asking if anyone else has a demanding cat?

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I have 2 cats, 1 pretty much lives on my sons bed comes down to eat and asks to go out sometimes and inbetween scratches my sofa.

The other one that I got from the cats protection May before last won't leave me alone,
From the moment I get up she crys for food, I feed her then she's under my feet meaowing, I've stood on her foot or tail more times than I can remember because she's always behind me, I trip over her coming down the stairs.
If I sit at the computer she's on my lap, that's fine I don't mind a cuddle but she keeps digging her claws in my legs, I chuck her off and she's up again. That will happen 3 or 4 times.
She sleeps on my bed every night I don't get much say in that but she takes up my space and I'm bent round her.
I love her to bits but grr.

here is my cat. she is a lunatic. will follow me constantly, come to me when i call as if she was a dog, have the crazies for about 5 minutes a day playing with some invisible mouse, sit on the laptop when i am working, deliberately stand on the step beneath my feet when coming down the stairs, especially when i am holding something large and heavy and don't get me started about how i am up and down letting her out the back door (loud cries to go out) but just standing there waving her tail around once i have opened the door and all the heat is going out (and doesn't go outside, this can go on for about an hour with many attempts to let her out because she pretends she wants to) but it is all part of the fun.

My cat was very vocal. Especially when it came to asking to go out, then deciding to come back in fifteen seconds later. And she yowled for me so much in the mornings that the boy next door could do a perfect impression. After a short illness she had to be pts, and I really missed hearing her yelling at me all day. I also found out after she'd died, that before she adopted us she once got trapped in a neighbours shed for three days. That explained a few things

In my town the round table send a santa and sleigh around every street on a float, and every year my cat would want me to open the door so she could watch it go by. It makes me tear up now every December when it comes round. I'd look down the street and there would be lots of kids standing in their doorways watching Santa go past - and one tortoiseshell tabby sitting in our doorway solemnly watching proceedings!

Gator, that is so bloody cute.

Oh Yes, Simons cat. If I didn't know better, I'd think that fucking Simon had been spying on our house for the last 20 years, given the accuracy of all his cartoons .

I have a part Burmese sat on my lap right now. He will stay there until I am practically wetting myself and can no longer wait to go to the toilet. Then I will have to forcibly remove him with much whining. Those of you with velcro babies and toddlers have nothing on him .

He is 18 YO and must have spent pretty much all his life within 2 feet of me when I am at home.

His day goes like this.

Hit me in the face and shout until I get up and feed him, any time between 5 and 6 am. If he gets shut out of the bedroom, bang on the door and shout as an alternative. If he goes past 6.30 I often wake up in a panic assuming he is sick or worse.

Sit on my lap during breakfast. More whining when he is removed so I can get dressed and go to work. I have been off work since Christmas Eve, so tomorrow morning is going to be difficult.

Sleep most of day until late afternoon.

Wait outside house until I get home. Trip me up until I feed him on entering the house. Get in the way if I dare to try and bring in shopping, pick up post or go to the toilet.

Sit on my lap while I have a cup of tea. Whine a lot if I need to get up to cook dinner, or do anything else in the house, or go out in the evening. If I am in our postage stamp sized kitchen, sit six inches behind me so I fall over him repeatedly as I move around the kitchen.

Beg for food at least 10 times per day. He is very well fed btw.

Obviously I love him very much and will be devastated when he finally shuffles off to the great litter box in the sky, but he is very overindulged in the meantime.

He's actually just got up so I need to go and see what he is up to. The other cat has just come in and they are being suspiciously quiet. I've left crab shells out so best guess is that young fit cat is poking through it and throwing bits down onto the floor for old cat.

What is really funny is that I don't seem to have read in any of these anecdotes..." ...and I don't let them do it..."!

Here is a picture of her

I have one normal cat and one demanding cat. Normal cat was not a rescue and has always had a secure home and all the food and love he has ever wanted. Demanding cat was a rescue kitten and is deaf, and wolfs down his food as if he will never eat again and wants all the cuddles in the world.IME rescue cats are always more demanding than non-rescue.
Other rescue cat who passed away last year was also demanding. They just want reassurance I think.
Good for you taking in a cat who really needed a home

Flossy thats because our feline superiors don't give us a choice in these matters . Every cat owner human slave knows their place.

I have three. One is normal, her only crime is to lie in wait on the stairs to attack you. Other girl is a bit manic and likes to lay with you in bed while growling at you.
Then there is boy cat....utter twat. He loses the plot all the time. He pulled down my xmas tree. He is just nuts and I love him (and the two girls)
so much.
He is so demaning though as he will be by my side all the time, demand food whenever he likes, by jumping up on the kitchen side to the cupboard where his food is kept. He wakes the kids up at 7am on the dot..he has a way of jumping on them and then licking their faces.
He will then mooch around trying to eat the kids breakfast.
I do like how they have such different characters.

I am controlled by a black panther who manages my house and the entire neighbourhood through passive aggressive tactics. Do not mess with her.

Here is my alternative to a hot warer bottle

Water

Hatespiders I too am a slave to the Orientals. I have had Burmese, Siamese and now Tonkinese. My two Tonks are so bloody awkward! They are 16 now and are always wanting to be in because they have gone out of the catflap and don't want to come back through it. They wail on the doorstep until the door is opened or a neighbour rings the bell... We can't keep the flap shut because one will only poo outside whereas the other will only poo in a litter tray. They are such fussy eaters too. Whenever they seem to like something and I buy it in quantity they go off it. That includes fish (we buy bags of frozen fillets), fresh chicken, sardines and every cat food ever invented. Has anyone a secret foolproof recipe.
I am 70 too and dh is 78, we spend as much on cat food as on people food!

Them :)

My cat is currently asleep on my neck

Beautiful. I washed her blanket for her and she's snuggled up on it again so got my bed back tonight.

Our current cats aren't very sociable really, and I feel slightly shortchanged. They are a sibling pair that we got from a rescue six years ago, and they were two when we picked them up. The pair we had before were also siblings and loved each other much more than they loved us (they were 14 though and found the move from their previous hoe a little hard I think).

Girlcat only really liked ds, and has him well trained. Boycat has the most wonderfully soft fur and doubles in size in the winter. dd and I lament the fact that he won't let us cuddle him for more than a minute or two! When they do deign to sit by us we appreciate it very much.

The first cats we had were dh's family cats, one quite mad, fierce little thing and the other completely dopy and I loved him very much indeed (fantastic hot water bottle, purred non stop). Next time we get cats I'm only going to take one that asks for cuddles in the cat room!

My cat's a dick.

When he wants food (which is every time anyone so much as looks at the kitchen) he bangs his bowl against the wall in the manner of a prisoner banging his cup on the bars is his cell.

He likes the dog's bed. If the dog happens to be in it, he climbs on top of her and slowly muscles her out. If he fancies the sofa and she's on it he just gives her a death stare till she gets down. The dog is a lab/lurcher X. The cat is a skinny little thing with a squint and a dodgy leg.

I accidentally shut him in one night and he literally bashed his way through the locked cat flap. I had to replace the whole thing because he'd made a cat-shaped hole in the door. It was like something out of The Shining.

His brother is a nonchalant plodder. Who's only beef is having to get off the bed long enough for me to make it in the mornings.

It's a good job they're all cute.

Love these cat stories!

MCat sits on your lap menacingly, he will bite you if you don't keep very, very still. Makes you feel honoured and scared at the same time.

MKitten is my little shadow, he accompanies me to the loo and cries if he can't get in to sit on my lap. Then he steals the loo paper and hurls it down the stairs. If I don't wake up when he decides i should, he systematically throws everything off dressing table, night tables. I daren't leave any kind of liquid in a glass unattended as he loves to smack them over with his little paws.

I have 4 cats, biggirl is one of those that howls at the door until you open it then refuses to actually go through it. She also sits outside my bedroom door scratching in the morning and hurtles downstairs as soon as you open the door and pretends it wasn't her

Skinnygirl likes to wait til you go to the toilet and then sneak in and hide so she can drink the toilet water.

My boys are still kittens, bigboy is a snorer, I have honestly never heard such a noise come from anything other than an adult man

Teenyboy is the cutest but dopiest little beggar I've ever met. He often goes to sit on Skinnygirl's head and gets a slap for it, but then tries to do it again repeatedly until she snaps then comes and miaows at me as if he's telling on her. He also makes a very odd growling noise when he's eating and steals menthol filter tips and leaves them in the most random places

They all like to sit next to the (full) food bowl and miaow at me as if there is no food

Dogs have owners, cats have staff...........

I miss my cats

I might get another one. Should I? They're awesome aren't they? Worth the hassle?!

My two