Cat sleeping on my face every night
Cats laying directly on a person's head or neck act like a heavy, hot mattress that can feel suffocating. This traps people in uncomfortable positions every single night, because shifting offends the cat and pushing them away just causes them to express irritation and immediately return.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
Share your steps and trade-offs so fellow engineers don't have to reinvent the wheel. No account required.
- 1Accepting it as a sign of affection or acting as a living pillowDid this help you?
- 2Putting a cushy cat bed right next to you on the main bed.Did this help you?
- 3Ignoring the cat's meows and consistently sleeping in a comfortable position for yourself until they learn.Did this help you?
- 4Buying a heated cat bed or a heated blanket that smells like you.Did this help you?
- 5Using catnip in a specific cat bed every night to train them to sleep there.Did this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I need him to stop using me as a mattress. ... But it’s also EVERY. SINGLE. NIGHT. And baby boy is HEAVY. And HOT.”source ↗
“The worst part is that I’m not allowed to move and have to be in the same uncomfortable position Every. Single. Night. If I shift positions to get comfortable, he gets personally offended.”source ↗
“If I push him off, he verbally expresses his irritation and goes right back on. There is no escape. I am being lovingly hunted in my own home.”source ↗
“she's always suffocating me or laying on the top of my head when I'm laying down”source ↗
“Yeah Mr. Nanners is 17lb. Sometimes he’ll move more towards my neck and I’m like “this is the day I’ll die”.”source ↗
“I had 3 years of my boy Peanuts sleeping on my chest before he passed and he was a heavy little fucker.”source ↗