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What things do you do for your cat that you wouldn’t do for anyone else?

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EachandEveryone · 27/07/2020 06:35

Im just getting ready for work and realised I go out of the room to spray my deodorant so I dont make them jump 😯

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AlCalavicci · 09/08/2020 00:24

My Dcat is not allowed because I can not get him to the vets to have the snip and get him chipped so I have taught him to wear a harness and we go for a walk every night the only problem he dosnt like cars people or other cats so I carry him sometimes and he never wants to go home ( we were out for 40 mins tonight ) he then spend the next hr or so crying at the door cos he wants to go back out .

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jerometheturnipking · 08/08/2020 07:36

It's just something you don't talk about

And one of the secret advantages of having girl cats 😬

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Oldraver · 07/08/2020 15:21

@TooFrickinHot

Forgive him for getting an erection when I rub his tummy.

(Don't get me wrong, I do scream "ew" and stop what I'm doing!)

Oh my, Ernie used to do that. I would walk away and he would be licking himself then look sheepish

It's just something you don't talk about
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Bargebill19 · 06/08/2020 12:27

Shhh my cats will get ideas! They have to make do with a Tesco fan.

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EachandEveryone · 06/08/2020 11:11

Buy a Dyson fan🤫

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TooFrickinHot · 03/08/2020 18:16

Forgive him for getting an erection when I rub his tummy.

(Don't get me wrong, I do scream "ew" and stop what I'm doing!)

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TheSecondMrsAshwell · 03/08/2020 17:24

@EachandEveryone

Im just getting ready for work and realised I go out of the room to spray my deodorant so I dont make them jump 😯

When I first got Ashycat, she used to run when I sprayed deode on (me, not her). I finally realised she thought I was hissing at her. So I made lots of fuss, kisses and cuddles, sprayed and more cuddles. She must have thought there was another cat somewhere in the room that I was pissed off at and got used to it.
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DarkMintChocolate · 02/08/2020 23:31
  1. Won’t consider buying a house on a main road
  2. Don’t vacuum when they are asleep
  3. Don’t make the communal beds, when they are sleeping on them
  4. Clear up their vomit - DH had to clear up after the DC, as I couldn’t
  5. Don’t get cross when they deliberately knock the Wedgwood my grandmother gave me, onto the floor and break it
  6. Ask them nicely not to wake me up by giving my nose a nip at 5 am
  7. Ask them nicely not to wake me up by dribbling into my mouth at 5 am, while they peer lovingly into my eyes (shut, until shocked by nip on the nose or them pawing at my mouth as a hint to talk)
  8. Let one of them drink from the running tap every time I go in the bathroom, despite being concerned at what too much water extraction does to wildlife in the summer
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jerometheturnipking · 02/08/2020 23:10

Cleaning away their eye bogies, getting the occasional poo out of their bum hair (especially when kittens, especially the fluffy one). Hoovering around their naps.

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emmacat · 02/08/2020 23:06

Mines 21 and has become somewhat of a baby. O do literally everything for her ha. She isn't allowed in the garden on her own and has a new refusal to use her tray so will only go out there. Most nights I'm howled at to sit out there with her till she goes.

She won't eat alone so I sit telling her how delicious her food looks.

The min she demand attention the victim of her demands has to drop whatever there doijng to lie down for her to sit as close to their face as possible.

She has us wrapped around her little finger. But I love the bones off her dont thibk there's much I wouldn't do.

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Pleasebeaflesbite · 02/08/2020 21:40

I too dry my hair in a different room

I stay up till the early hours checking the back door every hour until she finally comes in

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RickOShay · 02/08/2020 21:30

I do so many of these Grin
No hoovering tick
Watching crap telly with cramp and needing a wee tick
Hand feeding tick
Sleeping on the edge of the bed with a triangle of duvet tick
I also get cross with dh when he sneezes and makes them jump
Tell everyone to shush when they are lapping water because I love the sound they make

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EachandEveryone · 02/08/2020 16:13

Shovel shite twice a day😀

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Helpimfalling · 28/07/2020 20:46

Get sleep out his eye!

Open the door when he has a cat flap

Share my kfc

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Tiredmum100 · 28/07/2020 20:45

Sit on the sofa bursting for the toilet but don't get up as the cats are happy on my lap and I couldn't possibly disturb them!

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Chitlin · 28/07/2020 20:39

Not complain when he shreds my decolletage with his razor sharp claws. He's just being friendly, even though I'm dripping blood.

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DeeplyMovingExperience · 28/07/2020 20:34

Record nature programmes with small animals so she has something interesting to watch.

Sing a selection of special songs with lyrics adjusted to always include her name and how fluffy she is.

Wash her special blankets in Fairy non-bio and iron the one with trains on it.

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purrswhileheeats · 28/07/2020 20:18

My old girl used to have chilled bottled water in her bowl, with ice cubes added in the summer months. She would refuse tap water, such a catflake 🙀

I have also spent many an evening pinned to the sofa, unable to reach the remote control. I once watched a triple bill of Pimp My Ride on MTV as I didn't want to disturb a snoozing kitty.

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EachandEveryone · 28/07/2020 15:01

Poking me at 5am and me getting up to let them out even on the only day I get chance to lie in

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Oldestchild90s · 27/07/2020 20:44

One thing that has surprised me is i never get angry if they wake me up in the middle of the night. They seem to have a funny hour around midnight or later and 99% of the time they wake me up, but i just laugh it off and go back to sleep. However, if OH did that to me i'd be fuming 😂

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Fluffycloudland77 · 27/07/2020 20:26

Dh used to stop playing his guitar if ours complained about the noise. I’d have to be ill before he did that for me.

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TeddyGizmo · 27/07/2020 19:21

I go into another room to do my hair because the hairdryer scares them.
Sweep instead of Hoover if they are sleeping.

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Bargebill19 · 27/07/2020 19:14

Put clean bed linen on if they are asleep on the ‘naked’ duvet/bed.
Let them walk on the table.
Let them eat my eyebrows.
Let the kittens lick my bare feet.
Hand feed them when they are too lazy to go to the bowl but demand food.
Sleep on the edge of the double bed so as to not disturb the royal prince of darkness.

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iklboo · 27/07/2020 17:57

I won't strip the beds if the cats are lying on them. I'll wait until they get up for lunch.

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EachandEveryone · 27/07/2020 17:49

And don’t forget the vacuuming despite its them that cause me to hoover everyday I still won’t do it whilst they are asleep I have to wait until they have nipped out

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