To ask about my new kitten

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We picked up our first kitten today! (9 weeks old). We are keeping him in the spare room, however my partners snoring has driven me to the room with the kitten.
As soon as I came in, he hopped up onto the bed an put his wee head on my arm. I left him for ten minutes then decided I didn’t want to squish him so put him in his own bed. He then promptly got out and played with his toys.
Just as I was falling asleep, he’s jumped up to the bed again but put himself next to my pillow (between the pillow and a toy).
Am I okay to sleep with him their, I shouldn’t squish the wee thing? I think he’s probably missing his other wee kitten pals!

What a cutie pie ❤️💚❤️

How on earth can you not allow a tiny kitten, just separated from its mother and litter, to enjoy the warmth, safety and comfort of their first ever favourite human?

OK, you'll propably wake up at 2am with your earlobe being mistaken for his cat mother and 4am with him disappearing under the covers, but there's little danger of you squishing him.

Only thing I would say that up on your pillow only happens for the first few nights, then get him accustomed to sleeping down the bottom of the bed. It's cute now, but you don't half get a crick in the neck from a fully grown mog shoving you off your own pillow for 10+ years.

And of course you need to get a sibling. That gets both of them safely down the foot of the bed (or in a box) quickly.

Cute!

Oh, sorry to hear about his brother . Sounds like you're doing great with him.

YY to the bed sneering stink. Ours usually go for cardboard boxes and because we're completely under their virtual kitty thumbs, the house is full of tatty boxes, we've had a few that have used the nice beds as toilets and they've had to be thrown away if they aren't suitable for or don't survive a trip in the washing machine.

Aww mines a ginger too, although mines a little younger

It is one of the great privileges in life when another creature chooses to share your sleeping space with you, taking comfort from your presence and snuggling up to you. I felt rather sorry for a friend of mine that he had not known this joy in his life....

On the other hand he has never had to do advanced yoga to get out of bed to go to the loo in the night and tried not to wet himself climbing over a sleeping cat/dog.

That does remind me though of the time I stayed at another friend's house. He had just adopted 2 semi-feral kittens, both all black. Because they were so wild, you couldn't look at them, they took it as a threat. So I went to bed in the kittens' spare room, turned out the light. Absolutely pitch black. The girl kitten came in and jumped on the bed. I thought "awwwwww, dere is a wikkle kitten head on my weg" and went to sleep. Woke up an hour later wanting to turn over, looked up to see where she was. Even in the dark, I could see the expression on her little black face "oh how very dare you look at me." She got off the bed and stomped out.

Yours will stay with you if he wants and sleep elsewhere if the mood takes him.