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

[MaudesMum]

Big cat:
Being away from little cat
My presence (on her terms)
Running water
likity-lix
dreamies
catnip cigars

Little cat:
little rubber balls
feathers, sticks and leaves
Being outside, then inside, then outside again
Leaping on big cat
getting to the highest places
dreams
The inside of my left elbow

[MaudesMum]

dreams = dreamies, obviously!

[Taffeta]

Licking DD(11)’s wet hair when she comes out of the shower
Bringing in live animals - mainly birds & shrews. Purrs v loudly which can only just be detected over our screams as prey flap/scarper around the house
Lying on top of the oven when it’s been on
Lying in my herb planter in the sun
Licking and then sitting on the catmint in the pot & the border. Looks hilarious sitting on the pot
Dreamies, roast gravy leftovers

[flubdub]

Meowing at 6am for be fed/let out/treated like the queen that he is

[Weedsnseeds1]

Lik-e-liks, acting as my personal bodyguard and serial killing mainly.

[Weedsnseeds1]

olivander , just showed OH Ollie's photo and he commented that he had eyes like a deep sea fish. Sorry

[MiniLeopardInTheHouse]

catnip cigars

Maudes, I can just imagine it with our's!

[MiniLeopardInTheHouse]

Here he is, the chap who inspired the thread, doing something else that makes him happy. Sitting in a cardboard box, any cardboard box, but especially ones with strategically located holes so that he can mount a surprise ambush on passers by. He sits in there, no doubt peeping through the hole watching for victims, and you don't even know he's in there until his paw shoots out to get you.

[Doobigetta]

Feathers
Laser toys
Sleeping on my laptop bag
Crawling under blankets
Being carried around
Rolling in dirt
Scrunched up receipts

[madsiemoomoo]

Sky raisins!! (Aka flies)
Sucking on a blanket
Dreamies

[Vinorosso74]

Food. Watching birds and squirrels. Food. Chewing towels. Food. His squeaky dangly toy mouse. Food.
And repeat.

[MiniLeopardInTheHouse]

Food seems to be a recurring happipuss theme. Can't think why?!

Sky raisins
Madsie, I'm half and half - not envy

[cherrytrees123]

I forgot sucking on a blanket. I hate it!

[Want2beme]

Countess Tinker McFluff
The odd small tin of tuna
Lots of comfortable fleecey blankets to sleep on
Da bird!
Dreamies mouse dispenser (not with Dreamies treats, as they make her vomit)
Sitting on the bedroom window ledge, watching her little world go by
Twitching at the collared doves visiting the garden for their breakfast

Countess Nibbles McFluff
Non-stop talking
Felix treats - too many is never enough
Several warm beds
In and out all day long, with plenty of catnaps
Da bird
Running like a bullet post poo poos!
Desperately trying to catch the other one to beat her to a pulp

[KittyKlaws]

Dreamies
Being left alone
sleeping
My youngest son
Being outside and feeling the wind in her fur
Cheese (sadly only tiny, tiny amounts)
fish cat food.

[KittyKlaws]

Oh I forgot

terrorising the mouse population
her laser pointer
any cardboard box

[MiniLeopardInTheHouse]

MiniLeopard is nonplussed about laser toys, so it's interesting to see them earn a couple of mentions on here.

Yes, what is it with the post-poo zooms?! So many of them seem to do it.

Today's happiness is a moth. First one in a long time, possibly because of the long winter and our chilly draughty house. Too much to resist on a white wall, giving rise to the usual airborne cat gymnastics. But it got away . Must be his out of condition winter body, (I'm whispering that bit).

[MiniLeopardInTheHouse]

Today's happiness is a DC's fleecy dressing gown which, feeling chilly, I had put over my knees while I had a cuppa. Over comes the cat, and climbs on my lap. I'd expect him to settle down for a snooze, but no. He started padding on the fleecy dressing gown, and continued padding in great concentration for some considerable time. A great surprise - he's never done this before, in the 3 or so years we've had him. Suddenly this great hulking boy is a kitten again.

[kirinm]

Rolling in dust

Sleeping at least 20 hours a day

Eating

5am cuddles lying on your chest rubbing her face on your face.

Dreamies.

Eating grass.

[kirinm]

Oh and sitting / laying on any piece of paper she can find. And mouses her squeaky mouse.

[Raven88]

Carrots
Cuddles but only at certain times.
Toys that have feathers or fake hair (little Psycho)
Play biting
Being high up
Sitting in the sink/ on the toilet seat/in the shower
Scratching my gaming chair
Doing my hair with her teeth
Meowing to let us know she is going to her litter tray
Knocking things off surfaces to wake us up

[Raven88]

Oh I forgot she also likes to sit on my iPad or walk across my keyboard and sit at the monitor.

[LostPlatypus]

My slanket/anything fleecy.

Using me as a hot water bottle.

Cat sticks (those weird long meat treat sticks you can break into pieces).

Stealing most of my bed.

Cheese sauce (stolen ofc).

Looking out the window at birds/whatever is going on, as long as it's not another cat.

Chasing and eating daddylonglegs.

[LanaorAna2]

ham
post-ham nap
repeat as required.

[Bel04]

Wet at food
Meowing until I open the door then jumping into the window sill and demanding to come back in
Pooing on the floor next to the litter tray and watching me clean it up
Dreamies
Tuna
Cuddles
Getting stroked
Sleeping on anything which isn't a cat bed