Be a cat for a day ?

[VictoriaBun]

I love our cat and have often thought it would be interesting to know her thoughts and how a cat thinks.
Would you like to live as your cat for a day , and therefore know what they think of you ?

Oh yes, great idea, although I feel I might be disappointed. He's pretty comtemptuous of us already. 😂

Yes yes yes if only because mine sleeps 22 hours a day in the warm!

Mine too. It's a hard life being a cat!

6:00 - start miaowing. hungry and bored.
6:30 - someone makes there be food. eat the food
6:32 - go outside to patrol and make sure everything is as it should be in your territory (the back garden of this house and the two houses either side.
6:40 - return indoors and stand on anyone who is still horizontal
7:00 settle in comfy spot where you can see the back garden. watch carefully. if anything suspicious moves out there over the next 5 hours or so, pop outside to check it out, teach it a lesson if needed, then return to comfy spot
12:00-13:00 - maintain an awareness of whether anyone in the house is doing anything involving cans of tuna. if yes, politely insist on your share. if no, occasionally enquire as to whether tuna is likely, if you can be bothered.
13:00 ish - go upstairs and settle on one of the beds for a nice long nap. This can be up to 6 hours, but it can be punctuated with occasional visits to the study to stand on keyboards and in front of webcams if you feel like it. The garden may be observed from the study window if needed.
19:00 definitely time for supper now. go to kitchen and stand around hopefully. protest if anyone trips over you as they bustle around doing pointless things that aren't feeding a cat at all.
19:30 when all the humans are sitting on chairs at the table they finally put food in your bowl at least half an hour after you first asked. terrible service.
19:35 go to high-level sleeping place at top of tall scratch post. settle down for a nap.
21:30 if feeling friendly and gregarious, consider relocating to a human's lap for 2nd half of nap. optional if comfy where you are.
23:30 there are usually some little chewy fish-flavour treats which get propelled around and need to be chased and pounced upon around now. if it's not seeming to happen, make sure you remind the humans about it, they may have forgotten.
...after that the humans switch off the lights and go upstairs, shutting you downstairs. not much to do now, so might as well have a nap.

You can get a 'cat collar camera' and then see what they done during the day.

Although you may not want to see a closeup of a mouse being eaten!

I know perfectly well what Girlcat thinks of me.

Thick 'cause I don't understand what she wants when she sits just out of reach staring at me.
Selfish because I go out to work 3-4 days a week. Also selfish because I spend time on the computer at home (both work & personal) rather than keeping her company in the other room while she ignores me.
Well trained in head, bum and belly scritching, and can normally tell when she wants them.
Adequate when it comes to feeding, but she'd prefer more gravy/less meat in her wet and the anti-hairball dry more often (for taste reasons, not need).
Bit stingy with the ham/cooked beef. Equally can never get which "human" food she does/doesn't want on any given day (see "thick" above)
A Traitor! Not only did I take Boycat away & not bring him back, but I've imported another male cat into the spare bedroom!

However I would like to live as her for a day especially a weekend day - choice of comfy places to sleep/doze, TV on in the background all day, slave on call at the slightest summons, fuss on demand & left alone when I want peace.....

Tobias I'm pretty sure doesn't know what to think of me yet.
Strange woman stole him away from the mates he'd only known for a few months.
Feeding adequate, though would prefer much more chicken.
Insists on coming in & chatting to him or reading quietly in his room
Not ready to trust me yet!

Aw, lovely moggy tales! Makes me a bit sad thinking of my long gone pair who lived to around 18.

... just waiting for @Grumpyoldpersonwithcats (or @Supersimkin2 ) to give us the TC version h outdoor ave much more breaking and entering involved I think. And an Ollie/Paws version please!

@rebel2 sorry, forgot to call you to this thread for Ollie/Paws 'day in the life'.

And sorry all for terrible typos in last post, my keyboard had a funny 5 mins!

Can't contribute much on behalf of girl cats as they are in Cattery at the moment so 90% snoozing in heated beds and 10% miaowing at the other inmates!

I'd like to, but not today. She's been put on a diet and shooting me daggers the last couple of days, so I don't think I could cope knowing what she really thinks of me right now!

Awww Can see we can now post Gifs so I'll add this one to my thread

I always fancied being a cat until I saw mine licking his nether regions.

@Defiantlynot41
It would be fascinating to get into TC's head for even half a day. I suspect something like...

Return copy of Sun Tzu's Art of War to its original place on the bookshelf.
Sit on the one who feeds me and wake with claws and teeth.
Go downstairs and swat random dog.
Back upstairs and demand food with menaces until he gets up and feeds me
Swat random dog
Eat
Swat random dog.
Exit house.
Wander to the target house via the back garden and repeatedly miaow outside while watching alertly. (If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.)
Wait for Grumpy to appear and stroke my head.
Purr then bite.
Do a recce for any open apertures, take advantage if available.
Go to front of target house. Block door from ingress or egress by Lenny or Karl.

Hiss at Lenny.
Return to back of of target house.
Sit at back door, wave at Sybil.
Note that Grumpy has gone to my house to let dogs out so return to my back door.
Miaow at Grumpy to let me in.
Swat random dog on way in.
Put on best 'feed me, I'm a hungry waif' face.
Con Grumpy into providing Dreamies and a Felix pouch.
Prostitute myself by permitting Grumpy to stroke me and I'll emit the odd purr. (will purr for food).
Swat random dog
Go back out when Grumpy does.
Swipe Grumpy and hiss at him on the way out. (he needs to know his place)
Follow similar pattern for the afternoon...

Swat random dog
Eat
Swat random dog

Reading too fast,I saw this as
Eat random dog.