Your house and life, from a cat’s point of view

When we watch our felines in action and observe their silly antics, sometimes it is difficult to understand what motivates them. I usually attribute good notions for the silly or naughty things they do. I assume (perhaps incorrectly) that their behavior is for my benefit and for my entertainment. Don’t you wish they could tell us what they are thinking? Perhaps it would not be so favorable for us. Maybe our behavior is as puzzling to them as they are to us. Let us look at our behavior from the cats’ perspective. It might go something like this:

We love to play on the top of the stairs. You ask why? We love to dart and weave through your legs when you are at the top of the stairs. It might be funny to see you fall down the steps. This would be the only time you would be faster than us. In case you have not figured it out, we do this as a team. One of us approaches from the front and the other brings up the rear. In case you haven’t noticed, those fuzzy mice you keep buying are left on the stairs on purpose to help us with the task at hand. The wand toys are hauled up the stairs for added measure. By the way, why do you buy those dangling toys that do not have any food at the end?

We also have to address the food arrangement. I smell fresh chicken, steak and fish cooking daily. My meals are reduced to this dry stuff that looks like bad cereal. Sometimes this stuff has so much food coloring in it. I thought Fruit Loops. That stuff is hard to choked down, for a cat. If these arrangements do not improve, revenge will be plotted. Let’s see, there is the new chair to attack or perhaps another houseplant must meet its maker!

We also love when you tell us you are confining us to one room for our own good. We are not stupid. You put us in solitary confinement for punishment. Do you think we can’t hear all the noise of revelry and good food smells right under our nose? You also vaguely mentioned something about allergies. This sounds like a good power to have over humans. We need to figure out how to use this to our advantage. More importantly, we need to exact more revenge for this solitary confinement. A hairball needs to be carefully placed at the foot of the bed in the middle of the night.

Lastly, the rest of the nonhuman occupants of the house are either half-witted, clueless or tattlers. The dog is let out multiple times a day and he happily returns with his tail wagging and his tongue slobbering. What is he telling them about me? If you ask me, the bird is the true informant because he is always talking to the humans and he even has his own house. Now you know why us felines must gang up on the humans. We see the world differently than all of the rest of the household occupants.

Adoptables

Titan’s claim to fame is having the distinction of being the largest feline residing at The Buddy Foundation. This gentle giant weighs in at 23½ pounds that is all muscle. He is a red tabby with white that is about 8 years old and is a front-paw declaw. This big guy is a sweetie cuddlier.

Titan came to the Buddy Foundation by way of animal control with his buddy Zeus. Both cats were abandoned in an apartment stairwell so we presumed they must have always lived together.

Zeus is a black-and-white patched cat, about 4 years old. He seems depressed about his abandonment and relies on his buddy Titan to show him the way in his new, unfamiliar surroundings. Zeus is large, sweet and shy. Perhaps his strong namesake can be a confidence builder for him. Zeus gets along with other felines, but it is his buddy Titan that he looks up to. That is why he is asking us to ask the question, “Is there a household that has room for two?”

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