One troper has a dove whose favorite perches include heads of human household members. She's even been known to perch on the cat a couple of times (good thing for her he's elderly and lazy, with no apparent prey drive).

This troper's grandparents had a cockatiel that did that.

This troper had a pet parakeet which perched on her head while she did work. However, the parakeet's charming habit of singing in her ear evolved into the less charming gesture of unexpectedly snipping her hair into bangs with its beak.

This troper also had a parakeet, it really liked to climb on his shoulder and go to the back of his neck for some reason.

This troper wants a pet like this. Toilet-trained, of course.

This troper tried it with his cat. It was not one of the better ideas he's had.

This troper has a bengal cat, who if he likes you will sit on your shoulder, which is fine as long as you're not wearing a thin or shoulderless shirt. As his owner, Laz will actually lie down on my shoulder sometimes. He has occasionally attempted to climb onto my roommate's head when she was wearing a hat, but ultimately didn't care for it.

This troper's sister has a guinea pig which runs up to people's shoulders/necks and sits there.

This troper's pet hamster Cosmo is perfectly content to sit on her shoulder while she does her homework. However, if she ignores him too long, he'll become restless and attempt to climb up the side of her head.

This troper had this experience with a kestrel, Atticus, a permanent resident of a rehab center whose preferred perch was a person's head. This was more tolerable if you wore a hat, since those talons hurt.

Additionally, at one point in a heated argument, I said, "Listen, if this was a perfect world, I'd have an ocelot on one shoulder and a peregrine falcon on the other"

One of my cats (now living elsewhere) liked to sit on top of my rocking chair when I was sitting in it. And she'd sometimes bite my hair for no apparent reason.

My cat, named Atomic sometimes does this...when you're sleeping. So if you find it difficult to breathe it may be caused by an inexplicitly heavy cat shoving it's butt in your mouth (Thankfully, her tail covers up the part which you'd really not want to be breathing into.). Also, I have a wish to get a pet crow called Sebastian, train it to rest on my shoulder, put on a long dark cloak and overlook the misty English landscape. Sadly I have no knowledge of how to train a crow, nor can I bother right now.

My fiancee's chameleon, being an arboreal species, isn't happy while being held unless he's on the highest point on your body. If you don't hold him above shoulder height, he'll climb up your arm, sit on your shoulder for a moment, then attempt to scale your head. Thankfully he can't really get a grip, although those claws are surprisingly sharp, and it ''hurts'' when he grabs your ear >.<

Ever had a pet rat? They'll wrap their tail around your face for balance.

This troper's beloved first hamster, a Black Bear type named Colette, rode on her shoulder frequently. Colette's successor Sammy would also do this, although he preferred the other shoulder.

This troper once attempted to get a kitten to sit on their shoulder. The kitten didn't co-operate. In a more literal case of a HeadPet, this troper has a pond in their garden, which has a number of frogs visiting it annually. This troper's sister is an animal nut who always plays with the frogs, whether they like it or not. Somewhat predicably, this troper once saw her sitting on the lawn with a frog perched on her head, although said frog soon made a break for freedom.

Be glad the kitten training didn't work out: My kitten was quite happy to sit on my shoulder. Then she became a big, heavy cat with very sharp claws, who LEAPT onto my shoulders, and clawed up my whole back while mewing cutely. It took ''years'' to untrain her.

Not actually an animate example: this troper got her first Beanie Baby (at age 11) around Christmas 1995, before the craze really hit. She was so delighted with the gift that she wore it on her head to the mall for Christmas shopping. Her father was really amused by all the boring suburbanites going "lookit that girl with the cow on her head!"

This troper's family used to have a dog who sat on this troper's head. Once. The photo is still pulled out occasionally.

Photos like that usually are.

This troper used to have a pet rat that loved to sit on people's shoulders, and sometimes heads. It was very cute.

It's fairly common for rats to sit on people's shoulders. You can also train them to sit in pockets.

This troper rescued a tiny three-legged kitten that was hanging about outside the grocery store she worked at one rainy night. I put him in my lap as I drove home. He climbed the seat of my truck to the top of my head, I reached up and put him back in my lap. He climbed up to my head again. I put him back in my lap. He returned to my head, and I decided to leave him there. When I got home, I honked the horn, so that my husband would come outside (we already had two other cats and a dog and if the third was going to be a problem I didn't want to bring him in without warning.) When my husband got to the door of the truck I greeted him with "Honey, there's a cat on my head." Trivet lived a long and happy life with us and never again sat on anyone's head, although he would sit on both the back of the couch and your shoulder at the same time.

For the record, this troper has just let out a number of successive squeals. "Aww! Awww- ''awwwww!''"

This troper's cat partiallly subverted this as I was laying down when he did it, but he used to rest on my head to the point where I couldn't get up until he was ready. And then there my pet rat who would, from my hand, run up my arm to my shoulder go over my head to the other shoulder before running down that arm into my other hand. But I don't know if that qualifies for this page.

This troper's pet ball python frequently clings to her ponytail or otherwise rides on her head or shoulders.

Every cat this troper has ever had would, as a kitten, perch on her shoulder. Perch on EVERYONE's shoulder. As this troper is typing this, a kitten has just clawed it's way up her leg and back and is now on her shoulder. Excellent timing, Ratchet!

You named your kitty Ratchet? Marry me.

This troper's grandfather raised Pomeranians, one of which would curl up on top of his head while he napped in his easy chair. In photographs, the effect is distinctly Donald Trump-ish.

Every bird this troper has ever had loved to sit or ride around on people's heads, especially her current one, who'll really make a fuss (and a few holes in your hand) if you try to take her off before she's good and ready.

This troper's sister,who likes to wear hoodies, once owned two rats who she liked to keep in her hood. eventually, whenever anyone picked one of them up, the first thing they did was climb up to their shoulder and hang around there, though they'd curl up in a hood if there was one.

This troper once had a pet magpie named Ricky. He, of course, liked to sit on your shoulder, or your head. This went coupled with a great love for pecking into your earlobe and hanging on while you flailed spastically. Fun times.

This Troper's cousins' pet cat would sleep on people's heads, if they were also asleep or just not moving (such as watching a movie). However, once on your head, you had two choices - sit there until it awoke or got bored; or get clawed to death if you moved or tried to escape. Psycho cat.

{{Usagi-Zakura}} once attended an agriculture school where this frequently happened while she was feeding the birds. Punky the Cockatiel also liked to pick things of her hat.

At one time a budgie had died the day before without her knowing. I noticed because nothing sat on her head while she fed the other budgies...

She also enjoys putting various rodents and baby rabbits in her hood/shoulder.

This troper's mother had a childhood parakeet who would happily fly from one person's head to another. Sadly, this all ended when the poor thing aimed for a head and accidentally flew straight out an open door, and was never seen again. Now this troper's family has birds of their own, and is extra-careful not to leave doors open- though none of our current pets would ever choose a head as a perch. But our birds, naturally, are quite fond of shoulders, and both of them (cockatiel and amazon parrot) have the unfortunate habit of hopping onto them without forewarning their owners.

When this troper was a kid, we had a cat that would perch on the back of my mother's chair during dinner, when my she was done eating, the cat would move onto her shoulders as my mother moved to the couch. This would happen ''every night''.

My sister's cat evidently wakes her up this way.

The closest thing for me to getting to this was for a balloon artist to make me a parrot and stick it on my shoulder.

When this troper was young, his family kept chickens in a coop (actually, we still do). He had a habit of letting them sit on his shoulder or his head (though the head was less comfortable - claws!).

Ooh, childhood memory resurfacing! This she-troper had a friend's father who insisted on having Mexican Red Knee tarantulas (defanged and well-fed, of course) as head pets for his son and himself - pretty cool watching afternoon TV with a tranquil nightmare as a matching living hat, at the side of your best friend, eating Pringles when said troper's mom comes over to end the play-date.

My friend has a tarantula that she can wear on her head. I want one!

This Troper's little sister received a Webkinz Hedgehog, which was promptly name Head Hog.

Once upon a time when my dad was still courting my mom, she had a cat that liked to sit on the perch of doors. Then drop on people's heads surprised that a door opened. With claws. It got to the point that my dad developed a superhuman ability to sense what that damned cat was about to strike, allowing him to eventually swat the fucker away. After the first time, it stopped sitting there. And we never owned a cat again.

Mammalian biologist friend of this troper found out that if you ''don't'' let the queen of a ring-tailed lemur group sit on your head and groom your hair, she gets upset and bites you until you do. And those things are NOT fun to have bit you. (He had 12 stitches in his hand from one who just calmly walked over and bit him after ignoring him for a full 10 minutes.)

This troper owns a cat that isn't really fond of human contact, but WILL lie down on top of whatever headrest that has a person leaning on it. She'll frequently sprawl all over it, enough for her paws to touch the occupant's head.

One year at summer camp, I found a small lizard had crawled onto my black hat (it was sunny and warm out.) It stayed there all day and people kept asking me about it. It finally left sometime that evening, I'm not sure when.

This troper has had a few headpets. Primarily a Madasgacan Hognose snake that loved to sit loosely coiled around the neck. Had a small tree boa as well, but being arboreal (and quite a meaner) it liked to squeeze a bit much. And during the time I worked at a pet store we had a Scarlet Macaw and an African Grey that loved people perches too. Thankfully they preferred the shoulder, their talons being quite large and my head being shaved, this was most appreciated.

This troper's dachshund mix will jump up on the back of the recliner when I'm watching TV, and occasionally puts her front paws on the top of my head. It's not very comfortable.

This troper has had a pet snake that did this, in addition to coiling around his left arm. It tended to creep people out when the snake and him were able to stare unblinkingly at the exact same spot/person.

This troper is trying to get the cat used to being carried like this. Thus far, success depends on the cat's mood at the time.