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Do our cats control us?
That's a silly question. Of course our cats control us. It's in their
nature. They want to be certain that their slavish giants still toe the mark for them. Two examples: (1) Yesterday Mooch, our resident stray, was sitting on the veranda staring in the den window for the fourth time that day. This is his signal that he wants to be fed. The other household cat-slave said she'd take care of him. Very soon she came back in the house, shaking her head. She said that she'd set down the food and water dishes down and waited in a chair. Mooch stared at her for a long moment, then sauntered off and disappeared without eating a bite. He was testing his control over us! (2) We keep Sophie and Emily separated on different sides of the house because they don't get along with each other. Only Martha has no problems with either of her sisters. To test us, she frequently insists on being let into the other side of the house, demanding that we open the door separating Sophie from Emily for her. Of course she gets her way. I've written about this phenomenon for Flippy's website - here's a link to it: http://www.flippyscatpage.com/openthisdoor.html I really don't have to ask, but do your cats control you too? |
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Do our cats control us?
"Bobcat" wrote in message
... That's a silly question. Of course our cats control us. It's in their nature. They want to be certain that their slavish giants still toe the mark for them. Two examples: (1) Yesterday Mooch, our resident stray, was sitting on the veranda staring in the den window for the fourth time that day. This is his signal that he wants to be fed. The other household cat-slave said she'd take care of him. Very soon she came back in the house, shaking her head. She said that she'd set down the food and water dishes down and waited in a chair. Mooch stared at her for a long moment, then sauntered off and disappeared without eating a bite. He was testing his control over us! (2) We keep Sophie and Emily separated on different sides of the house because they don't get along with each other. Only Martha has no problems with either of her sisters. To test us, she frequently insists on being let into the other side of the house, demanding that we open the door separating Sophie from Emily for her. Of course she gets her way. I've written about this phenomenon for Flippy's website - here's a link to it: http://www.flippyscatpage.com/openthisdoor.html I really don't have to ask, but do your cats control you too? LOL! I used to feed Bandit downstairs in my bedroom since she was blind and arthritic the last 2 years of her life and I didn't want her to have to climb stairs to eat. Sammy took to eating downstairs with Bandit. After Bandit went to the RB I wanted to just feed everyone upstairs in the kitchen. Sammy follows me around like a puppy dawg, so every morning when I went upstairs to feed everybody, she would be sitting there watching me. But after I put the food down she would follow me back downstairs expecting me to bring her food down there - she refused to go back upstairs to eat. So every morning I would have to *carry* her big ass back upstairs and put her down in front of her food bowl before she would eat. I did this for *three months* after Bandit left us before I figured that this 20+ pound cat was not going to starve herself to death if I didn't carry her upstairs to the kitchen every morning! ; Nose Kisses, CatNipped |
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Do our cats control us?
On Aug 21, 12:59*pm, Bobcat wrote:
That's a silly question. Of course our cats control us. It's in their nature. They want to be certain that their slavish giants still toe the mark for them. Two examples: (1) Yesterday Mooch, our resident stray, was sitting on the veranda staring in the den window for the fourth time that day. This is his signal that he wants to be fed. The other household cat-slave said she'd take care of him. Very soon she came back in the house, shaking her head. She said that she'd set down the food and water dishes down and waited in a chair. Mooch stared at her for a long moment, then sauntered off and disappeared without eating a bite. He was testing his control over us! (2) We keep Sophie and Emily separated on different sides of the house because they don't get along with each other. Only Martha has no problems with either of her sisters. To test us, she frequently insists on being let into the other side of the house, demanding that we open the door separating Sophie from Emily for her. Of course she gets her way. I've written about this phenomenon for Flippy's website - here's a link to it: http://www.flippyscatpage.com/openthisdoor.html I really don't have to ask, but do your cats control you too? Only while I'm awake. Unless one of them wakes me up. -- Will in New Haven |
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Do our cats control us?
Bobcat wrote:
snip funny examples of cat control I really don't have to ask, but do your cats control you too? Miranda has me running morning, noon and night to serve her food. She's so skinny that I can't stand to miss one chance of getting her to eat something, but even though she looks like she wants feeding, and even though she jumps up to her 'feeding station,' she doesn't always eat when I hand her her dish (I have to keep it on top of the fridge when she isn't eating, or Caliban would clean it out in seconds). -- Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. |
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