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June 19, 2007
my cat obviously feels better
because he's started sitting on my head every morning at 6am. it's just his little way of saying, "you shouldn't be in REM sleep, you should be walking out to the kitchen with me JUST IN CASE there's no food in my bowl."
i always get up and shuffle to the kitchen with him. there's always food in his bowl. he's like, "ooh, food! i shall eat this!"
sigh. my cat.
it's also really weird for him to weigh less. after having had a fat kitty for so many years-- he topped out at 21 lbs a few years ago, and has been holding steady around 17 for the last year or so-- it's like he's shrinking before my very eyes. he has all this ground clearance now. i am sure people meeting him for the first time will still say, "wow, that's a BIG CAT!" because he's not just overweight, he's tall and long and very sturdy, but to me he's getting kind of little.
it's good for his health of course. but i kind of miss the squishyness.
Posted by lisa at June 19, 2007 08:37 AM
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I found that my cats often wanted to eat in my presence. I had one (very fat) cat named Trixie who would always greet me at the door when I came home and then run to her food bowl and start eating. I think that food was a big comfort and joy for her, and she associated it so closely with happiness a happy event would just naturally make her want to eat. I remember when I first brought her home she was very timid and scared until I put down a bowl full of food, and she sort of acted like "Oh, cool, food! This place is OK!"
So maybe Moses feels that eating will just be so much better if you're there to share the experience.
Posted by: Lisa B on June 19, 2007 09:35 AM
Spike prefers to eat when we're eating, or at the very least when we're in the same room with him. It worked best when his food was next to the kitchen table, but Lucy kept getting to it to eat, so we had to move it.
Posted by: Steph Mineart on June 19, 2007 11:29 AM
Does he sit on your head and meow loudly? Lucy meows loudly and licks any part of me she can find. Then she goes looking for something she knows will get me out of bed -- she knocks my glasses off the nightstand or starts playing with something noisy. To her credit, though, she doesn't have food until I get up and feed her. However, she's not starving to death as she would have you believe. I'm glad Moses is feeling better!
Posted by: Stephanie on June 19, 2007 01:10 PM
For social eating cats, would it ever make sense to put the food bowls in the bedroom as an anti-bother-me-in-the-a.m. measure?
Cats are neat. And interesting.
As for Moses's reduced squishy factor, how about you buy him a down coat? :-) Yesterday I was at a store that sold GUND stuffed animals. OMFG they are so soft and huggable. Almost makes me wish I were small again.
Posted by: Phil on June 19, 2007 02:49 PM
i think part of it is that he's a social eater. there have been times in the past, though, when he's gotten up and eaten during his dawn wakefulness period without having to drag me into it. sometimes if i just get up and walk toward the door, that's enough to get him to go to the kitchen on his own, and then he starts to get the idea.
he doesn't meow-- of course, he's not quite as vocal as miss luuuuuucy! when he was younger he'd toss my glasses around which is a surefire way to get me out of bed. now he just sits on my hair, which really hurts. it's pretty effective. if he senses me drifting off, he'll either move or touch brush his whiskers against my face, which drives me crazy.
phil, i think moses keeps plenty warm without a layer of down :)
Posted by: lisa on June 20, 2007 12:09 AM
ok, so a) your comment won't post right away because i have to approve it first and b) you might get a server error but your comment probably posted anyway and c) previewing doesn't work so i've removed the preview button.