Giant Emo Kitty Has A Sad

[alexandraerin]

So Mr. Dorian Mome Rath Abomination Gray, my beloved giant kitty of doom, has been unusually cranky and needy and altogether emotastic the past two days. I think it's because I've been back here for about a week, and in the time since we moved here that's about how long I've been in Nebraska at a stretch before going off somewhere else for two-three weeks at a time.

Note: conversations we're not having here include "cats don't miss people when they're gone" and "cats don't have a sense of time". Cats have a better sense of time than I do. I used to have a cat who I fed every evening at 10:30. If I was in my room, she parked herself outside the door a few hours before and then if I didn't come out of the room at exactly 10:30 she'd start howling. It got to be such a ritual with her that she'd park herself outside the room even if I wasn't in there, and I'd have to go inside the room and come out before she'd accept my offering of food with good grace.

When we got two other cats it turned into a bit of a cargo cult, with her as high priestess and the others mimicking her posture and vocalizations. One of the cats (this being Mr. Dorian) didn't even like the canned chicken. He wouldn't touch it. He just went along with it every night for the fellowship.

As for cats not missing people... my very patient housemate bryirfox can attest otherwise, after putting up with Dorian's Mournful Songs of Mourning every time I go away.

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[bryirfox.livejournal.com]

The Morning Serenade.

You kidding wait till I leave in August, If I say I will be home in so many days, Sebastian will be at the door ever time it opens that day. Oh and if I say a time I will be home by and I am not here at that time I will be in trouble.

[brenda-ea.livejournal.com]

Poor kitty!

My sister's cat had to stay at our house for a week while she went on a trip. That was traumatic enough, but then my mom decided to make that the week she pulled up all the carpeting in the house! He took to lurking in the top cube of my Yaffa blocks - makes a good cave for a black kitty who wants to hide...

Apparently I'm an acceptable substitute, enough to climb in my lap, but I'm not his Mom!

Giant Emo Kitty Has A Sad

[angelsscream.livejournal.com]

aww the cats are probably like "where is my human? I did not approve of this!"

[gamingdragon.livejournal.com]

that reminds me David just went home for two weeks lexy so I have the nerotic one to look after >.< and I hope dorain forgives you soon :P

[blue-x.livejournal.com]

I wasn't aware many people believed that-which-we-will-not-be-discussing... but I guess I always grew up with cats.

I'm worried about my kitty when my fiancee-to-be-wife and I go on our honeymoon in a few days. He's been pretty anxious lately, too. I hope he'll be okay with the people staying to take care of him. Last time we had a house-sitter staying in our house, he peed in her bed.

I get the mournful songs of mourning when I do something silly like close the bathroom door behind me. I'm thinking of installing a cat-door in the door to avoid the hysteria.

[bryirfox.livejournal.com]

I get the paw under the door. Mine isn't a yowler but he does talk to me.

[speaktothevoid.livejournal.com]

Does your cat get so angry at the fact that you dared to go away without him that he does the 'I'm ignoring you, you don't exist to me anymore' thing when you get home?

'Cause mine does. And that's not a matter of her 'forgetting me', as some people would apparently have it, because she loves to greet and bother strangers.

Yeah, I have a passive-aggressive cat. But only when she's not being actively aggressive. :P

[alexandraerin.livejournal.com]

Nope. In fact, the first time I was gone for more than a week he not only met me at the door, he ran outside to headbutt my legs, when he's always been afraid of the door before.

[akkadu.livejournal.com]

I had my first experience of this recently - we have a visiting cat (he lives nearby). Yesterday my partner was in hospital and our visiting cat showed up, only to give me the most woebegone look - where was the other dispenser of scratches, rubs and fuss?

He then proceeded to explore every nook and cranny of the house with the most delightfully befuddled expression on his face - it was redonkulously cute :3

[alexandraerin.livejournal.com]

I've seen one cat do that for another cat that she openly scorned and would have nothing to do with it when he was temporarily removed from the house.