My 2 kittens love lights directly on them???!?
I have 3 kitties. 1 is almost a year, 1 is 4 months, and 1 is 2 1/2 months. The 2 young kittens like to sit on top of my computer tower right underneath or near the desk lamp when its on… If i turn it off, they will meow for me to put it on and then either take turns laying there, or curl up together and sleep with it directly on them..
My fiance jokes around and says they are "sun bathing", or "tanning". that is exactly what it looks like too!…. Like they are just basking away in the "sun" lol!
it is funny and cute, I at first though it was just a quiet place for them to sleep and they liked that, but I am realizing now that it is in fact the lamp.
The 2 1/2 month old kitten does it more than the 4 month old, but they both do it. They sometimes even fight for the spot lol! Right now my 2 1/2 month old kitty is laying under it and sleeping away. If i turned it off, he’d get up and sleep somewhere else, like on the bed or his their cat tower.. so that is how I know it is the lamp.
Question… Is this weird?? Normal?? why do they like the light so much??? my almost 1 year old kitty doesn’t care about it at all and I never see her doing it.
My fiance says it has something to do with how kittens can’t control their body temperature like newborn babies can’t??. they like to feel warm because when they were with their mother and litter mates, that is how it felt…
Is he right?
thanks!
sorry for a few typos.
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My cat does that too- she’ll curl up to sleep under any lamp. I think it’s the warmth rather than the light she’s going for.
My mum’s cats have strange habits. One decided it would be a good idea to sleep in the fruit basket, and now they fight over who gets to cram themselves into it! They’re all adult cats, and the basket isn’t that big. Apparently it’s the ‘cool’ place to be.
thier body temps are a bit higher than ours, and they like to be warmer than us, most of the time. and mine lay in the sun all the time. it may be because they are little and need a little more warmth.
like lexxbirdlady said, it’s not the light, it’s the warmth, your kitties enjoy the warmth that comes off the light, if you were to put down a warm towel or a heating pad (don’t do the heating pad tho unless you are in the room watching them) you will most likely have the same effect
cats like warm spots. Some cats move with the sun, so as the sun moves and shines on different spots during the day, the kitty moves with it from one shone upon spot to the next.