What is your cat's "routine"?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
1

I have two cats. One of them is a 3-year-old spayed female named Vienna. Whenever I go to bed alone, she does her “routine.”

First, I hear her purring. Loudly. And this is the only time I ever hear her purring. she stands a couple of feet away from me (I have a king-size bed) and she kneads with her front paws while staring at me. And this is the only time she ever stares at me. So she keeps kneading and staring and very gradually gets closer and closer to me. It takes her a good 10-15 minutes to finally reach me. Then she finds a nice spot between or against my lower legs and makes herself comfortable. Then she spends a while grooming herself before going to sleep.

This is her routine. She doesn’t do it when my partner is there, only when I’m alone. And she doesn’t do it with him when he’s alone. And she also does it when I’m just lying down for a nap. Her routine is always exactly the same. And the other cat wants nothing to do with her while all this is going on.

What’s your cat’s routine?

2

Sleep

Get up and annoy me for a while

Sleep

Repeat

3

My cat does the whole snuggle in between my lower legs and groom herself thing too!

She doesn’t have any routine to approach the bed, though. She either sneaks in from the foot of the bed or digs her way in from my chest.

4

My cat is very, very old so his routine involves a lot of sleeping; however, at bed time:

  1. Wait till mummy goes to bed.
  2. Tickle mummy’s face with whiskers.
  3. Get tossed accross bed by mummy.
  4. Come back and tickle mummy’s face with whiskers again.
  5. Get tossed by mummy onto cushion and told to ‘Stay on your cushion!’
  6. Get off cushion, tickle mummy’s face with whiskers. Purr loudly.
  7. Get threatened with bodily harm by mummy.
  8. Get on cushion.
  9. Go to sleep.

Periodically he’ll get up throughout the night and get lost in the hallway and then meow loudly. I then call him back to bed and we repeat the steps above.

Lets just say it’s a good thing he’s cute.

5

we all [me, mrAru and the cat] get up at 5 am. The humans do breakfast, the male of the species goes off to work. I take my morning meds. After about 2 hours of surfing the web and dealing with email, breakfast dishes and the like, I get a nap attack. I tend to nap on my left side. Cat snuggles in under my chin Sort of cradled in my left armpit. Our mutual nap attack seems to last about an hour, then I’m awake again. We have another mutual nap attack after my 1 pm meds [it seems to be the clonidine forcing the nap attack] that lasts an hour. When us humans go to bed, cat makes her self comfortable at the head of the bed between our pillows. She will sort of wander around in the night and end upon the outside edge of the bed sleeping still by my head. She randomly wanders around and sleeps in various places during the day, and eats and uses the litter box as she whims.

6

  1. When tired, sit on the stairs. If very tired, push out ruff on neck and glare at humans.

  2. When humans looks like they’re going upstairs, run ahead, but only a little, and keep checking back that they are actually following you. There are two flights of stairs with a landing in the middle, which provides an excellent platform from which to bat them with paws if they are taking too long.

  3. Purr and rub self along human’s legs and feet whilst they try to get changed.

  4. If feeling frisky, pretend discarded clothes are small furry creatures and attack with appropriate gusto. If in the mood, play fetch with items thrown by male human. Stop playing just at the moment he starts to get excited about how obedient you are.

  5. When humans enter bed, jump up and insist on at least ten minutes of fussing and patting, going from one human to the other.

  6. If human gets out a laptop, sit on laptop.

  7. Jump off when humans are clearly going to throw you off, and go and lie on couch.

7a. Do mystery stuff that cannot be spoken of whilst human’s sleep.

  1. Approximately 30 minutes before the human alarm is due to go off, start jumping on bed doing short sharp ‘Meh!’ meows. Sniff human faces whilst purring loudly. Try to walk along bedstead, even though it is much narrower than the old bedstead. Use human heads to walk on if bedstead proves too narrow.

  2. Look delighted when male human gets up, but then refuse to go downstairs. Sit on female human using the ‘getting increasingly heavier’ technique. Extra points if you can place a paw over the bladder.

  3. When female human gets up, follow to kitchen, despite the fact that male human is responsible for cat breakfast.

  4. Sniff breakfast disdainfully, then demand ten minutes of petting from humans.

  5. Begin day time routine.

7

Our oldest cat, Louie, has settled into a comfortable routine.

12m-7a: Sleep at the top of the stairs, so he can guard everyone’s room.

7a-7:15a: Race down the stairs at top speed, circle around the kitchen madly, tripping anyone in his way, howling for his breakfast.

7:15-7:16: BREAKFAST NOM NOM NOM NOM

7:16-8:30: Jump on sinks while I try to shave, bother kids while they make lunch, generally be a pest

8:30a-4:30p: While humans are gone, sleep on floor or couch, generally laze around (we assume this from his weekend activity)

4:30-5:30: Greet JP when he gets home from school, sit and watch him play video games, get ready for the rest of the family to get home

5:30-5:31: Hear tygre’s car pull into the garage, stand in front of the door with his tortie friend Marigold (who has slept for the last 9 hours), get ready to look sappy

5:31-5:32: MOWWWWW-OWWWWW-OWWWWWW. Look at tygre like he has not been fed in years

5:32-5:33: Do the trick that he learned (puts paws on kitchen counter and stretches in a long 3-foot arc). Scarf cat treats, tries to scarf Marigold’s treats

5:33-6:30: Be a general pest while family makes and eats dinner

6:30-9:00: Sit behind my monitor if I’m on the computer. Sometimes attack the mouse when I move it.

9:00-12:00: Sit on the back of the couch while tygre and I watch TV or play video games or read or whatever. His favorite part of the day. Sometimes doze off and start snoring or make smacking sounds like an old man.

8

I keep waking up in the morning to find my wine refrigerator standing open. There are kitty paw prints on the glass door. Part of my cat’s nighttime routine seems to include opening the wine cabinet. Question is: is he drinking my wine?

We no longer allow the cats to sleep with us because they are bed hogs and we don’t get any sleep. Elvin makes sure to wake us up early each morning by scratching on the door and meowing. Not because he’s hungry, because he’s lonely and bored. Maybe if he actually drank the wine, he’d let me sleep later.

9

My cats spend more time with the wife than they do with me…well, all except Banshee.

One habit they all share is the “Feed me!” moment in the morning. The wife works nights. She is not here when I wake up and still gone when I get back to change after PT. Pretty much all of them will meow for food when I come back in.

Stache: Being the oldest, at around 14 or 15 yrs old, Stache spends most of her time sleeping. Her biggest habits to me are when she is hungry she is persistant. She absolutely will not shut up until she is fed.

Banshee: Is jealous. Banshee is nearly as old as Stache and thinks I’m her mother. Probably because she was a very young kitten when we got her. I had to feed her from a bottle and I babied her a bit. Now she’s a big fat bully. If I pet any other cat and she sees or hears it she comes lumbering over and pushes my hands out of the way. She’ll get between me and the other cat. She just doesn’t like me paying attention to any other cat but her. When I go to bed (wife is at work) she’ll jump up on the bed and settle next to my head and purr, which is kind or relaxing. On cold nights she’ll climb under the blanket and curl up next to me for warmth. Being nearly asold as Stache though, she spends most of her time sleeping roo.

Jet Jaguar: Is a mystery, He has many hiding places. He will sit and just watch you and sometimes you won’t know he’s in the room. I don’t even know all of his hiding places. Occassionally he’ll pounce out and attack Patches. (in play…Stache and Banshee don’t like him too much so he leaves them alone.) But Jet’s biggest problem is his bad timing. He always wants attention in the middle of the night. He’ll jump on the bed and do what I call “punching me in the face”. He’ll constantly poke me with his paw in the face to wake me up. If I acknowledge him in any way he starts head bumping me for scratches. If I stop before he’s happy or ignore him the punching starts again. Fortunately he’s smart enough to know when I push him away to leave me to sleep.

Patches: Is only a year old. But she has the energy of a tornado. Its hard to get her routine or habits sonce theyu are still kitten like. She has to explore everything…she gets the crazies and runs around the house…she hunts Jet even when he is sleeping. But her favorite toy is a stupid stick with a feather held by a string. We had to hide it. If she finds it she’ll drag it around and cry until you play with her with it. Which she NEVER NEVER gets tired of. NEVER. The crazy thing is, she finds it no matter where we hide it.

10

30 minutes before Pyper’s alarm goes off - Lay on Pyper and purr. Walk back and forth on Pyper’s head. Caress Pyper’s face with paw. If she does not respond to gentle caresses, bring out the claws.

7:30 a.m. - Yay, it’s time to wash our faces! Stick whole head under faucet for several minutes. Go pee. Get litter dust stuck to wet face.

8:00 a.m. - Window watching while Pyper eats breakfast.

8:15 a.m. - Yay, it’s time to brush our teeth! Stick whole head under faucet.

8:20 a.m. - Boy, that was exhausting. Time for a nap.

12:00 p.m. Have a few bites of kibble. Nap.

6:00 p.m. - Yay, Pyper is home! Meow at her and get kisses. Nap.

9:30 p.m. - Sit on Pyper’s wrists to prevent her from further computer use. Walk back and forth on her lap. Meow.

10:00 p.m. - Yay, it’s time to brush our teeth! Stick whole head under faucet. Go pee, get litter stuck to paws.

10:15 p.m. - Yay, it’s time for shower! Carefully supervise the showering process. Stick out paw to catch water.

10:30 p.m. - Sit on cat structure and loudly demand bedtime scratches. After scratches, curl up in bed.

11:00 p.m. - Wait until Pyper has fallen asleep and then have a wild party involving runningly around crazily and taking out all the cat toys.

11

Only if he’s a businesscat. A plowcat would dig your earth.
:cool:

12

  1. Greet dad as he comes home from work in the morning. Meow loudly demanding attention and run upstairs to the Petting Couch. This is the couch upstairs she runs to and sits on until I show up for lovings.

  2. sleep.

  3. wait for dad to fall asleep on his side, sit on his hip and watch him sleep. Yes she does this all the time. It’s adorably creepy.

Sounds like he needs a wine box. :smiley: