I leave the bedroom door open a crack at night. For the cats. I’ve learned that Marcus and Sabrina can combine their scratches on the door with soft meowings – let us out, or let us in. So it’s easier to leave the door open, a crack to allow peaceful travel to and fro. Call it a conflict reduction strategy.
Our house was built in 1900, and the heating system is spare, lean, and inadequate. The oil company complains that I intend to pauperize them because I purchase so little oil. Most of the heat is provided by the wood stove, and the open door allows the heat from the stove in the living room into the bedroom. At night, I can retire and leave the two cats and the dog curled up in front of the woodstove, basking.
By about five in the morning, the dog, Max, has gone to sleep in my daughter’s room, and the cats have crept into mine. About six, the wake-up routine starts. Marcus walks up the length of my spine, “Meorwooo?” No response. Ten minutes later, Sabrina decides to up the ante by readjusting my arm so she can cuddle and emit some very high-volume purrs. I roll over. At six thirty, the situation has become dire, and breakfast will be late unless he is awake.
All the stops are now out. There are loud purrs in my ear, a cat walking up and down my spine, and delicate “accu-claw” to sensitive body parts. I eventually stir, go to the bathroom ( followed by an entourage of pets- “make sure he doesn’t go back to bed!”), and stagger down to the kitchen.
What have family members done for me recently? Gotten me up for their breakfast.
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the entourage to the bathroom–yes!!! 😹Go back to bed?? What kind of foreign concept is that??!
Rise and Shine 🙂
So funny and we can relate of course. Accu-claw is so funny, and so accurate.
So, has Jupyter hung out her shingle, or claw for accuclaw? It’s only for your own good, you know!
I hope she doesn’t. She can’t be passing that claw knowledge around! I am in doubt of your claim that it is for our own good. 🙂
Not my claim! I have been informed by our family cats of the great therapeutic value. You know, take it from whence it came!
I should have realized that!
That’s OK once…don’t make the same mistake twice.
Bear and Teddy are far more considerate. They wait until I emerge, but then, I don’t leave the door to my bedroom open. If I did? I’d have charging animals all night. This way? “She’s OK. We can sleep now.” The times I have left the door open, they worry. BUT I remember sleeping with kitties. It was sweet. I’m still logging in with Facebook to leave comments but that’s OK.
On the comments: something weird is going on in the past two days. I got two new followers, both long-term bloggers; you’re one of them. This was following a sudden drop in subscribers. Something is off in WordPress land.
I read with a smile and I can imagine the Morning traffic. We have same dear Lou, but our Big Cats, four monster working hard till to see we wake up!… Even they don’t know what is weekend! Thank you, have a nice day, Love, nia
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We have the same strategy. Catorze is into 3am parkour, as you know. When people say, “Why don’t you just shut him out of the bedroom?” I have to remind them that, if I do that, he just scratches and howls at the door like an angry poltergeist.
Yup! The darlings will have their way, one way or the other.