Thread: Is Your Maine Coon a Lap Cat

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

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?

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!