Is there an instinctual reason?

  • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Domestic cats are social creatures. One of the ways that they show and seek affection is through cuddling. It’s worth also thinking about their sharp senses of smell and hearing - they are engulfing themselves in the scent of those that they enjoy interacting with and/or considered family.

  • Jordan Lund@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    That was the hardest bit for our big boy to understand after my open heart surgery… no more chest sleeping.

    He curls up in my arm pit now.

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      1 year ago

      At least he grasped the concept. Did you show him the scars and train him from there?

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        1 year ago

        God bless him, he’s just not that smart… :) It was a lot of moving him and telling him no. He got it eventually.

        Rocket, the B&W, gets insanely jealous though. She’s camped with me right now.

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    1 year ago

    It is a convenient place should they feel the need to bite your nose or ears.

  • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
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    Cats will sleep on your lap/chest because it reminds them of mama.

    Cats will lay/sit on your head because it triggers their parental instinct.

    I have a cat who sleeps on my lap, or if my wife is lying down the cat curls up on/around her head.

    I guess that means my cat thinks I’m my wife’s grandpa?