Conference misery::feline_v1

    Either that or the phone will ring and it is across the room.
    Or someone will come to the door.
    
    :^):^):^):^):^):^):^):^):^):^):^):^):^):^):^):^):^):^):^):^):^)
    
    Holly

    
    or....
    
    When you've been sitting up in bed reading, and a furry friend of
    yours is sprawled across your legs very comfortably snoring away,
    and it's time to turn out the light and get some shut-eye yourself...
    
    Now what to do?
    
    I think that cat-lovers are also prime contenders for "Body-Contor-
    tionists International".

    or ..
    
    The phone will ring so loudly (or another noise will be loud) waking
    the little one so that he or she takes off _fast_, leaving claw
    marks all over the owner.
    
    Steve Kallis
    (who has had this happen more than once)

    or..
    
    When they're finally all in their places up and around you and you're
    really enjoying this little family either your leg goes dumb or
    you feel a terrible itch....
    
    Boy do I suffer for those critters at times!
    
    Ad
    

    Or you would occasionally like to sleep on your side or, even, turn
    occasionally, but Sweetie has your shoulder staked out as "his place"
    and Holly bolts if you move.
    

    [re.3 'take-off and landing' marks:  I once had a doctor ask if
    I'd had gall bladder surgery after he located a three-year-old scar
    from one of these episodes...]
    
    Two sleeping cats are making like stereo headphones when the phone
    rings and the humming turns to raw static!!
    
      Annie
    
    

    
    I sleep in an "S" shape because Sebastion sleeps next to me up by my
    head on the edge of the bed, and Claude sleeps behind my knees.
    curled up, so she's right between my husband and me.  It is agony
    waking up at 2:00 in the morning because "nature is calling."  The
    silliest part is when I decide that there is no way I can go back
    to sleep, so I begin to extract myself ever so slowly up through
    the opening in the top, over the pillow, so I can climb over Sebastion
    and sneak to the bathroom.  The worst thing is when I get to the
    bathroom, after having successfully completed this maneuver, and
    both of them have followed me to keep me company. "Hi mom, want
    some company?"  
    
    Of course, if I succeed in not waking them up, it is yet another
    challenge to slither back into my little "S" space by sitting on
    the pillow and climbing back in... ever so slowly.  By this time,
    the alarm rings.
    
    The things we do for cats...
                     
    Amy

Right after we have all settled in for some tube watching (or more often,
reading) after dinner...Nicholas on my lap, Hannah on the chair next to
the couch..THEN Brandy, the dobie, decides she "has" to go out.  She
walks over and nudges Nick in the tummy, which causes him to protest and
swat her nose, which causes her to back up and sit her fanny down on
Hannah's chair....Hannah, of course, swats her fanny and yells and
stomps out to find Tabitha for a game of chase....Ah well, it was nice
and peaceful while it lasted!

    RE .7 
    
    Amy,
    
    I loved it.  Of course I do that too so I won't wake up Lightning
    or DejaVu (it's playtime guys).
    
    RE .0
    
    and the dog wants in.......ARRRRGGGGHHHH 
    
    Sandi (Lightning's & DejaVu's mom)
    
    

    Boy, does this all sound familiar!
    
    And does everyone else feel as silly as I do when, after having
    laboriously extracted myself from under and/or between cats, *just*
    as I'm about to get out without disturbing them, one of them bounces
    up and leaps off the bed in high dudgeon... Heck, if she was going
    to be disturbed, she might as well have done it before I had to
    play Untie the Pretzel!
    
    -b

    When nature calls early in the a.m. and Schnitzel has taken her
    usual half of the bed in the middle and I try gingerly to get out
    of bed without disturbing "herself", she picks up her head, opens
    one eye, looks at me as if to say "where do you think you're going
    at this time of night and did you really need to turn the light
    on!"  I always end up appologizing to her......
    

    This is something that happened to me last night and has happened
    a few times before.  
    
    Tabby is curled up right by my shoulder and Silver is curled up
     between my legs.  I have already gingerly slithered myself out
    of my position when nature called at around 1:00.  Of course, when
    I got back to bed both of them are awake and looking at me as if
    to say, "And where did YOU go?"  Then at about 3:00 I wake up and
    have a terrible cramp im my calf.  I jump up and get the cramp to
    go away and of course both wake up and look at me as if to say,
    "Will you PLEASE sit still so that we can get some SLEEP?"
    
    Holly

    I don't seem to have this problem - you see my cat is a zonker.
    When she is sleeping on my lap when the phone rings, I pick her
    up and run for the phone.  I don't think she really wakes up because
    by the time I reach the phone she is asleep in my arms.  When I
    place her back in my lap when I go back to settle down - she sort
    of opens one eye and says "What happened? Huh?" and then continues
    to sleep.
    
    I'm glad I don't have more than  one cat though - that would make
    things too difficult.
    
    Suzanne (mom of the zonked cat)

    I don't have a problem getting out of bed around Trouble, the problem
    is when I get back.  She has moved.  To the very center of my pillow
    curled up and looks so cute, what am I to do?  Shove her over of
    course :-) .  She really doesn't mind, but it does make me feel
    guilty.  
    
    Bernice
    Mother of Trouble

    I have just eaten and am soo full-and my heaviest cat Fiver
    of the 15 pounds jumps 4 footed in the middle of my tummy.
    
    I have about 7 pillows on my bed one of which is a special
    one for my back. Which pillow do the cats always hog? Of
    course.