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Derby

Can't Leave
Dec 29, 2020
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"Hiding" on the sofa, lol, and him literally trying to figure out what I'm thinking about him being in my chair. Often, he very intentionally curls up on my chair to force me to the sofa and lie down which causes him immediately to leap from the chair, dart across the room, jump on the sofa and sprawl all over me -- crafty little guy!

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weezell

Lifer
Oct 12, 2011
13,653
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Not in my house rotf...

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romaso

Lifer
Dec 29, 2010
2,066
8,012
Pacific NW
Can I sympathize. My wife got me a new office chair for my study, so I thought, oh boy, now the cats can sit in the old one, and I'll have a chair of my own. As they used to say in the Navy, dream on, sailor boy.

Now they each take a chair, and I fill in with something else. Sometimes I move them, but for unknowable reasons, I feel really badly about it, so usually I don't.
I put a folded fleece blanket on my chair. If the cat sleeps on it, I slide my hands under the blanket and can move him without disturbing him. I do this in my recliner also, when the cat is on the folded blanket on my lap, I can move him if I have to get up to get another beer, and then return him to my lap when done, all on the folded blanket. Works great. I call it the Port-A-Puddy system. They love it too, once they get used to it.
 

romaso

Lifer
Dec 29, 2010
2,066
8,012
Pacific NW
maybe my cat is a rescue and it took a long time for him to realize he can go on the couch.
We adopted an older stray once, and it was at least a year before she would sleep in the open when alone. Otherwise she would burrow into or under something. She was deaf, which I'm sure made survival outside more difficult.

One of our current guys was feral when young, and luckily he bonded with our other cat who taught him how to be a house cat and relax and enjoy life.
 

anotherbob

Lifer
Mar 30, 2019
16,948
31,779
46
In the semi-rural NorthEastern USA
We adopted an older stray once, and it was at least a year before she would sleep in the open when alone. Otherwise she would burrow into or under something. She was deaf, which I'm sure made survival outside more difficult.

One of our current guys was feral when young, and luckily he bonded with our other cat who taught him how to be a house cat and relax and enjoy life.
I had to show the guy how to be a cat. Thankfully I am well versed in cat. Though he's unusually vocally expressive. Actually not hard to read what he's saying most of the time.
 

anotherbob

Lifer
Mar 30, 2019
16,948
31,779
46
In the semi-rural NorthEastern USA
It's probably "Don't you think it's time to feed the cat"?
no he never says that, but sometimes he says "I am going to die from a lack of fishies" Then "hey I am about to die from a lack of fishies". He says that at least once a day.
A really cute one is when he says hi. If he's in the other room I can keep popping around the corner and if I say hi he says his version back almost every time.
 

HawkeyeLinus

Lifer
Oct 16, 2020
5,933
42,465
Iowa
Between the two growing pups and the older one, we're going through 60-70 lbs of dry food & around cans of wet food/ week right now.

If you think that's bad, I've also got four teenagers (3 boys, 1 girl) & a 3 y/o with a hole in his leg! ?

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All I can say sir, is those are the best pics I've seen posted anywhere in a long, long time! It's a wonderful life!!