grumble grumble grumble

[auntiemeesh]

As I sit here, staring at the computer screen with tired, gritty eyes, Zoe is giving me looks of 'entertain me.' Ha! With Tookie gone, I forgot what it was like to have a cat waking me up every few hours all night long. With Zoe here, I'm fast relearning that feeling.

She's very loud at night, talking to herself, Mal, me, who knows. It sounds very plaintive, but it's difficult to tell if that's how she's really feeling.

I went to bed early last night due to extreme tiredness (having been awake for large portions of the previous night) and was all relaxed and very nearly asleep when she started up. I'd had half an hour of almost sleep and then I was wide awake, so it was a while before I was able to wind down again.

And then this morning, at five-thirty, I heard some thumpings and bumpings and shovings around, culminating in suspicious food-crunching sounds (both the food bowls were completely empty - there should have been no crunching sounds). This was half an hour before I had to get up for work (already two hours earlier than I normally get up), but I dragged myself out of bed to see what she was eating. Yep, she was on top of the fridge chowing down on dry cat food she'd chewed through a new bag to get at. *sigh* Mal has always been such an earthbound cat that I never had to worry about the fridge before.

On a side note, Zoe may be lighter than air when she's flying up to some high surface, but when she's coming back down, she lands like a ton of bricks. THUD! She's very solid for someone as extremely skinny as she is.

Okay, I need breakfast before heading in to another long day of work.

Comments

[eve11]

Oh man! maybe you need to get one of those big plastic containers so she can't get at it. Yipes.

When I spent the night the other night, I'm pretty sure that at least for part of the night I had a blanket of both cats-- Zoe at my feet, and Mal curled up along my side. He just came right up, nestled in at my chest and purred like a motorboat until he fell asleep.

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have a big plastic container, but up until now I've been able to use up the food at the bottom before putting new food in. It's a little silly, but I don't want to have a layer of old, stale nasty food sitting down in the bottom of the bin for years at a time. But Zoe being Zoe, I'll have to either suck it up, or else find a more secure place to store the bag of food when it first comes into the house.

Zoe and Mal both seem to really like that thick, deep pile blanket, but I'm surprised Mal was up there with Zoe. She won't even let him near the bed, although she doesn't actually sleep on it, as far as I can tell.

[ani-no-mouse.livejournal.com]

Sounds like she will overcome that "extremely skinny" thing pretty soon! One benefit of kitty obesity is that it is harder for them to jump to high places. Katya, for example, seems to rely on Greta to knock many things down to lower surfaces - and Greta is happy to oblige.

Hope the long day has been relatively painless.

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

I'm going to try really hard to prevent kitty obesity from occurring again in my house. Mal was just starting to lose some weight, and now I think he's gaining it right back because I put a lot of food out for Zoe and then feel bad that I'm giving him such a scant serving. I need to harden my heart a little bit and continue to reinforce the diet.

[antbee362.livejournal.com]

Ah, the joys of kittens! I keep my cat food in a big plastic container and often keep the new bag in the back of the car until I really need to open it. Do you have a jar or some other kind of dish you can put the old stuff in to use up once you put the new bag in the big cannister or whatever? Or just dump it out on a plate and put it on top of the new stuff so it gets used up first.

[whtmtnwmn.livejournal.com]

Wow! Hope you can manage to Zoe-proof your home enough to catch some zzzzs.
=D