CRAZY CAT!

Moving slowly this morning because Raul the Wonder Cat decided at 3:00 this morning that I needed to get up.

He was parked at the bedroom door yowling! He makes this loud noise whenever he wants me to "come DO something". He will come to where I am and makes this noise then run to where he wants me to go, so I'll follow him whenever he thinks there isn't enough food in his bowl or when the dog food bowl is empty and he wants a dog food snack. He's always eaten the dog's food but since we changed food about a month ago he has decided that it's his food too and he watches the level in the bowl and pitches a big fit if it gets low.

This cat is relentless, so I stumbled out of bed to go see what he wanted. He has me trained, I know that he will just keep coming back yowling until he wears me down & nothing will make him give up, not throwing things at him, not yelling at him....nothing phases him when he is on a "make her get in here mission".

So I stumbled through the doorway and he jumped up (he had been just sitting there making the horrible noise) and loped into the living room, tail straight up. I went toward the kitchen to check his bowl and the dog's bowl. It's just easier to do what he wants. He yowled at me as I passed him then darted past me and loped into the kitchen ahead of me.

His bowl was full & the dog's bowl was about half full. OK...sometimes he will throw a fit if the bowls aren't as full as he thinks they should be. I really think he thinks that he lives with idiots that might just up and leave at any time and he figures he should keep his bowls as full as possible just in case. I topped off the dog's bowl just to humor him and not have to come back and do it later if it wasn't up to his idea of "enough" dog food in the bowl.

I stumbled back to bed. I hadn't gotten comfortable before he was back at the doorway yowling again. I called him several names but got back up and started back to the door to see what else he could be upset about.

When he saw me coming he loped half way across the living room, stopped yowled and loped over to the sliding door that I keep open just enough for him to come & go at night so that I don't have to get up 10 times to let him in & out. (close the door and he will stand there inside or out and just yawl even he doesn't want to come in or out, he just wants it open!!!!)

I start over to the door. It looked like it should, but what do I know? He was just standing there looking at it and yowling to high heaven.

When I got to the door, I saw what he was all bent out of shape about. If the screen doors aren't lined up just right with the opening in the sliding door the fat little fuzzy wiener dog can't get through the opening to go out at night. Obviously she had tried to go out to poop sometime during the night and couldn't get through and Raul was highly insulted that he had to walk past dog poo to get in!!!

He just sat there looking at the poo yowling until I went to get something to clean it up with. As soon as I got it up, he walked over, hopped into his favorite chair & curled up.

Great, the cat can sleep now!!!!

I watched TV until about 5:00am.