If you read this blog regularly, you are familiar with my two cats, Andy and Dougy, and how they work hard to protect the place from crickets, spiders, and other intrusions from the outside. They are warriors!
Just this morning, while I sat on the edge of my bed, blankets over my lower half till I could make up my mind which way I wanted to go, back to bed or get up, Dougy noticed something of interest and pounced. Oops! It was my toes wiggling under the blankets! Maybe that wasn’t the best example.
Never mind!
What do the boys really do to earn their keep?
I interrupt Dougy, watching birds at the feeder across the lane. He assures birds don’t try to fly through the window pane.
Dougy, isn’t that Andy’s favorite spot? What if he sees you there?
“Did I just hear him in the other room?”
Well, if you did, Dougy, it was because Andy was snoring in his sleep…!
Oh, did I wake you, Andy??
“Rub my nose, human. Then I’ll bite your hand.”
Yes, my cats lead a dog’s life!
I hope you have a nice Christmas! Ellie
Thank you, Ellie, and the same to you!
Very cute cats and Happy Holidays!
Thanks, and a blessed Christmas to you, too!
Oliver sighs, grumbles and snorrs super loud in his sleep… LOL. Im pretty sure he thinks he is a human. 😉
Ha! Ha! From what I see of him in your blog, I think you may be right!
His latest craze is to sneak under the covers and attempt to have his head pop out. Just like a human. Unforrunately that usually means i loose the cover because he is much smaller! 😉
How sweet! Dougy will lie alongside me, but freaks out if I put the covers over him. Andy is more circumspect about his sleeping partners! (He generally sleeps by himself or on the floor by my bed.)
Ha not just doesn’t he mind being under there. If he misses the cut off point (me falling asleep) he will “knock” aka scratch gently on my arm to have the cover lifted!
Ha! Ha! Dougy finds the least protected part of my body and kneads it. I’ve learned to keep covered up! Andy, on the other hand, comes over to me when I’m sitting on the edge of the bed, and scratches my knee lightly to “encourage” me to get up faster and get on with that most important morning task, “feed the kitties, or, at least, Andy”!
Food oli doesnt moan about. Its cuddles cuddles and more cuddles he wants LOL 🙂
Andy makes few demands on me, but Dougy hits me up for play time in the morning and afternoon, sometimes at night. Both love having the bridge of their noses rubbed, and I enjoy doing it.(…because they drool…! LOL!)
How funny. Oli loves that location rubbed as well. 🙂 he keepshis mouth half open when i do that lol
Yeah, and mine also tilt their heads back into it. Dougy’s mouth goes halfway open, but Andy has a bit more self-control, drooling excepted! 😉
Haha. Tep oli tilts his head too 🙂
LOL!
Purring does not always equal happiness. Purring is sometimes shown when a cat aches, when a cat want’s to comfort itself in a threatening situation – and my little one even sometimes purrs while playing when she is superexcited! And my big Tom does snore too!
I learned about that when I discovered the neighbor’s tabby, Woody, emaciated and freezing on our patio one year. He clearly wasn’t in good shape and appeared to be in pain, yet he was purring. I wrapped him in an old sweater, put him in a cardboard box, and took him home. He survived, fortunately. It was instructive in another way. He and his sister Callie the calico were farm cats that lived in a garage with access to the outdoors. (Food, water, and warm beds were available in the garage.) The people who owned them might not see their cats for days at a time since both worked and both cats had their routines. The husband happened to be a veterinarian, which is why Woody survived. I think many people seeing him in the condition I found him on our patio would assume he couldn’t survive, and wouldn’t have helped him.
Good you did!
It was dangerously close to his end. He did, in fact, die a couple years later from something else. Woody was a great big huggable cat, my first real exposure to how nice cats can be to have around. (He was really mean to his sister, who was much smaller. However, after he died, Callie started spending lots of time on the patio, and we became good buddies, too. She and I were roughly the same stage of life at that point, so respected each other’s sore bones!)
I wish you and very happy holiday season…..chuq
Thank you, and a blessed Christmas to you and a productive new year in 2015, too! I’ve enjoyed your blog this year, and look forward to continuing to read it for your incisive and insightful look at events!
Thanx my friend….and I will be back….it is my calling….LOL
Is Andy in the dryer? That would give a great echo effect to the snoring! 😀
Yes, that’s Andy! He has a sweet snore when he does snore, but he also purrs in his sleep sometimes. I suspect the dryer would amplify a snore. I’ll have to pay attention in future!
http://youtu.be/sPYen_24yto
http://youtu.be/IjcwIPjlCU4
That is so cute! I’m going to have to listen closer but I don’t think any of mine do that. 🙂
Andy was within arm’s reach of me on my computer desk when those two videos were shot. I think the snoring business probably is more typical of short-faced cats like Persians. I don’t think I’d ever heard a cat snore before Andy. The purring while asleep was a fun moment, too! Andy is such a serious little cat, it’s always cheering to me when he is playful or having a happy time.
It must be a Persian trait. I’m sitting here now with several sleeping cats and other than the odd twitch. Not a sound.
That’s my thought, too.
Aww yes attack of the toes. Anything out of the covers or over the side of the bed is fair game around here.
I was sitting in the dark with only the TV for light, and I didn’t notice my little black friend watching my wiggling foot…! 😉