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I just used the 'other' bathroom (the one for guests that has none of my stuff in it...)because my 11 yr old Norwegian Forest Cat, Magick, was sitting on the toilet seat to keep cool in the bathroom in my bedroom. He has always been persnickety when it comes to being touched too much and lately he is paranoid that everytime I look at him I want to pet him...which is usually true! He has also recently developed a fascination for looking in the sink and bathtub, I have no idea why and it creeps me out a little bit---I keep thinking something with lots of legs is going to be crawling out of the drain...

Te he he he he! If we are going to give our cats names like Magick, Pagan, Witches (I had a cat named that many years ago) and suchlike, I suppose we really should expect them to behave a bit oddly from time to time!

Sikpiksie

Lisa, I don't find it strange at all. Many years ago, my cat was sharing my single bed with me (or rather, she was permitting me to lie on a sliver of edge) and I fell out. As I got up off the floor, she was peering over the edge with that whole "stupid human" look.

In order save face, I went to the bathroom so that she would think that was how I always got out of bed.

I have always had this horrible feeling that I didn't fool her one little bit!

LOL, it's so nice to know there are lots of other pet servants out there! I don't feel so alone.

I have proudly served as many as 23 cats in my life and now a big silly dog.

I think when our pet is sleeping, it looks so peaceful, content, and not to mention irresistibly cuuuuuute!! Lisa, I second for staying stuck with your cat!

You are lucky you can keep peace between two cats on your lap at the same time. I have a new cat Chloe, and she won't let anyone else on my lap when she is there. I try to keep her from it, but she invariably bites them so they will run away. She is the same way with my bed. She sleeps with me, and if either one of my other two cats get on the bed, she runs them off. I guess she thinks I am her private property. It's funny too because she is the new comer in the bunch, and isn't completely grown yet. But in her mind she thinks she is a fierce tiger. Mary Jo

I do the same thing. My cat is a "lapcat" and he loves sitting on everyone and anyone's lap. Unfortunately he will stay there for hours so its often hard to get up.

I'm so glad I'm not the only kitty caterer...I have 3 that like to curl up with me in bed. At night I can barley move my legs if I need to get up because I don't want to disturb them. My Simba likes to lay on me when I watch TV and many times I watch something I'm not crazy abaout because he's sleeping so sweetly and I don't want to disturb him.

Oh my gosh I have done every single one of the things mentioned here. Usually because I don't want to disturb, but more often because I absolutely LOVE the feel of the cat on top of me. I especially like it when I am laying on my side and he decides to stretch out the length of my thigh, hip, and waist area. It feels so comforting to me. I usually end up falling back to sleep when I really should have been getting up.

OK it's happened again. I was on the couch working on my laptop and Hamlet jumped up onto my lap and laid across both of my arms! What was he thinking! Now my fingers were pinned against the keyboard and I couldn't do anything. So I just waited there for 10 minutes until he decided to go get some food.

Now he's back and wedged against my side so I'm trying to type at an angle. This is really silly

LOLs, that's pretty cute. Hamlet so owns you.