Cats are attracted to the warm and immobile

[erastes]

I'm sure you've all seen this already - thanks to matociquala for showing it. I've had exactly this problem this morning, only Severus likes to sit on my wrists while I'm on the PC.

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[catsintheattic.livejournal.com]

Too funny!

Thank you for sharing. :-)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I adore it that:

1. he doesn't actually pick her up and move her.
2. He says "you know, you aren't helping."
3. and then when he blows at her she just looks closer!

*dies*

[catsintheattic.livejournal.com]

I fully second all your points! The blowing and her looking at him had me laughing tears.

[cheshyre]

It was the wriggling around trying to shake it off that brought me to giggles and tears.

I haven't really had a shoulder-kitten before, but I suppose that position would make it difficult to pluck off without risking injury to man, cat, or shirt...

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It's just perfect. She knows fully well he doesn't mean it, too. His other videos are worth a watch, but not as funny.

[aunty_marion]

My cat Strider used to sit on my shoulder much like that. Mind you, she was usually purring and dribbling in my ear as well... I actually fully expected that cat, at the end, to suddenly lean forward and swipe at his pen!

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

No one said service to the Mews was easy.

My Spenser is a wrist-cat, too--he likes the mouse pad. It's warm, but he weighs 17 lbs...

[sinick.livejournal.com]

SNORK! Thank you for posting that!

Mind you he should rename her. Molly (at least that's what I think it was) isn't nearly as fitting as, say, Limpet.

[mongrelheart.livejournal.com]

Heehee! My cat Luba does that too. 9 lbs gets to be quite a weight after a while.

[mongrelheart.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, we exist solely for the comfort and convenience of cats!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It's her attitude that slays me. She is almost patronising. "I'll just keep quiet and he'll give up eventually- silly man."

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yes, I thought it was Molly - Limpet would be brilliant, she's obviously well used to being there!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I'm glad mine don't do that, I try to train Sevvie to wrap around my neck but he simply won't do it -he likes the wrist sitting.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yes, that would give you RSI pretty quickly!

[aunty_marion]

Only 9 lbs? Strider (and her brother Tigger) was close to a stone (14lbs) as far as we could tell.

"Hump? What cat Hump, Marster?"

[mongrelheart.livejournal.com]

Wow! Them are some big kitties!

[mongrelheart.livejournal.com]

Never had a wrist sitter. Had a couple of lap sitters, and one that liked to sit behind me. Lumbar cat support pillow, I called him :)

[aunty_marion]

I was most amused, some years after they'd moved out (with my flatmate, who'd moved to a house with a garden), when I went to the National Cat Show in London with my older sister; we were actually looking for Maine Coon cats, but we came across some others who looked nice and at the last cage I stopped, stared, and said: "Tigger! What are you doing here?" It wasn't him, of course, but quite incredibly like him (that's Strider in my icon - Tigger was similar but without the black patch under the chin), and when we looked to see what sort of cats they were, we found they were Norwegian Forest Cats. Which can, apparently, get quite large.

Now, we know who the mother of our two was, and she was a small brown tabby shorthair...