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Chita the cat has this thing she likes to do, where in the morning when we’re both on the verge of waking up and she crawls into bed and walks the entire length of Z’s body and then comes to me for snuggles.
This is fine when it’s like, 6:30, but she often does it at 4 instead because she can’t tell time. Sometimes she yells. Anyway, usually I wake up and hold her and pet her. Often, however, Z does not wake up, and so if I am not present, she will have to pat him on the face until he does wake up, which annoys him.
This morning she walked up his body at like 6, and I woke, as I usually do, from the noise/feeling of her paws, and I patted the spot on the mattress where I wanted her to come for snuggles, and she came over, accepted some scritchies, and then– went and patted Z’s face so that he’d let her under the covers with him, even though I was already holding up those same covers for her. No, she wanted both of us involved. We wound up both petting her at the same time, and kind of accidentally holding hands on the cat.
She enjoyed this greatly, but once we were both awake, she’d had enough and left.
Our girl is an asshole but like, I mean, that’s how cats do, right?
We have to take her to the vet tomorrow because her thyroid pills are running out and now you have to wait in your car and not come into the waiting room at the vet’s office? I’m worried because we usually just carry her in our arms and a handoff like that can’t be done at six feet, so… I do own a cat carrier, I’ve just never succeeded in forcing her into it. We also have a cardboard box we use (the lid swings down in one piece, so it’s a bit easier to get her into it). So I’m trying to figure out my options. The way we get her to go to the vet is that we just– I’ll stealthily get ready, and Z will sneak out of the house and get into the car, and then I’ll pick her up and walk out the door with her and we’ll go before she has time to know what’s up, because if she knows what’s up we have to tear the box spring off the bed to catch her and so on and so forth.
I don’t want to put her in a carrier but the last time I had to hand her over to the vet I wound up accidentally groping the vet tech because it’s kind of, uh. Intimate. Handing over an unrestrained cat. So like. I can see how they don’t want to do that in this era of pandemic. So I gotta put the cat in a box.
The appointment is in the middle of the day, so at least she’ll probably be napping. I can probably scoop her up from sleep into a box pretty easily, though I don’t fancy getting her *back* into it after the appointment. Still, that’s their problem– I think we have to sit in the car for the duration of the appointment, so it’s not like I’m going to be called upon to do the re-boxing.
Chita the cat has this thing she likes to do, where in the morning when we’re both on the verge of waking up and she crawls into bed and walks the entire length of Z’s body and then comes to me for snuggles.
This is fine when it’s like, 6:30, but she often does it at 4 instead because she can’t tell time. Sometimes she yells. Anyway, usually I wake up and hold her and pet her. Often, however, Z does not wake up, and so if I am not present, she will have to pat him on the face until he does wake up, which annoys him.
This morning she walked up his body at like 6, and I woke, as I usually do, from the noise/feeling of her paws, and I patted the spot on the mattress where I wanted her to come for snuggles, and she came over, accepted some scritchies, and then– went and patted Z’s face so that he’d let her under the covers with him, even though I was already holding up those same covers for her. No, she wanted both of us involved. We wound up both petting her at the same time, and kind of accidentally holding hands on the cat.
She enjoyed this greatly, but once we were both awake, she’d had enough and left.
Our girl is an asshole but like, I mean, that’s how cats do, right?
We have to take her to the vet tomorrow because her thyroid pills are running out and now you have to wait in your car and not come into the waiting room at the vet’s office? I’m worried because we usually just carry her in our arms and a handoff like that can’t be done at six feet, so… I do own a cat carrier, I’ve just never succeeded in forcing her into it. We also have a cardboard box we use (the lid swings down in one piece, so it’s a bit easier to get her into it). So I’m trying to figure out my options. The way we get her to go to the vet is that we just– I’ll stealthily get ready, and Z will sneak out of the house and get into the car, and then I’ll pick her up and walk out the door with her and we’ll go before she has time to know what’s up, because if she knows what’s up we have to tear the box spring off the bed to catch her and so on and so forth.
I don’t want to put her in a carrier but the last time I had to hand her over to the vet I wound up accidentally groping the vet tech because it’s kind of, uh. Intimate. Handing over an unrestrained cat. So like. I can see how they don’t want to do that in this era of pandemic. So I gotta put the cat in a box.
The appointment is in the middle of the day, so at least she’ll probably be napping. I can probably scoop her up from sleep into a box pretty easily, though I don’t fancy getting her *back* into it after the appointment. Still, that’s their problem– I think we have to sit in the car for the duration of the appointment, so it’s not like I’m going to be called upon to do the re-boxing.
