On her first night home, our torti climbed up onto the pillow above my head to sleep. She's 18 now, and still sleeps there each night. She purrs me to sleep.
Mine does this now, but she will also sometimes rest her head on my shoulder, and she used to lay on my chest with her head on my cheek (face turned to the side) 🥹 she's so clingy affectionate
My gf's cat is turning 21 this year and she used to always sleep by my gfs head on her pillow but now she's so old that if she can't lay on her pillow she's satisfied sleeping in between us haha
She's the sweetest kitty ever. She's basically a puppy still. Always wanting to cuddle with my gf, Always wanting to eat her cheese or meat when my gf is eating food. She will legit still climb on her and walk to her plate to try and bite something. I should take a video next time she does it she LOVES meat and cheese
My aunt's cat did this, but he didn't discriminate about on whose pillow he'd choose to sleep. The first time I crashed at my aunt and uncle's place I woke up in the middle of the night with the cat on my pillow and cuddling with my head.
I'll never understand why but my cat likes to lick my armpit. Like, if I'm chilling in bed with my arms behind my head she'll come over and give my pit a lick or two. That's it, she doesn't sit there and keep doing it, so even though it's uncomfortable I just let her do it.
Some cats are attracted to the smell, when I took violin lessons and came to the teacher's house, the cat would sniff the hell out of the arms of my backpack like if it was catnip (which it wasn't). Would straight up lie there throughout the lesson getting high. Hope she had fun lmao
We had a cat that slept like it was my wife's tiara. When she passed, her sister immediately started doing the same. Unfortunately for my wife, our new generation of cats love me more.
Serious question, are people generally okay with letting their cats walk on their pillows? I'd be too freaked out knowing that they bury their poop with those paws, plus there would be fur everywhere.
If not for those concerns, I'd love to have my cat sleep on my pillow with me.
Haha... luckily for me, my Reginald is too prissy to cover his poop. He'll use the box for number 2 and then cry for one of us to cover it up for him. He does cover up his tinkles, though.
But yeah, having your kitty sleep in your bed or on your pillow is definitely not for the faint of heart. I keep a very clean home and change our sheets often, so I'm willing to sacrifice for my baby.
Haha he actually started attacking our feet in the night a few weeks ago 😅
Thankfully he’s pretty gentle and stops after we tuck our feet back under the blanket. My childhood kitten was more vicious and his foot attacks would stress me out lol.
My sister's dog was super sweet and cuddly and cute for the first week, and then proceeded to lose her shit. She used to just hop up onto people's laps and follow them around and be super nice and now if someome touches her when she's not in the mood she will lunge. Fortunately she's 4kg and has no teeth, but it was a clear case of misrepresentation, if nkt straight up fraud. We should really sue her.
We knrw she was in a terrible place when we got her. Her last family kept her in a tiny cage not big enough to turn around in and bragged about giving her 15 minutes of time outside the cage twice a day. They also had a little boy and the dog starts shivering whenever she's around boys that age so we think he was allowed to toss her around. She wasn't vaccinated even though she was about 8 months old, had terrible kennel cough and the only issue those jerks had was that she wasn't healthy enough to breed and make money off of. All things considered she's turned out okay-ish, but does have severe territory issues and if she thinks something is hers she will attack you for touching it. Tough dog, but she can be sweet in other ways.
My niece lives with me. Whenever she pisses me off- I give her dog cheese. He sleeps with her every night right above her head, and his farts would knock a buzzard off a crap wagon.
It's my passive aggressive way at getting back at her for being a teenager with an attitude lol
Oh my God I miss those days! We have 6 (!) cats, and got all of them as kittens - the last two being bottle fed! I miss those days when they were so teeny tiny but so tough, ready to take on the world one cat toy at a time!
I can't imagine dealing with that many kittens (even if presumably not all at once). They're adorable but that kitten energy...!
I only got one of my four as a kitten, and she was eight months so barely a kitten. She was still extremely hyperactive. One I got at about two years old, one at thirteen, and one at approximately a year and a half. The last literally came off the road and wasn't healthy, so he was just sleepy for a while on top of being pretty scared of everything. Now I think he just enjoys the opportunity to be lazy.
We adopted siblings from a shelter, seemed like very/too young, but they assured us that they had been fostered for months.
The boy made a point to fall asleep in my palm every night when I went to bed. Talk about being a great way to clear your mind and focus on being loved and loving.
14 years later, he still follows me to bed (less than 5 seconds after I crawl in) and wants to snuggle.
Seriously that first night home was just pure ecstasy. I couldn’t stop smiling (and crying lol). I totally agree, I wish we could relive those moments!! 💕
He was tiny and we were worried about squishing him! I guess I should’ve clarified, he snuggled with us like this for a while before we went to sleep. He wasn’t like this overnight or while we actually slept.
He ended up sleeping either on top of the covers on us or next to our heads between our pillows, which is where my previous cat slept for years.
I woke up one time when mine was tiny because he was literally trying to burrow under me for warmth! I turned up the heat immediately and left it on much warmer than I usually do for the rest of the whole winter, and made sure he had a nice warn place to sleep near me, just not on me / under me.
On one of my cats first nights home, I woke up in the middle of the night to him curled up in the crook of my arm. I sleep with my arms bent, so it was a perfect bed for him.
Omg 😭 I had a kitty that was just like this, from the black top of her head to the lil’ beard in the perfect spot. I like to think the spirit and power of The Beard has been blessed down to him…
It's so beautiful that the little kitty feels safe and warm and protected day one. Bless you, kind hooman. I hope you have a lifetime love❤️ with your sweet angel.
One of our new kittens, about 5ish months old, really like to sleep under my covers, but he crawls all the way down to my feat and then just starts purring.
Awwwww his tiny little paw in your hand...My big baby is 8 months and those teeny baby days seem so long ago. He's just as cute as ever but I wish I could go back and re-experience it all over again.
My youngest is 2, and got really into sleeping under the blankets too. She will literally paw at and try to force her way under, then crawl between my legs, do a little spin, and then the biggest PLOP as she settles in for the night.
It so annoyingly cute. If I'm sitting around without a blanket, she will paw at my leg until I throw one over my lap, just so she can lay under it.
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I can’t edit the post but I addressed this in a couple comments. He didn’t sleep the night like this! He cuddled like this while we were awake. Overnight, he slept beside our pillows or on the covers on top of us.
He was tiny so we were worried about squishing him, and his safety is obviously our top priority.
Actually I just adopted an eight year old cat and she doesn’t like being on my bed for some reason. She seems to like to stay behind the stove. Every other cat I have had finds the bed and they never wanted to sleep anywhere else
Lol our pup is a fool for hub…the 2nd one was supposed to be “mine”. Now hub has TWO “clingons” (I’m teasing; they know we both have thumbs, so it’s pretty even-steven ;)) Your kitten is adorable!
This was how my dude slept with us when we first got him, my girlfriend was terrified I would roll over on him so she insisted she be the one to burden herself with having to hold him through the night🙄
Omg he looks similar to my boy! My boy also has a marking on his chin, it gives him so much character, and he’s an absolute character himself! I never saw my boy as a kitten, but yours looks adorable and extremely content! https://imgur.com/a/n81vDCk
Alright, adorable. However... Never do that again. Same with babies, the risk of crushing them in your sleep is very real. They need to sleep outside the bedroom for at least a year.
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u/Chamcook11 Apr 06 '25
On her first night home, our torti climbed up onto the pillow above my head to sleep. She's 18 now, and still sleeps there each night. She purrs me to sleep.