Thread: Is Your Maine Coon a Lap Cat

Originally Posted by Steve Morgan

Like Storm (his brother), Raggles prefers to cuddle up.
Tilly likes to sit behind me on the computer chair.
Little Dot like any contact. (lap, arms, on feet etc)
Tia is constantly on my lap (including "sit down" visits to toilet!! The wife thinks this is hysterical)
Pomeroy will not tolerate any "touching" contact with me (except when I hace icecream), but will cuddle upto my wife.

The wife sits on my lap when this lot let her!!

Ooh I forgot about the 'sit down' toliet visits. Keeps will sit on your lap then but at no other time. We do call him the toliet monitor though as he always has to go to the toilet with us, even during the night he'll get up all bleary eyed.

Larry's way of saying 'good morning' is to take a running jump onto my lap in the bathroom. Ecstatic purring and face-butts until you get pins & needles, and a few swipes at the loo roll, just for a laugh. I have to heave him off rather firmly if I want to actually start the day!

Aren't they brilliant?

Originally Posted by Steve Morgan

Like Storm (his brother), Raggles prefers to cuddle up.
Tilly likes to sit behind me on the computer chair.
Little Dot like any contact. (lap, arms, on feet etc)
Tia is constantly on my lap (including "sit down" visits to toilet!! The wife thinks this is hysterical)
Pomeroy will not tolerate any "touching" contact with me (except when I have icecream), but will cuddle upto my wife.

The wife sits on my lap when this lot let her!!

Our two like to follow you to the bathroom, if you visit in the night they follow a little bleary eyed but follow just in case you can be fooled into feeding them (terrace house, downstairs bathroom, go past the food bowls to get there!!) hector will sit on the side of the bath(next to the loo) while Roxy will hop up for a fuss!
However as Hector followed the OH on a 'stand up' visit and watched with a little too much interest for his liking the OH now shuts the door on him, not too bad in the day but first thing he gets the MC choir on the other side of the door

It's great the stuff we share on here!!!!!

Originally Posted by Helen & John

Our two like to follow you to the bathroom, if you visit in the night they follow a little bleary eyed but follow just in case you can be fooled into feeding them (terrace house, downstairs bathroom, go past the food bowls to get there!!) hector will sit on the side of the bath(next to the loo) while Roxy will hop up for a fuss!
However as Hector followed the OH on a 'stand up' visit and watched with a little too much interest for his liking the OH now shuts the door on him, not too bad in the day but first thing he gets the MC choir on the other side of the door

It's great the stuff we share on here!!!!!

Ooh I like the MC choir bit. When Roy gets up in a morning the MC choir starts in our house as they all want feeding.

Originally Posted by Helen & John

Our two like to follow you to the bathroom, if you visit in the night they follow a little bleary eyed but follow just in case you can be fooled into feeding them (terrace house, downstairs bathroom, go past the food bowls to get there!!) hector will sit on the side of the bath(next to the loo) while Roxy will hop up for a fuss!

This is 100% familiar, without the stairs or food bowls. Just the following in the night. And staring, bleary eyed.

Yes I wonder why they want to come into the loo? We have the solo outside the loo until we come out

LCould our being on the "throne" be seen by a cat as same as them lying flat on their back to us, ie most vulnerable? Are our moggies showing us respect and adoration?

(Mod could you split this thread please between here and OffTopic etc. We all seem to have gone off thead a bit, ok a lot .. sorry)

Originally Posted by catslave

LCould our being on the "throne" be seen by a cat as same as them lying flat on their back to us, ie most vulnerable? Are our moggies showing us respect and adoration?

(Mod could you split this thread please between here and OffTopic etc. We all seem to have gone off thead a bit, ok a lot .. sorry)

We do seem to do that a lot...........whoops!!!