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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / January 2007Kitty under the blankets
On cold nights, Cinders will often spend at least part of the night curled up under the blankets. Sometimes she will be under all of them, and other times she will get under just the topmost blanket. This isn't a case of hunting bedmice, but rather seeking out warmth. She is the first cat that I have had who did this, although I have had others that liked to sleep on top of the blankets. Does anyone else have a cat who likes to sleep under the covers in the wintertime?  SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria Not now, but Tawny (RB) did. He would wake me up during the night by turning his head back and forth to tickle my nose with his whiskers so I'd lift the covers and he could crawl under. SignatureJoy "If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk? -- Jay Brand, cognitive psychologist > On cold nights, Cinders will often spend at least part of the night > curled up under the blankets. Sometimes she will be under all of [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > others that liked to sleep on top of the blankets. Does anyone else > have a cat who likes to sleep under the covers in the wintertime? > On cold nights, Cinders will often spend at least part of the night > curled up under the blankets. Sometimes she will be under all of [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better > than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria Yup, I got a pair of burrowers. =o) In the recent cold snap, Francesca has taken to asking to get UNDER the covers next to me in bed. Nina does it all the time, although Francesca usually just takes a brief bask to get warm and then creeps back out. Nina has sometimes spent the whole night down by my feet under the covers. Nina will also burrow under the quilt and make a little hill in the center of the bed to have a nice warm nap nest even after I'm up and about in the morning. Or when there's somebody at the door she wants to avoid, or when I'm running the vacuum cleaner. It's pretty funny. =o) Pan (RB) also used to get under the covers and lie on top of me in his later yeears. I'd stroke him and he'd lie on top of me and purr his head off. Sometimes, I'm convinced that cat thought he was my husband. Melissa >> On cold nights, Cinders will often spend at least part of the night >> curled up under the blankets. Sometimes she will be under all of [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > >Melissa Stinky IS my husband. :P Or my baby. Or a 13-pound benign furry growth. :P Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh Make Levees, Not War > On cold nights, Cinders will often spend at least part of the night > curled up under the blankets. Sometimes she will be under all of [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > others that liked to sleep on top of the blankets. Does anyone else > have a cat who likes to sleep under the covers in the wintertime? Oh, boy, do we ever! And it doesn't even have to be cold. Smokey is our resident bed-lump. At least once every day he gets under the top cover and proceeds to nap. He really should be flatter, he's been sat upon so many times. DW and I sit on the edge of the bed to put our shoes on. Often we'll hear a muffled "meo-w-w-w-w" and feel him moving underneath. Oddly enough, when we get up to check on him, he usually doesn't move - just stays there and goes back to his rudely-interrupted snooze. SignatureSam, closely supervised by Mistletoe >> On cold nights, Cinders will often spend at least part of the night >> curled up under the blankets. Sometimes she will be under all of [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > doesn't move - just stays there and goes back to his rudely-interrupted > snooze. Oh, you made me laugh Sam!!! We have a fold up mattress that we store in the room, one of those light foam ones, and the cats love climbing it and playing with it. Yesterday I came in to find it toppled over, and pitiful little mews coming our from underneath....it had fallen on the bitties, and two of them were lying underneath, flat as little pancakes! > On cold nights, Cinders will often spend at least part of the night > curled up under the blankets. Sometimes she will be under all of [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > others that liked to sleep on top of the blankets. Does anyone else > have a cat who likes to sleep under the covers in the wintertime? One of my neighbors has a cat whom I've never seen: he's always under the bed clothes when I'm there. (It's a studio apartment...) All I've ever seen of him is a lump. SignatureJoey DoWop Dee Remember: It is To Laugh. > One of my neighbors has a cat whom I've never seen: he's always under > the bed clothes when I'm there. (It's a studio apartment...) All I've > ever seen of him is a lump. LOL. That's Miranda. Any time anyone comes to visit, Miranda becomes an under-cover cat. Sometimes, if she knows the person, she will come out after a while, but if it's a complete stranger, she will most likely stay there until they have left. SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki > On cold nights, Cinders will often spend at least part of the night > curled up under the blankets. Sometimes she will be under all of [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > others that liked to sleep on top of the blankets. Does anyone else > have a cat who likes to sleep under the covers in the wintertime? We used to. But then again at the time we lived in Alaska, and ice formed on the inside of the bedroom walls from the moisture in our breath. Jo > On cold nights, Cinders will often spend at least part of the night > curled up under the blankets. Sometimes she will be under all of [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > others that liked to sleep on top of the blankets. Does anyone else > have a cat who likes to sleep under the covers in the wintertime? Both Mir and Cal like to snuggle under the blankets with me. Sometimes they are both there, snuggled up to each other and me. It can get a bit hot. ;) SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki > Both Mir and Cal like to snuggle under the blankets with me. Sometimes > they are both there, snuggled up to each other and me. It can get a bit > hot. ;) But it sounds very sweet! Smudge sometimes sleeps under the covers, and so does Roxy, but they don't do it very often. Joyce Heh, Mayhem is the burrower, but it's not always to get warm. Normally it's in the morning when she tries to get attention by rubbing, licking or nipping my hand. Usually I'll ignore her until she starts nipping then i'll move my hand under the covers. Then Mayhem will crawl on my chest and stick her whiskers in my face. Then it occured to her, the HANDS are uncer the covers. Aha! So she started burrowing UNDER the covers until she would find my hand, then proceed to rub, lick and nip until i started petting her. persistent little bugger Kristi Mango used to....he's too stinky to now of course. But when he 'retires from active duties' in a few years DH is going to have to share me again :) He puts his head on the pillow too.....and has to cuddle as well!! > On cold nights, Cinders will often spend at least part of the night > curled up under the blankets. Sometimes she will be under all of [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > others that liked to sleep on top of the blankets. Does anyone else > have a cat who likes to sleep under the covers in the wintertime? > On cold nights, Cinders will often spend at least part of the night > curled up under the blankets. Sometimes she will be under all of [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > others that liked to sleep on top of the blankets. Does anyone else > have a cat who likes to sleep under the covers in the wintertime? Snoopy sometimes gets under the covers to get warm, she rarley stays very long about half an hour at most. SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk > Does anyone else >have a cat who likes to sleep under the covers in the wintertime? My Cinder(RB) used to sleep under the covers with me. She wasn't a burrower as others have mentioned. She demanded that the covers be lifted for her to gain entrance. A well-trained slave would then not let the covers touch her ears either, or she would take forever to settle. Amazing what lengths we went to arranging a space for her between bodies or between a body and an extra pillow. Currently, Indie spends a lot of time under the covers. She's a burrower. I made a kitty pi for her. She spends as much time under it as she does in it. She loves bed forts. No need for a human to be in the same bed. She has her own queen size bed in the spare bedroom. None of the other three tolerate being covered. Lorraine Pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/raineontheplain Last updated Jan/2/2007 > On cold nights, Cinders will often spend at least part of the night > curled up under the blankets. Sometimes she will be under all of [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > others that liked to sleep on top of the blankets. Does anyone else > have a cat who likes to sleep under the covers in the wintertime? Chloe used to burrow, but my husband is such a restless sleeper that we don't get the luxury of a furry body on or in the bed with us. Tyrone usually sleeps under the bed, Pua sleeps in the dirty clothes basket and Chloe is in the living room on "her" chair. kili -- http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/kilikini >On cold nights, Cinders will often spend at least part of the night >curled up under the blankets. Sometimes she will be under all of [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >others that liked to sleep on top of the blankets. Does anyone else >have a cat who likes to sleep under the covers in the wintertime? Dante is an Undercover Lump. He'll stay under there for ages, then suddenly burst out and run around like a loonatick. ;) Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh Make Levees, Not War > On cold nights, Cinders will often spend at least part of the night > curled up under the blankets. Sometimes she will be under all of [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > others that liked to sleep on top of the blankets. Does anyone else > have a cat who likes to sleep under the covers in the wintertime? Amelia, Cleo, and Ranger. Amelia doesn't come under the covers often. When she does she stands near a pillow, meows, and scratches at the covers until someone lifts the covers for her. She then settles down by someone's hip for anywhere from an hour to all night. When Cleo decides her royal fluffiness desires the warmth of covers, she climbs down from Nancy's pillow and noses at the covers until someone lifts them for her. She then settles down under Nancy's armpit. Ranger makes some short undercover visits when he's doing his pre-alarm-clock visits. DD (RB) used to be the undercover champ. She would burrow under the covers all on her own, and would often stay there all day. Even during the hottest days of summer, it was common to find her burrowed under all the sheets and blankets. > > On cold nights, Cinders will often spend at least part of the night > > curled up under the blankets. Sometimes she will be under all of [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > hottest days of summer, it was common to find her burrowed under all the > sheets and blankets. It's kind of funny. Nina will paw at the blankets until I lift them for her, but she won't go under them until I ask her "Do you want to get under the covers, lovey?" I guess it's her kitty code, kind of like Kitty Breakfast and Kitty Supper. =o) Melissa >On cold nights, Cinders will often spend at least part of the night >curled up under the blankets. Sometimes she will be under all of [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >others that liked to sleep on top of the blankets. Does anyone else >have a cat who likes to sleep under the covers in the wintertime? Djoser loves to burrow under the top cover, day or night. But he only started that a couple years ago. I think it might be he's got a touch of arthritis. The other cats don't burrow; although they do like to snuggle up to me to share body warmth. -- CATherine > On cold nights, Cinders will often spend at least part of the night > curled up under the blankets. Sometimes she will be under all of [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > others that liked to sleep on top of the blankets. Does anyone else > have a cat who likes to sleep under the covers in the wintertime? Most persistent one is Abelard, particularly when it's cold. He usually stays all night and long after I've gotten up. Baby Eyes will often join him but won't stay all night. I'm not sure how long she stays but she does stay until I've fallen asleep. Beatrice or Tommy sometimes come in if Baby Eyes is already there. They look for her, I suppose because she's their surrogate mommy. > On cold nights, Cinders will often spend at least part of the night > curled up under the blankets. Sometimes she will be under all of [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > others that liked to sleep on top of the blankets. Does anyone else > have a cat who likes to sleep under the covers in the wintertime? Of my two Siamese girls, Amy's content to be on top, but Rhia's the undercover agent. It doesn't even have to be cold either. Just occasionally she'll spend the whole night there, but most often she joins me in the early morning. She will burrow, but by now I've learned to lift the covers for her, otherwise she'll pull herself in using her claws on my back. She then turns herself round so her head's at the top and expects me to stroke her back! Ah, well, at 55 it makes it the first time for ages that I've had a young lady in bed with me emitting little mews of delight as I run my fingers down her spine! John A, servant to their imperial Siamese majesties, Rhia and Amy. >> On cold nights, Cinders will often spend at least part of the night >> curled up under the blankets. Sometimes she will be under all of [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > John A, servant to their imperial Siamese majesties, Rhia and Amy. That reminds me of a couple of weeks ago, I got a text message from a lady friend of mine saying "I'm in bed watching Big Brother". I sent one back saying "I'm in bed with a 16 year-old girl" Then a few minutes later, "and she's purring" Snoopy will be 17 in March. SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk > Does anyone else > have a cat who likes to sleep under the covers in the wintertime? Miss Lily Whiskers likes to get under the covers and stick her cold paws in my back. Once she's woken me up, she gets out from under the covers and head butts me until I stroke her. Cheeky madam! Helen M > On cold nights, Cinders will often spend at least part of the night > curled up under the blankets. Sometimes she will be under all of [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > others that liked to sleep on top of the blankets. Does anyone else > have a cat who likes to sleep under the covers in the wintertime? Yep, I have had one RB kitty who did this (Geesha), and now little Jack (aka Jackrabbit and many other names, some of which I will not mention here, as he is my little stinker!) does it. Jack is funnier; he will actually find his spot, burrow under the covers, and sleep in a little mound for hours. Cracks me up every time. Ginger-lyn behind again, as usual
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