How is your cat affecting your life?

Spay her unless you want a sh1t ton of kittens. Irish people have been too lazy and stingy in years gone by hence tribes of inbred feral cats back then but I had thought that had changed, silly me.

She never has kittens so I'm not one of those lazy people.

I just got my first cat in about 20 years, had her with me for a little over a week.

I would kill everyone for this cat. She's so calming, a little kitten, that is surprisingly affectionate and playful. Apparently she wasn't really taking to people at the Vet she was dropped off at, but the moment I got her in my arms she was clung to me. Adopted her the next day.

The dog I have is very cautious around her, and while I wouldn't leave them alone together she's very affectionate to him and he's just interested in sniffing her.

Cats are brilliant! Have two of the little beautiful headcases, and wouldn’t be without them. Adopted the two of them when they were three years old. That was six months ago. Brother and sister - although they don’t look alike at all, except for their faces when they are disgusted at the wrong food!

They are housecats, which I wouldn’t really agree with, but this is how they were raised, and they aren’t equipped for the outside world now. They were found on the side of the road as kittens, with injuries, by the people that we adopted them from.

First month or so, the girl cat was pretty sure that I had murdered her parents or something equally devious, but now she only thinks this 10% of the time, and will spend the rest of her non-sleeping time just hanging out nearby and meeping when she wants to be petted. She likes me the most, although it took a while!

The boy cat just wants to be cuddled (when not sleeping). He prefers my OH, and actually prioritises a piece of my OH’s clothes over me. But, I’m more of a night owl, and he will sit there purring on my lap if I’m working late at night (boycat, not the boyfriend..)!

After only six months, and seeing how scared they were when we adopted them, they are doing different things every month or so, and getting more comfortable every day. They are fuzzy little alarm clocks. They do their tappa-tappa foot thing when they settle down on top of one of us. They’ve got a bit more vocal - himself (cat, not boyfriend) has the most particular meow when he’s getting off his perch and wants a cuddle. And herself either meeps or just opens her mouth and pretends to meep when she wants me to follow her for petting/food/LETMETOTHEBALCONYNOWHOOOOOOOMAN.

I would have been more of a dog person, but this isn’t practicable with work and stuff, but these guys have stolen my heart.

Edit - they are normally less sideways, but they do not obey the rules of gravity at the best of times anyway.

YF you have the same combination of cats that I do, a black and a tabby, though not related. The tabby is the vocal one and has opinions on everything.

MoF They probably do, but once you are dead, why would you care? Though their degree of fussiness over food leads me to suppose you would want to be very tender and tasty before they would bother.

One of my cats normally sleeps on the back of couch, yesterday I was sitting on the couch drinking tea. She jumps up on the back of the couch, licks my face and just runs off. Shes definitely plotting to do away with me

Usually,if you are full of praise the rat will be removed after a while for further treatment