Cat lover (37): First reason to love your cat: It makes your feet warm

Bonjour cat lover.
For cat owner, if you sleep with your cat, it will be well-known that your cat sometimes or many times, it likes to sleep on or beside you. Typical location is on your feet. That makes your feet warm although sometimes that is uncomfortable when you want to move or turn.

What are the reasons that your cat loves to sleep on your feet or on your body?
This is a difficult question as well as other animal behavioural question. You can not ask him to understand why he prefer you as his bed at night.

Animal psychology is a branch of science that make observation or experiment trying to explain the behaviour, normal or abnormal and variation. The success of understanding their behaviour will help predict what is going to be happenned and help in training or correction of misbehaviours.

We observe that cat usually sleep at the location that is warm and save. For domesticated cat and indoor, inroom cat, there is no place saver than  that. Therefore they look for the warm place normally, near the heater or the windows in a day time and you are the warm bed for your cat too. So it is not surprising that your cat learns to sleep on your body, one of the warmest place in the room. It is safe as you are his protector. Perfect niche, isn't it?

Someone said that your cat loves you, so it likes to sleep on  you or besides you. That's a very difficult answer to deduce from animal. What is animal affection? Parental bonding may be a form of animal affection. They love to be grooming, hug, play with their parents when they was kitten. When they grow up, the residula of this instinct might pass to you, their protectors. So they want your love, care, gentle hug, pets, feed and then they sleep besides you. How's sweet the story. ;D

Other theory about the cat and human connection is smelling. Cat uses and is very sensitive to smell. It make territories by rub and outdoor non neutered cats will spraying with their pee. When you go back home, they rub your legs and make you his territories. So when you go to bed, your feet are still his territories and he sleeps in this owned-place,make sense?

So the first reason to love your cat: It make your feet warm. :-)))))))))))))))))))))))))