Renni (my cat) likes to sleep on my chest too, but usually walks to almost my shoulder, stops, backs away, comes back, sits, drops to his belly, gets up, backs away, comes back... Same routine over & over again, always slowly, until I either get mad & push him away (he gives me a dirty look & settles for the lap) or he finally drops to his side & goes to sleep. I can pet him for hours, but if anything else disturbs him, noise outside the apartment, me moving, then he runs away like I kicked him out. I have to nap or watch TV w/o changing channels so he can enjoy his cuddle. Anyone else gets walked over again & again?

My cats seem to like me. Nobody knows why.

One former cat, Madea (rip, sweet girl) would sit in my lap and tip her head back until I leaned down and kissed her forehead. Of my current cats, Amy is a teeny tiny little thing but is very much the boss, despite Rory being twice her size. And before any Whovians think that their matching names mean they came together – nope, we adopted them separately, both as adults, and were very cautious about introducing them at first. We fully expected to need to take several weeks to work then up to being able to tolerate having another cat around. But Rory managed to bust his way into where we had the new cat, Amy, sequestered off on the very first day we brought her home. Amy took one look at him and the heart eyes haven't stopped since. They are very much a bonded pair now, they play together and groom each other, and get anxious if one of them has to go to the vet without the other. It's really the unicorn scenario of introducing two strange adult cats to each other.