Thread: Jones does not understand blankets!

Synthetic here, unfortunately.

Actually, now that you mention it, he tends to go for me over the mrs most of the time. There must be a reason for that. The only thing I can think of is that I'm up before my partner in the mornings so I'm the person who always gives him brekkie. Maybe he's just trying to kick me out of bed to give him his food afterall? In which case he is a greedy little so and so because he gets biscuits left out for him overnight.

Originally Posted by Kobbs

Synthetic here, unfortunately.

Actually, now that you mention it, he tends to go for me over the mrs most of the time. There must be a reason for that. The only thing I can think of is that I'm up before my partner in the mornings so I'm the person who always gives him brekkie. Maybe he's just trying to kick me out of bed to give him his food afterall? In which case he is a greedy little so and so because he gets biscuits left out for him overnight.

We have the same, if either of us gets attacked under the duvet it's always the OH, we thought it was because he is a more restless sleeper but he is normally up first so it could be that Hector (it's always a boy cat!!) has decided it's brekkie time!!
He also gets his head turned off most mornings as he is always there when the alarm goes off and in his half awake state the OH just gropes for the alarm to turn it off and Hectors head is normally in the way!!!!

BTW we have a feather duvet if that helps with the debate

Hi,
I have to suffer through digging episodes every once in a while as well. What I found helps is placing one of their blankets on the floor next to the bed and hiding one of my old teddies underneath. When they start digging in the bed (and all they want is attention....and food) I put them on the blanket. There they can (and will) spend a few minutes of frenzied digging. After that it's quiet again.
Cheers,
HB
PS: And yes they will hit the unmentionables! Boy do they ever! Since mine are over 7 kgs each now I have been thinking about wearing a cup in bed ;-)

I have a great vision of all these cats digging up their owners to get food lol! To throw the cat amongst the pigeons, Mufasa digs the duvet after his breakfast which the OH has given him. It's me that he digs and not the OH, luckily I don't have any unmentionables but he is 8.5kg which is very uncomfortable wherever he lands or digs. He doesn't get much attention from his efforts, just me yelling 'GERROFF' as he jumps off the bed. It seems as if he has tried to lay peacefully but just suddenly the ears go back and he lunges at the duvet\me for no apparent reason. I'm still on the thought of the feathers being aggrovating

Bungo is exactly the same! It depends what mood he is in but when he is in a 'psycho' mood as I call it (which I can tell when his pupils are dialated) he see's the quilt as one big game and treats any bulge and slight movement almost as prey and he stalks and pounces on both me and my other half equally! (especially the knees, hands & toes.) To be honest we probably don't help things by playing along and teasing him, but he does often go to the extreme and we have to tell him off.

However when he is calm and in a loving mood, he treats the quilt as one big fluffy bed and uses me and my partner as his pillows. He will sleep alongside us and cuddle us for hours on end if he feels like it!

I have a synthetic quilt by the way :-)

Paris knows that it is I or the old man under the covers...I am a grabber so she tends to stay away from me...unless she wants to be cuddled.

She tends to bite and play ruffer with my husband, but when she plays with me and starts to bite or get ruff....I yip like I've been hurt and she backs off. (That's how I know she loves me, I think.) But the manly man, my husband would never squeal in pain..so he gets some hard bites.

Paris is not a cat of habit...she seems to never do anything the same.

This all sounds familiar. Ours - Indy - used to sped a good hour at bedtime stalking bits of us under that were under the duvet. Now as almost a year he will quite often fall asleep on top of the duvet between us at bedtime.

However, often as not around 3.30am the hunting will kick off - full body pounces from the end of the bed onto us, a quick nip of an exposed leg (I have found that he finds gnawing my elbows a big turn off), and generally far too playful. The solution to this that works for us is for me to grab him, haul him up to our endof the bed and try to snuggle him down next to me. That sends him rocketing towards the door, no doubt disgusted by affection at hunting time.

He has a small soft toy - a purple monkey - which he routinely slaughters. I have noticed that on these occasions it is not unusualy for purple monkey to be left in the middle of the bed. I think he is simply in hunting mode, and having brought us his prey, wants to play a bit. It's just a shame about the timing.