True and Humorous Facts About Living with Cats
True and Humorous Facts About Living with Cats
Cats. We can’t get enough of them. From running our lives to owning the internet. Cats are everywhere – and I’m not complaining! Did you know that a little over 31 million people in America have a cat living with them? With this many felines cohabiting with us humans there are bound to be some adjustments, right?
Let’s look at some of the more humorous but true activities that cats engage in that entertain and sometimes confound us. Although honestly, it could be what makes us love those little furballs all the more!
CATS ARE QUIET – HA!
I had a Great Dane that made less noise than my little Willow at 3 a.m. How can one small kitty make that much noise running around? Is she secretly fighting off hordes of marauding mice? Who knows, all I can say is in the morning it is eerily quiet and things “seem” to be in place. . . . . .
THEY EXPECT YOU TO SHARE
If you thought that dogs had the market cornered on food sharing expectations think again! Try eating while watching your favorite show and before you can get halfway to your mouth with your fork, a very firm but sly paw has grabbed said hand and leaned in for the morsel. Pizza, tacos, fish they don’t care, they want it all!
PRIVACY IS GONE
Ahhh, taking a relaxing bubble bath, I don’t think so. Those bubbles make the most interesting sound and THAT requires intense investigation. Maybe it’s the 2am bathroom break in a sleeping house, all is quiet until . . . .a paw sweeps under the door rattling it looking for something to grab. Or perhaps, you absentmindedly shut your bedroom door. Not to worry, your intrepid feline will howl pathetically to let you know that you have abandoned them in their hour of greatest need!
CATS ARE GREAT EXTERMINATORS
While this is true to a good extent, you are just as likely to find various sizes of spiders and other insects, birds, rabbits, lizards and snakes brought into your home! Perhaps from their point of view they wanted yet another interesting play thing to add to their repertoire of “stuff I am not bored with yet.” Personally, my then 3 year old grandson came upstairs from the basement one day holding a rabbit. We don’t have any pet rabbits! Needless to say the little guy survived and returned to the woodlands with Bambi.
WAIT, DID YOU MEAN TO LEAVE THIS CUP, PLANT, PEN HERE?
Cute little plants in cute little planters don’t stand a chance when you have a cat living with you. For that matter, full glasses of water, soda, wine pretty much any liquid is a goner too. Foolish you for adding ice, that’s catnip for your cat. Thought you would write a note, better to text it cause your handwriting is going to look like a second graders! (No offense meant to any second graders reading this.)
OWNING A CAT IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEART
Walk into your living room with a bowl of popcorn and a glass of soda and from behind, your leg is wrapped up in ninja claws and fiercely kicking back feet, the aforementioned popcorn is everywhere, and then . . .POOF! they’re off and hiding somewhere else. . . . Waiting…. Or maybe after a fun night out you come into a quiet house head to the kitchen for a glass of water only to find them in the cabinet . . . Yikes!! Forget running in the morning your heart rate probably won’t come down for a week.
Cats are incredibly creative in the ways that they enrich our lives. They keep us on our toes, and our attempts to stay one step ahead of them, somehow fulfills this diabolical little hole that brings them a unique joy!
Always remember, that when you’re sitting in your favorite chair and they effortlessly jump up on you rubbing your hand, kneading your lap, purring robustly, that this is what they bring into the relationship. . . . unconditional love.
PRICELESS!
