You Like to Sleep, I Like to Fight
You learn a thing or two about cats when you live with them. For example, they’re nocturnal, which means when you’re at your job all day they’re snoozing away, but when you’re turning in for the night they’re up and ready to go. Or in the case of Olive, having a good old fashioned fist fight with Hazel.
Luckily, I’m a pretty heavy sleeper and manage to stay out through most of the tomfoolery. Once in a while, I’ll wake up, mutter something about banana pancakes (the food I dream about) and tell Olive to get out. The battle then moves to the living room, a.k.a. the Gladiator Arena.
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See - and exactly THAT is the reason our cats are not allowed in the bedroom! 😉
Although we often hear them fighting, chasing each other through the living room…
Sometimes I wish we had said no cats in the bedroom. Feels like it’s too late to say it now 🙂
We have two year and half old “kittens” Connor and Murphy, they are absolute terrors in the of the night. They are closed out of the bedroom, but many mornings we wake to find the cat tree knocked over blocking the stairs. The funny part is I am laying down with my girl the will curl up and sleep in the room away from each other, but only when I am the only one in bed.
Ha, I think they’re a little bit like kids. They know which parent it’s okay to act crazy around 😉
Ours do something we call “The Cow Jumps Over The Moon”, where they run in the bedroom and leap over the bed, barely touching it. Then they run out again. If you remember the kids’ book “A Fly Went By”- it’s that.
That’s pretty impressive (and hilarious)! Hazel’s jumping skills aren’t quite what they used to be, she’s 15.
The lick makes it better.
Yes, a true gesture of friendship 🙂
cute story Matt, I could sure go for some banana pancakes about now.
Keep up the good work.
They really are the best. Totally worth the trip to Hawaii.
Man I love banana pancakes, and I love cats! Well done!
You’re in the right place. Thanks for reading!
Were he not an ex-boy-type kitteh, I’d rename Chipper (aka Shredder) Olive. Acts like a king-size hellion until you do the finger/OUT routine, and then does the finger-lick thing, and figures that makes it all right. Argghhh!
Their cuteness totally saves them sometimes. 😉 Also, love the name Chipper!
I just love this. Not only because it occurs more than once a night in our house, but also because you admit that you sleep through it most of the time. Lucky for me, so does Georgia. 🙂
We did TRY the no cats in the bedroom when we got Hazel but her howling was worse than being woken up remember?! That was horrid.
Yeah, it was bad. Hazel definitely won that battle.
Excuse me, but your sleeping is really bothering us!
It’s true they can’t stand it. Especially Hazel. She goes off like an alarm sometimes.