My roommate has a male which is her baby, and he won’t tolerate any other cats, male or female. Bastard.
So, I’m stuck with the younger, smaller female, which I have to constantly protect.
She’s active in the middle of the night and early morning when daddy is sleeping. She got the boot and I closed the door. She’s gradually learning she can earn her bedroom privileges back by being verrrrry quiet while daddy is sleeping, because when she decides it’s fun to jump over daddy’s face in the middle of the night, daddy wakes up swinging.
Do neutered males count as “males”? ‘Cause my husband’s boycat is a pussy, and my girlcat is da Queen Beeyotch.*
*Any similarity between my cats’ relationship and my husband and my relationship is purely coincidental. And oft remarked upon.
Both of the males I’ve had that were obvious Alphas were neutered, but after they’d already started the path to manhood, if you will. Ernie - The Best Cat Ever TM was trying to mount the female we had at the time when we chose to take him in.
And Cuervo we saw dragging a gray Beanie Baby cat around the house by the scruff of the neck, dropping her and giving it to her when we thought “time”. He STILL does the nasty with her too. It’s kind of cute actually, the little guy in love like that.
[hijack]Be carefull. There are dangers to beanie baby love. A veterinarian friend of mine once had a chinchilla brought in, attached to a beanie baby penguin. It seems the two were special friends, until the time the beanie baby developed a split seam, and the chinchilla got himself stuck. After freeing the chinchilla (while trying not to chortle madly), my friend got to inform the owner that he would need to apply lotion to the chinchilla’s penis, for several days, to take care of the swelling and chafing. Hmm. Chinchilla handjobs.
My cats are great! They’re on free food kibble and they get to split a can of wet food in the evening. Little Cat will start meowing for it around 4 in the afternoon, but it’s an off and on thing until I feel like getting up and dealing with it. They both sleep very soundly on the bed and when they do have nighttime reconaissance missions to carry out, they do it quietly.
Of course, they come and go as they please also, because we have a kitty door. We have a good fence around the back yard, and they stay inside their own territory. Occasionally, they’ll get up on the very high brick wall that separates us from the back of the post office, but they’re content not to wander.
I love my guys. They don’t claw furniture, either!
Okay I am sorry you have been under all this stress caused by your place as a servant in the natural order of things, but that picture just won’t do. SHAME on you for teasing us: “here’s a picture, lookie!!!” when you seem to have decided conserving bandwidth is more important than displaying the natural full-sized (or at least closer to it) state of your master.
I’m gonna have to report you to the council that oversees such transgressions. But maybe they’ll go easy on you if you post a picture larger than a penny.
You have 24 hours. Now get up, let the cat in/out/up again, as you should, and then start taking photographs!
Yeah, but if you could see it, you would know that Bruno is in your face! Here’s another. Bruno is the brown one pretending that he is not the Devil.
I’ve thought this over and I do have one more idea: I could splint his elbows with popsicle sticks so he can’t reach up and claw the door. Then I thought, no, that’s cruel because he couldn’t lay down. But then I thought, yes he could, he could lay on his back with his legs up in the air like his brother does sometimes.
You know how sometimes you wake up early, with a vague urge to pee, but you turn over and try to go back to sleep? When you have three dogs, one or two of which sleep in the bed with you, who know you are awake and don’t see anything wrong with thumping the wall with a tail, or flapping ears loud enough to wake the dead, jangling collar tags…
Wake up, Mom! It’s a new day!!! FEED ME!!!
Then 15 minutes after they’ve eaten, get back to the business of napping…
I skimmed this paragraph really quick and saw the words “pussy”, “all night long”, and “in and out”. It was kinda disappointing when I went in for a closer look.
Dung Beetle, I’m sorry to hear how your existence has become like a huge unpleasant object that you have to labor against every day. It’s too bad there’s not some metaphorical way you could express that.
