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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5087288" data-attributes="member: 177">Cats (and dogs) are like people - they are individuals, and they each have their own behaviors, likes, and dislikes.  They aren't nearly as uniform as one might think.There are a few plausible ways for your cat to have gotten trained into this behavior.  For example, you mention that the cat will curl up next to you or on you - that implies you are sitting.  Your cat may have identified that when you sing, you're sitting and intend to be there a while.  Basically, you're telling kitty, "Hey, the warm bed's here!"There are other explanations, and among them is, "She just does." <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>