I just found out about this great new holiday slated for the second Saturday in January:
Live Like a Cat Day
This beats talk like a pirate day all to hell and back. All you workaholics, this could be your salvation!
Oh, and by the way, Happy Thanksgiving.
I’m afraid I won’t be able to participate - I’m not flexible enough to lick my own ass.
Count me out - all our cat wants to do today is puke.
I can’t do it. Airman’s tolerance for tummy-rubbing is pretty low and I can’t stand the smell of wet cat food.
Sorry.
Robin
If I were as whiny and needy as my cat, I think I’d off myself.
But the sleeping all day thing, I could probably do that. If I applied myself…
Yeah, if I could lick my own ass, I’d spent a lot more time on these boards.
Oh, pretty much what Antigen said.
Hey, I just got an idea!
Isn’t that like Thanksgiving? Sleep, eat, sleep some more. Roll eyes at anyone enthusiastic about anything.
How apt that you’d saunter in and post here.
And you’ve gotta lick someone else’s ass too.
Then hunt down a small creature and eat it.
Then vomit, and leave it for someone else to clean up.
Oh you are all just looking for disadvantages here. Shame on you.
Now, why can’t we just tweak the idea a tiny bit?
1 - Live like an unclean cat, so no arse-licking involved
2 - Live like an indoor cat, so no need to catch and kill them micies unless you really want to.
3 - Vomiting not to be compulsory.
This leaves you will a day of commandeering the comfy chairs or the bed, and the nice warm fire (good idea in January) and you get to eat and drink when you feel like it.
And if you see any of your family reading a book or newspaper you don’t approve of, you get to attack it. Reading material, that is, not family member. But, then again … 
Conversely, if your companions try to eat something that you DO approve of, you get to try to steal some of it.
If you hear someone knock at the door, you just lie there all lazy and wait for someone else to deal with it.
See? It’s not bad. Not bad at all.
No, no, you only eat half of the small creature. Then you leave the other half for someone to step on in the middle of the night.
I like being in charge of the dogs, I don’t think I’ll try it. Besides, I’d probably destroy all the house plants, eat the birds and fish, and poop in the corner. My honey might kick me out.
But all of that behaviour will be TOLERATED when you are a cat!
As a bach who works from home, I already live a lot like a kitty when there’s nothing else going on, but I suppose I could take it to the next level…curl up naked in random soft places, eat dry foods from a bowl (Goldfish…yum), file my nails on the chenille sofa, play jingly ball with Actual Kitty at floor level…she’ll probably think I’ve gone native.
Can I live like an unfixed cat and have loud, rough sex with every available partner?
January is cold? :dubious:
Only if you piss on every available surface.
Sounded like a great idea, so I tried it. Got my head stuck in the catflap. That wouldn’t have been quite so bad if I’d have been trying to go out, instead of coming in. Stuck for and hour and a half in the freezing rain, on your hands and knees isn’t my idea of fun. My wife tried calling the fire and rescue service, but they thought it was a prank call.
Eventually, we found a locksmith with the necessary tools, but he wasn’t amused. Actually, no, strike that - he was nothing but amused.
Yeah, well nobody tell my wife. She’s already pretty keen for me to start sleeping in the garage…
Sadly, this weekend we have to take our 4 y o cat Liquorice to the shelter to be re-homed. My daughter has developed an allergy to cat and dog fur, so kitty has to go. 
I am claiming his beanbag 
Si
Brilliant. This will give me the opportunity to snarl viciously at Cat #1 when she goes near my dinner, much like she’s wont to do when I get anywhere near her food bowl.
Of course, the difference is that I want nothing to do with her dinner (wet cat food? bletch!)