Some cats love their freedom and want to keep private.
They choose it over human companionship. Others want attention all the time, and it can be a real struggle for their owners. For example, when you wake in the morning and you see your furry feline sleeping on top of you and is way too cute to be woken up. Or when you’re enjoying your Netflix time with your cat on your lap for the past five hours. This was exactly the case with Ziggy. Her owners, Rebecca May and her husband Alex gave her full attention but that was not enough. Therefore Alex got a genius idea to create a fake lap for her to sleep on when they can’t sit with her themselves.
London couple Rebecca and Alex first brought Ziggy home from a local shelter.
In the beginning, she was really shy and took a long time to get comfortable with both of them and her new surroundings. But as soon as she was comfortable with them, they couldn’t get away from her anymore since she turned into a real lap cat!
Now she’s already been with Rebecca and Alex for 3 years. She trusts them completely and is demanding! “She’s almost on you before you’ve even sat down – she’ll see that you’re near the sofa and her eyes go black, her ears go flat like you’re a target.
Once you’re down, she’s there.”
“Even if you’re not sitting, she’ll find some way to be on you, whether it’s your back or your shoulder! When we’re both sat at our desks, she will sit behind you and yell until she has your attention.
She becomes very vocal, but her meow is like a kitten’s. It’s so hard to ignore her, and she’ll yell and huff at the door if you shut her out, she gets very stressed.”
She loves to sit on someone’s lap, so Alex built a fake lap for her. “I think my husband Alex built the lap mostly as a joke to make me laugh!”
“We both work from home and had a day of phone calls and she gets quite vocal if we’re on the phone, but we can’t shut her out, so it was an ideal day for him to try it – but I don’t think he expected it to work. He took an old pair of trousers and stuffed them with a duvet cover, a towel, and a heating mat and she was on it straight away. The shoes weren’t strictly necessary…”
Ziggy doesn’t like the heating pad before, but she certainly loved it when it was a part of her fake lap. “I don’t think she’s fooled by it, but I think it must feel familiar to her. She stayed there for hours. That’s the longest she’s been away from us!”
“We’ve only tried it a few times as we’re usually happy to entertain her, but there’s the odd occasion where we can’t and these come in handy. But they’re a bit too creepy to keep up all the time, so it’s currently on an as-and-when basis!”
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