Cats Have Their Own Rules.

[david13]

They either make them up or get them genetically. But they know their rules. Mine has one, he is always invited to dinner. When I eat, he must get on my lap, to see what I am eating, maybe touch and smell it, and maybe taste it.
He just doesn't want to see me eat alone. Thoughtful of him, I guess.
dc

[ginnyinWI]

1. One of mine has a rule:

if we are sitting at the table eating, she's hungry. Doesn't matter if she just ate--she's hungry, and goes into her kitty dance and mews pathetically trying to convince us that she is truly starving.

The other one who was raised in the same environment (my son's house) just goes off to sleep somewhere. Total opposite. Such a difference personality makes.

The first cat has "trained" me to eat lunch standing up when I'm home alone. There would be no peace otherwise. Naughty son and daughter in law for ever letting this kitty beg at the table and get results! I'm afraid this behavior won't go away.

[travelingtypist]

2. Little white Ghost's rule is let me live in the bathroom.

"I'm happy here. You have offended me by letting that gray thing stay here and you must be punished."

Gray boy Peanut's rule is pay attention when I want outside or I will jump on your work table and really get your attention. And he's taken to running away from me when I try to pick him up -- a way to punish me because I won't let him sit on my lap when I'm working.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. A few more cat rules:

1. Cats must actually witness food being placed in their dishes. If the cat did not see this happen, the food is not fresh and it will not be eaten.

1a. The cat has the option of refusing even fresh food as a means of expressing displeasure.


2. No human may occupy a bathroom without being accompanied by at least one cat.

2b. If the human closes the bathroom door so as to exclude the cat(s), the cat(s) must take whatever action is necessary to ensure immediate admittance, including but not limited to howling loudly and scratching the door.

2a. The cat(s) must watch attentively as the human performs whatever function caused him/her to enter the bathroom in the first place. It is recommended that the cat(s) occupy the lap of any human seated on the toilet.


3. Cats may demand to be let in/out of any room, but when a door is opened in response to such demand, the cat is not actually obligated to enter or exit.

[ginnyinWI]

4. canned food must be from a freshly opened can for breakfast,

thereby ensuring that it is room temperature. And if it isn't a seafood flavor, there is no guarantee that it will be accepted. Alpha kitty must be fed first, or else she will plunge her face into whatever dish is put down first.

Little Tabby Kitty must sit in the computer chair every night after dinner. If a human takes the seat, Kitty must sit in front of the monitor, making sure that it is difficult to see the screen. Humans must be punished!

[badgerpup]

6. #3 comes from a well-known (or maybe not) Cat Maxim...

"There are no doors. There are only portals from one space into another."

They do however make exceptions about doors for when there are nastybad things like rain, cold, big-ass dogs, etc. on the other side of the portal through which they have just skedaddled...:yoiks:

[BrklynLiberal]

7. LOLOLOLOLOL Guess the rules have been communicated to ALL cats!!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. Kidley must receive his meat snack at 5PM CDT, even in the winter (4PM)

Kidley must participate in all phone calls by nudging the Person constantly during said call.
Kidley must be combed after the Person has lunch.
If the Person spends too long at the computer, Kidley drums on her thighs.

[Withywindle]

8. New Rules, by my Madimi

Feed me! - or I bite your face.

Clean my litter box! - or I bite your face.

Play with me! - or I bite your face.

Nap with me! I'll spoon up against your chest, curl up in a little ball on the pillow, start making those adorable cooing noises that come out of me when I snore - and then I bite your face.