By Ruth aka Kattaddorra
It fascinates me how some cats are ‘helpers’ but some are not. Jozef especially loves to be in the kitchen with me when I’m checking the cat food cupboard to see what we need on our shopping list.
He goes up via the worktop and fridge top to the cupboard top to sit and supervise. He watches me lift all the boxes of food sachets and trays down and fill them up from the bottom cupboard, of course he has to sample something so off I go for a chair to climb on and pass it up to him.
He’s not happy about his biscuits right now! As he’s prone to hairballs we decided to try some made especially to help stop them forming. His look said it all ‘I’m not eating them’ and he won’t, he said ‘I’d rather starve’. Walter doesn’t approve either, he too prefers the James Wellbeloved senior they normally have and when we gave in they dramatically crunched a saucer full each we had left from the last bag.
Oh well, the local cat rescues will no doubt appreciate the rejected ones lol and we will have to go and buy more of Walt and Jo’s favourites.
Walter doesn’t ‘help’ in the kitchen at all, he thinks it’s women’s work and that Jozef is crazy for getting involved in kitchen chores. His forte is ‘helping’ to make the beds, I think we all know that chore ends in fun and games when cats are springing out from under the duvet!
Our two will never do this together, they must have some pact since they once tried and a battle ensued which turned quite serious lol
They aren’t ever jealous of each other, just each like ‘their’ time alone with us and we make sure they get it.
At one time we had a beautiful brown tabby called Bryan who had his own high stool in the kitchen and sat there through thick and thin watching whatever we were doing. I think the companionship of cats is wonderful and can’t imagine our home without them around.
Do your cats ‘help’ around the house?
Did I mention that some cats hinder us! Sometimes, like right now as I try and type with Charlie in the way. Still love to bits.
Thanks Ruth, our boyz are our sun, moon and stars 🙂 and only our PoC family could understand what I mean.
The pictures of your boys are great, Ruth. Monty does the dust bath thing too.
Monty loves to help me. He is happy to do whatever I want to do, for the most part. If I’m digging through drawers, cleaning out closets or filing papers, he will come and crawl around in little corners he never goes into, jump up onto different heights, sniff every corner– it’s like he is imitating me. When I recently dug out some old teaching materials for my tutoring kids to use it’s like Monty also was looking for things, finding new scents in every nook and cranny of the house. If our neighbor is gardening he come right up to the fence and watches her through the gaps in the fence. There is nothing he loves more than humans doing something. But if I want to rest quietly, like now before I go to work, he’ll do that with me. He was lonely yesterday since I worked all day. He asked to sleep under the bed, but right up by me, not on the pillow I put under there for him toward the foot of the bed. The feral part of him still needs to be under cover to sleep at night, but the part of him who is my cat companion wanted to sleep as close to me as possible.
lol you and Charlie are a good match then.
Walter is funny, he waits while we put the saucer of food down, his head getting lower until we slide it right under his nose lol Even inches away he sits and waits until we put it nearer.
He has us well trained! 🙂
Thanks Michael, Jozef was almost called Zorro lol someone suggested that name because of his mask.
Yes they are 2 happy boyz who love their freedom but love coming home too and we feel honoured that they do love to spend time with us as well as doing outdoor things cats enjoy doing.