Cat facts I never knew

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

Could you just clarify, was it him or you talking to the cat? I'm intrigued ...

This time, it was me with OH grinning from the armchair.

But he thinks I don't hear their conversations. They largely go along lines of last night's 'How about you sit up *there* whilst I cook so I don't stand on you and I'll feed you once it's in the oven?'

'uuuuuuooooooopppppp?'

'Yes, up there, because I need to use the microwave this time'.

[thud]

[general clattering around with music playing]

'Mroufp?'

'What?'

'Mreeeep?'

'No, this is ours, if you stay up there, you'll get something in a minute'

'Oooooffffffphhhhh'

'Stop complaining, five minutes'

[silence for two minutes]

[Other cat wanders into kitchen]

'Meeeeeep. Meeeeeeeep'

'Don't you start on me. Go and sit by the door'

[Other cat goes and sits by the door]

'Right. Your turn, cats'

'Meeeeeeeeep meeeeeep meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep'

'Yes, alright, I know you're starving to death and have never been fed before. Here you go'

[thud]

'This one's yours, Idiot Cat. No, Fluffyknickers, yours is on the right'

[Cats switch positions and munching noises commence]

'Hang on, I need to put this back in the fridge. Mind your tail. [fridge opens and shuts] Thank you'.


The other most common ones for him are 'Idiot Cat, there's another pigeon in the garden' [cat dashes off to the back door] or 'Come on you, just people in the bed tonight' (normally followed by 'It's OK for you, he doesn't give scalp massages to people with hair or put his paw in your face just to get you to wake up and tell him to go back to sleep'.


Yet I'm supposed to be the daft one that talks to the cat.

tesuhoha

I talk to my cats all the time without thinking about it. One of them always says thank you or at least she makes a noise that sounds like it when I let her in or feed her. The other one taps me on the leg when she wants to play with the cat frenzy toy and stares at me intently. I say to her 'where's your toy?' Its usually upstairs in my room as the other cat drags it upstairs and leaves it by the bed.

So we go upstairs together to fetch it. I swear she knows why we are going upstairs. As soon as I pick up the stick she picks up the bird and takes off downstairs with it pulling it out of my grasp. She takes it into the living room and drops it on the rug which is where we play with it and waits for me to come into the room.

Savvy_Sue

I can't really see the point of having a furry creature and NOT talking to it, TBH.

I draw the line at talking to the ashes of your dead dog, a la Linda on the Archers, mind you ...

jhgkp

I just want to thank you all for giving me a wee smile on this dull day.

As some of you may remember I lost my wee cat earlier this year, and hopefully be end of this month we will have a new wee kitten in the house.

I am looking forward to having wee conversations and interactions.

I remember the morning my mother died, my late cat, sat beside me, seen I was crying and put up her wee paw to my face to wipe away the tears and she just sat with me until I stopped crying.

I hope the new one has such a gentle wee nature too - I miss that, especially when I feel lonely.