Trapped...

[PinkBike]

trapped in the mornings when the twins, mellow and johnny, come out from under the bed and lay all over my neck and chest. i just love it. i'll stay that way and just read around them. life is so good.

BTW, roadie gal, mine like to knead too, have you trimmed their claws? it's so easy to do and they can knead to their hearts' content and not pierce skin.

[WindingRoad]

I've had kitty on my lap vs notebook computer for a couple of days now - every evening. I did pull the heating pad out for my kitty that's suffering from his arthritis and cancer - he now chooses to lie on that, but he still comes over for lap time, and tries to lie on top of my hands.

Awwww... I do the heating pad trick for Peanut. She's about 15 now. She limps when she gets up from a nap and it takes her a while to get 'primed' as I call it to get up on the bed. Every evening she still tears through my apartment like she is a kitten again though? Poor thing I have to point out the kitty treats I throw to her now, she can't see very well any longer. She's still happy though, she purrs and loves to play with her little fishing pole and her catnip mouse.

[feral1]

Trust me a king size bed won't help.........I have a Pomeranian and a cat and they take up more room than my husband and I :-)

[nancielle]

A cat in your lap is good for the soul.

This, would make an awesome bumper sticker!

[jessmarimba]

+1

I'm sort of trapped here...cat likes to sleep on technology. Usually it's my phone, but she's stretched out across the power cord for my laptop (which is about dead).

[roadie gal]

BTW, roadie gal, mine like to knead too, have you trimmed their claws? it's so easy to do and they can knead to their hearts' content and not pierce skin.

Oh, yeah, we cut his nails. He HATES it. It's a 2 person epic. First we put on our flameproof gloves and our body armor. Then we corner him and burrito wrap him in a blanket. One of us holds him while the other pulls out one paw at a time, cuts the nails, and then tucks the paw back in before pulling out the next paw. The whole time he's screeching and wiggling. By the time we're done all 3 of us are in a sweat. We do that about every 2 weeks. He's lovely to hold when his claws are cut, though.

[Veronica]

Yikes, that sounds unpleasant. We lucked out with Cassie and Tucker. They both are quite well behaved during claw clipping.

Tucker just got up from a nap and Cassie is in a mood and stalking him. Better him than the pencils she was just attacking!

Veronica

[marni]

there is a heated cat bed that you can buy from Dr.s foster and Smith that is a deep padded basket with a barely warm heating element that you can't really feel but keeps the temperature at a warm comfortable for dogs and cats with aging and arthritis issues. Our geriatric Cappucinno spent much of his last year, curled in his bed and snoozing comfortably. It eased his pain and movement.

As for clipping their nails..... although both of my cats hiss, moaan and complain about getting their nails clipped, they both know that I am bigger and meaner than they are and the clipping is noisy and a bimonthly event, they do eventually forgive us and when they knead, it is ever so much more comfortable.

[Pedal Wench]

I got stuck for an hour on the sofa once when my Mastiff decided I was more comfy than the plain old cushion. She got me pinned with my arms up on my chest, so I had zero leverage to push her off.

[spokewench]

My kitty does the same thing. He gently paws as the covers. If I ignore him he gets a little more insistent that he come under the covers, pawing harder, even pushing his little face under the edges until he finds an opening. In my case he gets hot or irritated if I shift and leaves, only to repeat the process in an hour. As sweet as it is at first, the third time being woken up, it stops being sweet tho even then I can't refuse him. The tickle of little whiskers on my face and the sound of his purrrrrr in the quiet darkness just melt away any annoyance or anger.

Koal (my midnight snuggler)




Shannon

I wonder if it is a Black Kitty kind of thing???? My Jag looks just like your kitty!

[Roadtrip]

I dunno.. I love him.. but he's recently taken to sleeping on TOP of the DVR inside the entertainment stand. Just barely enough room for him to fit. The remote wasn't working the other day and here I was clicking away, about to go in search of batteries, thinking they were the cause, then I spotted a paw hanging down in-front of the sensor.

Black cat.. dark (warm) places.. Oy!!

Shannon