How Cats Choose Who to Sleep With
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0:00 Why Sleeping Location Matters
1:12 Cats Sleep With Who They Trust
1:33 Cats Sleep in Warm Places
2:00 Comfort Levels
2:55 Avoiding Something They Don't Like
3:38 The Role of Imprinting
4:28 What if Your Cat Doesn't Sleep With You?
5:06 How to Get Your Cat to Sleep With You
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Who does YOUR cat sleep with? Is it you, or is it someone else in the home? Has it ever sparked conversation or even conflict in the home? Tell us about it! Watch Dr. Sarah Wooten, DVM, CVJ's video on signs your cat loves you: ua-cam.com/video/zb6Dx2jAgG4/v-deo.html&
Obi, the large neutered male - Naps with me, sleeps on my wife's head.
Avalon - Naps alone or on my knee, sleeps with me.
Autumn - Naps on me, sleeps in a chair alone, or on my feet when in bed.
Lily - Naps and sleeps by herself. Very friendly, not a big fan of being on people.
My cats like to put their heads inside my armpit when they sleep.
Mama’s boy sleeps with me at my feet.
When I am sitting in a chair. My cat likes to lay on the floor in between my feet. Lately during the night she has been snuggling up to me next to my side. For quite awhile during the night or in the morning in bed she would lay in between my legs. Those are some of the many ways she sleeps.
Both our kitties like sleeping in our bed with us :D
I have a quirky cat that sleeps in my arms at night. To feel her paw on my cheek and to hear her soft snores is heaven to me.
My cat tends to do that too. She will snuggle up in the crook of my arm.
Me too. Recently on travel I so missed my kitties, I had to envision my kitty wrapped up next to me in order to fall asleep 😻
I also have one of these. A friend of mine found him outside as a tiny kitten and I have had him since that day. He sleeps in my arms, on my face and constantly follows me everywhere 😂
I'm pretty sure my cats aren't sleeping with me in my bed. It's their bed and I'm sleeping with them.
Yessssss
From the times when I’ve had to try and squeeze myself in to my own bed around the cats, or when I’ve woken up in the night to find I’ve been displaced by two mostly horizontal long cats, I think my cats have the same opinion about the situation as yours 😅
Lol exactly!
The fact that there's a need to create this video shows how much validation we are asking our pets to give us.
My cats respect me I trained them not to sleep with me because of my allergies dry eyes, but they sleep on the couch with their pet infusion covers on the couch. Or their cozy cat covers on top of their carrier. Or their big dog pillows. My bed is mine alone but we have family time on their special places. I want nobody in my bed!
Our kitty sleeps with my wife, her Momma. We adopted her at about 1 year of age, so there wasn't truly a kitten stage for us. While she's friendly and playful with me, she seems to have bonded with my wife from Day 1. She follows her around, from room to room and wants her attention constantly. If her Momma is out of the house, she'll accept me as a 2nd place option and spend some time with me, but it's clear who her preferred human is :)
My cat loves to sleep ON me. Her purring is such a comfort. when I am asleep she will move to beside me. I often have nightmares and when I do she lays on my chest purring very loudly to comfort me. I wake up smile and pet her gently and go back to sleep. We saved each other. :-)
Oh what a love story💕
What a wonderful companion.
I have a 5 year old feral rescue Calico who will hang out with me on the bed until I turn the TV off, then goes and sleeps in a hoodie lined box that she likes. Considering she spent the first 5 months hiding, it's a vast improvement, but the last 3 years with her have shown me how spoiled I was with my Siamese who slept in the crook of my right arm for 22 years. Never take your cat for granted!
My three cats looooove sleeping on the bed and it’s funny how each one of them has their own designated spot. They never swap places either! Thanks to them, I sleep remarkably well each night except at around 6 am they all decide to star slap boxing. It’s super annoying sometimes lol.
My cats slapbox before settling down. I love it.
My little one meows for food early and if she doesn’t stop I put them both out of the room.
@@joandehnert1115 my girl Cowcat literally throws her body at the door and it’s frustrating haha
@@joandehnert1115when my cats were little last summer, first I mastered the art of leaning out of bed to add kibble to a bowl while barely opening my eyes (I am not a morning person!), before coming up with a routine where they have a small amount of “night biscuits” to snack on in the kitchen if they decide it’s mealtime when it’s actually still nighttime (or at least sleeptime!), which I’m thankful mostly works 😌
The few times I’ve actually thrown them out of my room while I’m trying to sleep have mostly been when they’ve had the pre-5am zoomies and have been engaged in scenes of utter madness and destruction, where they’re tearing the place up and chasing after each other, using my sleeping body as some kind of combined trampoline and wrestling ring.
It doesn’t usually bring me any peace though - they’re Maine Coons and simply can’t abide a closed door, and will then direct their energies to trying to break back in to the room (the nuttiest one has tried to dig his way under the door and also tried to *gnaw the doorframe*) and yelling at me about it 🙉 The lunatic once thoroughly chewed my pair of glasses in seeming retaliation for being banished, which has trained me to always put them away in a glasses case! (I think he thinks he’s a naughty puppy instead of a cat)
We caught the stray cat my ex-neighbour had been feeding a year ago. He turned up injured one evening and very hungry. We got his leg fixed by our vet -- luckily it wasn't a fracture but a nasty abscess, and had him neutered and microchipped. We gave him a home. After about 4 weeks he started sleeping on my bed and sleeps on it along with several of my other cats (sometimes there's barely room for me). A few weeks ago we had quite a violent thunderstorm. It was obvious our former stray didn't like it - the rest of my cats just curled up and slept through it. Storm ended late afternoon but Oscar still looked nervous. As usual, he jumped on the bed at night but when I awoke in the morning he was cuddled right into me. He'll never be a lap cat but I know he trusts me and loves me in his own way. He will also lick me and give me nose boops now. He really is lovely and has turned from a frightened, bedraggled, skinny cat into a very handsome, very shiny black cat with gorgeous green eyes. He is a champion beggar of food and always comes looking for a tidbit which he will take ever so gently, a far cry from a cat who a year ago would have bitten your fingers off.
Both of our two cats sleep with me throughout different times of the day. Manny, who I rescued from the street as a 1-2 yr old, immediately bonded with me. When I had a a short term illness (several months) and I spent a lot of time in bed, he rarely left my side. He is definitely heat seeking, but also a cuddle. He will often come tell me when it's time to go to bed and runs in ahead of me. Once settled, he likes to climb between my top sheet and quilt. At other times, he snuggles up next to me in my armpit, puts his paws on my shoulder and lays his head down. My girl, Misha, from the SPCA, was stand off-shore, for almost a year, but loved sleeping on her bed on top of the bottom of my bed. She often sleeps during the day on my bed and even my pillow if I haven't yet made the bed. She curls up next to me on the couch, follows me around and almost always scratches at the bathroom door when I'm in there. She is very nocturnal.
My cat jumps on my bed when she sees me getting ready for bedtime. She sleeps on my bed most of the time.. sometimes she'll sleep at the foot of the bed but most often shell lie beside me, at the small of my back..it's so adorable! Sometimes, i can feel her moving closer.. I appreciate her trust in me and our special bond...❤her!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and expertise with us!
Guaranteed way to get your cat to hang out in your room? Try to get some work done. Get out your laptop, paperwork, something you actually need to get done = cat Magnet! 😸
Thanks for the video, you raised a lot of interesting points. My tuxedo Caspian has a habit of laying on my face when I've slept in and missed her breakfast time (it works). She'll sleep there as long as it takes to get me up. Cats are the best 😻. Honestly, I've had cats my whole life, and I can't imagine an existence without at least one. They're unpredictable, and highly entertaining. My husband is a dog lover, but in comparison, dogs are a little boring (no shade, I do love dogs). I need a little furball of chaos in my life.
sounds familiar, heh...
Cat content has been carrying me recently. My best boy recently passed but it’s really cool to reflect on his behaviors. He really loved me a lot 😊 he liked to sleep next to me during the middle of the day while I was awake. But he had his favorite pillow on my couch and that was his dedicated spot lol
I'm sorry for your loss...will keep putting out as much as I can to help you through this time. Wishing you all the best.
Hugs 😢
Both of my cats sleep with me in my arms with my hand holding their tummy and chest. They’ll take turns more or less throughout the night and wait expectantly for me to make room for them in the bed. It’s incredibly sweet. My oldest cat prior to these two (my oldest lady at 17 yrs, miss her dearly) also would sleep with me this way. It’s nice to hope maybe they all imprint on me as their mama hahah ❤
My cat has slept with me since the second day after I got her at 13 weeks old, until 3 months ago when I got a new kitten who is obsessed with her. They're def bonded, and they sleep snuggled up together. But they only sleep in whatever room I'm in when I'm home 💜
My cats regularly sleeps with her back pressed against my back it‘s super cute 🥰
My cat doesn't sleep with me, she attempt to murder me via suffocation by floofing on my face and obstructing my mouth and nostrils. She is an attempted murderess and a menace to society. 😂
One of our cats is obsessed with my fiance and the other definitely imprinted on me. She follows me, responds to my voice, talks to me, sits next to me on the sofa, and waits for me to go to bed and comes up with me and sleeps there until my fiance comes to bed. Sometimes she'll stay there, sometimes she'll jump down. She's a little angel, so sweet and gentle. I'm lucky.
With the weather now cooling down (U.S.), during the cold months, our tabby-tortie crawls under the layers (4 layers in mid-winter of flannel sheet, fleece blanket, bedspread, topped with another fleece blanket that has glow-in-the-dark cat paws all over it for that weighted blanket feel) and the tabby-tortie very tightly velcros herself to my chest, while a brown tabby sleeps on top of me outside the blankets, either on my chest, hip, thighs, or lower legs. My wife and I are both side sleepers, usually sleeping in spooning mode, so the tabby-tortie sleeps in between her and I, but pressed tightly to my chest, and the brown tabby always sleeps on top of me and never on my wife. This is simply because I crank out far more body heat than my wife, not because both cats like me more than my wife! So during cold months, I have two cats and one wife pressed up against me for my body warmth, making me feel really guilty for rolling over to sleep on my other side.
During the warm months, neither cat sleeps with us, again likely due to me putting out lots of (too much) body heat, and they dislike me rolling from one side to my other side, which I may do once or twice during the first 15-30 minutes of sleep. They have 18 different cat beds and mats around the house, so they both sleep on their own beds during summer.
Our cat doesn't always sleep with us but when she does, she is usually in between us (it is only the 2 of us in the house). I would have added smell as a possible reason your cat doesn't sleep with you - a candle or diffuser that they don't like the smell of, especially since their noses are so sensitive. I always enjoy these videos - thank you!
My cat came onto my bed to sleep with me the very first night he came home with me 😭🥹 in fact he even fell asleep in my lap at the shelter when we first met
Our cat Chaton set up shop under my crib when I was a baby. My parents thought it was cute because it looked like he was guarding me. Pretty much every night they would look in on me and he would be in a breadbox position under my crib staring at the door. I'm the first born and was the first baby he was exposed to. When I was in elementary school I would wake up with him sleeping on my chest with his face in my face. He spread the love around though and basically took turns sleeping with everyone in my family. My parents found him as a kitten (who was apparently abandoned in our neighborhood) and he stuck around for 21 years.
my orange lady likes to sleep with me more than my partner for sure, but she’ll go back and forth between our legs sometimes. she’s started coming up to our faces and using the pillow like a lil person 🥰 it’s almost magical watching her sleep so up close, i’ll catch myself just staring…until she notices, and then i slow blink to chill her out and lull her back to sleep 😂
My two cats sleep with me. One of them loves to crawl under the covers whether I'm in bed or out of it. When I'm not in it he sleeps under the top cover and when I'm in it he curls up next to me. The other one walks over, makes dough on whatever soft part of your body he can find and then flops over and falls asleep purring.
I'm not sure I would trust anyone who doesn't love cats! There's nothing better than the sound of a cat purring.
So sweet!
@@AllAboutCatsYT he just crawled under the covers. We built them a catio, I wish I could share pictures. His brother is the braver of the two and has gone out to it a few times. Today was the first day he ventured out. We have a cat door in the window that we open for them in the daytime when it's sunny. We're so proud of him for going out there today. He startles easily and I was worried he wouldn't like it but he does. He's tired now and needs a long nap!
My girlfriend and I have two cats and they always choose to sleep with me. I've always told her it's probably because I am so warm but didn't actually know for sure 😂
What's worse is that she is (was) the cat person out of the two of us ... awkward 😅
My most recent cat was a Maine Coon/Norwegian forest cat mix and she wouldn't snuggle close to me while asleep but she did sleep nearby which was the most endearing thing ❤😊🐈.
Ms. Roger Kitty was my brother Marc's cat for seven years. When they first met she was rescued by an off duty fireman, which explains her name. When one of the waitresses came in and placed the 7-week old kitten on Marc's shoulder, she fell asleep and adopted him.
When Marc was terminal with cancer, he moved in with us. About four months before he died, he staggered showing me how to be friends with Roger. She slept v with mom a little, but then she came to me. She usually slept right by my heae, and would mreow in my ear or tap me on the face at 5:30 to wake me up. The one time I ignored her, she laid flat on my chest, tail in my face, and stayed like that for ten minutes, focusing her 13 1/2 I'm kinda straight down. Then ahe stood up, faced me, and gave me a look..."you got it?". I said You are s, and she jumper down and led me to the kitchen.
Imprinting I think is the big one here.
We have three cats. One is very much my partner's, the second is my shadow and the third is fairly ambivalent/independent. Come bedtime, hers will be waiting at the bottom of the stairs going "well come on, then...!" I typically go to bed later but once there I can go "5... 4... 3..." before I get leapt on by my little girl.
They're attracted by warmth/safety/comfort/etc etc of course, but the number one reason is genuinely that you're they're favourite. It's a bond built up from interactions during the rest of the day.
I've stayed in some hotels where stray or unknown cats have come in through the window and confidently got in bed with me.
I just figured they were the promiscuous street cats, and perhaps regard the frequent rotation of guests all the same.
Or, maybe I was special? A Sleeping Beauty scenario? 😌🐈
Our cat takes turns sleeping with my wife and I, then our 4 year old some nights of the week. He is so nice spreading his presence evenly amongst us.
Funny that this topic be addressed now; my cat has started sleeping in my bed only about a week ago, after having been adopted around age 1 and having spent the past 18 months living in my apartment. I used to think that he was showing me deference and respect for my personal territory by staying off my bed (as it's one of the places most infused with my scent, and he also didn't care for lying on the sofa or on my desk chair.) But his behavior has changed somewhat gradually. For a year or so would only sleep on top of his cat tree in the living room. He then began to spend part of his nights closer to my bed, sleeping in the opposite corner of my room, overlooking me and enjoying the breeze from an open window. I later gave him his own little setup right next to my bed (a bathtowel on a stack of boxes) which he immediately adopted and he started spending entire nights next to me there, this time overlooking me from only a few inches. The latest evolution just happened from one day to the next. What might have triggered it is his having learned to stop fearing my bedspread (which I used to frighten him away with when he was being too agressive in his asking for playtime; sadly I'm now deprived of this method of shooing him away), and he will now go to sleep snuggling with me (snuggling with my head and forearm, really!), he'll spend some cozy time hidden under the bedspread, and I'll even find him lying on my bed on his own during the day!
I love the evolution of your relationship and character arc of your cat here! 😻
I’ve had my two cats for almost 18 months now as well, after getting them when they were 14 weeks old, and their preferred sleeping places seem to go through phases, almost in a rotation.
My bedroom and bed was central to their first moments and days in my home, and I think that’s why it’s always seemed like a safe place for them to spend time on or near, and they’ll very frequently sleep there during the day as well. I live in quite a small flat, but on their first night home I kept the door to the main open living/kitchen/etc space closed off so they were just in my bedroom and the little hallway. My bed was also the biggest and comfiest space to lounge on and play with them! When they’re scared (of noises/fireworks/storms/etc) they will converge to hide under the bed, even if they’ve been safely up on their cat tree etc, and I love that my bed is their safe space 🥰 (twice now I’ve found Harvey burrowed completely under the covers near my pillow when he’s been scared, which is SO cute and hilarious 😸)
Quite often they’ll settle down for the night before me - it’s 11:30pm right now and I’m sitting on the sofa, with one cat sleeping on the cabinet next to my desk opposite me (she loves to snooze there in the afternoon when I’m working too) and the other high up on top of the cushion atop the fridge (from when I was cooking dinner earlier and he wanted to be close by observing me 🧡).
They both will often be sleeping on their cat tree next to the sofa and window (a floor-to-ceiling one with two big sleeping platforms and two hammocks), or one of them in a cosy bed on the end of my desk, or on my desk chair (almost never the sofa though, even though I’d love for them to come and sit with me here!), or the small chair next to my sofa that I also use as a footstool. They seem to take it in turns to favour sleeping on the desk-bed/desk chair/the fridge/etc, and it’s fascinating to me to wonder what drives them to seek out each bed for a bit… they seem to establish a favourite set of spots, but then their patterns will change and they’ll switch… it’s like a game of musical chairs!
If they’ve already settled in when I go to bed, they’ll probably will stay there… at least temporarily! When I wake up in the morning I’ve usually got at least one cat sleeping at the bottom of the bed, and it feels very strange if I wake up and they’re both elsewhere, and it feels like I’ve been cheated out of my morning cuddles if I have to get up and they still haven’t made their way to my bed from wherever they’ve been sleeping. For a long time Nikita’s favourite nighttime spot was on a chair right next to the head of my bed, and when I woke up she’d mrrrp at me and come and lie on my chest and purr and go back to sleep 😻 she seemed to lose the habit during the summer when it was hot, so I’m wondering if I’ve got cooler weather morning wake-ups to look forward to again 😽
Early this morning I woke up VERY hot because Harvey had stretched out from his usual spot curled up at the bottom of the bed and was now diagonal and partially draped over me… there have been times when I’ve been sandwiched between two huge diagonal cats, and while I appreciate the love I don’t appreciate being pinned down and roasted in my sleep, then struggling to reposition myself in my bed at all! 😹 My favourite thing is when Harvey comes and sleeps curled up right next to my pillow - he loves to squish his face and ears right up against things for some reason, and he likes to wedge himself in as close to my pillow as he possibly can, while often resting his paws on my arm, and it’s the cutest thing 😻
I’ve got massively carried away writing this comment and I’m going to actually go to bed now instead of just talking about sleeping 😊
NIkita and Harvey seem adorable,@@EmmaVB82. It's wonderful that you managed to adopt two kittens simultaneously. Harvey seems to share his love of spreading out his front legs with my own little critter, who also happens to enjoy using just about anything for a pillow to press his head against when taking a nap, whether it's my wallet lying around, the edge of my keyboard or a box of tissues! (And right now he's napping on his terry cloth bathrobe that sits on my desk, with one paw streched out so as to touch my forearm 🧡)
All the cats I've had the pleasure to observe for a while seem to perform this rotation of their sleeping spots. It seems like a deep instinctual thing, perhaps to reduce the likelihood of being spotted by a predator, or maybe to mark different places with their scent.
My 4 cats join me when I go to bed. They may not stay the whole night, but when I first go to bed, they're with me.... purring me to sleep in surround sound. When my daughter was a newborn, one of my cats (she's very motherly and took over being a mom to an orphaned kitten I brought home) would sleep near my baby. It was as if she saw my daughter as being a human kitten. When my daughter was a toddler and would take naps during the day, that cat would sleep under my daughter's bed. As soon as my daughter woke up during a nap and got out of her bed, that cat would immediately run to come get me, to let me know Sara is out of bed. Having that cat was better than a baby monitor.
My Whiskers was a stray cat who showed up in my yard one day and never left. He is an outdoor cat so he has his space outside but when he does come inside he comes directly to my room. He sleeps on my bed and as soon as I come in and lay down he snuggles next to me. I gave him a plush horse that he loves to do biscuits on. He gives me these ‘romantic looks” and starts pouring and I just melt into him. He also loves it when I rub his belly and I feel so honored. ❤
My cat sleeps with me. On me. We’re very bonded, but I’m not sure about full on imprinting as I adopted her when she was approximately 5 years old. I feel a little bad, we got her because my daughter wanted a pet but without a doubt she chose me as her human. She’s my best friend and I don’t know what I’d do without her.
Any cat our family ever had would always sleep with me. I think I just was the cat whisperer in the family. I got my first cat in years during Covid. She was a rescue and was terrified and I didn’t expect her to want to sleep with me, she was an adult and had been abused. But first night she crawled up near my chest and slept with me. She sleeps with me nearly every night. She might start sleeping elsewhere but usually by morning I wake up to find her in my bed. Usually cuddled up beside me. If she doesn’t sleep with me she likes to curl up in the cubbies I have in my closet with my clothes. Usually she picks my underwear cubbie. I started keeping the closet doors open cuz her fav thing is to sleep on top of my underwear while knowing she can see me as well. If I forget to open the closet for her at night she’ll cry for me to open the doors. She’s a riot.
My 7yo cat used to sleep on his own little bed, but started coming to snuggle with me when he developed a tumor on his leg. He's better now and ended up keeping the habit of sleeping with me.
My cat sleeps with me until the heater comes on :D then the floor vent gets the love. Then just before dawn, he comes back to bed and makes like he's been there all night.
We're two people and one cat in the household, and she tends to mix up where she sleeps. She always wants a nice cuddle session in bed (which starts with her laying on my spouse's chest and then occasionally moves to either the body pillow between us, or curled up on my hip), and after a bit hops down and gets food (we free feed with a puzzle feeder because that fits our situation best). Afterwards she will often sleep either on me, between us or between one of ours legs; under the bed or in her favourite hidey-hole: the top cabinets of the closets that she can climb up to.
She will also often join us (generally me) when I need a nap during the day, but whether she sleeps on the bed, under the bed or in the closet varies. But she likes to be close to us.
Our boys don't seem to have too much of a preference. I go to bed before my husband most nights. It's about a 75% chance a cat will end up sleeping between my legs. . .which cat? It could be either. That one will /usually/ stay with me for most of the night. If neither of them are in bed with me when he comes to bed the slightly older one will usually join and again, who he sleeps with depends on the night. They both will sleep with either of us. The younger one is more likely to sleep elsewhere by choice. . .where in the house tends to change every few months.
And personally? I don't really care where they sleep so long as they feel safe and happy. If that means someone sleeps in a comfy chair overnight so be it. The sweetest moment with our younger lad are when he asks for sleepy cuddles and just, passes out next to me. I'm just happy they both feel safe and know they can come and go as they please. Are they more bonded to me? Maybe a little, but when I go to bed and no one joins me they're usually with my husband, and it doesn't really matter.
I have so many attributes going against me. I’m skinny, have sleep apnea, and am generally an uneasy sleeper. I’m glad my cat loves me so much and often sleeps with me even if I’m not the ideal human. I didn’t even have him as a kitten. He is just a total baby.
I live alone. So all of the cats I have ever had have slept with me. Some have been super clingy and have not let me sleep and just want affection. They have all been female. The one male cat that I had, liked to sleep in the crook of my legs when I sleep on my side.
Edit: 10 cats! We have 10 cats & a dog now.
We have 9 cats & 1 dog. 5 of our 9 cats sleep in my bed. 4 are usually on & next to me. I’m surrounded by cats lol😂 It’s so hard to get up at night to pee, so I just lay there & hold it because I don’t want to interrupt my babies. Nugget, Freddy, Stachi & Sici have imprinted on me. Ziggy imprinted on both my husband & I. Bean, Muni & Flea imprinted on my daughter & Frankenstein imprinted on my father. ❤ Sending positive vibes to all of y’all who genuinely love your fur-babies & who take care of them the way they deserve to be.
I think my cat is the only cat that prefers cooler spots and harder surfaces. I've bought her things she can snuggle into especially now it is getting colder. I have created area's for her and put out boxes and soft blankets. But nope. She does snuggle up in bed next to me. But I pull the duvet back for her as I think She prefers it. I have a strange kitten. But I love her and her quirks. And she follows me eeeeeverywhere.
Mr. Sanders has just started sleeping with me - he was adopted a year ago. Along with sleeping, he now will sit on my lap, lay next to me and watch movies on the couch. It's taken him longer to get used to his new home, but I'm glad that he decided that next to me is a good sleeping spot. When I do have a restless night though, he is out of there
My cat loved bedtime! Whenever I started my routine of getting ready for bed she would run to the bedroom and as soon as I was lying down she would climb onto my chest. We would be like that for about an hour while I read, then when it was lights out time she would move to the mattress beside my pillow. She was lovely to share my bed with.
When I was still sleeping at my parents house while renovating mine, we had 5 cats in total (their three, mine, and one my brother had just rescued from a cold winter night) and I would often wake up will all 5 of them in my bed.
My girl Chili sleeps on my bed with me, in fact if its getting late and I havent started to wind down, she'll stand on her "spot" and meow til I come lay with an arm around her.
All four of my boys sleep on my side of the bed. They'll cuddle with my husband on occasion or lay down near his feet (I stim by rubbing my feet together), but they always sleep against me. Three of them I adopted at 3-6 months. The eldest is a retired barn cat that I adopted around a year old. He's the one that warms my heart the most since he was terrified of people when he was given to his foster. He hid from her for 6 weeks. Now, he's 15 pounds of brickhouse lap cat who's just recently picked up meowing to get attention. He was completely silent for the first several months with us, excepting the occasional hiss at his younger brothers during the introductions. Now, he chirps, trills, meows, and purrs all while crushing my soul back into my chest each night. 😊
My bed is the most favorite spot of my fluffy tortie, she naps there on and off all day, especially if I put her favorite blanket up there. At night, I put her blanket on the floor next to my bed, because many nights I have a lot of trouble getting to sleep so I move/roll/tug the comforter constantly and I know it drives her crazy. I give it 10-15 mins tops before she's had enough and goes to her blanket on the floor. But if I'm particularly tired and can get to sleep easily, she will stay all or most of the night, only occasionally nearly rolling me off the bed as I move away from her blistering body heat in my sleep. 😅
My cat always sleeps with my mom, since she just sits on the couch all the time with her phone. Meanwhile I move around too much and makes a lot of noises.😂
My little Leo often sleeps with me. His usual preference is to lay near the foot of the bed where he can watch the door. My other cat, tiny Tamryn, usually sleeps by herself. I don't think it is any kind of hostility between the two cats because, during the day, they will usually sleep close to each other. For example, Leo curls up on the sofa in the living room while Tamryn curls up under the coffee table.
I have two big ragdoll’s and they will sleep with me. They’re very good they don’t wake me up but if I happen to wake up in the night one or both of them will be right next to me. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thanks for the video. I have 3 cats.They all do sleep with me. They stay with me most of the night. They follow me everytime I go in my room. I have 2 cat beds on my bed and 2 small cat trees and toys in the bedroom.
i have 2 rescue kitties, got them about 2yrs ago now, they are brother & sister, their owners had died, the male kitty & I bonded almost immediatly as I am also a male, he has to sleep with a paw touching me either my head or my shoulder, the femail took some time to warm up to me and she sleeps for the most part by my feet
I had a male cat who used to protect our home from all the other cats and wont allow them into our yard and neighbours too... and he used to sleep only with me in family, I never even groomed him, he just loved to sleep with me. when I got girlfriend and slept at her house he found out where I go and went there only to sleep with me. Made me feel very special to him, and he was badass cat too
My cat was always an "independent, sleep wherever" kinda cat, but when my ex started staying over he would always be sleeping with me, right near my face. When we were done, he went back to sleeping wherever.
Reason for ex, but I knew he was on to something
my cats both sleep in the bed with me. Kuro is definitely bonded with me and always sleeps between my legs and he also always chose me over my ex when we were still living together. Tora is a pretty nervous cat but he still likes to sleep in the bed but in the empty half of it. Lately he has been trying to sleep cuddled up to my chest or my head but he only stays like that for a couple of minutes before he decides to go back to "his" half of the bed. I have my cats for 6 years now and Tora is still making progress in how trusting he is so maybe he will someday start sleeping cuddled up to me
All three of our cats take turns sleeping at my feet or in the nook of my knee when it is bent, lol. It isnt consistant, and they all do it, sometimes I am lucky and get two at one time, but havent noticed all three together at night. I sleep more still while my husband moves more at night.
Recently, I and my cat Gogo moved. In the old apartment, she was my bed buddy, always wanted to sleep with me under the covers. In the new apartment, she has chosen to sleep in the living room most times. Perhaps its due to the new apartment being a studio versus a traditional one bedroom apartment. Kinda makes me sad.
I have two cats so they only have me or can go sleep in the other room . They both sleep on my bed with me, one on the pillow next to me and the other one at the end of the bed 💗
We have two neutered boys co-owned by two women in the same household. Loved hearing about how/why they will/won't sleep with us. Each of the humans sleep separately yet both of the boys will individually sleep with us. I tend to run warm, do have extra love handles and sleep perfectly still, so it makes sense. My roommate is extra doting on each so it makes sense too. Just love hearing about their having trust and the imprinting factor! Thank you.
Baxter sleeps in my lap, at my desk. deep, "hunting mice", twitches and jerk sleep. aaaand guess who just leaped into my lap....
Mine sleep with me in turns. I have 3 precious rescues, and they don't like sleeping with me all st once 😮
My cat will often sleep with me. I usually go to bed way earlier than my boyfriend, so she will sleep in his spot on the bed. When he is sleeping on his side of the bed, she will mush herself between us and against me.
My cat sleeps in my bed with me every night, but doesn't necessarily cuddle up to me. I'll kinda try to get him to cuddle up closer to me, but he just nonchalantly walks a few more inches away, and lays back down.
Lately when I wake up he'll be right by the pillows on the other side of the bed, very close to my head, so who knows really what's going on. lol
He can be very cuddly during the day though, and never seems to chose to sleep anywhere else when I'm sleeping, so I'm sure it's not a case of him not liking, or feeling unsafe around me.
Feline sleep strategy decoded! 😺💤
Our cat runs to the couch in the evening when I turn on the TV. He waits patiently for me to pull the blanket on then he plops down on my chest with his head lying on the right side of my face. He is extremely affectionate with both me and my partner but is 100% relaxed sleeping on me. He loves when I stroke his belly and flops himself belly up, legs stretched waiting for his belly pets. He shows affection to both of us but I'm his bunk partner lol.
My sweet girl sleeps with me every night, usually right between my legs or on a pillow next to me and I love it so much. I'm so happy to know she trusts me. If I'm not home for the night she'll sleep with my mom. My mom always says when I'm home she's chopped liver; but if that was the case I think my kitty would be all over her every night cus she loveeess her food 😂 (she wakes me up every moring at 5am to eat and is relentless lol) but I wouldnt trade it for the world. Cats are amazing creatures ❤
I recently found and brought home a five maybe six week old kitten that seems to have been abandoned by her mother. After being cleared to associat with my other cats by my vet she's now free to roam the house, and last night crawled up in bed and slept with me for the first time. So it was a good time to watch this video.
I got very lucky she's a total sweetie pie. We adore each other. And my other two cats like her very much.
6:10 I don't know what the girl is looking at on her computer but the cat next to her is absolutely engrossed by it.
I adopted two brothers a few weeks ago. One of the boys started sleeping in my bed at night right away, while the other one likes to do his own thing at night.
My baby Castro sleeps with me, I bought him a cat bed when he was a tiny kitten when I first brought him home but he didn’t like it and he chose to sleep on my bed next to my pillow not on my pillow but he made his little sleeping space next to my pillow and he still sleeps there now. Sometimes he’ll go on my chest and purr before bed but then when he’s ready for bed he goes to his little space on our bed, makes muffins and falls asleep, it’s so cute! I returned the cat bed cuz he didn’t want it lol 😂
My cat tells me when it is time for bed, when it is time to get up , when it is time to go out, when the tap is not running, when it is time to eat, when he has defecated, when to get off the computer, when he will vomit a hair ball.
Great vid! Love my kitties!
Thanks for being here, Robert-and congratulations on being the first to comment!
I have two cats that will sleep with me but they will generally not sleep in the bed at same time. The arrangement they made is that if the lights are on, one will get in the bed. If the lights are off they switch. Very odd, but consistent.
We got a family cat after my cat passed away. The family assumed she would sleep with me since I stay up later. We have had her for about 3 weeks and she refuses to sleep on my bed. Everyone else in the house closes their door at night. I am the only one who keeps my door open. She does sleep under my bed. I do hope that at some point she sleeps with me on the bed. I will admit I sleep hot so I keep the fan on high and turn the air down low at night.
My black-gray male called Angel likes to sleep next to me on my desk chair, not in the bed though, I move a lot in my sleep.
Well it’s just me and my cat in my house, and we are bonded, so she sleeps with me! But she does spend a lot of time through the night sitting in the bedroom window.
i bottle feed my orange menace. taught him to use litter box and eat solid food. he aleeps with me and my 110 pound rottie. I sleep on a full bed which is now overcrowded, but I deal with it because I love my babies. thankfully my other cat doesn't want to sleep with me. thanks for the video.
I go to sleep with not a cat in sight but always wake up to kitty cuddle puddle. All three cats sleeping on or around me. Strange because no cats would sleep with me when me and the ex- were together. Now that I don't sleep with another human, I get all the cats.
I adopted my cat at ‘approximately 2yrs old’. She sleeps against my legs during colder months and when I’m on the couch she always lays on my lap.
I just lost my 17 year old, Pumpkin, last week. I'm still a wreck, of course. But altho I have 6 other cats (thru rescue), Pumpkin was the only one who slept with me even though everyone gets/got along fine. The night of the day Pumpkin passed, my 3 year old, Cricket (had for 1+ yr), claimed my room (and me) as if she had been waiting for her turn. She snuggled whereas that wasn't something she had done with me much before (too long unsocialized - I had assumed). She's not territorial, it so now it almost seems as if she didn't sleep on the bed out of respect for her elder. It's strange. I wish I could know her thoughts. Nevertheless, she's been a great comfort and we are forming a new bond that had been lacking. My dream is to get all 6 my cats in the bed - LOL - but 2 are semi-feral (TNR minus the R). Maybe some day though. 😻
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My cat loves to sleep on my stomach. She only will only sleep on top of me if I'm on my back, if I'm on my side or stomach she'll go sleep somewhere else. She seems to like to feel my breathing. She rarely sleeps all the way through the night. She'll sleep from like 10pm-2am and around 2am she gets up to get her cat zoomies out then fall asleep on her favorite cat bed upstairs. Although, sometimes I have to push her off early because she's a bit too warm.
My Calico used to sleep with me but with birth of my daughter and three new cats she stopped. She will often now sleep with my daughter since our panthers sleep in bed with my husband and I. Our Balinese mix will sometimes sleep with my daughter or with my husband and I but he mostly sleeps in the top of a cat tree in the master bedroom
My cat sleeps on his blanket..Interesting facts. Thanks, Mallory. 🐈
It's just my cat and I, but he doesn't sleep with me every night. However, he will (9/10 times) if I ask him to.
it hurts the most when he gets up and walks away the middle of the night to sleep in his own bed
One of my boys kneads my tummy as soon as I lay down while the other curls up against my leg. I wake up in a sandwich each morning 😂
Our cats tend to prefer sleeping with me, even though my husband has a hotter body temp than I do- because he fidgets a LOT when he sleeps! :-D :-)
My 5 month old rescue kitten will sleep with me during the day for cat naps He seems imprinted on me as he follows me literally everywhere., does biscuits, and is affectionate. I would love to have him sleep with me at night, but that is when he gets into zoomies. This is after I have had a final long play session and fed him. I keep trying but inevitably have to lock him in his room and adjacent bath room with his litter box because once on the bed he proceeds to play bite my ankles and hands. He is most hyper at night. This is even after I have sprayed the bed and me with calming spray. I persist, but would like suggestions. He will hopefully outgrow this night behavior.
yeah, they tend to outgrow that, but you may have to wait a year or more. 😮 cheers!
can we make a video called, why my cats don't sleep with me, and how to I get them to become cuddle monsters :P you're the best!
Okay, when I was a teenager, Mom brought home a young white male cat. It was a complete surprise, I love cats, but until that time my brother and I never believed that we would have a cat.
I made friends with the cat--never really came up with a name for him that night--and when it was time for us to go to bed, I figured he could sleep in the box he came home in--it was already lined with sheets for bedding--until we figured out something better (don't worry: we'd already figured out places for him to eat and use his catbox!)
I curled up in bed, and not five minutes later, the cat had jumped into bed with me. He wasn't quite a kitten anymore, but I was worried I'd roll over on him, and maybe hurt him, so I returned him to the box.
Not two minutes later, the cat was in bed with me again. I put him in the box again and laid down. The cat was back in my bed, even quicker than the last time.
Okay, then. I decided to return him to the box, and this time, folded the lid up over top of him so there was a large enough gap for air, but small enough that I figured he'd stay in the box. I laid down again.
Then, I watched as that determined cat forced his way through the gap, first, his head, and the he wiggled his body through the gap like a contortionist, and promptly jumped back in bed with me!
I said, "What the Hell, if you're going to work that hard, I guess you're staying up here!". And then we went to sleep.
Postscript: months later, when he was fully grown, I woke up in the middle of the night, and realized I _had_ rolled over the cat. I freaked out, imagining all kinds of horrors. I just found the cat sprawled out, asleep, purring intensely.
"Goofy Cat," I said, and went back to sleep.
Huh. Ours sleeps everywhere in the house and also with each of us at different times. Also, i cant imagine the sleep isnt deep. It sure looks deep lol
Cats looove those synthetic, fuzzy throw blankets. One could try one of those at bedtime if trying to reel a kitty in : ) Or up!
She is welcome to sleep with me and i love it, but if she is in 6:53 a playing mood, I move her to a different room to sleep. It's called our cat room or play room. There's toys there, and a furry cat bed. She often sleeps at the top of the cat tree. Sleeping with her 13 year old fat cat friend is something she loves too. So she has options. I value my sleep, but when I got my kitten she was #1 priority for nighttime comfort. She's still my #1, but for 8 hours you're on your own Miss Ruby, the Devon Rex!
Aha! Take that wife! I am the cats dream boat. Lol
I flip over at least half a dozen times a night. Everytime my cat Jupiter jumps over to the other side. She always wants me facing her when we sleep. lol.
I have a 8~9 month old little guy that I adopted in June from a foster parent. He definitely trusts me most of the other creatures in the house. He's also crazy. A real evil knievel type. (Jet-black, if that matters.) Mostly, he has chosen to sleep in places that are just comfortable to himself, not with anyone. I also had kept my bedroom door closed to him a lot because he gets the midnight crazies sometimes. But recently, I've kept my door open and he seems to have decided its okay to sleep with me by my legs, or in my computer chair. (He previously thought the things under the covers were bogies, to be played with.) He's kind of like a little teenager who wants to play all the time and not cuddle a lot, so I'm glad he decided to settle down with me at night sometimes.
two of my cats sleep with me all the time. The third does most of the time. I have trained them to go to my room at night
All 3 of my cats will sleep with me. All of what you have said is rock on with my 3, 2 females and a male.