How can something as small as a cat take up so much room on a bed?

[skygazer]

No matter how big the bed? I mean, my cat is large for a cat - about 14 or 15 pounds - but how can a 14 or 15 pound animal take up so much space in a queen size bed that I am left with a small corner?

It's one of life's mysteries.

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[kentauros]

1. They understand the art of "sprawl"

Another 14-15 pounder:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Will.

[hibbing]

3. hehehe..awesome picture

Hi,
Great picture of your cat lounging. I find it funny how they can do that and then shrink too. I have a uh...rather large one and she still can somehow fit in her little bed. She stretches out and sleeps between my legs in my bed.

Peace

[Withywindle]

4. I often wake up with back and neck pains from sleeping in an unnatural position

'cause my little 10-lb tortie girl nudges me around in the night. She likes the CENTER.

My ex and I, when we lived together...had a very small bedroom, so we shared a twin bed like college students to have more floor space. On winter nights, the 14-lb cat and the 20-lb cat would both pile in. You can imagine the contortions. :rofl:

[fizzgig]

5. i think my girls take up more room now that we have a bigger bed

my husband and i shared a full size for nearly two years before we upgraded to a queen and i swear i wake up with less space than i did before.

[Arugula Latte]

6. Awwww! Maybe because their cuteness overflows everywhere

:shrug:

I've got an 18-pounder who sprawls perpendicular to my legs every single night. Very uncomfortable, but I love the big guy! :loveya:

[mikeytherat]

7. Kitty Rule No. 2

mikey_the_rat

[firecrackerfilms]

8. how cute

so greedy hehe!

[cwydro]

9. My cat does that...

but you just haven't lived until you have tried to make love in a bed with a Jack Russell Terrorist in it...

Just sayin...

[Quantess]

10. Please, have a seat.

(Not my cat)

[AsahinaKimi]

11. Mine sleeps on my legs

Its lovely to wake up with cramps and the occasional Charlie horse in the morning!

[david13]

15. Mine sleeps on my legs if it is not too hot, or too cold. Hot, he has

to lay without touching anything.
Cold, and he positions with his back to my chest, then falls back onto my chest and sleeps there, with his back against my chest.
Until last year, I had two. One on each side of me. They would fight for the preferred side.
dc

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. It's because cats have the ability to expand

to approximately the size of a water buffalo when occupying a bed. This expansion does not occur until the lights are out and your eyes are closed, however. This way they can maintain the false illusion of being small and compact and unable to occupy an entire king-size bed.

[cwydro]

13. Actually that cat looks a lot like my cat...

wondering where she goes at night...

[rrneck]

14. Catitude. nt

[Odin2005]

16. Sounds like my mom's cat, LOL!

[baldguy]

17. The cat expands so as to fill the available space.

Simple physics.

[Quantess]

18. This lady is trapped.

[GoCubsGo]

24. That reminds me of when I had three of them...

I know how Gulliver felt when he woke up among the Lilliputians.

[rurallib]

19. know what I like? The cold nose in the middle of the back in the middle

of the night. I guess that is a request to move over?

[kimi]

20. I would LOVE to share a bed with just one cat

however I have 8. I'm lucky if I can eke out a little breathing room in the upper 1/10th of the right side of the bed.

Oh, and it's not just the room they take up. It's the snoring, the occasional nocturnal squabbles, and the hunting of play mice under the covers. No wonder I'm an insomniac.

[bobmorr1]

21. Max in his bed

Max is 22 lbs. This is one of his beds.

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[zanne]

22. I'd have that picture framed.

It's perfect.

[Tabasco_Dave]

23. Just got a digital camera for Xmas

I have a perfect photo for this thread :woohoo:

Here she is fighting for the couch

[charlie and algernon]

25. my cat must be a weird one

she either curls up next to my feet or curls up next to my pillow, but either way I have enough space on the bed that I have no idea she's there till I wake up. Usually it's to hit the snooze button in the morning and I find the cat in my way. She's a 16 pounder, but she finds a way to make herself quite small when she wants to. Her favorite hiding spot is under the bed and it's quite something to see her flatten herself and squeeze under the bed, lol.

[Withywindle]

26. Cat trivia fact

They don't have attached collarbones like most other vertebrates. What does this mean in practical terms? It means that a cat can squeeze itself through very small spaces. If the cat's head can get through it, then so can the rest of the cat.


Also, they can teleport. Ever play D&D? Remember the Blink Dogs? Cats can do that. Trufax.