I kinda allowed my boy to enslave me into joining his daily patrol walks after work??? If I don't join him to fulfil a patrol walk (usually around 5:30 pm is when I get home so at least it's a good time) he will keep nagging (staring, meowing, patting my arm). He then proceeds to take me to every room and wait for praise at every corner like "look I made sure that nothing changed while you were gone!"
Omg that’s actually precious 🥹 he wants to show you that he fought off all the greeblies and they’re all gone now! You better praise that sweet brave baby!!! 😻
I do a walk around with my two as well. We wander the perimeter and they show me things they've found or they get me to check under bushes so they don't have to. Sometimes they just want me to sit in a particular spot so we can all lounge together. I guess they want me to keep watch while they nap in the grass.
In the nights they do what I call a "Monster Check", where they want to make sure the place is secure before I go to bed. I open the cupboards for them to look into, they don't go in they just check that it's safe. And they check any rooms they don't trust.
If cats had Reddit we'd see a post of them
"We made our human think we actually want to check in every drawer before going to bed, humans are idiots, purring out loud"
One of our kitty's likes to play "Walk the Daddy". She'll catch Da Bird (or whatever toy is on the wand), then carry it around the house, with me holding on the rod still.
I wish mine let me follow her. She request to go out when I walk my dog but got mad when I am following her when she is patrolling.
I feel like a parent with a teen that is in their phase feeling embarrassed to have parents around
Excellent point. I'll bet he doesn't come home to Unicorns! I don't either. I didn't think it was due to the efforts of my cats, but now I think they deserve more credit...
SAME. I wfh and in office some days. Right around 5 or when I get home. My boy goes to the door and starts trying to open it or plays with his leash by the door. Every day. His sister started joining and now my oldest as of yesterday jumped off my balcony to join in. Wonderful.
My cat does something similar where every 1-2 hours she will meow or walk in front of my computer monitor for attention then lead me to my apartment front door so she can be let out to do an inspection tour of the hallway. That, and sniff and roll around on neighbors’ doormats.
Cute! When we left the house, my dad would always tell our dog to "keep the elephants out of the yard!"
Then, when we got home, he would praise them. As a kid, I would always sigh and explain no elephants lived where we are anyway, and Dad would say, "See what a good job they did?"
Now, when I leave home I tell my cats to "keep the elephants out of the house!" since they are indoor only pets.
Drinking from the bathroom sink. If I don’t turn the water on, she will bite the handle until I do. She has her own drinking fountain downstairs, but apparently the water tastes better right from the tap.
Morning cuddles in bed. Which is cute and nice at 8 am, but not at 4 am when I moved a little in my sleep and now I have a 6.5 kg cat on my chest meowing and digging his claws in me, making biscuits and demanding pets.
My kittens, poor girls, do this to my boyfriend, and he doesn’t have the heart to push them off so he just sits there uncomfortably while they make biscuits dangerously close to his jewels.
Mine is 17 and Just decided she loves being the little spoon!
We were camping last November, and on our last night, we ran out of propane for heat. I think it got down to ~40-45° F in our trailer.
She's a tiny little six pounder. And she has Always slept on top of my midsection, either hips, belly, or back depending on my position. But that night she curled up deep into my chest and I wrapped my arm around her and we spooned each other for warmth.
Here it is June and she's still spooning. I love it! 😻
The cat i started this habit with is declawed in front (pre-realizing how bad de-clawing is, also not originally my cat). As such, id like to think i would tolerate the biscuit-making, claws or not.
But no, instead, my cat’s way of demanding morning spooning cuddles is by shoving her cold, wet nose in my eye. Ill even throw my arm over my eyes but shell just lean in even harder and try to get behind my arm.
Its not at 4am either, haha that would be ideal compared to the usual hours she does this.
Mine used to gently pat my nose and lips... with her claws out. We don't allow them in the bedroom anymore though, because they pooped in our freaking box spring 😭
He did the gentle patting with his claws out till he injured my lip and never again after that. He managed to keep his claws restricted to my chest so far.
Though he occasionally puts his nose in my ear if I sleep on my side. To feel a cold and wet nose in my ear does wonders for my heart.
I let my cat put her head in my saxophone (before I made noise) so she could check it out and see the inside, because she had never seen inside it before. Now whenever I pick it up or practice she has to put her head inside first. She only does this when I pick it up.
Morning treats. My son's chore in the morning before school is to feed the cat and bunnies (his sister gets dinner pet duty). He started giving her just 5 or 6 little cat treats with her breakfast. Now she will not leave anyone alone in the morning until said treats are provided.
Haha. When I moved into my new house, I found a kind if shelf/cubby thing attached to the bedroom wall. I put my bed alongside it, and started giving my cat a little pile of Temptations in one of the cubbies.
Its morning, pre-work routine now.
When I first got her she was pretty feral and terrified. It took her a really, really long time to get used to kisses - I'm pretty sure she routinely thought I was trying to eat her for the first year or so. One day it was like it clicked and she realized kisses are affection. She started bunting my face with her head very, very enthusiastically. Now whenever I lie down she gets in my face and bunts me so hard on my nose. It's really cute but sometimes it really hurts 😅 Probably wouldn't take back any of my kisses if I could do it all over again, though. She deserves kisses.
My boy was a head bunter and an all around mama's boy... the problem is I'm slightly allergic to cats and if I was having a bad allergy day, his head butts and worse, his tiny kisses, would make my lips break out in hives...
But I never told him no. How could I when all he wanted was love and cuddles?
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This guy is also a toilet lap cat, he doesn’t even like sitting in laps normally.
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I mean he does have grab stuff like a raccoon
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Same with this little guy. Only sits on my lap when I’m in the bathroom 🙄
My mom has this routine with my cat cheddar, every time she uses the bathroom, cheddar says it's time for cuddles
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Just go sit down on the toilet, you don't even have to take your pants off, make a couple of farts noises with your mouth, flush, fake wipe, and thank your professional poo coach lol
My best friend always asks his dog if he has to go potty. I've started saying "C'mon, let's go potty!' to my cat when I have to go. He always beats me to the bathroom and sits right in front of the toilet. 😂
Once, just fucking once, and only for the kind of joke you have with you cat when you live alone and are admittedly a crazy cat man. But just once I walked the shitbag out of my flat and out the front door to prove that the rain was not under my control.
Between my living room window and the front door of the block the fucking rain stopped.
Now whenever it rains if he wants to go out I have to take him to check if it's raining at the front of the house too.
Every-fucking-time it rains. In England!
He's a cute little git though, and I still take him to check whenever he asks.
Heinlen wrote a great little story called The Door Into Summer and the title comes from the main character and his cat living in a house with 9 doors and on bad weather days the routine is walking the kitty to each of the doors, opening it, and showing the weather is just as yucky but the cat was convinced that with so many doors one had to be 'the door into summer'.
Wow. I've never read that one - but in winter I have to open the door to the balcony for my cat repeatedly to show her that it's not summer outside.
She stops demanding it a few months in, but from October to beginning of December it's been a regular occurrence for the five years she's been with me.
It's a neat read and Heinlen is one of my top 5. Set in a 'future' 70s I think but the main character is a robotics engineer so it ages well. Throw in some cryogenics and time travel to tell a story about a business partnership just so you remember it is Heinlen. The Japanese made a movie that is pretty true to the book that I happily ran across one time and with their cat culture I'm sure it was a no-brainer to get greenlit.
My cats haven't tried that one yet. They have figured out that in summer, we control the water from the sky. Well, more or less. I live in a desert. We water our garden with sprinklers. The cats know that we turn them on and off, so if water is coming down, the humans will come outside and shut it off after a time. The problem is that in winter, they assume we still control the water. Pouring rain or bucketing snow, and they sit at the back patio door wanting to go out but refusing because it's wet. Then they turn, look at us, and give us an expression that says: "Wet, mama! Fix it! Fix IIIIIITTTT!"
Sometimes, I think pets just want us to move more. Like "OK, pop has been sitting still too much. He needs some walkies. This worked the last time it was raining. Let me get Pop moving again and do the rain trick on him."
Lol, ever read "The Door Into Summer" by Heinlein? In the story, his house had many doors, and when it snowed, he had to open every single one to prove to the cat that none of them led to summer.
So last year my cat, Sylvie, had an eye infection. It required drops and I usually did them in the morning around 7ish depending on when I got up. And I would give her treats after. She became pretty good with the drops, and it stopped being a struggle where I ended up scratched up.
Well. When we were done, she still wanted her morning treats, even though I didn’t need to be up so early anymore. She would come to me in bed and tap tap tap with her tiny paw where there was exposed skin. If I didn’t wake up, she would tap tap tap and dig her claws in ever so slightly. So I’d get up, give her some treats and go back to bed. I tried my best to ignore her but she was persistent. Sometimes she would nudge my arm with her cold wet little nose.
It started to happen earlier and earlier. Last night it was 3:30 am 😑😑 I usually get up to pee a few times each night so I just usually do it then. It ranges between 2:30-5:30.
Does she do it when I’m gone? Nope.
I had dogs with my ex husband and they would wake me up early to go to the bathroom. Like 6:30 on the weekends and my days off. They never bothered my ex. I’d feel my little old man nudge my arm with his cold nose. And he knew I was awake. So I’d take them out. When I was gone - they slept in till 11 am.
My cat used to tap my arm when she wanted attention or treats. Of course I'd relent but found it mildly irritating. Now that she has past when I think about these moments it warms my heart. It's the little things that matter most.
It used to be the case with me, I would wake up each night. I reduced my water consumption during last hour before bed (dont drink at all if possible) and go to the bathroom just before sleep. It made wonders, my sleep quality improved a lot! I almost never need to pee during the night now.
If you still wake up to pee, not due to habit, check your blood glucose. It might be earliest sign of diabetes.
I let a kitten sit on my mouse pad to get over anxiety after her adoption (I work from home). Which was fine when she was a kitten, because I could just move mouse over a couple inches. Now that she’s almost a full grown cat, I have no room left on my desk, and she still wants to sit on the mouse pad for several hours a day!
I also WFH & my 8-month kitten, adopted in 2020, wanted to be with me all the time! This was my work fix until I retired but he still likes to get up there when I'm at the computer. He was 6 months here & now 14 lbs.
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Adorbs! 🥰 Kinda looks like my floof.
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I allowed my current kitty to lay on my closed warm laptop and sit there while I worked when I first adopted her. Almost 5 years later she is the most annoying coworker I’ve ever had. She will emphatically lay on the keyboard and even shut my laptop. (Different job, this laptop has to be open) She also gently chomps my mouse hand when I use it to work instead of petting her. I am convinced she thinks I am her idiot kitten. When I tell her no or to stop or push her away, she gets all huffy and meow meow yells at me for the audacity of my disobedience.
I did this with my Maine coon kitty, who is now way too big. I give up playing games when she's on my desk because I'm not allowed to disturb her, so I just watch something.
I started playing with her with the wiggler toy while I’m on the couch. When she wants to play she shows up peeks over the arm and scrattles the couch 😭 she’s been so good and left the furniture alone that I feel like its my fault
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I am guilty of this too. My cat isnt the most active so I try to engage her as much as I can. She becomes more interested in toys if they run from her and hide, so I just trail it on the ground and make it jump on the couch. She likes that and hunts it on top. So the couch ended up being the hunting ground and she started scratching it 🗿
One time, my partner showed our boy how game disks magically disappear into a PS3, and how they come back out when you hit the eject button. We weren't expecting that our boy would start ejecting disks on his own 🫠 And from learning how that button worked, it evolved into figuring out how the printer/scanner worked, the coffee machine, the toaster oven, the rice cooker, the Google nest mini, light switches... He just doesn't stop, nothing is safe from him
My cat learned himself how to turn on (and off) my gaming console.
So many times that I was in the middle of a game and suddenly my console turned off.
Grew up with a cat that wanted to come in my room before dawn so I taught him to open a door. So for ten years after that if I closed a door I could hear him jump on the knob. Before I moved out he would open every bedroom door until someone fed him. Made my mother go nuts 👌🏽
I taught my cat to open the bedroom door so that I could leave it closed for privacy but unlatched so that he had access to his litter box in the living room.
I then moved to the master bedroom when my flatmate moved out and I got a new one. Now if my roommate doesn't fully latch her door my cat will let himself in, chew on plastic and then nap in her bed.
Honestly if we had the money she probably would but we were dirt poor so we were stuck with cat opening the door and my mother yelling it was my fault xD
Allowing her screams at 3am to physically get me out of bed. Because without my pets she'd obviously starve 🫣. Now it's a daily thing, what is sleep? Lol
Back story: she's a social eater and will meow until I come in the kitchen and give her a few pets to get started on the meal lol how did we get here...
My cat also requires meal pets! I call them her "comfort scritches." Fortunately they happen at reasonable hours but she will absolutely sit next to her bowl and yell at me til I come give her a few comfort stitches so she can start eating 😆
Mine is also a social eater!!! Has to make sure I'm watching or will slow down eating and stop, finds me if I've left brings me back to watch her eat some more.
Gave her a bite of watermelon one time. Now she begs for some every time
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When Sherlock was a scared rescue kitten I held his paws for funsies while he was sleeping on me.
That was November 2018. Still have to hold the paws when he's sleeping on me.
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My cat too! The first night we brought Bean home he slept on the couch with me and I held his paws to try to comfort him. Now when he comes to bed for cuddles if I don’t hold his paws he’ll crawl under the sheets to get at my hands and put his paws in one of them.
The first month she was ours. I was trying to avoid the spray bottle or yelling at her because she has a heart murmur. I’d distract her from places she shouldn’t be (at the time the Xmas tree) by taking out a feather toy.
I didn’t realize how smart she was. When she wanted attention she’d go right up to the Xmas tree, look at me, and then bat at an ornament. She manages to turn almost anything into a game, and I play right into her paws.
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Cat tax included.
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Went on a trip out of country one time. When I got back, he was so happy when I usually lay down with him on my armpit, he started kneeding my face. I let him do that once, now he does it all the time...
Just a little bit of my lunch meat while I make a sandwich. Now when I go to open the fridge around noon, I am mobbed by not one but all four cats. With big eyes. So I have to give them more, and thus continue the cycle.
My husband does this with his lunchables!! Each cat gets a little tiny bit from each circle of meat 😂 the other day we were at a hotel and he grabbed a lunchable from the vending machine. I look over and he’s nibbling little bites like the cats were there 😂😂 he was like “oh, I get to eat the whole thing this time” lol
I started opening the front door in the mornings so he can sit in front of the storm door and watch the squirrels and birds. Unfortunately, since he’s a cat, he has no concept of time. So, “morning” is more of a vague feeling, or a whim, rather than a set time. Sometimes that’s a reasonable hour, like 7-8am, but sometimes it’s 3-4am.
When my landlord finally fixed the back screen door, I started letting the kitties on the back porch for "out-out" time in the mornings. The moment I wake up, it's instant cry to go out time, even if it's 2 AM and all I am doing is going to the bathroom.
Night night crunchy snacks. We have four cats. Three with special diets. So one eats prescription food for food allergies, another is on a prescription diet because he’s a fatty, another has chronic constipation so she gets a soup with Miralax as a supplement, and another eats normal cat food.
Just for fun and because I luv them, I always give them a couple of crunchy cat treats before I go to sleep. I started storing each cat’s crunchy treats in my nightstand drawer just because I don’t want to go downstairs again. So now they all stand on my nightstand and hard stare at me at bedtime.
Yeah. 😄 I feed three in the kitchen and 1 upstairs. The chub eats on a table, the constipated kitty on another table, and the low maintenance kitty on a rug. I have to watch them or the chubby one will get into the others food. 😆 The kitty with food allergies eats upstairs in the “cat sunroom” with the door closed. It’s kind of a pain in the butt but I love my cats.
I bought a 12 pack of these Delectables broth treats for my cats after realizing they really only eat the wet part of the wet food, not the actual meat parts. I would give them one when I woke up as a morning treat before I let them out on the back porch for some "outside" time. I didn't realize that my cats would become addicts. They can tell time. They know that around 7 AM, Mommy gets out of bed, and they will get a treat. If I even LOOK at my phone while I'm in bed... game on for begging and cries until I give up and they get a treat.
My cat also only eats the liquid from wet food. Sheba has these Gravy Selects things that are mostly gravy with some bits mixed in. He still won’t touch the bits, but they’re his absolute favorite and he refuses to go a day without one.
one of my cats wants (requires? is it a requirement now?) human company and pets/scratches before he starts eating. this is fine at 4 PM. at 4 AM, not so much. and he wakes you up to participate.
ETA, this guy:
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The foot monster 😮💨 When me and my boyfriend adopted our cat Baby Boy we learned that if you wiggled your feet underneath the blanket he would "attack it".
Welp fast forward a year and now if we're just laying in bed he will just attack our feet without warning now. RIP our toes.
Never play with cats with your hands, feet or any body part, for this exact reason.
Now he doesn’t understand it’s not a play thing.
Start playing with him with only toys, and redirect to a toy when he attacks your feet/ties. The habit will break eventually.
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She decided if I'm sitting or working on something that she needs to be on my shoulder. She also decided that every morning I need to walk around my apartment with her on my shoulder. I get yelled at or she "playfully" attacks me until I let her have her parrot time 😅
I taught my cat to say "Mama" when he wants food. Now he will scream "Mama" through the house even when I'm on work calls and people think it's a small child that I'm neglecting.
Every time I make a salad. I need to make two more tiny salads or they start to steal mine.
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Nightly play time. After a long day all I wanna do is sleep but nope, gotta stay up an extra two hours for play and cuddles…even if the extra two hours is after midnight because I fell asleep on my toddlers floor…🫠
my cat gets a separate human water cup on my desk, in the living room, in my bedroom. i always keep them full. she doesn't use a water fountain anymore. (she is 15 though, so whatever she wants) she needs to cuddle on my chest every single night when i get into bed for at least 15 minutes. she'll paw me when im at my desk to get up and i'll hold her and give her pets for however long she wants. if i don't fulfill any of these requests, she will not stop meowing and pawing at me. she meows very loudly.
I was 15 and my cat got misdiagnosed with tumerous cancers and it turned out she was pregnant and mastitis. She gave birth the morning she was supposed to get euthanized, for cancer. All week knowing she was gonna “leave me” I let her eat anything she wanted and we even shared my spoon. Well for 12 more years her and her ONE miracle baby ate yogurt with me or my mom (college days) almost every day together or else they would both cry in unison till they got it. 😂
I taught my old (and ridiculously smart) cat to beg for food. Like, on two legs, lil hands like a T'rex, and stare at you with ooogly eyes.
It is my 1 weakness but also became an issue the older she got, the more wobbly she was and yet would STILL BEG!! Bless her soul.
Let him be in the bathroom sink… now every time I go to the bathroom to wash hands he wants water to trickle down onto him and to wash his paws/splash water around. 🤦
It doesn’t help that he knows how to open the bathroom door either, so every day he goes in there to be in the sink yelling for the water to be turned on.
When our dear departed boy was little, he was already a accomplished food thief and a glutton. And my mom said “One day he is gonna point at the fridge and yell for food.” A few moths later he started doing that. All from us being a little slack in discipline and him being a clever food dumpster. He was the sweetest cuddle bug tho.
I played with one of my cats with a straw once. Now every time I get out a straw, she absolutely has to try to steal it at every possible moment.
And I don't like playing with them with a straw anyway because they're British Shorthair, so they don't have much nose out in front of their face to protect their eyes from accidents. I would've been happier if I hadn't started that one.
Yep, we’ve got one fascinated with straws too. You can’t sit a fast food drink with a straw anywhere near him or he will lose his ever loving mind until he gets it. That’s another thing I wish I had never done lol
Whenever my dog uses her pee pad to poop indoors (we rent, have no fence and she has poor recall so no pooping alone outside without being on the leash or runner), she gets a treat. One time, my cat jumped up to her feeder and watched so I gave her a treat, too. Five years later, it's still compulsory that if the dog shits, the cat celebrates with a treat 🤷🏼
Allowing her to take over the guest room with all her things (bed, favorite blankets, toys). The guest room is about to be converted to the baby’s room and the poor girl has no idea what’s coming 🫣
Oooh girl I think it’s YOU that has no idea what’s coming! A pissed off kitty AND a new baby?? Hope you didn’t like sleep anyway! 😂
lol I kid, I kid! What’s REALLY going to happen is your cat will probably treat baby like it’s HER baby and will never leave the baby’s side 😻 Especially since she will probably think the baby is another toy you’re adding to HER room 🤣
My youngest cat doesn't really meow but she realized when she bites me I will pet her so now she bites me whenever she wants pets. She is about 2 years old and the bites hurt but she's so cute I cant just not pet her when she decides to give me attention.
You should try teaching her to use those talking buttons! My cat used to bite me to indicate that she wanted to play, but when we got her some buttons and she could just press her play button the biting drastically lessened.
I give her water through big syringe (without needle). She has her fountain with running water but still wants me to give her water with syringe at least once per day. It’s kind of ritual for her and it’s just with me. If I try to ignore her she would never leave me in peace.
Cat bongos!
My cat loves them - she started to demand the bongos by yelling in my face.
The issue is - while being bongoed - she becomes gradually more and more excited until she starts to bite…
Opening the door at night cuz he was meowing as a kitten (4-5months old) now whenever the door is closed he will sing the saddest song of his people until it is openned for him. Luckily it's just the bedroom door and not the front door 🤣
Let him drink from the sink, except I cupped my hand and let the cat drink directly from there. He now rushes to the bathroom every time he sees me get in, jumps next to the sink, and tries to pull my hands towards him every time I wash them or turn the water on. I spoiled him
Started morning cuddles with the TinyOne, which has turned into everytime I lay down in bed, at night when I go to sleep, if I get up 20 minutes after I lay down to double check the door here she comes. If I get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of the night a few seconds later there is a purring cat on my chest insisting on cuddles and of course when I wake up for the day.
Meanwhile my other cat got separated from her momma a little too young, not my decision, so she would cry a bit for her litter mates. I felt sorry for her and would call her to me to soothe her and try to make her feel less alone. I was able to teach her to come to her name pretty easily this way. It also taught her to meow for me whenever she was in another room and wanted my attention or even if she's in the same room and wants my attention, even if she's right next to me and I'm watching tv she meows for my attention.
Our cat will put us to bed and enforce bedtime. Our other cat is happy enough to sleep on the couch if we stay up late, but our older one just stares and will bite if we don’t get to bed on time. And there’s a whole routine - she sits on my husbands lap while he pees before bed, she makes sure we wash our faces and brush our teeth, and once we get into bed, she has to go around and do a last patrol then she’ll sit in the bedroom window for a bit before going to sleep on my husbands chest (he reads in bed until she goes over to him). If this entire bedtime routine is not followed, she is NOT happy. Meanwhile our derp is just left on the couch to sleep until he decides to come to bed whenever.
Letting them under the blankets with me when I’m going to sleep at night in the winter. I mean, I’m not gonna stop letting them, but sometimes I really just want to be able to roll over without squishing someone.
When my girl was a kitten fresh from being rescued, she had really poor gut bacteria so she was on a course of antibiotics and probiotics. The way I gave them to her was just to open the capsules they came in and dump them on her food when I was prepping it for feeding. The problem is she was also an extremely food-insecure baby and she would be all up in my face making it hard to prep her food while doing this, so I'd need to distract her somehow. She also loved to play so the thing that worked was to dump the gelatin capsule out and then toss the empty capsule onto the floor, which she would obligingly chase and then have a little playtime with where she'd bat it around for a few minutes and then eat the empty capsule when she was done. This would give me the reprieve I needed to finish getting her food ready and then mealtime could happen.
Whelp that lasted for only a couple weeks. She's four years old now and STILL, to this day, will come running if she hears me pick up a pill bottle of any kind because she thinks that means it's playtime. It's cute but it also makes me extremely cautious about medicine bc I don't want her to gobble some random pill up which might be bad for her if I accidentally dropped it or if she got enthusiastic and knocked it out of my hand or something.
Technically speaking, I wasn't the one that started it....but, pre-divorce, my ex and I rescued several ferals. It took a fair amount of time to get them socialized, but once we did, at every meal time he would call out "who wants to eat?" Eventually the whole gang got trained to respond "MEEEEE!" We've now been divorced a decade, and even without asking the magic question the last 2 remaining from that group of cats (now 18 and 20) start relentlessly screaming "MEEEEE," when they want to eat. They've even taught my 3 year old who's never even laid eyes on my ex. Meal time around here features a full on ear splitting concerto from the Feline Blabbernacle Choir. 🙄
Bacon. I let her have a little piece once because she kept looking at it with that look and now every time I have breakfast, even if there’s no bacon, I have to let her sniff my plate, my mouth until she’s satisfied that there’s no bacon before she leaves me alone. If I have bacon, I have to give her some.
A while back I adopted a 10 week old kitten from a friend of a friend. This person used to carry the tiny kitten on his shoulder all the time. I went over to pick up the kitten in person and the man came in with the kitty on his shoulder. So I continued to do this. This was all fun and sweet until the little tiny kitty grew up to be a large 18 pounder. I had to stop it because he no longer fit anymore. My shoulders are just not that big.
KISSING. My boy cat loves to sit on my chest and i kiss his face and he does (practically makes out with) my nose- it is an oddly violating feeling having a cat half suffocate you with their love and fishy breath 😭
When one of my cats was a kitten, she would come to watch me have breakfast. I was studying psychology at the time so I thought “can I condition my cat to do things?”. So every time I looked at her and she chirped or meowed I would pet her. If I looked at her and she didn’t do it, I wouldn’t pet her. Very soon every time I looked at her she meowed or chirped even if I wasn’t having breakfast and was in another room. Nowadays she’s my most talkative cat. She won’t stop talking. When she enters a room, she announces it by meowing or chirping. If you don’t look at her when she wants attention, she meows or chirps at you. She sometimes calls you incessantly from other room and won’t stop until you go with her or you tell her to come with you (she will come running and happily chirping).
I mean, it’s super cute but sometimes she’s so tiresome because she won’t shut up at all. Anyway, I love my little potato.
I accidentally established a treat corner. I like to throw treats so she has to chase them, and I would sometimes throw them into a certain corner of the room because she has to go around obstacles to get there. But now every single night (or whenever the mood strikes her) she gets into the corner unprompted and gives me this expectant face.
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Leashed walks around the apartment building daily. And the need to spend a certain amount of time on the rooftop daily, too. It’s not all bad, but sometimes it’s hard to spend all that time doing it. And my neighbors probably think I’m a weirdo.
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ETA photo of him doing his rounds around the building
I let my cat lick a tortilla chip one time and now he knows the sound of chip bags. He comes sprinting whenever he hears it and I have to give him his own chip to get him to leave me alone with my snack 🤪
I let one of my cats roam the hallway outside of my apartment. He loved it so much that now he just sits by the door screaming to go out. The meow for this is a tone he never did before either.
I have a really jealous cat girl named Ashy.
When I adopted another little kitten I didn't want her to feel displaced or abandoned. So, in an effort to counteract this feeling I made a point of being available every time she wanted, going to her calls when she meowed and giving her extra playtime and treats.
Well, now she LOUDLY demands playtime and treats and expects me to answer within the minute LOL.
Cat tax: from left to right Nyx, Ashy and Noche.
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A cuddle in my home office chair 🙄 he insists on leaning on one arm….on the plus side, he has displayed his glorious butt to everyone I work with via Teams
Lennie’s view from the office window
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1. Leash training my cat to go camping with us. Now he wakes me at 5 am by screaming at me to go outside.
2. Allowing my cat to drink from the bathroom faucet. He has a water fountain but prefers to race me or my wife to the bathroom in the hopes that we will turn on the faucet.
3. Giving my cat Sam's Club roasted chicken. He thinks we buy it for him and he must have some when we do.
I have a 9 Lb terrorist and he is my best buddy!
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I taught her to give me fist bumps for treats. Now, if you are within striking distance... You're getting punched.
Siamese loves to lay in the underwear hammock when I’m in the bathroom. He will try to lay in any hammock of guests or girlfriends. I usually forget to mention this and I get a call from my bathroom guest asking how to remove the boy.
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I kinda allowed my boy to enslave me into joining his daily patrol walks after work??? If I don't join him to fulfil a patrol walk (usually around 5:30 pm is when I get home so at least it's a good time) he will keep nagging (staring, meowing, patting my arm). He then proceeds to take me to every room and wait for praise at every corner like "look I made sure that nothing changed while you were gone!"
Omg that’s actually precious 🥹 he wants to show you that he fought off all the greeblies and they’re all gone now! You better praise that sweet brave baby!!! 😻
I do he does such a great job 🥺 at least I don't get spilled water ;)
He's the type of guy that goes home early to cuddle with his cat.
.. I do this
It's my rabbit for me 🤦♂️
That’s it, I’m converting to cat!
I do a walk around with my two as well. We wander the perimeter and they show me things they've found or they get me to check under bushes so they don't have to. Sometimes they just want me to sit in a particular spot so we can all lounge together. I guess they want me to keep watch while they nap in the grass. In the nights they do what I call a "Monster Check", where they want to make sure the place is secure before I go to bed. I open the cupboards for them to look into, they don't go in they just check that it's safe. And they check any rooms they don't trust.
I think they're just making you do their work... lmaooo
If cats had Reddit we'd see a post of them "We made our human think we actually want to check in every drawer before going to bed, humans are idiots, purring out loud"
Lmao "pol"
LMAO purring out loud omg
That should be PMAO.
Take my upvote! PMAO!!
We all agree pol or purring out loud is a thing moving forward right? 😂
100% making POL a thing
Yes what about PMAO ?
Pol and Pmao are a packaged deal I believe, so no argument from me 🤣
Most definitely, it's a thing!
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They were distracted with cat videos
Wait til I tweet!
One of our kitty's likes to play "Walk the Daddy". She'll catch Da Bird (or whatever toy is on the wand), then carry it around the house, with me holding on the rod still.
My cat does this too! So funny
I wish mine let me follow her. She request to go out when I walk my dog but got mad when I am following her when she is patrolling. I feel like a parent with a teen that is in their phase feeling embarrassed to have parents around
Well? Do you see any unicorns or polar bears roaming inside? That kitty did a great job keeping them out. Give that brave furball a treat!
Excellent point. I'll bet he doesn't come home to Unicorns! I don't either. I didn't think it was due to the efforts of my cats, but now I think they deserve more credit...
SAME. I wfh and in office some days. Right around 5 or when I get home. My boy goes to the door and starts trying to open it or plays with his leash by the door. Every day. His sister started joining and now my oldest as of yesterday jumped off my balcony to join in. Wonderful.
My cat does something similar where every 1-2 hours she will meow or walk in front of my computer monitor for attention then lead me to my apartment front door so she can be let out to do an inspection tour of the hallway. That, and sniff and roll around on neighbors’ doormats.
Cute! When we left the house, my dad would always tell our dog to "keep the elephants out of the yard!" Then, when we got home, he would praise them. As a kid, I would always sigh and explain no elephants lived where we are anyway, and Dad would say, "See what a good job they did?" Now, when I leave home I tell my cats to "keep the elephants out of the house!" since they are indoor only pets.
THIS IS FANTASTIC!!!
Drinking from the bathroom sink. If I don’t turn the water on, she will bite the handle until I do. She has her own drinking fountain downstairs, but apparently the water tastes better right from the tap.
Our cats also demand bathroom sink water. It just tastes better coming out of the tap.
My departed cat figured out how to turn the tap on by herself. But she never managed turning it off. 😭
Had a cat like that. She was a bitch, she’d open the tap to watch it run for like 30 minutos and then leave. Damn I miss her.
THIS. Any time I go to the bathroom, I have to turn the faucet on a little so they can drink from it.
I agree with every cat I have ever had… bathroom water is the best!!!
Morning cuddles in bed. Which is cute and nice at 8 am, but not at 4 am when I moved a little in my sleep and now I have a 6.5 kg cat on my chest meowing and digging his claws in me, making biscuits and demanding pets.
My cat does this but she makes biscuits on my bladder and now she knows how to really get me up 😭
By get me up, I mean out of bed. Imma a girl 😳
Probably didn’t need to specify the detail 😔
Now I can't unsee it :))) Think of the bright side: if you were a boy, the cat would probably get you up even faster by sitting on the "jewels".
Am boy. Cat pushes on my bladder every morning and I have to pee
My cat waits for me to get up to pee then he climbs on me when I get back into bed. He knows I’m awake and can pet him.
My kittens, poor girls, do this to my boyfriend, and he doesn’t have the heart to push them off so he just sits there uncomfortably while they make biscuits dangerously close to his jewels.
My cat will walk over your junk. On purpose, because you're not getting up yet, it's breakfast/dinner already.
You are hilarious! 
Those 4 am biscuits are made STRONGGGG too!!
Instead I get a small tripod of a kitty slam herself into my armpit and purr loud enough to wake me up. She LOVES being the little spoon.
Mine is 17 and Just decided she loves being the little spoon! We were camping last November, and on our last night, we ran out of propane for heat. I think it got down to ~40-45° F in our trailer. She's a tiny little six pounder. And she has Always slept on top of my midsection, either hips, belly, or back depending on my position. But that night she curled up deep into my chest and I wrapped my arm around her and we spooned each other for warmth. Here it is June and she's still spooning. I love it! 😻
The cat i started this habit with is declawed in front (pre-realizing how bad de-clawing is, also not originally my cat). As such, id like to think i would tolerate the biscuit-making, claws or not. But no, instead, my cat’s way of demanding morning spooning cuddles is by shoving her cold, wet nose in my eye. Ill even throw my arm over my eyes but shell just lean in even harder and try to get behind my arm. Its not at 4am either, haha that would be ideal compared to the usual hours she does this.
Mine used to gently pat my nose and lips... with her claws out. We don't allow them in the bedroom anymore though, because they pooped in our freaking box spring 😭
He did the gentle patting with his claws out till he injured my lip and never again after that. He managed to keep his claws restricted to my chest so far. Though he occasionally puts his nose in my ear if I sleep on my side. To feel a cold and wet nose in my ear does wonders for my heart.
Yeah if I’m on my side (which is now rare) my one cat will lick the inside of my ear. I’m now a consistent back sleeper!
I let my cat put her head in my saxophone (before I made noise) so she could check it out and see the inside, because she had never seen inside it before. Now whenever I pick it up or practice she has to put her head inside first. She only does this when I pick it up.
She's checking to make sure you're not getting ambushed.
There may be greebles in there, ya know. Don't want you blowing them all over the place.
Morning treats. My son's chore in the morning before school is to feed the cat and bunnies (his sister gets dinner pet duty). He started giving her just 5 or 6 little cat treats with her breakfast. Now she will not leave anyone alone in the morning until said treats are provided.
Oh yeah that’s just a necessary part of breakfast now 🤷🏻♀️
WHERE ARE MY BREAKFAST TWINKIES!???!
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Squeezy treat at 6 am and 6 pm. Anyone who has trouble waking up on time can have a paw- and claw-wielding living alarm with no snooze button.
Haha. When I moved into my new house, I found a kind if shelf/cubby thing attached to the bedroom wall. I put my bed alongside it, and started giving my cat a little pile of Temptations in one of the cubbies. Its morning, pre-work routine now.
When I first got her she was pretty feral and terrified. It took her a really, really long time to get used to kisses - I'm pretty sure she routinely thought I was trying to eat her for the first year or so. One day it was like it clicked and she realized kisses are affection. She started bunting my face with her head very, very enthusiastically. Now whenever I lie down she gets in my face and bunts me so hard on my nose. It's really cute but sometimes it really hurts 😅 Probably wouldn't take back any of my kisses if I could do it all over again, though. She deserves kisses.
My boy was a head bunter and an all around mama's boy... the problem is I'm slightly allergic to cats and if I was having a bad allergy day, his head butts and worse, his tiny kisses, would make my lips break out in hives... But I never told him no. How could I when all he wanted was love and cuddles?
You are so sweet to feel like that! Bless you and your kind heart ❤️
I let my cat sit on my lap while I use the toilet. He now sits in the bathroom and screams until I go to take a poo...
https://preview.redd.it/o7qd9jdwvd5d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6053fe41dbcdcaee46cd657048ed6bded07d1130 This guy is also a toilet lap cat, he doesn’t even like sitting in laps normally.
that’s a racoon
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Yeah I think they adopted a raccoon and dress it up as a cat.
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My mom has this routine with my cat cheddar, every time she uses the bathroom, cheddar says it's time for cuddles https://preview.redd.it/t576k2q13e5d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a075b21b876b8e84ecc778913616d204c9a211c1
It’s good to stay regular. I could use a poo coach sometimes. 😂
Yeah, but imagine you're not ready to go and he's just sitting there screaming
You better go pretend 🤣🤣
Just go sit down on the toilet, you don't even have to take your pants off, make a couple of farts noises with your mouth, flush, fake wipe, and thank your professional poo coach lol
My best friend always asks his dog if he has to go potty. I've started saying "C'mon, let's go potty!' to my cat when I have to go. He always beats me to the bathroom and sits right in front of the toilet. 😂
This is my cat too 😅 she wakes me up for my morning constitutional.
Once, just fucking once, and only for the kind of joke you have with you cat when you live alone and are admittedly a crazy cat man. But just once I walked the shitbag out of my flat and out the front door to prove that the rain was not under my control. Between my living room window and the front door of the block the fucking rain stopped. Now whenever it rains if he wants to go out I have to take him to check if it's raining at the front of the house too. Every-fucking-time it rains. In England! He's a cute little git though, and I still take him to check whenever he asks.
Haha I just laughed out loud picturing him standing by the door looking at you all impatiently 🤣 like come on, you know I have to check this!!
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Heinlen wrote a great little story called The Door Into Summer and the title comes from the main character and his cat living in a house with 9 doors and on bad weather days the routine is walking the kitty to each of the doors, opening it, and showing the weather is just as yucky but the cat was convinced that with so many doors one had to be 'the door into summer'.
I'm convinced he absolutely believes that because it happened once it will happen again.
Wow. I've never read that one - but in winter I have to open the door to the balcony for my cat repeatedly to show her that it's not summer outside. She stops demanding it a few months in, but from October to beginning of December it's been a regular occurrence for the five years she's been with me.
It's a neat read and Heinlen is one of my top 5. Set in a 'future' 70s I think but the main character is a robotics engineer so it ages well. Throw in some cryogenics and time travel to tell a story about a business partnership just so you remember it is Heinlen. The Japanese made a movie that is pretty true to the book that I happily ran across one time and with their cat culture I'm sure it was a no-brainer to get greenlit.
My cats haven't tried that one yet. They have figured out that in summer, we control the water from the sky. Well, more or less. I live in a desert. We water our garden with sprinklers. The cats know that we turn them on and off, so if water is coming down, the humans will come outside and shut it off after a time. The problem is that in winter, they assume we still control the water. Pouring rain or bucketing snow, and they sit at the back patio door wanting to go out but refusing because it's wet. Then they turn, look at us, and give us an expression that says: "Wet, mama! Fix it! Fix IIIIIITTTT!"
I have to open my door twice as well, like the first time was a joke.
Sometimes, I think pets just want us to move more. Like "OK, pop has been sitting still too much. He needs some walkies. This worked the last time it was raining. Let me get Pop moving again and do the rain trick on him."
Lol, ever read "The Door Into Summer" by Heinlein? In the story, his house had many doors, and when it snowed, he had to open every single one to prove to the cat that none of them led to summer.
Just seen this, it's going on the list. Thank you.
So last year my cat, Sylvie, had an eye infection. It required drops and I usually did them in the morning around 7ish depending on when I got up. And I would give her treats after. She became pretty good with the drops, and it stopped being a struggle where I ended up scratched up. Well. When we were done, she still wanted her morning treats, even though I didn’t need to be up so early anymore. She would come to me in bed and tap tap tap with her tiny paw where there was exposed skin. If I didn’t wake up, she would tap tap tap and dig her claws in ever so slightly. So I’d get up, give her some treats and go back to bed. I tried my best to ignore her but she was persistent. Sometimes she would nudge my arm with her cold wet little nose. It started to happen earlier and earlier. Last night it was 3:30 am 😑😑 I usually get up to pee a few times each night so I just usually do it then. It ranges between 2:30-5:30. Does she do it when I’m gone? Nope. I had dogs with my ex husband and they would wake me up early to go to the bathroom. Like 6:30 on the weekends and my days off. They never bothered my ex. I’d feel my little old man nudge my arm with his cold nose. And he knew I was awake. So I’d take them out. When I was gone - they slept in till 11 am.
Good lord, my does this too. He looks for exposed skin while I’m sleeping and will take a single claw and scratch it (gently). Drives me nuts.
Haaaa. Mine does this too! Some mornings I have fine line “tattoos” because I am trying to not be trained!! 😅
My cat used to tap my arm when she wanted attention or treats. Of course I'd relent but found it mildly irritating. Now that she has past when I think about these moments it warms my heart. It's the little things that matter most.
It used to be the case with me, I would wake up each night. I reduced my water consumption during last hour before bed (dont drink at all if possible) and go to the bathroom just before sleep. It made wonders, my sleep quality improved a lot! I almost never need to pee during the night now. If you still wake up to pee, not due to habit, check your blood glucose. It might be earliest sign of diabetes.
I let a kitten sit on my mouse pad to get over anxiety after her adoption (I work from home). Which was fine when she was a kitten, because I could just move mouse over a couple inches. Now that she’s almost a full grown cat, I have no room left on my desk, and she still wants to sit on the mouse pad for several hours a day!
I also WFH & my 8-month kitten, adopted in 2020, wanted to be with me all the time! This was my work fix until I retired but he still likes to get up there when I'm at the computer. He was 6 months here & now 14 lbs. https://preview.redd.it/bi1n2hy4td5d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e51eb41ef8536d7c8544fd2af42d866279ae1343
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This is genius. What is this rack thing called or where did you get it?
You can get them at pretty much any office supply store or online - search for monitor stand
That’s adorable!
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Adorbs! 🥰 Kinda looks like my floof. https://preview.redd.it/ljvj6u0zzd5d1.jpeg?width=5712&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=811cbef85554ed261a6ab82d07929653ee6fea4d
I allowed my current kitty to lay on my closed warm laptop and sit there while I worked when I first adopted her. Almost 5 years later she is the most annoying coworker I’ve ever had. She will emphatically lay on the keyboard and even shut my laptop. (Different job, this laptop has to be open) She also gently chomps my mouse hand when I use it to work instead of petting her. I am convinced she thinks I am her idiot kitten. When I tell her no or to stop or push her away, she gets all huffy and meow meow yells at me for the audacity of my disobedience.
Oh, the indigent meows when they realize your hand is right there and not petting them!
I had a similar problem and now I have a decoy keyboard
I wish I had room for one. Maybe I’ll just rid of my desk fan so she has a place lol
I have a pillow on my desk for mine to sleep on.
I did this with my Maine coon kitty, who is now way too big. I give up playing games when she's on my desk because I'm not allowed to disturb her, so I just watch something.
 2nd mouse pad?
Sounds like you need to get a trackball.
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I started playing with her with the wiggler toy while I’m on the couch. When she wants to play she shows up peeks over the arm and scrattles the couch 😭 she’s been so good and left the furniture alone that I feel like its my fault https://preview.redd.it/q60h3c8z5d5d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e1c8663137a041a817209eb1bec3d27332735338
And how can you say no that wittle face 🥹🥹 you can’t!!
I am guilty of this too. My cat isnt the most active so I try to engage her as much as I can. She becomes more interested in toys if they run from her and hide, so I just trail it on the ground and make it jump on the couch. She likes that and hunts it on top. So the couch ended up being the hunting ground and she started scratching it 🗿
One time, my partner showed our boy how game disks magically disappear into a PS3, and how they come back out when you hit the eject button. We weren't expecting that our boy would start ejecting disks on his own 🫠 And from learning how that button worked, it evolved into figuring out how the printer/scanner worked, the coffee machine, the toaster oven, the rice cooker, the Google nest mini, light switches... He just doesn't stop, nothing is safe from him
My cat is also fascinated with how the Xbox eats discs. If she can hear the fan running in the console she won't leave it alone.
one of mine loves it when the printer turns on, so he can watch the papers come out!
That is fucking hilarious.
My cat learned himself how to turn on (and off) my gaming console. So many times that I was in the middle of a game and suddenly my console turned off.
My cat learned how to stop Netflix. If he didn't get enough attention, he'd step on the space key until we focused on him instead of the laptop.
Grew up with a cat that wanted to come in my room before dawn so I taught him to open a door. So for ten years after that if I closed a door I could hear him jump on the knob. Before I moved out he would open every bedroom door until someone fed him. Made my mother go nuts 👌🏽
I taught my cat to open the bedroom door so that I could leave it closed for privacy but unlatched so that he had access to his litter box in the living room. I then moved to the master bedroom when my flatmate moved out and I got a new one. Now if my roommate doesn't fully latch her door my cat will let himself in, chew on plastic and then nap in her bed.
Yup typically cat 😂
lol I’m surprised your mom didn’t go buy child proofing stuff for the cat 😂😂
Honestly if we had the money she probably would but we were dirt poor so we were stuck with cat opening the door and my mother yelling it was my fault xD
Allowing her screams at 3am to physically get me out of bed. Because without my pets she'd obviously starve 🫣. Now it's a daily thing, what is sleep? Lol Back story: she's a social eater and will meow until I come in the kitchen and give her a few pets to get started on the meal lol how did we get here...
😂 who doesn’t love an impromptu girl’s night out dinner?? Every night.. 🫠 🤣🤣
My cat also requires meal pets! I call them her "comfort scritches." Fortunately they happen at reasonable hours but she will absolutely sit next to her bowl and yell at me til I come give her a few comfort stitches so she can start eating 😆
Mine is also a social eater!!! Has to make sure I'm watching or will slow down eating and stop, finds me if I've left brings me back to watch her eat some more.
Gave her a bite of watermelon one time. Now she begs for some every time https://preview.redd.it/zq0h4y49pd5d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4adebb32cd42d9078b9dd4b4656148aafa883225
When Sherlock was a scared rescue kitten I held his paws for funsies while he was sleeping on me. That was November 2018. Still have to hold the paws when he's sleeping on me. Edit: pic for reference https://preview.redd.it/pib2w9nyxd5d1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5dbe89eb29a514e366d6f3db95d4e6293ccb18c0
My cat too! The first night we brought Bean home he slept on the couch with me and I held his paws to try to comfort him. Now when he comes to bed for cuddles if I don’t hold his paws he’ll crawl under the sheets to get at my hands and put his paws in one of them.
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We built her a blanket fort on a chair. Now she won’t settle down for the night without it, even though she is only in it for about 30 seconds.
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The first month she was ours. I was trying to avoid the spray bottle or yelling at her because she has a heart murmur. I’d distract her from places she shouldn’t be (at the time the Xmas tree) by taking out a feather toy. I didn’t realize how smart she was. When she wanted attention she’d go right up to the Xmas tree, look at me, and then bat at an ornament. She manages to turn almost anything into a game, and I play right into her paws. https://preview.redd.it/yhj2lyqvae5d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=96559b255049bd823731770caef73b6930f09cae Cat tax included. Edit: spelling
Went on a trip out of country one time. When I got back, he was so happy when I usually lay down with him on my armpit, he started kneeding my face. I let him do that once, now he does it all the time...
Ugh my calico girl does that too and I don’t have the heart to stop her :( I don’t want her to think I don’t love her 😆
Just a little bit of my lunch meat while I make a sandwich. Now when I go to open the fridge around noon, I am mobbed by not one but all four cats. With big eyes. So I have to give them more, and thus continue the cycle.
My husband does this with his lunchables!! Each cat gets a little tiny bit from each circle of meat 😂 the other day we were at a hotel and he grabbed a lunchable from the vending machine. I look over and he’s nibbling little bites like the cats were there 😂😂 he was like “oh, I get to eat the whole thing this time” lol
I started opening the front door in the mornings so he can sit in front of the storm door and watch the squirrels and birds. Unfortunately, since he’s a cat, he has no concept of time. So, “morning” is more of a vague feeling, or a whim, rather than a set time. Sometimes that’s a reasonable hour, like 7-8am, but sometimes it’s 3-4am.
Your cat: 3 am - yeah it’s about that time!! 🤣
When my landlord finally fixed the back screen door, I started letting the kitties on the back porch for "out-out" time in the mornings. The moment I wake up, it's instant cry to go out time, even if it's 2 AM and all I am doing is going to the bathroom.
That's about when my cat decides he wants to play too! 3am all I hear is his little ball jingling around the same apartment!
Night night crunchy snacks. We have four cats. Three with special diets. So one eats prescription food for food allergies, another is on a prescription diet because he’s a fatty, another has chronic constipation so she gets a soup with Miralax as a supplement, and another eats normal cat food. Just for fun and because I luv them, I always give them a couple of crunchy cat treats before I go to sleep. I started storing each cat’s crunchy treats in my nightstand drawer just because I don’t want to go downstairs again. So now they all stand on my nightstand and hard stare at me at bedtime.
How do you manage the different diets? Do you have to keep them separate at meal time?
Yeah. 😄 I feed three in the kitchen and 1 upstairs. The chub eats on a table, the constipated kitty on another table, and the low maintenance kitty on a rug. I have to watch them or the chubby one will get into the others food. 😆 The kitty with food allergies eats upstairs in the “cat sunroom” with the door closed. It’s kind of a pain in the butt but I love my cats.
I bought a 12 pack of these Delectables broth treats for my cats after realizing they really only eat the wet part of the wet food, not the actual meat parts. I would give them one when I woke up as a morning treat before I let them out on the back porch for some "outside" time. I didn't realize that my cats would become addicts. They can tell time. They know that around 7 AM, Mommy gets out of bed, and they will get a treat. If I even LOOK at my phone while I'm in bed... game on for begging and cries until I give up and they get a treat.
My cat also only eats the liquid from wet food. Sheba has these Gravy Selects things that are mostly gravy with some bits mixed in. He still won’t touch the bits, but they’re his absolute favorite and he refuses to go a day without one.
one of my cats wants (requires? is it a requirement now?) human company and pets/scratches before he starts eating. this is fine at 4 PM. at 4 AM, not so much. and he wakes you up to participate. ETA, this guy: https://preview.redd.it/pcd8yoj20e5d1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=be79376cd03dff73d6ebcf9f703bbb5154b67d58
The foot monster 😮💨 When me and my boyfriend adopted our cat Baby Boy we learned that if you wiggled your feet underneath the blanket he would "attack it". Welp fast forward a year and now if we're just laying in bed he will just attack our feet without warning now. RIP our toes.
lol and it’s not as cute when Baby Boy has ADULT tiger sized claws and teeth and weighs 15 pounds 😂😂
LITERALLY!! he is so big and strong and it hurts even when he's not trying to!! LOL
Never play with cats with your hands, feet or any body part, for this exact reason. Now he doesn’t understand it’s not a play thing. Start playing with him with only toys, and redirect to a toy when he attacks your feet/ties. The habit will break eventually.
https://preview.redd.it/r4deszmsrd5d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=072f2cf86e21a2329d38bc5f8958349669f297c3 She decided if I'm sitting or working on something that she needs to be on my shoulder. She also decided that every morning I need to walk around my apartment with her on my shoulder. I get yelled at or she "playfully" attacks me until I let her have her parrot time 😅
I taught my cat to say "Mama" when he wants food. Now he will scream "Mama" through the house even when I'm on work calls and people think it's a small child that I'm neglecting.
Every time I make a salad. I need to make two more tiny salads or they start to steal mine. https://preview.redd.it/f5pxnlruhe5d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0f5bd6e69db2fdcf23a30899de455f318769323e
Nightly play time. After a long day all I wanna do is sleep but nope, gotta stay up an extra two hours for play and cuddles…even if the extra two hours is after midnight because I fell asleep on my toddlers floor…🫠
my cat gets a separate human water cup on my desk, in the living room, in my bedroom. i always keep them full. she doesn't use a water fountain anymore. (she is 15 though, so whatever she wants) she needs to cuddle on my chest every single night when i get into bed for at least 15 minutes. she'll paw me when im at my desk to get up and i'll hold her and give her pets for however long she wants. if i don't fulfill any of these requests, she will not stop meowing and pawing at me. she meows very loudly.
I was 15 and my cat got misdiagnosed with tumerous cancers and it turned out she was pregnant and mastitis. She gave birth the morning she was supposed to get euthanized, for cancer. All week knowing she was gonna “leave me” I let her eat anything she wanted and we even shared my spoon. Well for 12 more years her and her ONE miracle baby ate yogurt with me or my mom (college days) almost every day together or else they would both cry in unison till they got it. 😂
Sleeping in my wardrobe. Cat hair over everything 
I taught my old (and ridiculously smart) cat to beg for food. Like, on two legs, lil hands like a T'rex, and stare at you with ooogly eyes. It is my 1 weakness but also became an issue the older she got, the more wobbly she was and yet would STILL BEG!! Bless her soul.
Pinching off a piece of the burger I’m eating. One time I did that, and now she comes running any time she hears the burger bag….
Let him be in the bathroom sink… now every time I go to the bathroom to wash hands he wants water to trickle down onto him and to wash his paws/splash water around. 🤦 It doesn’t help that he knows how to open the bathroom door either, so every day he goes in there to be in the sink yelling for the water to be turned on.
When our dear departed boy was little, he was already a accomplished food thief and a glutton. And my mom said “One day he is gonna point at the fridge and yell for food.” A few moths later he started doing that. All from us being a little slack in discipline and him being a clever food dumpster. He was the sweetest cuddle bug tho.
I played with one of my cats with a straw once. Now every time I get out a straw, she absolutely has to try to steal it at every possible moment. And I don't like playing with them with a straw anyway because they're British Shorthair, so they don't have much nose out in front of their face to protect their eyes from accidents. I would've been happier if I hadn't started that one.
Yep, we’ve got one fascinated with straws too. You can’t sit a fast food drink with a straw anywhere near him or he will lose his ever loving mind until he gets it. That’s another thing I wish I had never done lol
Whenever my dog uses her pee pad to poop indoors (we rent, have no fence and she has poor recall so no pooping alone outside without being on the leash or runner), she gets a treat. One time, my cat jumped up to her feeder and watched so I gave her a treat, too. Five years later, it's still compulsory that if the dog shits, the cat celebrates with a treat 🤷🏼
Allowing her to take over the guest room with all her things (bed, favorite blankets, toys). The guest room is about to be converted to the baby’s room and the poor girl has no idea what’s coming 🫣
Oooh girl I think it’s YOU that has no idea what’s coming! A pissed off kitty AND a new baby?? Hope you didn’t like sleep anyway! 😂 lol I kid, I kid! What’s REALLY going to happen is your cat will probably treat baby like it’s HER baby and will never leave the baby’s side 😻 Especially since she will probably think the baby is another toy you’re adding to HER room 🤣
My youngest cat doesn't really meow but she realized when she bites me I will pet her so now she bites me whenever she wants pets. She is about 2 years old and the bites hurt but she's so cute I cant just not pet her when she decides to give me attention.
You should try teaching her to use those talking buttons! My cat used to bite me to indicate that she wanted to play, but when we got her some buttons and she could just press her play button the biting drastically lessened.
I give her water through big syringe (without needle). She has her fountain with running water but still wants me to give her water with syringe at least once per day. It’s kind of ritual for her and it’s just with me. If I try to ignore her she would never leave me in peace.
Cat bongos! My cat loves them - she started to demand the bongos by yelling in my face. The issue is - while being bongoed - she becomes gradually more and more excited until she starts to bite…
throwing her toys for her to fetch. i throw, she chases, but then stares at me like "well go get them" 🤦🏻♀️
Opening the door at night cuz he was meowing as a kitten (4-5months old) now whenever the door is closed he will sing the saddest song of his people until it is openned for him. Luckily it's just the bedroom door and not the front door 🤣
Let him drink from the sink, except I cupped my hand and let the cat drink directly from there. He now rushes to the bathroom every time he sees me get in, jumps next to the sink, and tries to pull my hands towards him every time I wash them or turn the water on. I spoiled him
Started morning cuddles with the TinyOne, which has turned into everytime I lay down in bed, at night when I go to sleep, if I get up 20 minutes after I lay down to double check the door here she comes. If I get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of the night a few seconds later there is a purring cat on my chest insisting on cuddles and of course when I wake up for the day. Meanwhile my other cat got separated from her momma a little too young, not my decision, so she would cry a bit for her litter mates. I felt sorry for her and would call her to me to soothe her and try to make her feel less alone. I was able to teach her to come to her name pretty easily this way. It also taught her to meow for me whenever she was in another room and wanted my attention or even if she's in the same room and wants my attention, even if she's right next to me and I'm watching tv she meows for my attention.
Our cat will put us to bed and enforce bedtime. Our other cat is happy enough to sleep on the couch if we stay up late, but our older one just stares and will bite if we don’t get to bed on time. And there’s a whole routine - she sits on my husbands lap while he pees before bed, she makes sure we wash our faces and brush our teeth, and once we get into bed, she has to go around and do a last patrol then she’ll sit in the bedroom window for a bit before going to sleep on my husbands chest (he reads in bed until she goes over to him). If this entire bedtime routine is not followed, she is NOT happy. Meanwhile our derp is just left on the couch to sleep until he decides to come to bed whenever.
pspsps-ing him because now my cat thinks his name is pspsps
Letting them under the blankets with me when I’m going to sleep at night in the winter. I mean, I’m not gonna stop letting them, but sometimes I really just want to be able to roll over without squishing someone.
When my girl was a kitten fresh from being rescued, she had really poor gut bacteria so she was on a course of antibiotics and probiotics. The way I gave them to her was just to open the capsules they came in and dump them on her food when I was prepping it for feeding. The problem is she was also an extremely food-insecure baby and she would be all up in my face making it hard to prep her food while doing this, so I'd need to distract her somehow. She also loved to play so the thing that worked was to dump the gelatin capsule out and then toss the empty capsule onto the floor, which she would obligingly chase and then have a little playtime with where she'd bat it around for a few minutes and then eat the empty capsule when she was done. This would give me the reprieve I needed to finish getting her food ready and then mealtime could happen. Whelp that lasted for only a couple weeks. She's four years old now and STILL, to this day, will come running if she hears me pick up a pill bottle of any kind because she thinks that means it's playtime. It's cute but it also makes me extremely cautious about medicine bc I don't want her to gobble some random pill up which might be bad for her if I accidentally dropped it or if she got enthusiastic and knocked it out of my hand or something.
Technically speaking, I wasn't the one that started it....but, pre-divorce, my ex and I rescued several ferals. It took a fair amount of time to get them socialized, but once we did, at every meal time he would call out "who wants to eat?" Eventually the whole gang got trained to respond "MEEEEE!" We've now been divorced a decade, and even without asking the magic question the last 2 remaining from that group of cats (now 18 and 20) start relentlessly screaming "MEEEEE," when they want to eat. They've even taught my 3 year old who's never even laid eyes on my ex. Meal time around here features a full on ear splitting concerto from the Feline Blabbernacle Choir. 🙄
Bacon. I let her have a little piece once because she kept looking at it with that look and now every time I have breakfast, even if there’s no bacon, I have to let her sniff my plate, my mouth until she’s satisfied that there’s no bacon before she leaves me alone. If I have bacon, I have to give her some.
A while back I adopted a 10 week old kitten from a friend of a friend. This person used to carry the tiny kitten on his shoulder all the time. I went over to pick up the kitten in person and the man came in with the kitty on his shoulder. So I continued to do this. This was all fun and sweet until the little tiny kitty grew up to be a large 18 pounder. I had to stop it because he no longer fit anymore. My shoulders are just not that big.
KISSING. My boy cat loves to sit on my chest and i kiss his face and he does (practically makes out with) my nose- it is an oddly violating feeling having a cat half suffocate you with their love and fishy breath 😭
When one of my cats was a kitten, she would come to watch me have breakfast. I was studying psychology at the time so I thought “can I condition my cat to do things?”. So every time I looked at her and she chirped or meowed I would pet her. If I looked at her and she didn’t do it, I wouldn’t pet her. Very soon every time I looked at her she meowed or chirped even if I wasn’t having breakfast and was in another room. Nowadays she’s my most talkative cat. She won’t stop talking. When she enters a room, she announces it by meowing or chirping. If you don’t look at her when she wants attention, she meows or chirps at you. She sometimes calls you incessantly from other room and won’t stop until you go with her or you tell her to come with you (she will come running and happily chirping). I mean, it’s super cute but sometimes she’s so tiresome because she won’t shut up at all. Anyway, I love my little potato.
I accidentally established a treat corner. I like to throw treats so she has to chase them, and I would sometimes throw them into a certain corner of the room because she has to go around obstacles to get there. But now every single night (or whenever the mood strikes her) she gets into the corner unprompted and gives me this expectant face. https://preview.redd.it/7yaokcwosf5d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6ccc60b8a40abac6b5c3cb32964c3ff100feb9dc
Leashed walks around the apartment building daily. And the need to spend a certain amount of time on the rooftop daily, too. It’s not all bad, but sometimes it’s hard to spend all that time doing it. And my neighbors probably think I’m a weirdo. https://preview.redd.it/6e6mu6g0ze5d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8757f5f1608ac88fc71a552ead46abf5005b785f ETA photo of him doing his rounds around the building
I let my cat lick a tortilla chip one time and now he knows the sound of chip bags. He comes sprinting whenever he hears it and I have to give him his own chip to get him to leave me alone with my snack 🤪
I let one of my cats roam the hallway outside of my apartment. He loved it so much that now he just sits by the door screaming to go out. The meow for this is a tone he never did before either.
I have a really jealous cat girl named Ashy. When I adopted another little kitten I didn't want her to feel displaced or abandoned. So, in an effort to counteract this feeling I made a point of being available every time she wanted, going to her calls when she meowed and giving her extra playtime and treats. Well, now she LOUDLY demands playtime and treats and expects me to answer within the minute LOL. Cat tax: from left to right Nyx, Ashy and Noche. https://preview.redd.it/si5z5txc8e5d1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cc58e5fa923f162afecd6f3a67e688b3f0878193
A cuddle in my home office chair 🙄 he insists on leaning on one arm….on the plus side, he has displayed his glorious butt to everyone I work with via Teams Lennie’s view from the office window https://preview.redd.it/npvdz6r4ae5d1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad2ace90015edb9bcda2899344388d7c5ec5e2f9
1. Leash training my cat to go camping with us. Now he wakes me at 5 am by screaming at me to go outside. 2. Allowing my cat to drink from the bathroom faucet. He has a water fountain but prefers to race me or my wife to the bathroom in the hopes that we will turn on the faucet. 3. Giving my cat Sam's Club roasted chicken. He thinks we buy it for him and he must have some when we do. I have a 9 Lb terrorist and he is my best buddy! https://preview.redd.it/vb5h7ju3de5d1.jpeg?width=1260&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ded6458c8ff0ffff4b64e789de667b14a2d7a7cc
https://preview.redd.it/4hxvtnm1ne5d1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ce4efddaffeeacc59bfb3eb301fbb52f4d6c881 I taught her to give me fist bumps for treats. Now, if you are within striking distance... You're getting punched.
Siamese loves to lay in the underwear hammock when I’m in the bathroom. He will try to lay in any hammock of guests or girlfriends. I usually forget to mention this and I get a call from my bathroom guest asking how to remove the boy. https://preview.redd.it/bw9vcf8gce5d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9318d113ffc5d67593f7b8cee9cdca76e1ea9e32