Conference misery::feline_v1

    I thought Snuggles slept in another dimension for a while too. 
    Then I discovered his hiding place.  There is a space between the
    top of our kitchen cabinets and the ceiling.  He likes to get up
    there (amazingly without falling trying to climb over boxes and
    such) and sleep.
    
    He also has his own chair (actually 2 chairs).  We have a directors
    chair that he absolutely loves (until he falls out the opening in
    the back).  The other is the loveseat.  If he feels like stretching
    out he lays there.  If someone sits in his seat he'll bug them till
    they either get up or they let him get up.  
    
    Sometimes, though not that often, he'll stretch out on the bathroom
    floor.  This is strange because the bathroom floor is tile and is
    usually cold.  I think he only does it when some one is in there.
    I guess he just likes to stay close to us.
    
    I would think he wouldl love the water bed but he I never find him
    sleeping there.
    
    Well I think that about covers it.  Anyone else have any strange
    places there cat sleeps?
    
    Kathy

    
    Paula has a small padded bag that she keeps her knitting in. The bag is
    slightly smaller than a curled up cat. If this bag is ever left out of
    the cupboard overnight, it is guaranteed that next morning, Lucy will
    be sleeping perched on top of it. I've seen her like this with the bag
    on the floor, on a heater, on the chair, and on a table. I have
    no idea why she likes it so much though.
        
    Trev 

    Serena, who is 13 years old, has 4 favorite sleeping places:
    
    1.  At night, she prefers to sleep curled up on the bed between
        Tom and I.
    
    2.  Under the stove pipe that comes out the back of our wood stove.
    
    3.  In the den closet curled around the chimney.
    
    4.  In the northeast corner of the den behind the corner cupboard.
    
    
    I did have a cat once (her name was Samantha) who liked to sleep
    in the bathtub!  She even liked to take baths, especially if there
    were bubbles.
    
    Ande

    I can understand what .0 goes thru.  Patches takes off and hides
    and there are times that I can not find her.  The only way to get
    her out from her hiding place is to tap on a can of cat food and
    there she is out of no where.  Her other napping places are 
    any place she can crawl under something an her favorite is crawling
    under the blankets in my waterbed.

    Jude
        

    Merlin loves to hide.  He sleeps when he hides.  In our house, he
    found a spot in the cellar near the ceiling behind some shelving
    that is almost inaccessable to humans, but _fine_ for him.  It is
    always in shadows, so since he's jet black ...
    
    He also likes to sleep next_to/on me when I'm in bed.  Flattering,
    I suppose (my wife says it's "cute" unless he or Karamaneh try sleeping
    on _her_), but the foot of the bed would be fine.
    
    When visiting my mother in Florida, circumstances resulted in us
    bringing our cats.  Merlin discovered two _dandy_ spots: under a
    bamboo chair in the reading room (unbeknownst to my mother until
    she lifted the cushion to adjust it and found herself looking into
    two shining eyes -- very startling when the tile is dark); and atop
    her refrigerator.  _I_ discovered that spot when he jumped from
    there to the floor, whizzing about a foot from my face....
                                                      
    Very inventive cat, Merlin ...
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.
    

    Aja has learned that if she opens the cupboard under my kitchen
    sink, she can get into the drawers under the kitchen counters.
    One drawer is full of paper bags. She spends hours in there!
    
    I've got some curious looks from visitors who ask "Where's the
    cat?" when I open up a kitchen drawer, show them the cat, and then
    put her back in the drawer and shut it.
    
    Edd

    Onyx (alias nix nix, the nix, monster kitty) likes to sleep on the
    wicker chair in front of the radiator in the front room.  He usually
    sleeps there on the weekends during the day when the sun is shining
    in or at night when we are watching TV or have company.  If someone
    dares sit in his chair and he sees them, he sits in front of the
    person and stares real hard.  He will then pretend to jump up but
    ends up stretching and proceeds to dig his little claws into legs.
    He did that one night to me while we were playing a pursuit game.
    That night, I got up and started walking away and he jumped right
    up and just sat there as if to say "you've got alot of nerve." 
    When he comes in from being out at night with his friends, he
    immediately goes upstairs to sleep on the waterbed.  He used to
    try to get under the covers but I had to put a stop to that.  He
    gets a little possesive with his space.  He used to sleep with
    Crystal (our black dog) on the dogs blanket during the cold nights
    but Crystal put an end to that.  Onyx started trying to feed off
    the dog.  Too much!  These two are a team, even though they are
    not both cats.
    
    Joy
    

    We have a small bathroom downstairs where we keep the litterbox.
    Our cat, Charlie, likes to open the door to the cabinet, and sleep
    under the sink! When he wakes up, he does exciting things, like
    taking the toilet paper and using it to sharpin his claws, or rolling
    it throughout the house -- his form of 'interior decorating'.
    
    Another of his favorite hangouts is the top of our staircase which
    has a banister that you can lean over and look at the stairs below.
    Charlie will jump up there -- and when he misses you hear a cat
    going down stairs the easy way -- straight down! No injuries yet,
    thank goodness, but I think he only has 6 of his 9 lives left!
    
    

Becky likes to nap:
    - under the covers (like a bed mole), especially when there's company.
    - on top of the cabinets over the refrigerator.
    - under my legs under the covers while I'm reading in bed.
    - under the headboard of my platform bed.
    - under the futon of my bed.
    - the corner of the bedroom closet
    - on my lap under the afghan I'm crocheting (or on top of the afghan - 
      this location is harder to deal with.)
    - in a sunbeam
    - on top of the TV
    - the top platform of their tree.
    - under throw pillows.
    - touching me.
    - under a pile of afghan and comforters.

Josh likes to nap:
    - in his carrier in the basement
    - on top of the linens on the top shelf of the linen closet (after 
      he's pushed half of them onto the floor, of course)
    - on top of the cabinets over the refrigerator
    - on top of the bookshelves
    - the shelf of the bedroom closet
    - under the bathroom sink (he only sleeps there because he's figured out
      how to get in there by crawling through a drawer he's opened, but hasn't
      figured out how to squeeze back out).
    - in the large kitchen drawer in his (my) old apartment.
    - on top of a pile of afghan and comforters that Becky is sleeping under.
      (the prince and the pea)
    - on top of a pile of afghan and comforters that Becky is not sleeping
      under.
    - inside boxes
    - any place he's not allowed to be.
    - on the next to top stair, where he can detect any movement in the 
      direction of the kitchen that might result in him getting a treat.
    - somewhere in the same room as me.

    One of my three cats likes to sleep and hide under our console tv.
    He even hides under it when it is going.  We discovered this one
    day when he had a bad cold and his sneezing gave him away.  Another
    time he hid out in a small kitchen closet behind a box of shoes
    and boots because he knew I wanted to put him in the basement before
    I left for the afternoon.  He is sneaky, sneaky.  He also sits up
    on the TV to watch me drive off to work in the morning and he knows
    he's not allowed there, ha, ha.  I have knick knacks on the TV and
    he is so dainty that he doesn't even move them.  The only reason
    I discovered this was a few times in the morning I forgot something
    and had to come back.  He looks soooo quilty when he gets caught.
    They surely know right from wrong.