Pets

started to watch me as I fell asleep. As soon as I reached the transition from drowsy to actually sleeping, he tapped my face and nudged me awake.

He did that every night for a while, but eventually I would get so exhausted that I'd sleep through his wake-ups and he gave up trying.

I never knew why he tried to keep me awake. Once he stopped doing that, he switched to snuggling up very close under my chin, and going to sleep with me. When I shifted position during the night, I could feel him shifting to accommodate me and continue leaning against me.

I got Leo from a friend who found him alone and huddled under her car when he was about 2 months old. He was weak and distended from worms. She cared for him a few months before giving him to me when he was 5 or 6 months old (judging from the degree of testicle descent). I'm guessing that he had abandonment and anxiety issues from losing his mother and litter and then being transferred from my friend's home to mine.