Remind me why I got a cat
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Puss-n-boots, Tom & Jerry, Sagwa. And Simone.
I imagined fun evenings spent playing with string and feathers. Putting her on a leash and letting her hang out in the great outdoors. Having a warm bundle of fur purring on my lap on those cold winter nights.
I got the purring part right.
Sure, she plays and jumps and makes us laugh, and she's lovely and soft for petting. What she does at 3 am is not quite so endearing. She likes to place all of her paws on my head and let go with the loudest purring I've ever heard and she never stops to breath!! Since she's got those four contact points on my head the purring reverberates through my skull, making sleep a distant dream. Other nights she will lay innocently beside me until some inner clock tells her it's time to shove her ice cold and very wet nose right in my face. I'll throw an arm up to block her, but I peeked a few times and discovered that she sits and stares at me until she deems that there is enough room to squeeze her face between my arm and the bed and she POUNCES!
The first time she literally leaped at me as soon as she saw my eyes open. Hilarious, until I realized the time and the fact that I had to get up early for work that morning. I have yet to learn how I can maintain sleep and facial protection at the same time.
She IS only a kitten. Please tell me things will get better as she gets older and I'll be able to get a full night's sleep?
Puss-n-boots, Tom & Jerry, Sagwa. And Simone.
I imagined fun evenings spent playing with string and feathers. Putting her on a leash and letting her hang out in the great outdoors. Having a warm bundle of fur purring on my lap on those cold winter nights.
I got the purring part right.
Sure, she plays and jumps and makes us laugh, and she's lovely and soft for petting. What she does at 3 am is not quite so endearing. She likes to place all of her paws on my head and let go with the loudest purring I've ever heard and she never stops to breath!! Since she's got those four contact points on my head the purring reverberates through my skull, making sleep a distant dream. Other nights she will lay innocently beside me until some inner clock tells her it's time to shove her ice cold and very wet nose right in my face. I'll throw an arm up to block her, but I peeked a few times and discovered that she sits and stares at me until she deems that there is enough room to squeeze her face between my arm and the bed and she POUNCES!
The first time she literally leaped at me as soon as she saw my eyes open. Hilarious, until I realized the time and the fact that I had to get up early for work that morning. I have yet to learn how I can maintain sleep and facial protection at the same time.
She IS only a kitten. Please tell me things will get better as she gets older and I'll be able to get a full night's sleep?
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I swear sometimes they're just like kids. Constantly testing those boundries. :)