Anyone have a cat who likes to sleep on your face?

Too funny. Well since you're posting, I assume you survived your teen years...Well done you!!! I also have a cat that can open drawers as well as turn on the faucet to drink. That one spends most of her time dangling from the very top of a sliding glass screened door. Or truth be told trying to jump on my bare back after a shower (mind you I didn't say shoulders...but rather...my back). Ever see the movie "Hellraiser"? Kind of like that but with more meowing. I can't be mad at her though. She is cross eyed and I think possibly mentally slow. She is a favorite of all the cats who clean her and cuddle her like a kitten constantly. I think they must sense she is a special kitty who needs patience.

Love to hear from kind cat lovers. Thanks for your response.


Lena

"Lena is high and mighty" IMDB-- posters 10/13

I've never had a cat that slept on my face. I've had cats sleep above my head on the pillow or next to me. My current cat will sometimes sleep on my stomach or back.

Oh, yeah, right across the ole pie hole. It's a man vs. nature struggle for survival every single night. If someone were to film it, it wouldn't really be as gruesome as a snuff film, and not as light as a fluff film. I would call it a snufflepuff film, or more accurately a Mr. Snufflepuff film.

As my little buddy slowly slays me all night long...

I think there is something very warm about the warm air of your human buddy's nose/mouth air...that is as they meet their maker... LOL And with this one, when I go to move him, he goes completely limp, and I mean, completely limp, like a paralysis patient with legs and arms dangling, and that makes me feel sooooooo bad....for some reason. I think there must be a neurological thing wrong with him.

Although I just took him to the vet to get fixed. I usually get my fosters fixed the minute they hit 2 lbs and definitely before 6 months so they don't start spraying, but I held back on him because I didnt know if he had a congenital heart problem. I mean he has the body of a 3 month old at 11 months? and the head of an 11 month old cat??? So, I was worried about the anesthesia. And, he has had a chronic cold since he was born (nothing works)

But, the vet checked him out and she said underneath all the purring, a regular heart beat. Thank you Lord!!! So, surgery after one more round of Zithromax...but...

Seriously, this little fella just has had his growth stunted his whole life so he is still kitten size at now around 1 year, so even sleeping on my face, it's more like featherweight. I just move him when I can, so I can breath around him. We can usually make a compromise. But, I am sure you know this. They can get PRETTY aggressive with THEIR comfort. While having complete disregard for yours. That is, say you move your little buddy off your head from the pillow because you have an important event the next day, you could probably do this 4-10 times before having to just give up I bet.

They do make good little heaters though... Especially if you are in the Midwest....brrrrrrrrrr....it must be frrrrrrreeeeeeeezing in the midwest right now if that is where you are.

Lena

"Lena is high and mighty" IMDB-- posters 10/13

My cat slept on the pillow next to my head and purred in my ear all night. Now when she wanted me to wake up, she slapped at my eyelashes. I guess they were fluttering in my dreams and she thought that was fun to play with them...a little unnerving. My sister had a cat that was taken away from its mom too soon and it nursed on blankets and curtains all its life. You would pick up a blanket and it would have wet spots where she had suckled it for so long.

On dwarf pets, we used to have a miniature Old English Mastiff. He was the runt and just never grew as much as his litter mates. He was just adorable - all the great traits of a Mastiff, but you didn't have to feed him as much. The thing about him, though, was that in his mind, he was just as big as the rest and he would put any of his bigger sibs to flight. Is it possible for the runt to end up being the alpha?

Now my nephew has a miniature Alaskan Husky. He got him from a rescue because no one else wanted him. He's just adorable, over a year old but half the size of other huskies. He, too, thinks he is the toughest dog on the block and bullies dogs three times his size.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Peace on Earth - Good Will to All (People and Dogs...and Cats)

You little cat sounds so cute and cuddly.

Mine doesn't sleep on my face, but he does sleep curled up beside my head and shoulders every night, and before we go to sleep he sometimes faces me and does the "dough kneeding" action against my face! He digs his paws into my face and mouth, pushing my face all over the place!

I try to move his little "hands" down to a less uncomfortable spot, like my neck, but he moves them back up to touch my mouth and starts pushing my mouth around! It's kind of cute, like the way a human baby being held by his or her mom will put their hand up to touch mom's face and mouth.

But it's annoying when I'm trying to get to sleep. I keep his claws trimmed and blunt but if there's one that's grown sharper and faster than the others -- ouch.

Very cute. They call that "making biscuits." Something tells me you knew that term already. I had a foster I called "biscuits" because of that. She was all white, with blue eyes, but curiously NOT deaf. Most cats with blue eyes and are all white are deaf, but not biscuit. What a beauty. So were her little babies.

From what I understand, they have pheromones in their paws and when they knead dough like that, they are pushing their scent on you and "claiming" you as THEIRS, so as to say "MINE...MINE...MINE..." OR "my human...my human...my human.." And, when they look at you and scrunch their eyes, it is apparently the same feeling of devotion. That's what I read.

There is also this phone app that you can buy with cat sounds that reflect the various cat moods and when you play them, the cats do respond. But, there is a disclaimer that you have to be humane about it, because the cats do respond to the cat sounds just like communication. Various sounds like, play with me, I'm happy, etc... And, I tried it, and I do get responses from my kitties when I play the sounds. Very wild. They do have language that they all sit up and respond to.

Have a great day, and thanks for sharing your story of feline love. You have NO idea how much it warms my heart to hear it. When you are in rescue (you may or may not be a cat foster...) you love to hear stories of people who love their furry family members, because when you raise these little ones from helpless bottle feeders, and then have to let them go, you hope and pray that their new families will be kind to them, keep their water bowls filled, feed them when they need it, let them in out from the cold in bad weather, and you feel a sense of abandonment, but you have to as there are so many waiting on death row to be rescued and moved on, you know?

In any event, it's a wonderful story, and thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Lena

"Lena is high and mighty" IMDB-- posters 10/13

Ah, you're welcome! I wish I could be a foster parent, but alas, I'd rather have a bigger home for that. I just have one kitty at a time, but my current biscuit maker (!) and my kitty before him were both from shelters, and one before them was a little street stray I took in -- and he turned out to be such a wonderful, amazing cat. They all have been, each one a different little person.

And I know that scrunch-eyed thing -- I always think of that as a "cat smile"! It's amazing when you do it back to them, they respond with even more scrunching! I love having sessions of "I'm smiling at you," "No, I'm smiling at you! with my cat!