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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-11 12:21 PM
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What's the largest number of cats you've slept with at one time.
Actually the cats come and go as they please.
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-11 12:24 PM
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1. Three, max.
It just feels like 50.
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charlie and algernon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-11 12:29 PM
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2. Two and I couldn't move
I let the roommate's cat sleep on my bed one night and I couldn't move. One cat was snuggled on my right side, the other on the left. I hated it, so now it's just my own cat who gets to sleep on my bed at night because she usually just sleeps at one of the four corners.
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haele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-11 12:34 PM
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3. four. two at the feet, one on my side, one pushing my head off my pillow.
It was a cold night, and I was the first one to go to bed. After everyone else did, they spread out, but dang, I couldn't move for an hour or so.

Haele
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-11 12:46 PM
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4. Three. Though they mostly rotate in and out of the bed all night.
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-11 12:54 PM
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5. Mine rotate in and out as well, but they always manage
to keep me pinned and immobile.
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-11 01:05 PM
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6. two----but
with Lilith on my back , and cat-Mandu in my face it feels like more!!
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fizzgig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-11 01:38 PM
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7. five
in a twin sized bed. it was the dead of winter and we were all nice and toasty.
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progsrock Donating Member (13 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-11 01:48 PM
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8. Two plus a spouse
Two cats are enough to completely pin you in if you have a spouse or significant other in bed as well. I often have my spouse on my left, one cat on my right side, and the other cat to the right of my feet and legs. Completely trapped!
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charlie and algernon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-11 01:59 PM
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10. two cats are enough to pin you in when sleeping alone too!
I had one cat curled up against the right side of the chest and the other was on my left down by my legs and I was stuck, haha! I roll around alot when I sleep, so I need room. My own cat has figured this out, so she usually sticks to the corners of the bed. However, my roommmate's cat is a cuddlebug and she curled right up against me and I think that confused my cat so she decided to sleep next to me as well.

That was the last time I let that happen, lol! Now the roommate's cat is ejected from the room right before I go to bed.
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bluesbassman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-11 01:51 PM
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9. Well, if you count the furry convention I stumbled upon back in '97...
:P
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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-11 07:30 PM
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11. Eight - but then I had to go sleep on the couch
Since there was not enough room for me in the king sized bed.
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GoCubsGo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-11 08:16 PM
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12. Three.
One by my feet, one in my face, one on the pillow. I am down to one cat now. There might as well be three, because she stretches herself right across the middle of my queen size bed. I get shoved into a corner
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-11 09:52 PM
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13. Who knows.
:party:
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-11 11:56 PM
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14. Two
One favored lying between the knees. The other favored moving to the pillow after we were asleep. I would occasionally awake with a cat curled around my head, purring, with a pair of green eyes staring at me lovingly.
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polly7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-11 01:45 AM
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15. Six ........ without knowing it.
Someone dropped off a box of tiny, extremely! wild kittens at my door. They hissed, and spit, and scratched me up ... eventually escaping to all areas of my house as I tried unsuccessfully to move them to a clean, bigger box. It took me hours to catch them again. My arms looked like I'd been in a knife fight. Except for one ... a fluffy little female who for some reason purred and snuggled up to my neck when I held her. She figured out a way to get out of the box-home I thought I'd remade to be inescapable. But it was fine, she basically followed me around and was playful and sweet. The others tried to get out, but couldn't.

Anyhoo, I put her back in with the rest for the night, and went to bed. About 3 in the morning, I woke up with a heavy feeling on my stomach and a warm weight around my neck. I tried to sit up, and heard more hissing ... once my eyes had focused I saw 5 little tigers poised on my stomach ready to scratch my face off ... and Fluffy, who'd been cuddled around my neck. While the rest scattered, Fluffy stayed, still purring. She had taught the rest how to get out of the box and brought them to me. It was the strangest thing. I felt a bit used.

Loved those kittens! They were adorable, and went to good homes.

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siligut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-11 07:55 AM
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18. Fun story
Thanks for sharing and for taking care of those fierce, little kitties.
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polly7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-11 10:27 AM
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23. Yw :) nt.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-11 06:43 AM
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16. five
it was when I lived on a farm - we had six cats, but one of them never slept on the bed
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-11 06:51 AM
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17. Zero
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woo me with science Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-11 09:09 AM
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19. Y'all are depraved. nt
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annonymous Donating Member (850 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-11 10:02 AM
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20. 2
It felt like more because my husband and I share a queen size bed. One of our cats likes to spread out when sleeping.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-11 10:04 AM
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21. 1
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-11 10:23 AM
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22. Just two.
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-11 10:42 AM
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24. A mental health psychologist/ social worker said in a training session...
Edited on Sat Oct-15-11 10:44 AM by UTUSN
She was conducting a training regarding performing mental health assessments for potential court-ordered treatment.

She went through a sample questionnaire checklist and discussed several profiles of likely clients. Toward the end, she said, only halfway joking, "If you walk into a house that has ten cats or more, just throw away the assessment tool and call the deputies!1"



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Demoiselle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-11 08:57 PM
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25. Three of our cats share our bedroom...
They don't all pile on at night when my husband takes up room....They tend to platoon snooze. However, if I sneak upstairs for a nap during the day, I am often treated to a three-cat cuddle.
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bookworm65t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-11 09:15 PM
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26. 3 on a twin bed
not very comforable
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-11 09:57 PM
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27. A cat is a small animal. Just a little guy, maybe about 10-12 lbs.
Some are bigger, but they really are not very big creatures. I don't understand why having a few of them on your bed could make even the slightest difference.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-11 11:57 PM
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32. It makes a big FUCKING difference when one of them has the "velvet paw"
:hide:

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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-16-11 12:18 PM
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33. It isn't the velvet part of the paw that's the problem.
It's the pointy parts.

The weird truth is that a cat on a bed magically assumes the approximate size and mass of a water buffalo. With pointy paws.
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liberaltrucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-11 10:16 PM
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28. Are we talking felines or other types of, uh kitties
The former, just two.

The latter, NYFB.

:)
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Capn Sunshine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-11 10:37 PM
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29. my thoughts exactly
Edited on Sat Oct-15-11 10:38 PM by Capn Sunshine
Stray Cat Blues
does your mama know you scratch like that?
I bet she never saw you scratch my back
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liberaltrucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-11 11:46 PM
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31. ...
:evilgrin:
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tonekat Donating Member (832 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-11 11:03 PM
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30. Cats at Rest take on the Mass of the Sun
And I'm always in awe at the ability of one 17 lb. cat to take up an entire Queen Size mattress.
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-16-11 01:53 PM
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34. 0. nt
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-16-11 06:13 PM
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35. When I was a kid I'd occasionally wake up with five or six kitties on my twin bed.
Yeah, we had a lot of kitties.

Now, three is max because that's all we've got. :)
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