I’ve written before about Renton’s recent habit of sleeping on my pillow at night. I guess it’s not so recent now; he’s been doing it for quite a few months. There’s never been a problem with it. If he takes up too much room I just head-butt him a bit. Problem solved.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, Renton never sleeps all curled up like a normal cat. He’ll roll over on his back or stretch out his legs at funny angles. He tosses and turns a lot at night as well. Add all this in with the fact that he is the clumsiest cat I have ever seen and you end up with the incident we had last Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Sometime in the middle of that night I woke up to a searing pain on my forehead. My first waking memory is of me prying Renton’s paw, claws extended, off of my forehead. As I am doing this I realize that this paw is the only thing keeping him from falling over the bed — the rest of his body was dangling precariously off the edge. He must have rolled over too far in his sleep.<\/p>\n
Now keep in mind this is no ordinary-sized cat. This is a big-butt, twelve pound applehead Siamese that eats too much and runs too little. And he was hanging off of my head.<\/p>\n
Once I got him pried off he fell unceremoniously to the floor and I began gasping and sobbing uncontrollably. Hey, let’s face it: it hurt like a bitch and scared the shit out of me. It also didn’t help that I was half-asleep. By that time there was a very dazed Steven holding on to me, calming me down while trying to figure out what was wrong. Soon after, he threw the cats out of the room.<\/p>\n
Thankfully I’ve no horrid scars; they are in my hairline anyway. And even though I was nervous, I let Renton back on my pillow again the next night. Not that I felt sorry for him, you understand, but because if you shut the door on him he will shake it back and forth with his paw.<\/p>\n
All. Night. Long.<\/p>\n
I guess we would rather have sleep with the possibility of a maiming than no sleep at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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