Sleeping In Our Bed...

[Auntie Crazy]

All six of my cats sleep on the bed (although not usually all at once). Most of the time I like it, but Spencer and Ralph take turns sleeping on my pillow and that can sometime be a problem.

For one, Spencer never ever simply gets up and moves away. No, indeed. He LEAPS UP like SATAN HIMSELF just stabbed him in the butt with a red-hot poker and STREAKS off the bed and out the door.

You can imagine what that does to my heart rate.

Ralph, on the other hand, slowly creeps forward until he's literally nose to nose with me, wraps his soft, warm paws around my neck..., and then proceeds to lick the top layer or two of skin off my nose.

I can't bring myself to lock them out of the bedroom, but I'll be the first to admit I'd probably sleep better if they weren't keeping me company.

AC

[manekineko42]

My cat's hip surgery makes it impossible for him to jump up onto the bed with us, but when we lift him up to join us he's totally disinterested. His favorite place to sleep, believe it or not, is his cat carrier, which we leave next to the bed. When he goes in there, he sleeps very soundly until someone stirs too much in the bed.

I'm glad he's really happy with the cat carrier because it's really easy to get him in there for vet visits but sometimes I wish he wanted to sleep on the bed! Oh well.

[Kelly0900]

Originally Posted by Ducman69

Does a goldfish mind its fishbowl? Probably not.

Cats are not human and don't think like humans. Many cats live very happily in small rooms, and its even recommended when bringing a cat to a new home. My coworker's cat lived in his master bathroom for about a month before he felt like expanding his territory.

I'm having issues with mine as well, as they like to nuzzle in between my legs or right up against my chest or back, which renders me immobile, heh.

I've kept them locked out without much fuss. If the kitty is meowing at the door, just purchase a SCATTT (think thats the spelling) motion sensor air spray. It merely startles them, but cats hate to be startled and to them its a magical keep-away force that isn't associated with you and they'll avoid the area and not attempt to bug you.

I do the same, I lock mine out and they cope just fine, normally without clawing the door and such however it has happened, and normally lasts quite a while. This only happens with one of our cats, but this is normally when she's in a hyperactive mood.

[MEOWx4]

I love having my kitties sleep with us, I actually have a hard time falling asleep if at least one of them isn't in he's with us. Every night Scruff sleeps above my pillow, i actually scoot further down in my bed to give him room.

[faithless]

I wake up every morning bent like an S or something from trying to lie around her in my sleep. Its amazing how every night I start off in the middle of the bed with her on the side and wake up with her lying smack bang in the middle of the bed and me pressed against the wall.

[Ducman69]

Originally Posted by faithless

I wake up every morning bent like an S or something from trying to lie around her in my sleep. Its amazing how every night I start off in the middle of the bed with her on the side and wake up with her lying smack bang in the middle of the bed and me pressed against the wall.

Better than me.

Even though they are learning to sleep in their own bed, occasionally I wake up to a "yelp" now and then from a squished kitty in the middle of the night. Luckily my memory foam mattress has a crazy soft topper.

Me 200lbs.
You 6lbs.

I win, you move.

[GoldenLion]

Originally Posted by marie73

My cats start out sleeping with me, but some mornings, like today, they get booted out in the wee hours if they get too restless.

Mine are much the same Marie. They do sleep with us but if they get annoying they are kicked out! (into the hall and their own rooms).

Murphy has developed a habit of attacking my feet at around 6am every day. He wants to get up and get fed, but I am still tired. I just pick him up and shut him out of the room. It is getting less and less every night now.

They learn by repetition. Just stick to your guns and the cat will get there in the end.

[Alpaca]

Miu doesn't sleep with me at all. She prefers to go play in other parts of the house or sleep on top of the dresser where I laid out a blanket bed for her.

There's only a couple of times where she'll opt to sit around with me for a while on the bed, but she's never slept there. Lately, she's taken to hunting my feet through the blankets and she's 'caught' my foot a time or two. That resulted me locking her out of the room for the morning because she bit down hard enough to hurt quite a bit.