My 18 pounder would tip-toe up and down my torso while in bed, go & purr in my ear, then lick it? Then work his way to the eyelids. Kind of hard to ignore!
Mine didn't meow, tho...just turned up the 'purr box'!

I sure needed that good laugh- Simon & his cat are good therapy!
THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!! - J

Pandas whiskers are so long that she doesn't even have to get right "in my face" for me to know she's there! She makes a little half purr/half meow sound till she knows I'm awake. Once I get up to use the restroom I come back to find her curled up in the warmed up spot in the bed.
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Yep.... if she is on the warm spot, you cannot have it.

Our late girls did that to me upNorth all the time. It gets cool at night up there.

I have a photo in fact of this:
By the time I get back from the outhouse, they are settled in.
This pic was taken with my night features on my camera. It was just dawn with the sun coming in, about 5:30am.

The year I injured my left leg, I couldn't walk well or get in or out of bed well, and I was really strung out. It was the year of Katrina too. Late August. I hobbled out to the outhouse and Sheba took over the bed. When I tried to move her, she BIT me across the palm! I remember just losing it and blubbering away. It was like a last straw of pain for me. When we got back after Labor day, I finally went to PT and it got much better with ultrasound and IFc. But that time Simon's Cat would not be funny at all.
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