Clinginess

My Jack's a clingy boy like that as well. As soon as l sit down he's there wanting to cuddle in but l don't mind it. I have Rosie on my legs, Sophie on my lap and jack in my arms.

 

Not sure how to stop it though unless you divert him with a toys?.

IMO never discourage affection, and push them a bit out of the way or relocate nearby them so they are less disruptive.  They should get the idea soon enough, heh.   These two love to get in my way as well.  

 

This is now cat pad, not mouse pad!  

Successful cat-butt relocation... until leg goes numb.

I have 3 clingy cats. Stumpy has gotten more so as he gets older and that is understandable. Scarlett is a princess and just demands that her needs to be fulfilled (understandable because she's so darn cute). Muddy is the one that tests my patience. He has an on/off switch that flips at any random moment of the day. When it is on, he'll SCREAM at me to pick him up and cuddle with him. If I happen to be walking around, he becomes a moveable speed bump. If I'm standing still, he stands on his back legs and stretches up on me until I pick him up. If I fail to pick him up, he leaps in the air assuming that I will catch him and hold him. His on switch can stay on for 5 minutes or hours on end. When on, I must pick him up, place him on my left shoulder (he doesn't do right shoulders) and remain standing with him. Talk about not getting anything done when he is ON. Muddy was orphaned at an early age and sometimes I wonder if this behavior stems from the fact that I've been his mom from 10 days old.

I don't have any good advice here, as I'm one to just give in to his demands when I can do it. If I'm busy on the computer, I sit down and put him in my lap. He objects but has learned to deal with it. If I'm sewing or crafting, I put him next to me with his paws across my lap and give him a scritch from time to time. He'll be 9 in April and he's just gotten used to sitting in a lap without walking across me, trying to get me to stand up and hold him. I guess we've developed a compromise over the years and we've both adapted to that compromise.

Speaking of clingons, Stumpy just demanded that he sit in my lap as I type. The compromise I worked out with him: I have a spare chair in my home office so that when I need to get up and move around, I place Stumpy in that chair until I get back. I rotate myself between those 2 chairs so that they both smell like me.

If Smokie is like my Muddy, then I have to say that you are probably spoiling him as much as I spoil my Muddy. Can I assume that when you actually try to say NO to him to get him to stop, he gives you a confused look, like "huh, I don't know what the word means!"?

There are days I just have to get firm with him, and the more I do it, the better he gets. He's finally learned to lay in my lap without demanding that I stand with him on my left shoulder. I was able to do this because Muddy also loves to be brushed, and I would put him in my lap to brush him. He now relates my lap to good times.

You need to find his sweet spot for those times when he is doing what you want him to do. Cats like Smokie and Muddy take a bit more patience than others.

i wish my boy was like this, he is not a lap cat at all, occasionally he let's me pick him up and stroke him for a while.

Absolutely they get more clingy when they are hurting! That is Stumpy's primary issue right now. He's pushing 17, and even with the meds he's on, he just has the aches and pains of an old cat. The older he gets, the more clingy he gets. Sorry to ask, but how old is Smokie?