Is Your Bed Off Limits?

[cruisetime]

Ok we just got our first cat and I have let her everywhere (not to my hubby's liking at first but he gave in gracefully) except our bed. I do agree with him that I would prefer that to be ours alone. Right now we have her closed up at night in the spare bathroom and vanity area with litter and water and food. He wants to let her out at night and leave our bedroom open and not have her on the bed - like that could happen - you all know she would be up there at night! What should I do - let her roam and shut our door? Keep her in the bathroom vanity(she doesn't seem to mind)? Or just tell my hubby ok and have him wake up to find her in bed with us? Thank you, Dbbie

[RedHedd]

My bed is definitely NOT off limits to the cats, in fact I encourage them to sleep with me. A bed feels empty without a cat on it IMHO.

[DJFyrewolf36]

Originally posted by RedHedd
My bed is definitely NOT off limits to the cats, in fact I encourage them to sleep with me. A bed feels empty without a cat on it IMHO.

Yep, me too!! I couldn't imagine my bed without a kitty butt in it!

[aguu]

Ok we just got our first cat and I have let her everywhere

LET? - HMNN you ARE new to the cat world!!

I too just love having a kitty in bed - they are like fuzzy hot water bottles!!!

[Craftlady]

Thumper is our nightly bed mate.
Skinny and Eleanor join in on occassion.

[catcrazylady]

We never wake up with less than two or three in the bed with us. I never ever want my bed to be cat free! I wish they would be less hoggish at times but I never want them to leave.
I realize this is a personal choice but if you leave your door open she will be in the bed. Cats love the warmth of snuggling in bed. I think that if I was determined to not have a cat in the bed I would just shut my bedroom door. Although, at my house that would result in howling, screaming, scratching and all out cat fits if I didn't let them in!

[mina'smomma]

Originally posted by RedHedd
My bed is definitely NOT off limits to the cats, in fact I encourage them to sleep with me. A bed feels empty without a cat on it IMHO.

Mina sleeps with my fiance and I too. Its the joy of having cats. They make great bed partners when the others are away.

[Logan]

I would prefer that at least Mimi not sleep with us, and she rarely does (she prefers my daughter). Not only am I a very light sleeper, and Mimi is one of those that wants to be on your head, my husband is very much an asthmatic (sp?) and she doesn't need to be near his face. Butter usually sleeps beside me or at our feet, but he wakes up around 4-5 am and wakes us up, banging the blinds to go outdoors. What a pain! One or the other wakes me up no less than 2 times each night for something and it does drive me crazy! If they could cuddle up at our feet and sleep while we sleep, I'd be fine with it! For the same reasons, our dogs no longer sleep in our room, but we've not found a way to keep the cats out!

[cubby31682]

Cubby has to sleep in my bed. If he doesn't I wake up in the middle of the night, walk out into the livingroom and grab him. Then I put him on the foot of the bed and grab 'his' blanket and cover him up then I go back to sleep. My feet stay warm, and I feel safe with him there. Even though my husband is right next to me, I know Cubby would run and hide under the bed if any one came into the house but it's just a sense of security for me.

[Randi]

When we first got Fister up in our flat, I said, he's not coming = allowed in our bed!! How naive I was. Of course he's in our bed!

However, he doesn't really bother us at all, he has a habit of coming up to cuddle when we go to sleep, then 15 min. later, he finds his own space around the flat and occasionally comes up to see whether we're still asleep. If we are, he waits - thinking about this, I'm amazed how civilised he is!! He does come up in the morning when we're awake, to have his cuddle session - and we enjoy it immensely!

He always comes up to snuggle in the evening if we're watching TV. We wouldn't have it any other way.

[catland]

open door=cat on bed. The choice is yours.

(actually, the real secret is to wait until its your husband's idea )

[smokey the elder]

Try to keep a kitty off the bed (0r anywhere else she wants to go... )

[Tina]

They are allowed on the bed during the day. But not during the night. We tried it and all they done all night was romped around and played. I had to end up putting them out of our room so I could get some sleep.

[Lacey]

Both of mine are allowed on the bed, and I never know they're there until I wake up and see them. In fact, even though I leave the bedroom door open so that Zelda and Mowgli can join me, half the time they snooze on the recliner. Until I hit the snooze button when the alarm goes off - then Mowgli comes to see me for snuggle time.

Just a quick warning! If you let your kitty on the bed, if she's feeling playful, she may spend a few minutes playing "pounce whatever moves under the covers" before she settles down to sleep. Fun little game, but it'll keep you awake as long as your kitty feels like playing. When my folks were cat-sitting Zelda for me back in June, they refused to let her on the bed. Well, apparently one night Dad got up for some reason, and she slipped into the bedroom. She probably would have gotten away with sleeping on the bed last night if Dad hadn't moved his hand under the covers when he'd gone back to bed. Because sure enough... POUNCE! Poor Zelda was promptly put out of the bedroom. So be ready for bedtime playfulness!

[slick]

My cats go anywhere they like, except the kitchen and on the dining room table. Believe it or not, I have them trained.

I dated a guy for a couple of months back in 2001 until he said that if he stayed over the cats could not sleep on the bed. I promptly told him to hit the road.