What makes your cat happy?

[MiniLeopardInTheHouse]

Here, in no particular order, it's :

A very tall scratching pole
8 meals a day
A boiling hot, sunny conservatory
A dab of butter on the paw
A busy birdtable
NOT going to the cattery anymore
A spot of milk on the nose
A flat immobile lap
A clean latrine

[theunsure]

I have 3 and they like different things:

They all love the woodburner and jostle for who gets closest.
They also all love clean sheets on the bed.

2 like sleeping next to me all night,the closer the better and they have to touch a bit of my skin
The other 1 likes to sleep next to a radiator but not in the same room as people

All 3 are obsessed with Dreamies and Ham
2 of them love roast chicken and take up residence by the oven whenever one is cooking.

They all like to have the french doors open but to mainly stay inside and look out.

One of them loves sleeping in the sun with the chickens and makes a right fuss until they are let out in the morning as she likes to be with them.

They have about a million cat toys but all like the same one and want to play at the same time.

The youngest one is happiest when playing with a plastic drinking straw that he has stolen from my drink (I'll have to buy loads before they are banned). He carries it around and then plays with it all over the house. Cleaner must think we are odd as there are straws all over the house.

I love my fur people.

[squashyhat]

Dragging furry things around the house (slippers, faux-fur laptop cover, gloves), his scratching pole, his igloo bed, DH's lap (not mine). And food of course.

[MiniLeopardInTheHouse]

This is such a happy thread

[Teacuphiccup]

That’s made me really happy to think of your cat wanting to hang with the chickens unsure

[MiniLeopardInTheHouse]

I love my fur people

I love my cat and I love my DCs, but sometimes I dream of the time when it was just me and the then cats, before my DCs came along. Wouldn't be without my DCs, but just saying

[MiniLeopardInTheHouse]

Not much of a reaction to drugs/catnip here, Wolfie, but a friend's cat was made very happy by a herbal teabag - it was free with Gardener's World magazine or something.

I think something addictive has been added to Dreamies - the coke of cats.

[Wolfiefan]

Only one of mine likes catnip. The other drinks tap water out of a cat bowl. I don't think she's really a cat.

[MiniLeopardInTheHouse]

A drinker of tap water from a cat bowl here too Wolfie, but he uses his paw as a cup. There's posh.

[Teacuphiccup]

Oh I forgot the most important thing!!

Drinking from taps, asking for the taps to be turned on and staring at taps.

[Wolfiefan]

Nope. Just sticks her head right in. Weird puss.

[MiniLeopardInTheHouse]

Thinking of unsure's cat with the chickens, a friend's cats happily hung out with the hamster and guinea pig. The fish in the tank were fair game, (or would have been given the chance), and all things wild outside like birds, mice, shrews and frogs were keenly hunted, but the hamster and guinea pig were family. Obviously.

[broccolina]

Cat #1 likes water (we have a special bathroom set up for this), pushing glass objects off the table and anything else off shelves, sleeping atop clean clothes, playing volleyball with foam balls, rolling on the floor and having me all to herself.
Cat #2 likes eye contact, endless belly rubs, chatting, my face (which she gently strokes), feather teasers and insects.
Cat #3 loves stealing pen caps and cotton buds, human food, high places to observe and the other two. She's very easy going.

[MiniLeopardInTheHouse]

we have a special bathroom set up for this

broccolina, I've got to ask?!

[NeeChee]

I have an 8 month old kitten, and when he's happy, the base of his tail goes super floofy, it's incredibly cute. He has a rather skinny tail otherwise.

[Bojangles33]

Singing the song of her people outside the bedroom door at 5am 🙄

[MiniLeopardInTheHouse]

floofy

Thank you for this word, Nee. I am going to adopt it.

[fairylightsdown]

Stealing pipe cleaners from the neighbours arts & crafts stash

Stealing hair bobbins rom the neighbours kids

Stealing food from the neighbours

Sleeping on me

Drinking from the tap

Drinking from glasses

Emptying my sock drawer

Digging to get under the duvet for cuddles

[MiniLeopardInTheHouse]

We have a loud one too, Bo. Company makes him happy. If he is alone and isn't asleep, then he's singing that song.

It sounds like you've got a Dick PURRpin, fairy

[broccolina]

Oh, nothing special - just a plastic shallow dish with a few plastic items in it so she can splash. Only allowed in under supervision though because of the shelf thing. Tap turned to drip is a special treat.

[MiniLeopardInTheHouse]

Good idea - might have been copy that.

[Bojangles33]

@broccolina have you seen the cat water fountains? Ours LOVE that!


Catit Original Flower Fountain 3 Litre Water Fountain for Cats and Small Dogs https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0146QXOB0/ref=cmswwrcppapiii_Id44AbGRBBF57

[MiniLeopardInTheHouse]

Nowwhy - I have never known a cat drink tea. Dogs certainly, but never a cat. Amazing.

But this is just so 'cat':
she can hear the ironing board being set up from the bottom of the garden and will run in frantically looking for said jug

[FireandBrimstone]

Sitting beside the sink after it's emptied once the dishwashing has been finished, watching all the tiny tiny bubbles popping away, one by one

[ClaudiaNaughton]

A tiny amount of double cream or Greek yogurt from a teaspoon. She hears the crack of the carton lid opening from miles away and runs in.
Dreamies.
Helping change sheets, much ducking and diving.
Hunting and catching mice.

[Bitlost]

The wood burning stove
Sleeping in front of the wood burning stove
Playing in front of the wood burning stove
Being brushed in front of the wood burning stove
Being stroked in front of the wood burning stove
Doing homework with my daughter in front of the wood burning stove
Chasing the husband away from the wood burning stove
Lying on whatever’s been left in front of the wood burning stove
Being admired and talked to in front of the wood burning stove