Where does your cat sleep?

Em "helping" with paperwork. - Em has to be in the middle of whatever we are doing, so she likes to help with paperwork. Sometimes she will curl up on part of it and go to sleep - or at least act like she's asleep.
United States
March 24, 2007 9:33pm CST
Well, basically she sleeps just about everywhere. Cats seem to sleep an awfully lot. Our cat, Em, likes to sleep on our bed, sometimes under the covers, in the winter. But she seldom spends the whole night there. If I get up in the wee hours of the morning I find her sleeping right in the middle of the halway intersection. There is a little patch of light that comes through a window from a street lamp. I have wondered if she thinks it is sunshine and it will be warm there. She's also always on top of any papers, especially if we are trying to read or write on the papers. In this picture she is about to take her place on the stack of papers in front of her. Is she a typical cat? Where do your cats sleep?
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@Calais (10893)
• Australia
26 Mar 07
She sounds pretty typical. I have two cats one sleeps everywhere and anywhere all of the time its somewhere different, and the other, well i think she is a Bat. She sleeps under the quilt all day, I never see her during the day, it could be the hottest of hot days and she is there, but come night time, she wont leave me alone she is so affectionate and then she physcos around the house and wont let me sleep.
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• United States
26 Mar 07
Cats are notoriously night creatures. Sometimes Em wakes me up chasing her toy mouse up and down the hall. Mighty hunter that she is.
@KrisNY (7590)
• United States
25 Mar 07
We have a new cat- Gracie-- Got her from the Lollypop Farm (Humane Society type).. She is 2. I said I wanted an indoor cat and one who wants to be petted. Oh my-- Gracie is such a cuddle bug-- You cannot be in the house without her at your feet- on your lap- in the bed.. and she meows until you pet her.. I'm hoping this wears off as she has only been here 3 days! But right now she sleeps in my bed and then goes to my daughters bed-- and then back to my bed. right up by my face-- I always wake up and move her down a bit-
• United States
26 Mar 07
She probably was starved for affection before you took her. I'm happy for her!
@5000ml (1923)
• Belgium
25 Mar 07
My cat will sleep anywhere, but he particularly likes the computer chair, our sofas, on top of his cat tree (although he's getting too big for it now) and on the windowsills.
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• United States
26 Mar 07
We had new windows put in a year or so ago and they have more narrow sills than the old ones. Poor Em, jumped up on the window sill to watch for birds and couldn't sit or lie down because she was too big. She tried anyway and fell to the floor. She looked embarrassed! But when we had the new windows put in we added a bay window so she'd have a really nice place to watch for birds.
@CatNPK (461)
• United States
26 Mar 07
My cat sleeps on the bed or in our bedroom closet. He has always done that, everywhere I have lived with him. Especially when it's winter and colder, he loves sleeping between my boyfriend and myself.
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• Canada
25 Mar 07
My cat used to have the bad habit of sleep directly on top of my chest. She's not that big of a cat so it didn't really bother me until we had kids, not only did I not want her climbing on top of them (no worries, she's terrified of them!) but when the baby cried out in the night my cat tended to be startled and scratch the living crap out of me. Now, thankfully, she sleeps in the crook of my arm and has gotten use to having babies in the house.
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• United States
26 Mar 07
We have no children living with us now, so our house is usually very quiet. But when the grandkids come, Em disappears. I think she is alergic to kids!
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
25 Mar 07
Like most cats, my two sleep wherever they feel like it...on the sofa, on the pillow bed I made for them...and of course, and most often on my bed...in fact don't ask how stiff I am in the morning when I wake up since my one cat in particular just loves to sleep right smack up near me...and heaven forbid I move to disturb him--LOL
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• United States
26 Mar 07
Oh, yeah. I know that feeling. Em likes to get snuggled up in the crook of my legs behind my knees when I'm on my side or right against my shins. And there is NO moving her. If I want to straighten out my legs I have to life the covers and her with them!
@Poison_Girl (4150)
• United States
26 Mar 07
My cat seemed to have some sort of rotation pattern or something. I never figured it out, though. Maybe it wasn't so much a pattern, but just a "I feel like sleeping here for a bit, I think I shall" sort of thing. She'd sleep on my bed for a while, then she'd move on to another spot. On the couch, on someone else's bed, on the floor, under a chair, under a table, and you get the idea. I think your cat's a typical cat, though. Mine was a bit odd, but not like weird odd. Oh, that makes no sense, I know. LOL
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@agusfebi (813)
• Indonesia
26 Mar 07
I had to get up this morning at 2 AM to let my cats out. They have a perfectly good litter box, but would much rather use the great outdoors as a bathroom. I live in northern Canada. The temperature early this morning was close to twenty degrees below zero, too cold to leave my pets outside for four or five hours. I waited up. They must have done a bit of exploring because a half hour passed before they returned. Edith C. sleeps with her cat. She says she often gets muscle cramps because she hesitates to roll over or change positions during the night. It might disturb her pet, you see. This reminded me of a news articleI read recently. Dr. John Shepard, medical director of the Mayo Clinic Sleep Disorders Center had a patient tell him a story very similar to mine.
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@ailegal (49)
• India
25 Mar 07
Well my cat Junior, as his Papa was our pet also, has a liking to sleep with me. He'll move all around the neighbour hood and vivit home when he's hungry. During day time he'd eat in a hasty manner with growling sounds and leave in a hurry. I don't what he does elsewhere, but he seems always in a hurry during day time. But in night after he finishes his supper he won't move any where and just cuddle up in my bed. As I sleep alone in my bed he thinks he can give me company. Coaxing, cajoaling and scolding has no effect on him. During winter he always sleeps under my cover. In the middle of the night he would mew and wake me up to open the door for him so that he can go out to the toilet to relieve himself. I've no objection in his sleep with me. But its very disturbing to get up in the middle of the sleep and open the door for him.
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@crickethear (1417)
• United States
26 Mar 07
my cat - Just one of the places she sleeps, she thinks the whole house belongs to her.
My cat has more sleeping places then one can even imagine. She sleeps by the dish hutch, one place on the counter, on top of the dresser, on the bed, on the back of the sofa, the bathroom sink, on a specific chair. I have never had a cat, that had so many sleeping places then my little girl. She is too funny.
• Australia
25 Mar 07
My girlfriend has 1 cat, she is suppose to sleep in her bed but she sleeps with my girlfriend :-(
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• United States
26 Mar 07
My cat sleeps in my bed and it drives me nuts! In the winter, he likes to curl up on top of the vents when the heater is running. He also likes to sleep in boxes, and I have found him in my desk drawers a few times too...don't ask me how he figured out how to get in there!
• United States
25 Mar 07
My cat Hanna like to sleep on top of my head, so it's like having a heavy furry crown. I think she likes the smell of my hair, that is why she likes to stay and play with my hair.
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• United States
25 Mar 07
That's cute. maybe she likes to sleep in the middle of the hallway so that she can feel like she's protecting the house, Kind of like a watch cat? We have 2 cats and we have to shut them in the bathroom at night. They do have their own bathroom though, litterbox, food and water, a bed and toys. If we don't shut them in there then they get real loud in the house at night and I wake up thinking there's an intruder. Also, they will run across my head and bite our feet throughout the night!
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@rainbow (6761)
25 Mar 07
My cat likes to sleep under the clother airer in the kitchen, its heated so I tend to leave it on with a towel over the top for her even when it's not in use, bless her. At night she often sleeps on the dogs chair in the lounge or with the dog on her bed im my room. Sometimes she sleeps under my bed ans snores, lol. When I was singel she used to slep on my pillow wrapped round my head againt the cold, bless her but Shrek has managed over the last 7 years to stop her, miserable thing that he is, lol. She gets on the bed when he is out, she just has to be careful he doesn't catch her or he pushes her off, lol.
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@icequeen (2840)
• Canada
25 Mar 07
Yeah...what is it with cats and papers..our cat does the same thing. She sleeps in numerous places. Sometimes on our bed..sometimes on my son's. She also sleeps on our chair in the living room. My husband made her a little bed with a blanket in the bathroom and she goes in there at times too...
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@phon4u (2215)
• Laos
25 Mar 07
There are six cats in my dad's. They sleep everywhere, usually high place, lay under the sunshine in the late morning or afternoon. Some like to sleep on the bike's seat. While my dad is writing his document, they are around his feet, he doesn't want them to get near them. My dad wants little cats away from his house. The little ones make pees to his shelter.
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@nasaxo (41)
• Taiwan
25 Mar 07
My cat changes her sleeping place every once in a while.She has started sleeping in a chair next to my bed.
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@sikhan (30)
• Bangladesh
25 Mar 07
Ohh I have two cats. They sleeps with me in the right side of my hand. As like as my kid. They will not sleep if I do not go to the bed.
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@jarves (814)
• Philippines
25 Mar 07
I just let my cat sleep outside.hehehe we let her out the house, she might destroy breakable things.
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