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Samantha was my best friend for 15 1/2 years but she wasn't a lap cat.
My previous cat would sit in my lap for hours.
Someone on another forum suggested maybe she felt too big for my lap, I don't think that ever stopped a cat from laying anywhere, she would sometimes sleep in the bathroom sink and she barely fit.
So I'm wondering what percentage of Maine Coon Cats like lap time.
My MC Buddy has only been with me a couple of weeks, but as his confidence grows he is spending more and more time on my lap. Well part of him is as he is a little too big lol
Bruce & Shimba have been lap cats since day one,Merlyn was too stuck up & independant to afford you that pleasure as a babe but as an adult has become one,Wellynton Boots only lap sits at his convenience but loves to lay beside you or on the chair back {where he rearranges your hair to the latest spike style without the use of hair gel}Pansy P is a layer by your side as well & China RIP was up as close to your face as she could get with her arms wrapped round your neck & head under chin, gets a bit warm sometimes when you disappear under several kgs of fur & normally have to come up for air sneezing but wouldn't be without it at & it is a bl**dy good excuse not to have to get up & make a cuppa or answer the phone,sorry dear I have got several kg draped over different parts of the body,can't move.....
Of my three brothers only the biggest, Bertie, aims for laps. Sometimes Dicky will lie across me on the sofa if I am also lying down, but not in the lap.
If I pick him up MC Elvis is good for about 20-60 seconds of lap time.
He's jumped up in my lap exactly one time on his own since I got him. Started purring up a storm for about a minute and then hopped down.
That's the only time I've heard him purr loudly as well.
I think he doesn't like the lap both because he's way too big ( he can take up my entire chest and stomach if I'm laying flat )
and because he gets overstimulated fairly quickly. He's only two, so he may get more into it as he ages and calms down some.
He's extremely friendly and affectionate, but seems to prefer "near" or "next to" to actually being on a lap.
Mufasa definitely isn't a lap cat. If in a moment of weakness we pick him up and put him on our laps, he tries desperately to get off and to be quite honest he is so big and heavy - he hurts! He does like to come and lay beside you or at your feet so it's not the human contact thing he doesn't like. I'm guessing he finds it as uncomfortable as we do!
Jones isn't really interested in sitting in your lap. Sometimes you can pick him up and he might stay put for a minute before wandering off, but he's never come and jumped into our laps. He will come and lie next to you for a nap if you stay in one place long enough - he is napping on my desk obscuring the work I am trying to do as I type!
Little Flo isnt a lap cat, she is more of a foot cat. Her favourite move is to wrap herself around bare feet which is all nice and cuddly until she bites a toe, which seems to be part of the whole foot thing - this is not cuddly at all! Noah is not a lap cat either, but he loves to be picked up and cuddled and occasionally enjoys shoulder sitting, but laps - no!
Storm sometimes if he feels like it, for about a minute. He then prefers to cuddle right up next to you.
Benji sometimes, if he is about to fall asleep. Otherwise he has far more important business than being my lapcat :D
If it wasn't so embarrassing it would be great to post some pictures of us with our "cat hair styles",Welly has got to doing it with visitors as well now,although we stop him rearranging any of the ladies who visit if the men are happy we let him carry on & it amuses everyone how he gets his paw & pushes or pulls your head to get it into position so he can reach another spot,exactly how a hairdresser would do it.
Yep I agree NCarver the tounges are rather too rough for us delicate human beings skin but you can't offend by stopping them can you,the look of intense pleasure on their little faces just makes you have to grimace & pretend you are loving it,bless......
Teddy loves to lay on Dave's lap when he's playing Xbox (Dave, not Teddy...although given half the chance he'd be trying to play too!). He's also very keen to be on your lap if you're eating but I don't think that counts!
Roxy is the lapcat on our house, it's rare that Hector will get on your lap but he will come up to you normally in the kitchen and talk to you until you pick him up for a cuddle!
Roxy used to play on the Xbox/PS3 with Daddy before I 'stole' her!
I was worried how Roxy would react to Freddie as she used to spend hours on my lap but she just hops up and sort of snuggles around him when he is feeding (those photos will never be shared)!!, she also lies or sits by him if he is sleeping on the sofa, those photos I don't mind sharing. When ever she goes up to Freddie he just smiles and chuckles to her I would love to know what he is 'saying' to her but she will churp back sometimes.
We have a great video of Freddie in his door bouncer and Hector coming up to say hello.
None of mine were lap cats but in recent months Mitch (whose eight and a half) has started to half sit on my lap and Finn the youngest half sits on the other side so does that count as a whole Maine Coon on my lap?
I find Rasputin will quite often have a nap on my lap but it's very much on his terms... 90% of the times that I try and plonk him there he just ups and leaves...
Sarah sits on my lap at every opportunity - if my dlh Timmy is already there she just piles on top
Zack - has jumped up I think about 4 times only - he likes to lie on the couch next to me
Boris - jumps on my lap quite a lot but as he is a kitten his attention span is that of a gnat and off he goes again. Has slowed down since he bellyflopped into my scrambled eggs one night
Jimmy's not a lap cat at all, he tries bless him, his front paws go on he wobbles around and then sits down next to you, hes just big to be a lap cat. If I sleep on my belly I'll often wake up to laying on top of him but I have to push him off as it gives back ache lol. He does the hair playing thing a lot, I'll wake up in the night to find him wrapped around my head licking and pawing my hair, its gross!!
But I'm quite happy for him not to be lap cat, we have somali who is rather obsessed with sitting on your lap and it drives me crazy, she always head butting people to get on them. Much prefer how Jimmy follows me around all day and just lays at my feet/next to me, although it never really lasts long as hes always on the move, playing/killing anything that moves.
Our two maine coons occasionally sit on my wifes lap but never on mine. I don't think our British Blue has ever even sat near us!
my three are all different!
Inky loves my lap but i too think she is a little too big to be comfortable and so she ends up shuffling about until giving up and lying on the sofa next to me.
Echo is not a lap cat at all, any affection is all on her terms and i LOVE the rare event that she chooses to come for a cuddle.
but Clover...... she is almost annoying with it! all she want to do is be on my lap or be draped across me in some way! it is lovely but can get a bit much, if i kneel down to play with the children she is trying to fight her way onto my lap the whole time! and she has been this way since being a tiny kitten.
i think its just an individual cat thing rather than a gereral maine coon thing.
It's not true what they say. Both my lads are total lap-dwellers given half a chance. They just need both legs and an arm!
Chalie is a lap cat as long as he can be upside down and I think this is a size thing, he is very long and more comfortable this way. Fred is a demanding lap cat and snuggles right under my chin but not all night just for a while. Daisy if she feels like it. They are all different lol
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!!
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Morgan
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?
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!Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Morgan
However as Hector followed the OH on a 'stand up' visit and watched with a little too much interest for his liking :stressed: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 :rofl:
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Helen & John
This is 100% familiar, without the stairs or food bowls. Just the following in the night. And staring, bleary eyed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Helen & John
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):koolkat:
We do seem to do that a lot...........whoops!!!:shy:Quote:
Originally Posted by catslave