Do I own my cat or does my cat own me?

[ownedbyaconnie]

Just found Teddy (the cat) FINALLY sitting on one of those beds that you hang on the radiator after trying to get him in for about a year.

So naturally I stopped what I was doing and ran to turn the heating on so his bed will get nice and warm.

Anyone else a slave to their smaller 4 legged friends? (Obviously we already know we’re slaves to their bigger equine counterparts)

 

[PapaverFollis]

I have apologise to a cat that isn't even "mine" every time I go in my hay barn for disturbing his sleep. It keeps meowing at me too like I've got cat food hidden somewhere. I'm completely going to end up feeding this cat, he's a feral but he does have other slaves. I know who his primary slaves are, I just need to speak to them to see if he is still going home at all or whether he actually does live in my hay barn now.

 

[HappyHollyDays]

I am a slave to three ?

 

[smolmaus]

I've done the same thing every day this week, we have a pillow under the radiator for them and as soon as cat-butt touches pillow the heating is on!

They get treats for staying outside the kitchen where they know they're not allowed, they steal my seat as soon as I get up to make coffee and I'll sit on the floor till they move, all food is their food (she stole a wotsit out of the bag the other day). I got a cramp in my leg yesterday while she was on my lap and by God I just suffered rather than move her to stretch. She looked too cosy to move. Ridiculous ?

You're absolutely going to feed that cat PapaverFollis.

 

[HufflyPuffly]

Haha at least I'm not the only one! Huffle guilts me into putting more logs on the fire all the time!

 

[Roxylola]

Dogs have owners, cats have staff.
I dont know where that quote originates from but I think it sums things up rather well

 

[NinjaPony]

I’m getting my flat ready for my new car and have realised already it is no longer my flat, it is her flat. It was the same with my last cat, for example, eating my breakfast around him as he sat on the table, rather than making him move.

 

[smolmaus]

Haha at least I'm not the only one! Huffle guilts me into putting more logs on the fire all the time!

Oh but look how cosy they are ?

 

[ownedbyaconnie]

Haha at least I'm not the only one! Huffle guilts me into putting more logs on the fire all the time!

The cat before my current one would get so close to the fire that he would singe his whiskers. He was part maine coon and absolutely worshipped any form of heat.

 

[HufflyPuffly]

The cat before my current one would get so close to the fire that he would singe his whiskers. He was part maine coon and absolutely worshipped any form of heat.

She singed her whiskers off when she was a kitten, not that it's put her off any! She's got the wee grey one in on the act too!

 

[Rumtytum]

I believe there is archaeological evidence to show that cats had domesticated people since the very earliest times ?

 

[dogatemysalad]

Hands up, who holds open the door in freezing temperatures while the cats decide whether they want to go out or not ? Ours will shamelessly hover in the doorway and then say, nah... Only to insist on going out once they've seen me sit down.

Our cats don't just own us, they own the dogs too. They make the oldie sit on the floor while they stretch out on his bed and use the Rough collie as a heated mat.

 

[HappyHollyDays]

The fluffy blind one taking up more of my chair than me ?

 

[CanteringCarrot]

I have one of those too and it's quite near to our fireplace (I guess it's a fireplace, it's an enclosed modern cylinder looking thing). My cat loves laying in it when there is a fire. Initially he didn't go near it or care for it. Whenever he does go in it I make sure not to disturb him and am very quiet when I toss a new log in. Yes, I only live to serve him. ?

 

[Cloball]

I sat on a kitchen stool for a whole day of zoom courses because the cat bagged the comfy office chair

 

[ycbm]

This is MY footrest at the moment, I don't understand your thread title ?

 

[tallyho!]

Errrr.... what sort of question is that?

 

[Quigleyandme]

A scabby ginger tom came with the farm I bought last year. I made him a shelter in the hay shed and bought him a bed and started to feed him. He blossomed. Then I let him come into the house occasionally but never overnight. Then I started to let him stay overnight if it was a particularly wild night. Now he puts himself right in the middle of the 7’ long sofa and I arrange myself uncomfortably around him. I sleep as if balanced on a bookshelf while the cat enjoys the rest of the 5’ bed. I’m up and down in the night to let him in and out and he is very selective about what he will eat. However, I think I might have gone a bit barmy during lockdowns without the company.

 

[Bernster]

Loving the photos! Ours has a cat flap but waits for us to open/close the door instead ?

 

[COldNag]

Cat slave here.

The cat flap cost me a small fortune to get installed (double glazed French doors so required new glass panel).

Cat refuses to use it and instead scratches at the window to be let in. Window is right by my desk and invariably it is when I am mid client meeting....

 

[Archangel]

When the feral cats are in the house I put the TV on for them. I actually choose something for them that doesn't have adverts so they are not disturbed by loud noises.

 

[Cloball]

My mum's cat is perfectly capable of using the dog flap when no one is looking but is slaves are present she sit by the door until it is opened for her. This confuses the westie who has been know to go backwards and forwards through said flap to show cat how it is done. Cat looks smug when door is opened by slave. Parents have now build a step so cat who is getting on can more easily jump onto the garden wall, although they have called it a BBQ shelf we all know what it is really for.

Old ginger puss liked to sun bathe in the window but was too geriatric to get there so he was placed on a sheepskin on the window sill and then periodically checked on every hour as the sun moved round in case he got chilly.

Even older childhood cat refused to eat cat food when she was old and would only ear people food when we ate..... At the table.

 

[honetpot]

I had a rescue cat that had lived in cupboard underneath the stairs from a kitten, apparently it's doing what cat do upset the owners. I got it as a mouser in an empty house, you never saw it, it used the litter tray, ate the food and left lots of dead mice in the hall. It was frightened and used to hide in the smallest spaces, my daughter moved in for a while and it frightened the life out of her when it suddenly popped of out the wardrobe in the middle of the night. It started to go outside and a year later, when we moved in it would just about tolerate you in the house, perhaps not in the same room.
Four years later, and she was cat queen bee, dominating the RottweilerX, pulling up my new stair carpet, it now has holes in it and enjoying a communal sit on the sofa. She was PTS this spring, but she ended up having a lovely life living totally on her terms.
I think cats are even better than dogs at fooling us that they can not possibly look after themselves, those eyes stare you into submission, and then they do something cute to seal the deal. Our posh looking Siamese X will happily eat a whole bird or mouse, and just perhaps leave the feet, and then turn her nose up at her cat food, but eat the old man cat's food, or the feral kittens' food. We have given up on cat flaps, we have an extra large one, it's called a patio door.
Old man cat who is just a now a life force on four legs, wanders across the laptop, on my lap, to sit on the sofa, where he will stand mid paw step until we move things to make his space.

 

[MrsMozartleto]

You even need ask the question ???

 

[DirectorFury]

The elderly Siamese has a bed and a makeshift tent on the windowsill above the radiator- the blanket tent catches the heat as it rises and directs it towards her! Meanwhile we’re freezing as hardly any heat is getting into the room