Cats are never sorry

[learieonthewildmoor]

I sometimes think cats are a bit like emotionally abusive partners, only furry and lovable.
Just brought a live mouse into the house and let it go? Not sorry.
Just swiped the third glass jar off the bench? Not sorry.
I’ve seen dogs be very contrite, but cats really don’t care if you’ve got a problem.
Here is Cat Two relaxing after not catching the mouse and wondering what my problem is. Wondering, but not caring.

This week:

-furry monster threw up on my nice new floor tiles in the entrance corridor, stepped on it then proceeded to make paw prints all over the stairs...

-kicked plant from window sill unto floor with compost flying everywhere

-disappeared into neighbours' gardens for the first time and left me worried sick she wasn't going to find her way back or was going to get run over. I have only adopted her recently (cat, rescue) so have only been letting her out in the back garden under my supervision. She used the 5 minutes it took for me to have to go to the loo to take off...

-jumped on table and started licking my buttered toast

-cat litter everywhere...

It never ends really :)

Only cats can get away with this.

Excellent point

Oh I’m sorry! It’s a lovely urn though xx

Hogs my pillow at night so I have to lay awkwardly and my neck hurts. Not one bit sorry 🐈‍⬛

I work from home and finish at 4pm. From 3.40pm precisely, fat boy sits on the table behind me and bats me, climbs up and over my shoulder to my lap or precariously walks along the radiator to get on the desk. He gets his tea at 4.

Looking at you Cheddar. Add on drooling on my face and making biscuits.

I've just had to order more chicken flavoured food. As both girls are refusing salmon flavour. 😬🙄

If my cats could wear t-shirts that simply said NO, they would. That just sums them up. No. Just no. It's their philosophy. No-ism.
And to be honest, I'm beginning to really buy what they're selling. My menopausal brain has been really leaning into thoughts like, "Hmm, what would the cat do?" whenever I hit an emotional wall and need a solution. And before you know it, boom! Problem solved. You've got your answer. No box breathing necessary.

I respect that they are also not sorry for the ways that they demand love/attention from you.

• Jumped on me, hard, at 5am? not sorry.
• Bit my ankles because I wasn't get the food down from the cupboard quickly enough? Not sorry.
• Climbs into my lap and headbutts my armpit (!) until he is fussed like a little baby? NOT SORRY.

@Tilllly yes, Cheddar tells me that she is checking my trachea is ok, by standing on it,

The meetings are a ruse to make us think they haven't yet. That's part of the plan - keep us in the dark and guessing.

Harry bit me repeatedly this morning while I was sleeping. He really is the sweetest cat ever, but he's not sorry. He said he can't help it. Yet, I am the only person he ever bites.

No way?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Wakes me up at 4am scratching on my door to get in or be let out. Care Factor: zero. Won’t use a cat flap.

Yup. That made me laugh out loud.

I may have the holy grail. Yes. I have a cat who was sorry once. Honestly, she was.....

Kishmish was lying in the bathroom doorway with her back to me. I was running my foot along her back and she was loving it.

Suddenly, FOOOOOM!!! A back hand (or paw) set of claws across the underside of my toes. She looked at me and ran off..... "Minouche! Minouche! Do you know how to make her stop bleeding??"

She gave me a "soreeeee" look later.

Woke me up at 5 am this morning by walking on my back and head...

Boy cat bit my big toe this morning because I wasn't getting his breakfast out of the packet quickly enough. NOT sorry.

Girl cat screamed her head off demanding attention while I was in the middle of an important teams meeting. Also not sorry.

We must have an outlier cat. We have a rescue who has had a pretty bad background. She is jumpy and reactive but is getting better. Her special person is DS1 (13). He patted her and she was not expecting it and she lashed out at him. Next thing we know she had crawled into his lap, up into his neck started licking him and purring. It was a definite 'sorry'.

Every single other cat I've ever known? Not sorry. Nope. Not ever.

On ANY other thread the answer would be "Oh that looks painful , good job you got the a/b on board , cat bites can get nasty"

On LitterTray .... "My word he's a handsome big lad there "

The word sorry does not exist anywhere in a cat’s vocabulary. Fat ginger cat eats his breakfast in the morning (his special urinary food) then eats everyone else’s breakfast too. Then spends the rest of the day sleeping in DD3’s bed until about 4pm as dinnertime is 5pm so for an hour he will miaow loudly at anyone who will listen that he is dying of starvation. After another 3 dinners he will encircle the human table begging to taste human food to ascertain whether he likes it or not. He loves sweetcorn for some reason.

DCat4 aka the small grey one is the most lovable one but this is a tactic of his to make up for the fact he is ultra naughty and spends most of his day trying to bully our female tortie cat who is twice his size. He will wait in ambush for her and fur will fly. He also likes to pee on carrier bags. He is never sorry about any of this in fact he will make you grateful for snippets of his love.

DCat3 aka the black one is my cat and if I do not show him attention when he deems it is attention time he will paw my head with his claws. If I try to pat him outwith attention time he will run away as if my hand is scalding hot water. Only he knows when it is attention time and I must drop everything and worship him accordingly.

The cats are utter arseholes but I love them, the poor dog she is the most loving loyal thing there is but she’s so needy

When our OverLords decided our home was "This Will Do For Now" they were impressed to see we had a papyrus watercolour print of Bast ( from our trip to Egypt years ago ) and a tiny bronze statue of Bast .
"Well these hoomans know who is the Superior Being here " they approved .

FemaleCat has thrown two fruitbowls to their death . One pre dated my adult DC.
Not sorry
Clawed me when I grabbed her to save her landing on the broken glass from fruitbowl .
Not sorry
He got himself under the workstops when we were trying to get him to the Vet ( I had to rebook his vaccines and tell the Vet he was behind the washing machine)
Not sorry
Was out till gone 1am on one of the coldrest nights of the year . I thought the neighbours were going to have me arrested , walking round the garden with Dreamies . In my robe
He was not sorry when he sauntered home . Not even a tiny bit non-plussed .
They both vomit up spitty grass on carpet having walked over laminate or tiles (y'know easy to clean surfaces )
Not sorry
He projectile vomited something so vile (grass'n'hairball) that if I hadn't see it leave his mouth I'd have sworn he did a Dirty Protest
Not Sorry

The Vet has said we shouldn't give them treats .
They are furious .

My friend has two cats. The female cat is a regular hunter. The soft male is bone idle and never catches anything... until now.

Yesterday he brought a live rat in which escaped and ran upstairs. They had to get pest control out. It's currently in the spare bedroom with a trap and the door sealed.

£150 down and Teddy is not sorry.

This is funny because it's true 😁

Cats are never sorry. I cannot recall ever seeing a cat look ashamed of itself.

The closest they get to acknowledging that the concept of "sorry" even exists, is to look affronted at some human who presumes to pass judgement.

Furry purry gorgeousnesses 😍

After happily eating salmon flavoured food previously. Both girls have now decided they don't like it. Just as Amazon have decided to increase the price by £5.

The problem is, cats used to be seen as deities and were worshipped as such.

They've never forgotten this fact !

New rescue boy (of 8 weeks) has already broken a bowl and a candle holder. He was aided and abetted in the latter though by DRescueCat #2, and the cat carrier, which was in the living room because the two of them love to go into it.

They managed to get into it at the same time the other day. It's a standard size carrier. She is part Maine Coon. He is half Maine Coon, half Ragdoll. I have no idea how the pair of them fitted!