Nocturnal beasties

[chickenfeet]

Last night, for the first time, we didn't shut the kittens in my office when we went to bed. While there weren't any accidents or anything it wasn't an entirely successful experiment. Our bed just isn't big enough for two primates, two bengals and four nutcase furballs. I was rather too nervous of rolling over and squashing a kitten to really sleep and having a wet nosed bundle of fur appear on one's face unexpectedly is a bit disconcerting. In the end, the lemur (not sure at what hour) rounded them up and hied them to the office. At that point sleep became possible!

Comments

[lemur-catta.livejournal.com]

Personally, I can sleep fine with the full set of felines. I just don't trust them to find their way to the litter box in the morning before I wake up. There's a first time for everything but , with previous groups, there's already been a second and third time for cleaning poop off my boots :P

Felines in the bed

[lisajulie.livejournal.com]

Back in the day, I shared a single (twin) bed with a boyfriend and _three_ kittens on their way to cats. Choreographed tossing and turning was the order of the day. The tuxedo pattern slept on the pillow between our heads and the headboard; the chinchilla Persian between me and the wall; and the polydactyl tortoiseshell on the uppermost hip.

I did wake up at one point convinced I had squished the Persian, so I shook her until she squeaked. I then pronounced "you're alive!" and went back to sleep. She stomped off to the bottom of the bed for the night.

We couldn't keep them out of the bedroom because the Persian had discovered that she could rattle the bedroom door in a fashion that could not be ignored.