How to get a cat to stop sleeping on your legs
Cats sleeping on or under the blankets around the lower body cause trapped claustrophobia and sleep disruption. Owners struggle to discourage this behavior without making the cat feel rejected or unwanted.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Picking the cat up and moving it off the bed
- 2Gently pushing the cat off repeatedly
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 really hate it because it makes me feel claustrophobic like I’m trapped under the blanket especially when she refuses to move until I have to actually pick her up and off, squeeze by, or move enough to annoy her.”source ↗
“I don’t want her to feel rejected or like I don’t love her or don’t want her near me or by that specific part of the bed, but I really need her to understand that I don’t like when she pushes herself under my lower half when I’m trying to sleep so that I can actually get some sleep.”source ↗
“Ummm she’s on my chest now…. I have no personal space. This is her house. I just pay the mortgage”source ↗
Where this came up
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