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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / June 2007I know I said..
That I wouldn't ever have a cat in my bedroom overnight. It's one of my *rules.* But when I went up to bed last night. Kitty was on my bed, fast asleep in dreamland. I didn't have the heart to disturb "her elderliness" so I crept under the duvet, muttering "this is the very first and last time, KFC." Actually she was no trouble until 6 a.m, when she started to headbutt my forehead and purr up a storm. I said "For G sake, it's SUNDAY, Kitty, now just bog off.." and she did! Went downstairs to wait like a good kitty should. It won't happen again. My fault for leaving the bedroom door open a crack. Tweed On 24 Jun, 18:15, "Christina Websell" <spamf...@tinawebsell.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote: > That I wouldn't ever have a cat in my bedroom overnight. It's one of my > *rules.* > It won't happen again. My fault for leaving the bedroom door open a crack. > > Tweed If you say so, LOL! ;o) Helen M > That I wouldn't ever have a cat in my bedroom overnight. It's one of my > *rules.* [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Tweed TuTu sleeps by my head every night. Occasionally she snores, but she never bothers me. If I sleep too late in the morning, she will try to awaken me, but if I tell her "no" she will stop. I find her purrs to be soothing. Best wishes. MLB >> That I wouldn't ever have a cat in my bedroom overnight. It's one of my >> *rules.* [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > awaken me, but if I tell her "no" she will stop. I find her purrs to be > soothing. Best wishes. MLB Ah, but. I was an unwilling cat slave but they came, anyway. First I said, okay but you stay in the kitchen where there is a nice fire. Then they came into the living room after a few weeks, so I said well, okay, but be good, no scratching the furniture and no going upstairs. They *were* good and they don't scratch the furniture. Then they were upstairs in the spare bedroom, snoozing on the bed. So I said okay to that, in the end, providing that you KEEP OUT OF MY BEDROOM. That is my last firm rule. No cats in my bedroom overnight. This was a one-off, allowed as it was weekend. Tweed So I > said okay to that, in the end, providing that you KEEP OUT OF MY BEDROOM. > That is my last firm rule. No cats in my bedroom overnight. This was a > one-off, allowed as it was weekend. > > Tweed//// Uh huh. If you say so. ;o) Helen M On 24 Jun, 10:48, "Christina Websell" <spamf...@tinawebsell.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote: . No cats in my bedroom overnight. This was a > one-off, allowed as it was weekend. Oh yes??? The problem with cats is they test rules to destruction! Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs Dave and me (With Fugazi and Isis): "They're not allowed in the bedroom" Later "Only in summer because we can't stand to have the door closed" Later "It's now winter...it's cold and they might get cold as well" Later *Okay as long as they don't sleep on the bed" Finally "Isis! Could we have some of our bed back please!" > On 24 Jun, 10:48, "Christina Websell" > <spamf...@tinawebsell.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote: > . No cats in my bedroom overnight. This was a >> one-off, allowed as it was weekend. >> > Oh yes??? Yes. Hands up anyone who would have turned off and awoken from deep sleep a 20+ yo cat. I certainly could not do it. > The problem with cats is they test rules to destruction! True! However, my bedroom remains "out of bounds" for the foreseeable future. Tweed On 24 Jun, 11:38, "Christina Websell" <spamf...@tinawebsell.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote: > However, my bedroom remains "out of bounds" for the foreseeable future. The funny thing is having surrendered to the inevitable when we got Dunzi and Sarsi- we just let them into the bedroom and maybe we got lucky but.. Their bed is on top of the wardrobe/bookcase (depending on who got the bookcase first!) and apart from Sarsi who sometimes likes to give us a sniff and demand a few skritchies when we first get into bed and may even lie down on the bed for a few minutes until she realises the problem with sharing a bed with hoomins at which point she gets up and goes off- basically they go to sleep and so do we We're even lucky in that they understand weekends. I get up and throw some food in their bowl if they ask and go back to bed but if not (and they don't most of the time) they sleep in their place and we sleep in ours until one of us gets up- they don't demand food at 5am or whatever..if I'm half asleep Dunzi will sometimes wander past and request a skritch but that's all When it comes to bedroom etiquette they are both very well behaved... Pity about the rest of the time Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs > We're even lucky in that they understand weekends.///// MINE understand the alarm clock! I have to set it when I'm away so that they get out of bed in the morning for the pet sitter! Mind, HRFL Tiger has been fully conditioned to an alarm clock for the last 9 years.... And Robbie refuses to get up before 9.30am. Some days he can't even be arsed to get up for breakfast. I have very lazy cats, LOL Helen M > MINE understand the alarm clock! I have to set it when I'm away so > that they get out of bed in the morning for the pet sitter! LOL. Mine certainly get up when my alarm goes off - I blast a radio station as loud as possible, to wake myself from a deep slumber (I have been known to sleep peacefully though quieter alarms). That does get the cats up and out of the bedroom quickly. Joyce > > MINE understand the alarm clock! I have to set it when I'm away so > > that they get out of bed in the morning for the pet sitter! [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >been known to sleep peacefully though quieter alarms). That does get >the cats up and out of the bedroom quickly. Cinders got her revenge on the clock radio this morning. I slept about one hour later than I meant to because the clock radio didn't go off. It turned out that she had rubbed against it and turned the volume control knob all of the way down, so that it was barely whispering.  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 > Cinders got her revenge on the clock radio this morning. I slept > about one hour later than I meant to because the clock radio didn't go > off. It turned out that she had rubbed against it and turned the > volume control knob all of the way down, so that it was barely > whispering. Mine have been known to sit on top of it where the time-setting buttons are. The alarm still goes off, but at the wrong time because the clock has been reset to a different time. This doesn't make me late unless they reset the time for 22 hours later or something. Joyce >> MINE understand the alarm clock! I have to set it when I'm away so >> that they get out of bed in the morning for the pet sitter! [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Joyce I once managed to sleep through a fire alarm, luckily it was afalse alarm. SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk Just because I love cats in bed doesn't mean there is anything wrong with Tweed's choice. My mom is weirded out by cats walking over her at night--she wakes up several times a night when she pet sits Nox (she dares not shut the door because if Nox walks on her, she wakes up, then goes back to sleep--if the bedroom door is shut, Nox screams to wake the dead, and she can keep it up for hours.) And my dad, who never had a house pet in his life, had to lie there and take it while Nox groomed his eyebrows (for almost an hour one night). I can see how one would not want to be awakened repeatedly during the night. --Fil > >> MINE understand the alarm clock! I have to set it when I'm away so > >> that they get out of bed in the morning for the pet sitter! | ... my dad, who never had a house pet in his life, | had to lie there and take it while Nox groomed his | eyebrows (for almost an hour one night). I love it! ROFL!!! >Just because I love cats in bed doesn't mean there is anything wrong >with Tweed's choice. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >in his life, had to lie there and take it while Nox groomed his >eyebrows (for almost an hour one night). <spit take> Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh Make Levees, Not War > And my dad, who never had a house pet > in his life, had to lie there and take it while Nox groomed his > eyebrows (for almost an hour one night). Hey! That needed a BW!! What an image. :) And obviously, he had to lie there and take it. This is the Dark One we're talking about. Joyce | LOL. Mine certainly get up when my alarm goes off - I blast a radio | station as loud as possible, to wake myself from a deep slumber (I have | been known to sleep peacefully though quieter alarms). That does get | the cats up and out of the bedroom quickly. The people who lived in my house when I first bought it were both deaf and had a bed that buzzed and vibrated to wake them up. No idea how their cats reacted to that. It would have driven me nuts.... > However, my bedroom remains "out of bounds" for the foreseeable future. The operative word here being "foreseeable." SignatureJoey Dee from NYC Remember: It is To Laugh a few Ketzl pix <http://tinyurl.com/2a5u8b> >> However, my bedroom remains "out of bounds" for the foreseeable future. > > The operative word here being "foreseeable." Until I retire from work, yes. In 2013 at the very earliest. Tweed >>On 24 Jun, 10:48, "Christina Websell" >><spamf...@tinawebsell.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > However, my bedroom remains "out of bounds" for the foreseeable future. Careful how vwehemently you affirm that - you may have a lot of words to eat, soon! | my bedroom remains "out of bounds" for the foreseeable future. No one can foresee the future. I don't know how anyone is able sleep without cats on the bed... I share mind with usually at least 3 and up to 5 at any given time. If they aren't there, I call names until some of them show up. > | my bedroom remains "out of bounds" for the foreseeable future. > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > mind with usually at least 3 and up to 5 at any given time. If they aren't > there, I call names until some of them show up. So much is in what you get used to. I have a hard time going to sleep until every one is in their proper place. Jo > | my bedroom remains "out of bounds" for the foreseeable future. > > No one can foresee the future. I didn't say I could. Let's try it like this then: "For the future that I can foresee at the moment for my cats, my bedroom is out of bounds" Or even "at this time my cats are not allowed in my bedroom." Tweed > "Pat" <patricia251.catlitter@centurytel.net> wrote >>> my bedroom remains "out of bounds" for the foreseeable future. >> No one can foresee the future. > I didn't say I could. Let's try it like this then: > "For the future that I can foresee at the moment for my cats, my bedroom is > out of bounds" Or even "at this time my cats are not allowed in my > bedroom." Sheesh, she just doesn't want to be bothered by cats while trying to sleep. Much as I love cuddling with cats at night, I can also understand not wanting them in the room at times - that's the case for me occasionally, when I really need to assure a good night's sleep. Not to mention the opportunity to wake up without a host of orthopedic problems. :) Joyce > >>> my bedroom remains "out of bounds" for the foreseeable future. > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > sleep. Not to mention the opportunity to wake up without a host of > orthopedic problems. :) I still get absolutely tired out working again after my previous ca and recent op in March. It's easy to say "you should do this, or that" isn't it? for people whose health is good. What works for me at the moment is getting as much quality sleep as I can to be able to work. If I can't, myself and the cats would be in serious trouble. No tuna money. Nowhere to live. This means no cats on the bed for now. Tweed > I still get absolutely tired out working again after my previous ca and > recent op in March. It's easy to say "you should do this, or that" isn't [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Tweed You have every right to defend your choice, and what's better: You have every right to *stop* defending your choice. SignatureJoey Dee from NYC Remember: It is To Laugh a few Ketzl pix <http://tinyurl.com/2a5u8b> > I still get absolutely tired out working again after my previous ca and > recent op in March. It's easy to say "you should do this, or that" isn't [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > trouble. No tuna money. Nowhere to live. > This means no cats on the bed for now. Anyway, if KFC gets lonely, she's more than welcome to teleport to our place and visit her favorite tux boy. :) Joyce >>> That I wouldn't ever have a cat in my bedroom overnight. It's one of my >>> *rules.* [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > Tweed Sure sounds like an inch/mile issue to me. :-) SignatureJoey Dee from NYC Remember: It is To Laugh a few Ketzl pix <http://tinyurl.com/2a5u8b> >> TuTu sleeps by my head every night. Occasionally she snores, but she >> never bothers me. If I sleep too late in the morning, she will try to [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >That is my last firm rule. No cats in my bedroom overnight. This was a >one-off, allowed as it was weekend. There's nothing as sweet as a kitty snuggled up against you at night! You're missing out on the best part of being a meowmie if you don't let the kitties sleep with you! | There's nothing as sweet as a kitty snuggled up against you at night! | You're missing out on the best part of being a meowmie if you don't | let the kitties sleep with you! AMEN, sister! > | There's nothing as sweet as a kitty snuggled up against you at night! > | You're missing out on the best part of being a meowmie if you don't > | let the kitties sleep with you! > > AMEN, sister! Yes, but you don't have to get up early to spend the day at work either, Pat. It *does* make a difference about if/whether I am prepared to be disturbed overnight. Like I said, it was weekend and it was okay. As it happened she was not much trouble until 6 which is too early for weekend! but I have tried them a couple of times in the bedroom before, it just does not work when I have a work schedule. Tweed > There's nothing as sweet as a kitty snuggled up against you at night! > You're missing out on the best part of being a meowmie if you don't > let the kitties sleep with you! It would be different if I did not have to get up early for work, being the only breadwinner bringing in tuna money ;-) I sleep badly even on my own, the least thing will wake me up. Maybe when I retire, eh? I did used to have a whippet in the bed when they were elderly and unsafe to leave alone downstairs overnight, but they would just tuck up like spoons with me and never a murmur or movement until morning. It was just the same shock when the alarm went off for them, as it was for me! Tweed >> That I wouldn't ever have a cat in my bedroom overnight. It's one >> of my *rules.* [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > awaken me, but if I tell her "no" she will stop. I find her purrs > to be soothing. Best wishes. MLB Persia nestles into the curve of my waist with her head on my side. She, too, tries to wake me at the crash of dawn by tapping me on my nose. One of the phrases she understands is, "It's not time yet!" and she'll curl back up and go into her snooze-alarm act. 10 minutes, then it's tap me on the nose again and purr loudly in my ear. "It's not time yet!" gets me another 10 minute reprieve, and so on. Jill > That I wouldn't ever have a cat in my bedroom overnight. It's one of my > *rules.* [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > should. > It won't happen again. My fault for leaving the bedroom door open a crack. How can you not? I had the same rule - the cats always got shut in their own quarters for thei night. Once I had experienced the joys of a feline bedmate, I never looked back! (And sincerely regret all those years of catless nights - which cannot be redeemed, because those cats are all RB, now!) >> That I wouldn't ever have a cat in my bedroom overnight. It's one of my >> *rules.* [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > catless nights - which cannot be redeemed, because those cats are all RB, > now!) Because I am a very light sleeper, anything can wake me, and because I have to go to work 5/7. When I retire it might be different. Tweed | Because I am a very light sleeper, anything can wake me, and because I have | to go to work 5/7. When I retire it might be different. If you never let a cat sleep on your bed, how do you know it would keep you awake?? I learned long ago to sleep through any form of normal cat activity that took place during the night, on or off the bed... Including being walked on. > | Because I am a very light sleeper, anything can wake me, and because I > have [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > you > awake?? I have done, several times. I was hoping for the "whippet effect" which was peaceful, silent, yet comforting. Purring keeps me awake. My choice, atm, is me upstairs, cats downstairs overnight when I need to get an uninterrupted nights sleep to work the next day. They do not seem to mind. Lots of comfy beds. Tweed >>> That I wouldn't ever have a cat in my bedroom overnight. It's one >>> of my *rules.* [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Tweed Ah, but many times Persia served as my alarm clock when I'd tried to convince myself I should just stay in bed ;) If nothing else, I had to get up to feed her (she's on the 6AM/6PM schedule) and scoop out her litter box. And since I was already awake, what the hell, may as well have a shower and go to work! Jill > That I wouldn't ever have a cat in my bedroom overnight. It's one of > my *rules.* [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > crack. > Tweed Famous last words......... ;o) SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk > Actually she was no trouble until 6 a.m, when she started to headbutt my > forehead and purr up a storm. I said "For G sake, it's SUNDAY, Kitty, now > just bog off.." and she did! Went downstairs to wait like a good kitty > should. > It won't happen again. My fault for leaving the bedroom door open a crack. I usually let my cats sleep with me at night. There will be anywhere between one and three on the bed when I wake up. They usually don't wake me up, except when Roxy sometimes wants a cuddle session very early in the morning, say 4 or 5 AM. She'll climb on me and headbutt my face and purr at me for about 15 minutes or so. I find it very sweet and relaxing, even if she did wake me up to do it. :) I go right back to sleep when she's done. The only thing that really disturbs my sleep is when Smudge decides to stand by my head and meow loudly at the window. I guess this means she wants to go outside, but it's extremely annoying. I don't let her out, even though it's morning, because I don't want her getting the idea that howling at my head in the early hours is a productive activity! She doesn't do it very often, thankfully. When she does, it results in her, along with anyone else who's innocently sleeping on the bed, getting booted out until I get up. I have to shut them all out, otherwise they get shut *in*, and that's not good. (Although occasionally I'll shut Roxy in - she just sleeps until I get up.) Ah, the politics of cats and beds. Joyce > > Actually she was no trouble until 6 a.m, when she started to headbutt my > > forehead and purr up a storm. I said "For G sake, it's SUNDAY, Kitty, [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > Ah, the politics of cats and beds. I find it easier for my bedroom to be a "no cat zone" and after this brief hiccup, so it will remain. Tweed Dylan doesn't sleep well WITHOUT a cat in bed. Usually he prefers a head nox, since she likes to sleep on his head. However, we have also had head kumanis and head tyches (though hip tyche is more common). Smokey knows the bed belongs to Nocturne, and he sleeps on our feet when he feels brave. --Fil > I find it easier for my bedroom to be a "no cat zone" and after this brief > hiccup, so it will remain. > That I wouldn't ever have a cat in my bedroom overnight. It's one of > my *rules.* [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Tweed Well, she IS about 200 year old in kitty time. I think she deserves a few perks. On Jun 24, 12:15?pm, "Christina Websell" <spamf...@tinawebsell.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote: > That I wouldn't ever have a cat in my bedroom overnight. It's one of my > *rules.* [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Tweed When I was a child we had a semi feral cat that used to jump on me and scratch me so that my calling my mom to get him out of my room. He used to pee on my pillow too. Because of him, Sam, having a cat in my bed was scary. Spicey was only 8 weeks when she adopted me so I knew she needed to be close to me. We played bedmice and bonded. She usually sleeps near me part of the night, either on my bed or in my wheelchair by my bed. Now I miss her when she sleeps somewhere else. Suz&Spicey [having cats on your bed] > Spicey was only 8 weeks when she adopted me so I knew she needed to be > close to me. We played bedmice and bonded. She usually sleeps near me > part of the night, either on my bed or in my wheelchair by my bed. Now > I miss her when she sleeps somewhere else. We haven't often closed the door on our cats, so we've usually had one or two sleeping with us (only had six of them in the bed a few times). The one period when I kept a cat out of the bedroom was when Muriel was young - she used to like waking me up by extending a paw under the duvet to attack my toes or fingers. So after a few weeks of sleeping dead centre of the bed with the duvet spread out as far as possible to be out of her reach, I kept her out. The result was a fusillade of thumps and scratches on the door at dawn which woke me up just as effectively (glass door - imagine what it sounded like being clawed), but after a while she gave up, I let her back in, and she didn't attack my toes again (often). What happened once we had more cats was fearsome territorial battles over the pillow. For some reason this is the highest-status perch in the house, particularly when we were using it (we use a bolster so there's plenty of room). For years Ishmael would beat off any other cat who ventured onto it, and only let his guard down when he became terminally ill. Then it became a double act, with him and Muriel beating off any other claimants together. Now he's gone, the usual sleeping arrangement is Muriel above my head like a hat, Ishtar beside Marion, and Chloe and Splodge at the foot of the bed. We sometimes wake up in extraordinary positions after being unconsciously edged around the bed by cats deciding to try somewhere new. I used to draw the line at having a cat on my lap when I was at the computer but Splodge is proofreading this for me right now. I can sometimes have him one one thigh and Muriel on the other. ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 |
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