My cat will sleep anywhere.
By kris182_2000
@kris182_2000 (5444)
Canada
November 9, 2010 7:22pm CST
My cat is sitting beside me right now on the couch, but he's not sitting right on the couch, he's perched precariously on top of 3 pillows that could topple at any time.
Recently he's taken to sitting half on and half off the rolling coffee table we have in the living room, it certainly doesn't look comfortable, but I guess it is.
I found him one day, sleeping in a box that we had, we'd bought a clock at the store and had it on the bed as we put the clock up. It was about an inch high, and less than a foot square. But there he was, curled up in the box that he barely fit into.
One night, he decided to sit in a display box, really didn't look comfortable, but there he was, all cozy in that box.
He can sleep on a pile of clothes and be happy, lie on a bunch of cords and sleep like a log.
I don't understand him, but that's the way my cat is. I guess comfort is not his style.
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@ElicBxn (63568)
• United States
10 Nov 10
I kid you not, cats can make the MOST uncomfortable looking spot look like its a high price bed!
My mother had a cat who preferred to sleep either on top of her shoes or on a pile of cords and it was even BETTER if the shoes were on top of the cords - best of both worlds.
We have one who is sick and is isolated from the rest who has taken to happily snoozing on the back of an office chair (one the roommate uses to work from home.) She's not isolated because she's contagious, but because she needs to eat wet food and is so feral that catching her to feed her separately is too hard, so we let the tame ones that are also getting wet food in and out while we keep her locked in the room.
I have been known to have a dozen or more cats in bed with me when it is cold, and we are talking a TWIN bed, with ME on the bottom, so they are finding space around or on top of me.
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@mhypie03 (683)
• Philippines
10 Nov 10
Yes, they sleep anywhere. My oldest cat sleeps inside our washing machine (of course water's drained), while two of them sneaks on one room to go on top of a cabinet to take a rest. But most of the time, they simply sleep on rags and/or monoblock chairs.
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@GardenGerty (160466)
• United States
10 Nov 10
Oh, I can just picture this. I have one that will sleep with his head hanging off the sofa or the arm of the chair. He drapes himself over the rung of the tray table that I put my lap top on when I am downstairs. He enjoys sitting in a glider rocker, with me rocking or on a swing with me swinging. It really surprises me.
@kneeshka123 (392)
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10 Nov 10
Reading your discussion made me remember a little tomcat I once had. His name was bomber because he was always on the go. He used to come and lie on my tummy and suck my clothes, he would stay this way for more than half hour.
One day I was on the loo having a pee and I couldn't believe it when he jumped up onto the side to the bath to allow him to jump into the bath where he did a pee himself right over the plug hole. I was so shocked at how intelligent he was. He had never been a dirty cat. From a kitten he always did his mess in the cat litter tray until he was old enough to go outside.
Bomber loved the outside and sometimes went off for more than a day but that was his downfall when he never came home one day and he had been run over. It broke my heart it did, and I have never had a cat since.
@katiesueg (257)
• Italy
10 Nov 10
This must be a common characteristic of many cats. I have found my cat asleep in a basket that hold firewood kept in a built in cabinet under our kitchen fireplace, He also likes to sit on my radio/cd player, or I have even found him lying sprawled across the base of a stand up elctric fan. If we were to force them to sleep in these places, we would be considered cruel owners
