to be sleeping in the wrong place. I LIKE having a cat sleeping on the bed with me. If I wake up and discover that the bed is catless, I will get up and hunt down the cat, then carry him to our bed to sleep for the rest of the night. He purrs madly whenever I do this, so I think he actually appreciates knowing that I care enough to hunt him down and move him to the bed with me.
A cat that’s asleep is also a cat that’s not saying CAN I EAT? I WANNA EAT NOW! I WANNA GO OUT! NO NO I WANNA COME INNNN! OH WHY WON’T YOU LET ME IN?!??
Given this, I am rarely inclined to wake the cat when it’s sleeping. However, if it falls asleep on its back with its legs splayed in all directions, I feel it is my duty to teach it the folly of leaving oneself open to attack.
(On a marginally-related note: Has anyone else walked into a bathroom, noticed the cat using the litterbox, muttered an embarrassed “Whoops…sorry” and walked out again?)
