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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2010-04-21 09:24 am
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Poor Sora!

Life is so hard when you're a cat. Sora has three distinct Crazy Time periods per day that last 15-30 minutes each, in which he's energetic and skittish and unable to settle down: one in the morning as we're getting up and feeding the cats*, one as I get home from work, and one about 10 PM.

Last night, the 10 PM Crazy Time included sitting on the arm of the couch and chasing his tail. Which was entertaining in and of itself, as he kept almost falling off, then grabbing into the couch with all his claws. But then he managed to catch his tail and sink a claw into it. This obviously hurt! And he didn't like that! So he hissed at his own tail! And then it was stuck, and it kept hurting, and he couldn't get his claw out, so he hissed again!

He was not impressed that I was laughing at him. Turnabout is fair play, after all, and he's managed to scratch me plenty of times.**

Nefer remained impassive throughout it all. She's mostly unflappable and is such a contrast to Sora, who jumps at every little thing. Occasionally Sora will start or jump at something real or imagined, and then Nefer will get spooked because obviously Sora is spooked so there must be something to be spooked about, and then Sora will stay spooked because Nefer is spooked and Nefer never gets spooked, so there must be something to be spooked about! And that just goes on until we distract them.


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* Note that we always overfill the bowls, so he's not driving us nuts because he's hungry, but because we haven't fulfilled The Ritual! The Ritual is Important! It is essential! The world will come to an end if we haven't fulfilled The Ritual! Such that if [livejournal.com profile] myrialux gets up first and decides not to pour food into the bowls in order to keep things quiet and not disturb me, then Sora will annoy the ever-loving shit out of me until I get up and enact The Ritual of putting food into the never-empty bowls.

** Mostly when kneading me and purring, I'll admit.
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[personal profile] snarp 2010-04-21 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Our dogs also require The Ritual. I discovered that putting a single piece of kibble in there works, if I pick it up with the plastic kibble scoop.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2010-04-21 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee! We'll have to try that. XD

[identity profile] xebra42.livejournal.com 2010-04-21 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Try just shaking the bowl.
Right now I'm bitter about feeding times because we just switched to No Hairball cat food from You Are All Chubby Kitties cat food. Apparently the weight management stuff was more filling, because Tycho (the dumb one) pokes me awake with his freezing nose on my elbow or nose at 6 AM daily. Why? Because he wants his three bites of food.
This weekend we are purchasing a bag of YAACK food again and mixing it with the NH brand. I'm hopeful this will allow me to at least sleep until my alarm again...

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2010-04-21 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Part of The Ritual is him jumping up on this nearby piece of furniture and sniffing the bag, so I don't know if just shaking the bowl will do.

I've got them both on You Are Fat And Have Hairballs food because Nefer throws up quite a lot - I tried different sorts of food until I landed on this one, which seems to keep the throwing up down to once a week or so. And I Furminate her periodically. She's got a really thick undercoat, which I think contributes to the puking.

Sora's skinny except for a pot belly and never throws up, but he seems to be otherwise happy with the YAFAHH food.