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I've been sleeping on my sofa & given my kitty, Lili, my bedroom for now as her safe haven.

Right now I'm letting her explore my apartment at her own pace.

I'm a super light sleeper. So I'm wondering if she'll sleep in my bed with me & let me sleep :)

My previous kitty would paw my head or wait till I laid still enough to lay on me; and that made sleeping uncomfortable LOL

I watched this tutorial to try and make her a pet bed. I'll see how that works. Every pet bed I've bought for my previous cat; she never used. So I'm debating on buying one.

Do your kitties let you sleep or do you have to put them outside the bedroom?
 
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The twins are too restless, so they have the rest of the house, while Cleo and Gigi sleep on my bed. Cleo usually wants out of the bedroom before it's time to get up, but Gigi will sleep in the same spot all night.
 
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Patch has a routine that he does every night. When we go to bed, he goes in one of his ("many") beds. Around 10 minutes later, he comes on my side and sits there while watching us for around 5 minutes. He waits for me to turn on my back and sleeps on my chest for another 5 minutes. Then goes to my boyfriend's side and he does the same thing. After that, he goes to sleep in one of his bed and don't disturb us for the rest of the night! ;)

Treize never bothers us while we sleep. He did it maybe once or twice (in 4 years) and he just wanted to get some cuddles. He usually sleeps on the sofa.

We don't know yet about our girl Maya (who has been with us for only 4 days). She is supposed to be a cuddler so I guess we might see her in our bed when she will be out of her safe room! ;)
 
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Luvkitties said:
We don't know yet about our girl Maya (who has been with us for only 4 days). She is supposed to be a cuddler so I guess we might see her in our bed when she will be out of her safe room! ;)
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Aww Maya. I like that name too.

Mine is a headbutter and she licks me from time to time lol.

The shelter told me she was a lap cat but she hasn't sat on mine yet. I've always wanted a lap cat. The only time my old kitty would sit on my lap is when I took her to the vet!! LOL
 
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Our baby kitty curls up with me when I nap on the couch. Occasionally she will sleep above my head and put her paw on my forehead. She's so cute.

I made her a bed out of my daughter's no longer used fleece Dora the Explorer blanket. It's really soft and she loves it. I have it tucked away in the laundry room so she can go in there and sleep if she wants to be by herself. She actually sleeps in there a lot.
 
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I dont let my cats in my bedroom...only reason for this is because my 1 year old sleeps in the same room and my cat Cricket just loves jumping in there and would rather not have to deal with her waking up...but once she goes to her own room they can come sleep with me again
 
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I'm a light sleeper as well and when we first got "lil mama", it was a couple of nights of getting very little sleep. Soooo, I put her in a cat carrier when she slept, and covered the whole carrier with a light blanket and she slept in that til she heard me get up in the morning. She was so little that we were afraid she'd get stuck somewhere and not be able to get out on her own but she's gotten to the point now that she's big enough to handle sleeping outside the carrier. We bought a "cat tree" for her, and the other kitties, and she LOVES getting on the tippy top little shelf thing and sleeping. Keeps her BFF(our chihuahua) from trying to play with her when she wants to sleep. He hates the tree because he can't figure out how to get up to her. LOL
 
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Since I didn't like the idea of a pet sleeping in my bed I made a bed for my Coppelia since day one. I used a small cardboard box, because cats are supposed to like dark somewhat secretive places and filled it with a fluffly pillow some warm blankets and a very big plastic bottle full of hot water tightly wrapped in a towel. It worked. Even now that the box is bigger and the water bottle is absent she sleeps there the whole night except that she wakes up insanely early to pounce on my feet and then, after I push her off once or twice she snuggles next to them. Usually I'm sleepy enough at that time to not put up much of a fight and surrender.
 
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Cleo talks in her sleep. Sounds funny, and it's cute most of the time, but lately she's been waking me up a lot. I mean, this girl can TALK! She eventually wakes herself up, too.
 
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Oh, same here! After kneading my arm for several minutes, Cleo likes to fall asleep with her paw on my face or arm or neck. Her purring relaxes me.
 
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From the first day I brought Mia home (7weeks old) she has slept in my bed. The first 1 1/2 weeks she slept in her soft sided carrier beside me. Then I let her out of the carrier at night and she slept at the top of my pillow. She would try to lay on my head at first but that only lasted a few days. Now she lays at the top of my pillow but has to have part of her touching me. I dont mind. Its nice. :) She has always slept the whole night through. Amazing to me as I have never had a cat that has done that. She is 12 weeks old now.
 
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I guess I'm fortunate in this area. I'm a VERY heavy sleeper. Almost all the pets we've had usually choose to sleep with me because I don't move at all during the night. Lilly, our latest kitten (Sable Burmese) waits for me to turn off the light after reading, within a couple of mins I feel her poking again my neck trying to get under the covers, I'll pick them up and she'll climb in! I pet her for a few minutes and then she goes down to my feet and sleeps there the entire night. When my alarm rings, she comes up to my shoulder and "lets" me pet her to say good morning.
 
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We've trialled having Bertie sleep in our bedroom, but he's just too restless. He gets really hyper while I'm getting ready for bed, so he takes ages to settle down. I'm not a particularly heavy sleeper, so he wakes me up really easily. He starts off on top of the covers on my boyfriend's side, then about 3am he decides he wants to get in with me, so he comes over, purring loudly, puts both front paws on my face and starts licking my face and hair until I wake up. Then he nuzzles my neck until I lift the covers. Then he settles down in the 'little spoon' position, cos I sleep on my side, and about 15mins before my alarm is set to go off, he'll crawl out of the covers and start the whole routine again.
I don't do well on such a broken night's sleep! We've tried having him in the bedroom 4 times now, and he's done the same thing each time, so we've concluded it's not to be.
We made him a bed in the living room from day 1, and I re-make it every night for him, so I can tell he does actually sleep some of the night there. It's a large fluffy cushion (like a large throw cushion) with a fleece blanket on it. I fluff the blanket up so he can crawl under it, and we put it in front of the fireplace so it's in the warmest place. I think he also sleeps on the couch though.
 
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Gatita and I share a queen size bed. We both try not to disturb the other while they're asleep, but it does happen that one of us will move suddenly and wake the other up by accident. Then we just cuddle a bit and continue sleeping.

Prince is less tolerating of my sudden moves in bed, so he sleeps wherever he's taken to sleeping at a certain point in time. He changes his sleeping place every month or two. Nowadays he likes to sleep at the door of the bedroom, watching Gatita and me sleep, or he gets into the closet by the bed and watches us / sleeps from there. He has a huge, super-comfy bed, but he hasn't used it since the winter. He's very big and quite long-haired for this climate, so I imagine he changes his sleeping place according to the temperature and seeking spots where the air flows the most, as I turn off the A/C at night.
 
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