To sleep or not to sleep, what do you think?

dawnofsierra

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Sierra sleeps with me every night, either on my head, just below my neck or on my side if I'm on my side. As soon as I get into bed, she snuggles up with me.
I surely wouldn't be able to sleep at all without my sweet sleeping partner!
 

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My cats all sleep with me at night, one on me and one on either side of me!, I have trouble sleeping somewhere else now unless I have kitties to sleep with!! lol.
 

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Originally Posted by Tarav

My cats all sleep with me at night, one on me and one on either side of me!, I have trouble sleeping somewhere else now unless I have kitties to sleep with!! lol.
That's how I am! When I go to the US in the summer, I allow the cat and one of the dogs to sleep with me, because I'm just so used to it, and I never allowed our dogs to sleep in bed with us. We always had dogs and cats, and they slept together in a big pet bed in our bedroom. Jamie is an "only pet", and shares our bed. I can't sleep without him on top of me now.
 

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Both my boys are allowed to sleep with me and do during the winter but I've noticed since it has gotten warmer they've started sleeping off the bed but near by. Gandalf on the nightstand and Samwise on the chair at the computer desk (at the foot of the bed). However neither of them have a problem with late night visit to the bed to wake me up. When they want lovins, they just jump right on me and meow until I pet them.
 

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Originally Posted by dawnofsierra

Sierra sleeps with me every night, either on my head, just below my neck or on my side if I'm on my side. As soon as I get into bed, she snuggles up with me.
I surely wouldn't be able to sleep at all without my sweet sleeping partner!
Same here. I have a hard time sleeping without my furbabies!
Whenever I go to Utah to visit family, I always have a HARD time sleeping cuz no cats sleep with me there!

Several times if no cats have joined me in my bed within an hour, I will go hunting for them
and ask what's wrong and why won't they come to bed with me!
Usually by then, 1-3 cats will join me!
 

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Snowball sleeps wherever he wants, and he's usually on my bed with me at night. He's an older cat and it's starting to show, because even now with the milder temperatures he still insists on sleeping between my knees for warmth.
 

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Furball always slept with us, which worked great for us.

The Triple Trouble Team (otherwise known as Garfield, Spooky, & Eclipse) are allowed to sleep with us, but we have had to start shutting our bedroom door at night. Garfield won't let me sleep at all! He walks all over my neck and face and meows and he won't stop all night long! I did the best I could for about a week, then I had to start shutting the bedroom door at night. I can't go with no sleep. I keep trying to let them in, but Garfield always does that all night. I can't get him to stop, and I can't sleep with my head under the blankets like my husband does. If anyone has any suggestions on how to get Garfield to be good and let Mommy sleep, I would love to hear it. We would love to have all 3 sleeping with us every night, but until Garfield can be good...

Thanks for any suggestions!
 

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well looks like I am one of the odd ones out here


Neither cats sleep with us - my husband wont allow it
- so they sleep in the laundry - I know I know sounds horrible - but Tipsy was just ready to have the roam of the house at night but then Cedar came along - so now they are both in the laundry. When Cedar gets a little older they can go where ever they want. If we dont put them in the laundry they will play ALL night - trust me I have tried
and it keeps us awake all night.
And they are happy in there - it really is warm for them.
( I have tested it by laying on the floor
)

Having said that Tipsy has slept with us occasionally - if we have guests staying or if I have had a bad day - chris gives in to my puppy dog look
and Tipsy knows that he has to stay on my side of the bed and he never ventures over to Chris'.
and sometimes chris will come home early in the morning after working and find Tipsy tucked up with me - and he doesnt have the heart to move him!!! (I should try that more often
)

Now that he has gone away I tried having them both in the bed with me last night - it didnt work - Tipsy wanted to sleep - Cedar wanted to play - so then Tipsy got annoyed and left the bedroom followed closely by Cedar ready to play and run around the house - this pattern went on and on - they eventually got put in the laundry


but soon - they will be able to roam wherever - just not the bedroom - and to be honest - its a nice treat for me when they get to stay in the bed and I appreciate it all the more
 

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Stinky sleeps with me all the time when it's only me (naps and things), and sometimes when Jason's in bed, also. If it's just one of us, she's guaranteed to be there, but if it's both, it's a toss-up. Wonder why that is? Tank used to sleep with Jason all the time, not too much with me, although he did sleep all snuggled up against me the night before we had to put him to sleep
. Guess that was one of his tender ways of saying goodbye... Stinky also sleeps in my sock drawer (yes, I leave it cracked open for her and it drives Jason nuts!
), and there's a little wicker basket in our closet she enjoys, as well. She's so cute!
 

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As long as I've had kitties, I've had company at bedtime. Cindy hustles me to bed, and then parks between my legs. Some nights she stays there until 4 or 5 in the morning, and then meanders off to tend cat business. Fawn and Suzy usually sleep on the two corners of the foot of the bed. They both like to be near their humans but aren't anything like as mushy as Cindy.
 

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Scuffy sleep in my bed room during the day. I really want him to sleep with me during the night, I feel guilty when I close the door of my bed room and let him sleep in his bed. I wanted him to sleep with me though, but my boyfriend told me that I have to teach him, cause he does not want Scuffy sleeping with us, sleeping is really important with my bf, or else he is cranky
so Scuffy have to put up with that
 

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Do I allow them in my bed. Haha! Don't you know that my three boys allow me in THEIR bed, and there can be not turning or rolling over unless I make sure to move into really awkward positions to keep from bumping them. Because don't you know.. even slightly moving them will get you a glare to make you feel like your the most horrible creature to have ever lived.


Oh, and while they be 8x smaller than me, they get MUCH more space to stretch out than I do. They only allow Craig and I a small portion in which we have to curl up nice and tight.


Of course if they knew I was complaining they'd be unhappy. I mean, aren't they the most generous boys around for just letting me sleep in THEIR bed.


Craig and I are considering getting a KING size bed as the QUEEN size apparently isn't quite big enough for all 5 of us. Craig and I and the three boys.
 

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Mine sleeps at my feet mostly, and in the morning he will come up closer to my face. He didn't start out that way, he used to sleep in another room when I first got him. I mean I left the bedroom door open but he didn't come in. But now he always sleeps with me.

One interesting thing too, he sleeps through the night, I thought cats were nocturnal? I had insomnia once and noted that he sleep straight through the night. He never wakes up which surprised me.
 

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Zero tends to sleep at arm's length. Heather says that its beacuse I rolled over on him too many times when he was little (not sure if that's true
).
 

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When i just had Rosie i never used to let her sleep in our room, but since my boyfriend and i split she's been there ever since because she was a source of comfort to me at the time.


Now since i got Sophie, both of them are in
. Rosie sleeps at the bottom of the bed and Sophie across the top of my pillow with her back paws nearly up my nostrils


If i do meet someone else, then it's something he'll have to accept, because they were there first!
 

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Yogi and Remi sleep with us...
(even though when we moved into our new place and I got all new bedroom furniture and bedding I didn't want them in there) Well....I lost that battle and Yogi practically shares my pillow and Remi enjoys sleeping at the end of the bed next to hubby's feet. I know I would miss them if they were not in there, so it worked out for the best.
 

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Well, we started out not letting Lily sleep with us, only because I like the bedroom door closed at night. I couldn't shut her in the bedroom all night long, in case she need to use the litter box or got hungry. But Lily didn't like that very much. So we ended up leaving the door open a crack which I didn't like one bit. (I guess it's a security thing.) Finally, we put in a kitty door in our bedroom door so Lily can come and go as she pleases.
Lately, she hasn't been sleeping with us, I think it's too hot upstairs for her!
 

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I let Luna sleep with me, but she usually doesn't . . . I think she finds her nice lamb's wool bed with the baby blanket in it more comfy; I always find her there in the mornings.
Occasionally she'll come curl up with me, which is nice, when she lets me sleep. Other times she decides to play and tries to attack my hair, so I usually gently set her down beside the bed and she knows that's the cue to not play with Mommy for awhile. Sometimes she'll hop back up, but let me sleep.
 

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I tried to let my boo-boo sleep with me, but at 3 am she wants to turn my apartment into the summer olympic round-the-apartment dash (including the vertical blinds in my bedroom). Now she sleeps in the living room with no problem, and she can run all over without waking me up!!!
 
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