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Partially correct. For sure a lot of it is getting attention, but they do care about the warmth. I've walked in to my office plenty of times to see my cat sit
by freedomben 7mo ago
Partially correct. For sure a lot of it is getting attention, but they do care about the warmth. I've walked in to my office plenty of times to see my cat sitting on my laptop when I haven't even been in there for hours. She will even find the laptop and lay on it when it's in random places around the house. Reproduced with three different cats over the yeras. The warmth is definitely a cat magnet.
- butvacuum 7mo agosometimes its scent too.
- saghm 7mo agoWhen my cats want warmth, they go on top of my desktop tower (or on my lap under the keyboard tray). If they're at the level of my desk, they're almost definitely angling for attention.
- nkapias 7mo agoNoticed that in my absence, cats hang where I spend the most of my time when present. If for a few days I only come home to sleep I'll usually find them on my bed. If I work at my desk for a week, then the next days they'll be found on my chair. And so on.. A somewhat reliable habit indicator.
- JumpCrisscross 7mo ago> Noticed that in my absence, cats hang where I spend the most of my time when present Mine too. I believe it has something to do with your scent being soothing to them. We tend to think of domestic cats as solitary creatures. And while it's true that cats are solitary hunters, they are absolutely a social species, a truth betrayed by feral cats predominantly organising into colonies.
- habinero 7mo agoMine take turns getting The Good Spots, so I wonder if they think it's their turn
- freedomben 7mo agoI should also add (too late to edit the original comment), that when the laptop is off and I haven't used it in hours, she doesn't care about it. It's only when it's on that she does (which is why I think the heat is a factor).