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My cat refuses to accept that the hour has gone back
I know there has been a fair amount of coverage in the press about the affect the change of hour has on children, but my cat is doing my head in!!
Every morning without fail - at five to six - he tries sitting on my face and licking my cheeks, banging on the wardrobe doors and the making a sound akin to a seagull falling from the sky. I have tried reasoning with him but he won't have it.
Has anyone else encountered a similar problem?!
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Also, never feed an animal at exactly the same time every day. Obviously fed them, but vary it by an hour either way. that way they don't get fixated.
Ours sleeps on the corner of the bed. He snores in unison with my OH - at times, they fill in each others gaps so I hear a constant snore! If you shut him out a room he stands on his back legs and bangs on the door. Before we officially adopted him, he would bang so loudly on the front door that the letterbox would rattle. I wouldn't change him though - he will go on jaunts to the country on his harness and when I get home he always runs from his chair to greet me at the front door! He thinks he is a dog.
She loves chicken. She will stand her hind legs by the table and pat you on the arm for a bit.
She sometimes makes a fuss - gets my attention in anyway she can - to get me up from my chair and lead me to the door and wait for me to open it for her. There is a CATFLAP in the door! She just wants to remind me who is in charge around here!
They train us well. This one has been on a diet since we adopted him - he was a whopping 9.7 kilos (my mum flew to Birmingham the other week and her case weighed in at less) - we have gradually managed to get his weight down, but his love affair with food will never end! We have to watch him like a hawk.
Disclaimer: he was that weight when we met him, before people accuse me of being a feeder!
and eat! both of them can eat like they're starving, so they are limited to half a tub of Sheba each on every feeding occasion. Then they go get on the thick duvet that is Terry's bed and go to sleep ... great life. Cat flaps? Only used when the sound of dishes is heard ... their dishes.
My friend is sitting in a chair and the kitten is perched on her shoulder, doing an impression of a parrot. My friend has her eyes shut while the kitten's eyes look like headlights!
Otherwise, they annoy my parents next door.
I wish we had seen ours when he was a kitten - he is black and white long hair, so I bet he was like a little ball of fluff.
When you adopt an adult dog, you can't help but wonder what he/she looked like as a puppy.
Is it males v females or a combo?
Sagesse, no I am not that woman although I do own a wheelie bin.
Dora I've tried that, negotiations broke down though.
(I do however seem to have missed numerous appointments this week and things on the telly are all at different times to what I thought. But as I am totally confused about most things, this is nothing new in life ;) )
We managed to shave 10 minutes off this morning, so he appears to be coming round to the idea :-)
I did google it, but the main suggestion I found was a bit drastic; splitting cats up withing the house and gradually introducing them again over a set period of time.
I wouldn't want to do this and I'm not really sure how it would work.
Just curious, as they are stinkers.