I worry about people who don’t like cats. Just look at Weaz’s little jellybean toes. Have you no idea what you’re missing?
I’d go so far as to say I judge people who don’t like cats about as harshly as people judge those of us who FRIGGING LOVE cats. When I watch my friends panic about who’s going to let their dog out when or how they’re ever going to teach their dog to follow commands, I’m just like: “Get a litter box. And let the animal do whatever it wants.” Cats are the greatest pet of all time.
HOWEVER… With that said, here are the following things I hate about my cats right now:
NUMBER 1: Weaz has started this new thing where she starts screaming at 5 o’clock every morning. I have absolutely no idea what she wants because she has food and water and a clean litter box so I just tell her to shut up and, as it turns out, this accomplishes nothing. On a positive flip, I am now super productive at god awful hours of the morning because I beat my alarm to the punch every single day. I don’t know if this is actually a positive thing.
#2: Ralphie sits in my sink. All day. She just sits in there and waits for me to turn the water on. This is maddening for several reasons, one of which being that she has her own $50 water fountain in my bathroom that serves this exact same purpose minus having a filthy cat in my sink. Probably continually turning the water on for her is doing nothing to condition her to stop doing this. Also I don’t like her being that close to the garbage disposal.
#3: Someone threw up in my path from bed to bathroom, and so I greeted Friday morning with my foot planted in cat vomit. It’s about as pleasant as you’d imagine foot-in-vomit to be.
Other than that, though, I quite enjoy their company. At least they don’t hump people’s legs. Dog owners continue to act like this is normal and ok. I will never understand.
ANNOUNCEMENT: It’s Girl Scout Cookie season. Weaz would like to invite you to support her troop.
My cat Stella (who I think might be Weaz’s soul-twin) has taken to waking me up around 6 in the morning by either yowling, banging my mirror against the wall, or dragging her nails down my wall for ungodly amounts of time. It doesn’t really make me more productive, though, it just makes me lie in bed and hate my life.
Yittle jellybean toes!
My Roxie whaps me in the face anywhere from about 4-5:20 in the morning so I will let her out to go potty. No I don’t want to let her out to go potty, but she refuses to go potty in the house, so…out she goes. If I don’t respond quickly enough to whap number one, whap number two will include the slightest amount of claw. Yes. We love them. The little hooligans.
I’m with you on #1, except my cat feels that 4:00-4:30 am is wake-up time. Even on weekends. UGH.
I cannot stop laughing! I thought I was the only one with cats that are absolutely nuts! Not to mention, I too, have stepped in cat vomit. I am with you that there is (almost) nothing worse than that. Except when my cat threw up in my clean laundry in a basket and I put my hand into start folding the clothes… I’m sure you know how this ends. SO FREAKING DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so, my kitten, who, at 8 months is 11 pounds, likes to lay in the pedestal sink in our first-floor half-bath. My biggest cat, who is 4 years old, likes to drink out of the upstairs faucet. He does this more when the fountain needs to be cleaned out (cat hair can accumulate in the intake. gross, I know. we use pipe cleaners and take that time to change out the filter), but he just LOVES running water.
Ugh, bare foot in cat vomit first thing in the morning. Been there!
I also have one that refuses to drink from anything other than the sink faucet. He comes and leads me to the sink, jumps in and waits for me to turn on the water. As you say, this does not exactly discourage the behavior! My husband said, “Oh, look. He taught you a trick! You’re not untrainable after all!” Oh, ha ha.
Does the cat fur shedding ever bother you? That’s pretty much the only reason I’m not letting my boyfriend get us a cat right now…
My husband has figured out that if he pulls the blankets completely over his head and hides, that cat gets confused, thinks he has disappeared, stops meowing, loses interest, and goes away. You might want to try that approach to see if it works on Weaz
Our tomcat wakes up at around 4am, waking my mum up to play football with him
cats are night creatures, have you tried playing with your cat at 5am?
Love my cat! Her name is Yoda
Your kitties are adorable. Yoda drinks exclusively from the bathtub despite the 50$ fountain. The fountain was then gifted to my mom…..her cats love it.