Our love/hate relationship with cats.

I swear cats are like mini-humans. They know how to push all of your buttons, freak you out psychologically and wind you round their little finger (or paw, so to speak). So, here's a blog post dedicated to the Felis silvestris catus and their wonderful personality traits.


1)Awkward
Around 4:30pm every day I like to sit down and do some good ol' Brain Training. Yeah, warm up those brain cells. Oh, look, a cat. Is it trying to say something to me? "PLEEASE can I sit on your lap? PLEEEEASE? Purr, purr, I'm your best friend." Before I have a chance, it jumps on my lap (the heavy one, of course), and precedes to NUZZLE my DS. NUZZLE! I'm freaking subtracting at rapid speeds here! No nuzzling! Alternatively, she'll start to climb up my stomach to my chest as I tend to half-lie down when doing it. Some may find this cute, but when you've got a cat that weighs about the same as you it becomes painful. Oh, and finally, she'll claw your stomach and legs. Yeah, it's a sign of affection, but it HURTS :(

2)Aggressive
We have a toy thing that one of cats goes wild for. She must know its not real, but she stillinsists on biting it to death whenever she catches it. And then gives us a wide-eyed look when it starts moving again. "But, but... I killed it!" One has been known to attack humans when she's angry too. Well, I've experienced it, and she goes the whole hog, teeth and everything. Not nice!

3)A scaredy-cat deep down inside
One of them is just plain scared. Come in the front door, she'll be upstairs faster than a speeding bullet. Stroke her for hours, leave the room and come back and you're a stranger. The older one pretends to be tough, but the other day she saw another cat in the garden and ran back like a racehorse, tail the size of her body, meowing like nobody's business! Bless them.

4)Ever so loveable
Deep down, I love cats. One of them will roll around on the floor getting you to tickle her tummy, or lie on the sofa with one paw sticking out or lying nearly on her back. And they have such cute eyes! For all their annoying attributes, cats are truly loveable. Even if they don't care about you, really...

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