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When did you first realise you loved your cat (i.e they had 'won' !)

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Ski37 · 05/06/2017 21:06

I've had my adopted cat for 2 months now ( rehomed from blue cross)- he is my first cat and within a week I wondered how I'd ever lived without one but we were still 'getting to know each other' so he wasn't overly affectionate! He isn't allowed to sleep in my room as I don't want him to disturb my sleep. He usually sleeps outside the door and is waiting when I get up.
This morning I was awake early so let him in and got back into bed ( I don't usually do this) - he jumped up, padded a bit then lay down. He then proceeded to nudge closer and closer until he could touch my face with his paw - and that's all he wanted to do. If I moved my face a bit he just wriggled until he could touch it gently again with his paw. As soon as he realised I wasn't going to move he fell asleep- and I realised that he has finally won- I am now 100% his cat slave and will spend the rest of his life trying to make him happy 😀

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Ski37 · 05/06/2017 21:12

And yes, it is likely that I will finally give in to the constant scratching at my door and let him sleep in my room ( now I know that he doesn't secretly want to kill me in the night!)

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Wh0Kn0wsWhereTheTimeGoes · 05/06/2017 21:13

4 years and waiting, I'm very fond of them and will do everything they need including lots of cuddles but I am not their slave.

Ollycat · 05/06/2017 21:17

My cat's always slept on my bed (as have previous cats) - I love her being there to the point where if I wake in the night and she isn't I fret.

That said she can be a total pita when she's chucking a mouse around the room - or worse still eating one!

ASqueakingInTheShrubbery · 05/06/2017 21:20

When we walked into the cage at the Cats' Protection League and he bit my housemate. Love at first bite. HM and I parted ways some years ago, although we're still good friends and he visits me/cat, but there was never any doubt as to who would keep the cat. He's 15 now (we think) and quite stiff and creaky. I'm already afraid of how heartbroken I will be when he goes.

Toddlerteaplease · 05/06/2017 21:25

Fell in love with this photo that someone had shared on Facebook, wasn't even looking for a cat at the time as I was worried about the busy road I live on and leaving them alone while I work 12 hour shifts. All of those arguments fell apart and the rest is history.

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AdorableMisfit · 05/06/2017 21:29

The moment he fell through a hole in the roof of the portacabin that housed the office I worked in. He was a tiny 4 week old stray kitten. I thought he was literally a gift from above. Put him in an empty box of printing paper and took him home. 14 years later and he's still lording it over me.

Ski37 · 05/06/2017 21:40

Thank god it's not just me then!!!! 😀 I've always thought that I'm very sensible and pragmatic and that animals 'are just animals' and don't understand our emotions etc..... I'm now waiting outside the patio door in the rain for Dcat to come in so I can dry him with his tea towel 😂😂😂

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Want2beme · 05/06/2017 21:57

At first sight. All of them.

Ski37 · 05/06/2017 22:18

toddlerplease - lovely!

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LanaDReye · 05/06/2017 23:14

Watching them sleep blissfully and the affectionate meows does it for me everytime.

Lanaa · 05/06/2017 23:18

When I slept on my very uncomfortable leather sofa because my cats were stretched out on the bed and I didn't want to wake them.

Prior to getting them, I was adamant that people who let animals sleep on the bed were disgusting. What has happened to me?!

WinkyisbackontheButterBeer · 05/06/2017 23:23

When I nearly peed my pants because she was asleep on my lap and I didn't want to wake her by getting up to go to the loo.

Mine also likes to touch my face in bed and if I've been out. It's her way of saying hello.

YesItsMeIDontCare · 05/06/2017 23:24

This is what sucked me in. I had a thread about it.

Thank you cozie. Thankyouthankyouthankyou. ❤️

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SentientCushion · 05/06/2017 23:31

Oh my goodness yes does he still talk all the time? Mine are so chatty you can have a full blown conversation with them and I love it.

I am like Jeeves to my tabby girl, she only drinks out the tap and likes you to lift her up and let her inspect the ceiling for spiders. She does it every night at around 10pm and we call it doing her 'rounds'.

Ollivander84 · 05/06/2017 23:37

7 days after getting him when he did these faces at me. 4 years as a stray and he walked out the cat carrier all "you my human? That'll do"

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When did you first realise you loved your cat (i.e they had 'won' !)
YesItsMeIDontCare · 05/06/2017 23:38

Yep, constantly Grin. He didn't went he first moved in, he settled very well but was fairly quiet. Now he can't walk from one side of a room to the other without telling everyone about it, even jumping up on to a bed can't be done without a little chirrupy-mew!

SnickersWasAHorse · 05/06/2017 23:43

Within about an hour of having her. Even more once she sat on me for the first time.

How can you let him sleep outside the door? Let him in. He will sleep in exactly the wrong place.

Papergirl1968 · 06/06/2017 08:24

I've seen that pic of Ollie before and every time I'm struck by that look on his face. It says, after four years of being a stray, now I'm home and this is my person.
Breaks my heart to think of his years as a stray. I'm admit I'm totally over invested in Ollie!
Fell in love with our own dcat when I saw him on the rspca website. He was reserved by someone else but it fell through and we got him! He had one night, maybe two, shut in downstairs, before taking over the bed!

LanaDReye · 06/06/2017 20:10

Olli he looks so happy to have a home. Mine was a rescue cat too. She has three slaves under her paw.

user1496777666 · 06/06/2017 20:51

I got my boys from friends as 8 weeks old kittens and first saw them when they were days old. I wanted to get two as company for each other but DH just wanted one. When we went to choose two one, our friends told us the only two left were best friends and they were sad to separate them. One promptly curled up next to me for a snooze while the other entertained DH with his antics and we took both home! After a week or so my cuddle cat decided DH was 'his' human and playful cat claimed me. Contrary little buggers have been running rings around us ever since and we are fully enslaved.

Mermaidinthesea123 · 06/06/2017 20:54

The minute I set eyes on them.

Mermaidinthesea123 · 06/06/2017 20:55

OMG that really is a super cute face Ollivander, my heart is totally melting Smile

Ollivander84 · 06/06/2017 21:19

He does that face at me almost every day Grin

EllaHen · 06/06/2017 21:31

What a lovely thread.

I actually was thinking the other day about how much our cats love us. Well, girlcat loves DD and boycat loves me the most. That makes me feel special.

They were rescue kittens and their different personalities very much add to the family dynamic.

Boycat likes to sleep on dh's pillow (next to Mummy) and his nose is very much put out of joint when dh has the audacity to lie on his own side of the bed. Boycat will lie on dh's chest/neck/face and get on with the important business of cleaning himself. Grin

trinitybleu · 06/06/2017 21:35

Cat 1 - when she and her brother (cat 2) disappeared in the kitchen overnight. After an hour that included us pulling the washing machine out, the oven, removing kick boards, we found them curled up in a wok on the pan stand and watching us. They then slept with us.

Cat 2 - when he couldnt reach his food bowl without his back legs waving in thin air whilst wearing a cone. Sat on the floor and spoon fed him for a week.

Cat 3 - when she ate a pint of custard as a 14 week old and her belly was so full it dragged on the ground. Sat up with her all night. Sleeps in between OH and I (under the duvet) - if we're spooning, she nudges our shoulders til we move apart.

Cat 4 - stray. When I started posting my arm out the cat flap to put food in his bowl (he was too scared to come in for 2 years).

Cat 5 - stray. Never really happened. He disappeared again after a few months.

Cat 6 and 7 - abandoned at 4 weeks. The photo on my colleagues phone was enough to melt my heart. One needed hourly reassurance for the first 6 months, day and night. They now sleep on our beds.

Cat 8 - stray. Just from his little sad face. Once he let someone near him, he bonded with OH fast. He likes nothing better than sitting on his bare chest. This makes cat 1 very jealous!