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By Fluorescence 2025-06-2619:163 reply This matches my kitty.
I noticed her preference because if I lie on my left-hand side, she is a very happy little spoon and uses my arm as a pillow.
If I lie on my right-hand side, kitty is confused. She will take extra preparatory rotations hoping that one more turn will be enough for the problematic situation to resolve. After some hard stares, maybe an annoyed huff, she will reluctantly curl-up as a face-to-face non-spoon.
My boy Henry will always choose my right side, tucking under my arm and his head on my chest. Which is him in a "leftward" position then.
He'll work out some kind of arrangement if I'm laying on my left side and he can't lay on his left, but if I'm lying on my back it's always to the right.
It makes you wonder about cat-person compatibility based on the person's preference for how to lie down and the cat's preference.
By amy214 2025-06-2717:31 My Professor Fuzzlebottom never sleeps on his side Mr. Fuzzlebottom always sleps on back like a hu-man
By graemep 2025-06-2710:08 > My boy Henry will always choose my right side, tucking under my arm and his head on my chest. Which is him in a "leftward" position then.
OK, but what does your cat do?
By bobbyi 2025-06-2623:51 That could be habit if she got used to one side rather than brain asymetry
By kjkjadksj 2025-06-270:06 All the cats I’ve had have a preferential side to sitting on the lap or being carried around. Trying to do it the other way the cat would either fuss and reorient or be so awkward and clumsy in the wrong orientation, akin to trying to use ones non dominant hand.
I should take some data. I've got enough cats to border crazy-cat-lady territory. I had the impression that they sleep in random positions -- basically, whatever shape they were in when the urge to nap came upon them.
I'll keep an eye on them and see if they have a preference that I'd missed. It won't be all that useful -- if nothing else, the specific preferred sleeping places of my house could have more to do with my layout than any underlying mechanism in the cat. But I'd kinda like to know if there has been something staring me in the face all this time and I just didn't put it together.
By skipkey 2025-06-274:13 I resemble this remark. My wife and I run a feral/stray cat rescue, and anecdotally, this seems to be true, with a few caveats. In particular, the ferals tend to sleep with their backs to a wall, which overrides the left/right preference, the strays not so much.
I agree, obviously purely for the scientific value of the sleeping cat pictures of course..
i want the list of all 408 videos to verify the data and reproduce the results.
The list of links is in the Excel file in the attachments, so it should be reproducible.
By em-bee 2025-06-2623:14 thanks. i opened the pdf to look for the list instead of scrolling down. the pdf mentions two supplemental tables but doesn't say that those are the videos.
By bigiain 2025-06-2622:53 "Hello Ma'am, we're from the government. We're here for your cat, the one in the YouTube video. We need it to attempt to reproduce scientific research."
