How Much Lap Kitty is Too Much?

It was cold and wet all weekend at my place. Well, for Okinawa at least... Temps around 70-79degrees F or in the low twenties celcius. It was in the upper 80s low 90s a few weeks ago. The wind was blowing and it was pouring cats and dogs figuratively all weekend. All around a good time to stay indoors.

Seemed like everytime I sat down on the sofa Aya immediately came over and commandeered my lap or crotch (she prefers to be down in there) currled up in a ball and tried to sleep. For a lap kitty she doesn't have the best of manners. Laps to her are not about petting, its about a cozy heating pad to sleep on. Woe to the hand that mistakes this as an invitation to pet! -Chomp!

She gets twitchy and bite-y if you pet her. She gets the same way if you try ot move even just a little bit to keep your leg from falling asleep When you finally have to get up to get something to drink, or use the toilet and move the cat, she latches on with all fours plus teeth and expresses her unfavorable opinion about the idea of her heated nap cushion leaving. I very gently tried to spatula her onto the empty sofa or the footstool sevearl times... No go...

I tried to sew with her on my lap. And she found this unforgivable. Same with magazines. The wind blasted the door once and she shot striaght up in the air and landed on the floor. Aparently I'm supposed to hold still and stare at the TV while she sleeps the day away. She's not the most affectionate cat, and while I think its sweet she wants to be friendly, I found myself getting fed up with it after a while.

So, in your opinion is there a thing as too much lap kitty?

Oh, gosh, yes....my girl just likes to sit by me, but the boy prefers to be right on my lap, or curled up by my legs...to the point where I apologize if I need to get up to go to the bathroom or turnover, or even get up to go to work - I keep pointing out I have to go make money to catch mousies for him, but he's just a warm heavy weight that refuses to move.

Too much lap kitty? No such thing. I could sit with a cat on my lap for hours on end and never get tired of it. Sure if you have to get up to do something (answer the phone, go to the bathroom, etc.) I'd do it but I'd come back for more lap kitty.

Wow! She owns you! Your life is no longer your own. You are going to have to try to assert yourself, probably with some hissing. But chances are you're not going to free yourself from lap servitude any time soon.

Bunnelina, my recently departed lap cat, used to wake me at night by smacking my nose with her paw. When she didn't have all of her Soft Paws, her claws would be lightly extended. After waking me, she expected to be petted and told how beautiful and intelligent she was, in detail, for some time, as she purred. I obeyed every time. After I'd fall back alseep, she would try to curl up (10 pounds of calico fluff and flab) on my ear (I sleep on my side) so she could eventually force me off my pillow. She was extremely successful at that, too. I'd wake up somewhere too near the foot of the bed.

I'd give a great deal to have her back to wake me up at 3 am one more time.

Oh yes, while most days I very much adore having Cuddles's big fluffiness curled up with me, he has the most demanding personality when it comes to lovins.

When he comes to be a "lapcat" there's very little "lap" involved. Ever since he was a tiny kitten, he has had to curl up just under my chin. Now that he's 12 lbs and has his thick winter coat in, when he curls up on my chest I can't see a thing and can't breathe for all the fur up my nose. Moving him down to my lap is a no-go. I shift him, and he climbs right back up to nest on my cleavage. He even gets up on the hamper when I'm at the sink in the bathroom, and will climb up me until I slip a hand under him.

Many are the times when I have brushed my teeth or done makeup one handed all because Someone decided it was Cuddles time.

And he has the perfect knack for getting in my face when I'm trying to do something. Movies, video games, surfing the webz, reading or writing-- all have been interrupted by silly kitty's demands.

I've tried ignoring him, but that just drives him crazier for attention. It's apparently better to indulge him for a few minute, scruff him up real good, then put his butt down on the floor. If he gets a bit of love, then that bit of "abuse" he seems to be content to leave me alone for at least 15 minutes. Takes him at least that long to straighten his fur back out.

Your post made me laugh.... That's funny!
No way! Send her to me! I have 3, and none are lap kitties ... They sit right next to me, demand to be petted, but, never ever ever on my lap .
Bugsy Sleeps hugging me - literally, but has never once sat on my lap.... I want a lap kitty! Send her to me!

Wow. Your kitty's a lap hog! Not sure if it's a good lap hog because she rejects your attempts at being affectionate.

Sho's only a lap kitty when he feels like being spoiled a bit or getting in the way of my computer time. Occasionally, he'll also just want to nap or lie in my lap and not be pet (or he'll chomp on me) so I leave him alone and do something else. Sometimes I won't leave him alone if he bites me though. I'll scruff him for it if he goes overboard with the biting because he can have a bit of an attitude. After a bit of a fit on my lap, he'll calm down and nap while I pet him. Once or twice, he's almost fallen asleep while I was still scruffing him.

But other times, he'll be more than happy to snore away while I'm petting him or even playing with his paws.

Oh and yes, Sho doesn't like being moved, but he won't make too much of a fuss most of the time. He'll meow in protest occasionally or simply refuse to move while I relocate him. Other times, he'll go CHOMP, but I end up moving him anyway.

Will you guys please stop it - it hurts! :fl ail:

Fatman is like Aya psychotic about you moving or heaven forbid you have to pee while he is on your lap. He newest obsession is the computer and will sit on me for HOURS upon HOURS while Im on TCS but if I have to adjust because my butt went numb oh no Fatman says noway jose!
GiGi is the worst though when she wants attention it doesnt matter what body part it is. dont stand too close to the table or couch or bed because she is not afraid to take flying leaps and latch onto whatever body part she catches! Ive got scratches all over me from her doing this. She is my little psycho!
Hercules is the angel lap cat. It only happens everyonce in a while but he will sit on my lap and just pass right out and stay that way till he wakes up. Sometimes he will lay over my shoulder like a little baby and just purr and purr and purr...Its purrrre heaven for me!

Not very mannerly, is she? While this is funny and all... try posting in the behavior section and maybe someone can give you advice on how to work with her so that she is not such a pushy broad! Oh - and good luck with that.

If it's been 4 or 5 hours since you last got up and every time you move you hear grumbling - it's too much lap kitty.

I have three, and sometimes they all want to be in my lap at once. Siri lays on me for hours (because she sleeps for hours), Tomas has to get his snuggles in a few times a day. These two can share my lap without too much fuss. Sherman likes some attention, he can share my lap with Tomas but not Siri because she doesn't like him.
So sometimes I'm stuck in place for a few hours with two cats on me.

Thankfully no one bites me! They would find themselves napping somewhere else.

Three words: Electric bed warmer.

Buy one of those and put it under a bed or folded towel on the sofa. She can get her warmth there when you don't want to deal with all of her "rules." I have one here in my study and when I get "enough" or I'm having to move around filling orders, etc, I just transfer the cat over there and most times they will lie down and be just fine.

Oh gosh, my two kitties have just started to be lappers after almost six years of living with me, so, sorry, I don't think there's such a thing as too much lap kitty.

I wish Rosalie was a lap cat, she likes to lay on my chest/neck! If I'm laying down, or even leaning back enough, she jumps on my chest, does a few circles then gets herself comfy to the point that I can't really see what I'm trying to look at. If I move her she just looks at me like "really? Seriously? You're going to move me after all that work I had to do to get comfy? PFFFT!" Yeah, I guess naming her Rosalie gave her a complex!

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Three words: Electric bed warmer.

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I have an electric blanket that I sometimes leave on for Sho. He's pretty much the only cat that will go off by himself and sleep, or sleep on the bed for most of the day. Sometimes Tomas will join him.

But for the most part the cats want to be near or on humans. Siri's set up for a later afternoon lap nap, atm.

Lol, Sasha is a major lap cat. And she doesn't get off easily, when I try to gently pick her up and place her next to me when I have to get up, she sticks her claws into my pants and does that low growling meow So while I'm watching TV/on the internet she will spend hours laying on me until my legs lose circulation

Bree's not a lap cat at all Bummer, too, because I kinda wanted one. She'll sit next to me when she wants to get pet and scratched, but also gets overstimluated sometimes and takes a chomp, so we're working on that.

At night she likes curling up on my bed, but she also decides that if she wants to get pet and I'm not awake, I need a smack on the face. Affectionate? I'd say "attention hog"!

I have a lap cat/bed hog in the colder months of the year. As soon as fall hit, I mean as soon as that whole Earth tilting on the axis thingy (lol) hit 12 hours light, 12 hours dark, and the dark getting longer, the cat had to start burrowing under the covers at night. I am beginning to wonder if she is part plant, waiting to see if she buds. (sorry I used to grow, uh, Poinsettias way way back in the day, they are a photomorphogenic plant)
She has been climbing up on my lap now at the computer, but she is good about leaving, I just say "Mommys gotta pee pee" or "My legs are going to sleep!" and she jumps right off, she is a good kitty!

There's never enough Lap Kitty! Siamie is the only cat in the house that even remotely resembles a Lap Kitty. And what does she do? Jumps on my lap with claws drawn, twirls around about twenty times trying to get comfortable, (sticking her butt in my face with each twirl), decides she'd be more comfortable somewhere else, jumps down, clawing my legs up again in the effort to get away.

I only have one who qualifies as a lap cat but she more than makes up for the other two's lack of effort. Misty has taken it to the next level and lays down on top of me when I am sleeping in the bed. It's funny because she is the most active of my three girls but she is also the one that wants the most cuddle time.

Here are a couple shots I tried to catch with the phone camera when she uses me as her personal sofa.