Feline Follies
- Thread starter Alienesse
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Heh. Looks like David Attenborough should be narrating.
Because I'm a crazy cat lady, here's more pictures of my boy:
My mom's cat misses her. He's sick of seeing me over there and has decided that I'm no longer worthy.
Thankfully she comes home tomorrow evening.
Don't get me wrong, he loves to see me when there are short periods of no one else home (a few days), but this is going on two weeks of no one home other than my visits a couple/three times a day.
He's ready for his mom.
Thankfully she comes home tomorrow evening.
Don't get me wrong, he loves to see me when there are short periods of no one else home (a few days), but this is going on two weeks of no one home other than my visits a couple/three times a day.
He's ready for his mom.
Indeed...I wish I had the guts to be a cat owner.
But I live alone and I work 9 hours a day so I wouldn't subject a cat (or any animal) to be left alone in my house for that long. It'd drive them insane...
Oh kitties are totally okay by themselves for long periods, they love solitary time and even if you life with one you may not see her for very long stretches.Indeed...I wish I had the guts to be a cat owner.
But I believe your bigger issue might be you think you'd be owning your cat ... it's she who'd be owning you.
I'm gone 11 hours a day, and my cat is probably happy for the break.
Yep, there is that!
Also I would have no one to cat-sit for me when I go on vacation. Unfortunately there's no such thing as a kitty hotel.
(Meowrriott?
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So it turns out that Sophie (our latest addition) LOVES tummy rubs. I'm not joking. She will present her tummy the way a lot of cats do, but when you start rubbing her, she will allow it for as long as you wish to keep doing it. Not like other cats that present their tummies as four-clawed traps.
We had a girl shop cat years ago named Tabitha. She was a bit psycho and would present her tummy, but we knew better than to go anywhere near that tummy.
Oh, come on. We've gone on trips for four or five days, and our cat was home alone with plenty of food and water for all of that time. Cats do fine.Indeed...I wish I had the guts to be a cat owner.
^They do indeed. There are also kennels that will board cats or you can use a pet-sitting service for longer trips.
Cats do handle long periods alone better than dogs. I was fostering another cat for a while and had to go away for a little under a week. All I had to do was put extra litter in her box, fill her bowl extra full with dry food (she was on free choice anyway), put a bowl in the bottom of one of the sinks and crack the faucet so that it dripped a bit.
Granted, it also helped that I had an extra large litter box and this particular cat developed the habit of peeing in the bathtub drain. She'd just plop her little booty over the drain and let go. Towards the end I think she was even trying to figure out how to poop in the toilet.
I miss this cat.
Granted, it also helped that I had an extra large litter box and this particular cat developed the habit of peeing in the bathtub drain. She'd just plop her little booty over the drain and let go. Towards the end I think she was even trying to figure out how to poop in the toilet.
I miss this cat.
