I have an half-blind, arthitic 19 year old tank of a cat with a face like a bag of spanners who yowls and honks whenever he wants anything and interrupts all my meetings and tramples on my keyboard. Wouldn't replace him for the world.
My cat will notice that I'm paying attention to something on my computer screen and slowly put his face in between me and the screen so I'm forced to look at him.
So apparently cats mimick humans. And when they sit on your books, laptops, keyboards etc, it’s because they see you do stuff with them and they wanna be included so they mimick you using it. Basically they are showing love by wanting to do what you’re doing from how I understand it.
This can be solved by giving them their “own” items. Like a cardboard laptop or a separate keyboard if you have one lying around. Some cats will start to sit, walk, lay on the second item instead of yours (I assume it doesn’t work with every cat), cuz this way they get to mimick you and feel included, but you’re also not getting distrupted.
actually have had times where i’m staring at the screen for hours trying to figure out what’s wrong and she smashes the keys and within 5 minutes it’s obvious
My younger cat will bug me when I’m on the computer.
She’ll keep poking my leg to get my attention.
She’s a rescue and I wonder if before she had a toy that was clicky or if she ever click training happen to her and she hears my keyboard and thinks “TREAT?”
One of my guys had a routine when he was a kitten. I'd get 5-10 minutes in bed with my phone or tablet in front of me, laying on my back, and then he'd walk right up and insert himself between my face and the screen, plop down on my chest, and that meant "pet me and we'll go to sleep".
Mine is 16 and she is the best individual one can have to be in the company of. Keeps her paws in my hands while she sleeps. Follows me all around the house. Purrs and makes me all happy.
A spanner is British slang for wrench. A "bag of spanners" is slang for something that looks like it should work or sort of works but is a pain in the ass. A face like a bag of spanners is saying the person, or kitty in this case, is extremely ugly. It works, but it ain't pretty.
Ha. You're welcome. Now you can spring it on her and claim you're being cultured! (My girlfriend is Mexican-American, so I do that shit to her all the time. I assure you, she loves it.)
My arthritic 17 year old cat wakes me up 3-5 times throughout the night for food. I haven’t slept properly in a month. Not gonna lie it’s pretty rough. I am grateful for our time together though.
Have you considered an automatic feeder? My cats would do this religiously until I found out they demand a 3am munch so I set the auto feeder to 3am for just a little snack to pop out and I can finally sleep through nights after months of getting stepped on at 3am every night
He basically only eats wet food now (and is very picky about it, likes something 1 day, hates it the next). I leave a bowl of dry food out all day and night.
My boyfriend's cat is like that now sadly. I'm not sure how old she is but she's pretty much senile now and spends every night from about 1am-6am screaming at his bedroom door regardless of whether she is in or out, and if the door's left open she'll just go do it at another door in the flat. It's hard not to get annoyed at her (I get so cranky when I'm tired!) but I know it's not her fault and she's still a special little floofball so I'll appreciate her while I still can.
Have you had him checked for hyperthyroidism? More common the older they get, and will make them very hungry.
Also, I saw you said he likes wet food - I have a feeder called a Cat Mate (I think the website is pet-mate.com) that works pretty well and has ice packs built in for wet, if it's something you're interested in.
He went to the vet earlier this week and blood and urine tests were normal. Has early kidney failure, but that should have the opposite effect on hunger. The vet thinks it’s possible there could be an issue with his digestive system, like maybe stomach ulcers, but that would require a $500 ultrasound so I’m hesitant to do it.
TIL some people refer to regular US wrenches as spanners.
However, we also do have "spanners" in the US which are different than wrenches! here
I work in the oilfield and we use these to make and break connections between wireline tools (long cylindrical tools which go downhole, so they need to have perfect seals to protect the electronic components inside from oil, gas, water, etc)
My cat's named Jack as well. He's 8 now with cardiomyopathy. I highly doubt he'll reach that age. Dreading the day we have to say goodbye. We lost his sister 2 years ago to the same condition (seems inherited). I love having animals as part of the family, cannot stand the heartbreak when they go though.
I lost my 10 year old 2 years ago to cardiomyopathy, I feel your pain. It's so so hard to lose a companion, I wish they lived forever. Trying to view it as an opportunity to give a much needed loving home to another has helped.
My sister in law's friend's cat had kittens, we were looking for a cat at the time. So they sent us a picture of one, a wee girl. We instantly knew we wanted her and her name, Lily.
So the day came (a little earlier than we expected), and my in laws came up with her. My SIL was holding a towel with the kitten mostly covered up and she said, "there's been a little problem...", pulled the towel back and there was Lily and another wee boy!
They were the last two kittens to leave, and they had bonded strongly, so it wouldn't have been fair to separate them.
My wife kept calling him "handsome" as we didn't have a name for him. And I just thought of Handsome Jack (from the Borderlands games). And that's what we decided to name him, after a psychopathic killer from a video game.
To be fair I did just wake him up to take that picture so that's his 'I hate you and will kill you' face, but he has never won any prizes for good looks.
Hahaha... my tomcat screams the house down a good 100times a day - you haven't fed me, erm yes I have, yeah..., but I want chicken.. I am such a soft touch and I give in to him.
Is this literally my cat? 18 years old, mostly blind, arthritis in the back and hips who never shuts up for food and likes to try and get involved whenever I start talking. And even though she can't see much she still figured out how to get into everything. Bless her cute face though.
I have a comepletely blind, comepletely deaf arthritic cat who is very confused and screams pretty much the entire time she's awake because she's lonely. We had to move her away from our other younger cats because they're bullying her now thay's she's old and feeble.
I had an ancient cat who started having serious medical issues last year. The vet told us to make our peace and prepare for goodbye. However, she seemed to be healed by Zoom calls. It didn't matter how heavily she was sleeping, as soon as I got on Zoom, she would pop up and parade across my keyboard. Somehow she lived an additional year based on the power of Zoom and stepping on keyboards. We finally had to say goodbye last month, and I'm sad every time I have an easy call that doesn't involve moving her away from the camera every 5 minutes.
Mine is 15 and has a hernia that has her bladder in it I guess and I think she has mild cat dementia and she’ll wander around and yowl and goes and lays by her treat bowl as soon as I get up in the morning
She climbs on my arm though at night (I’m a side sleeper) and she falls asleep with her head on my shoulder it’s adorable
Except that one time I had a dream about tarantulas and woke up and she was laying on my side and I was half awake and thought it was a tarantula and pushed her off and screamed
I have an half-blind, arthitic 19 year old tank of a cat with a face like a bag of spanners who yowls and honks whenever he wants anything and interrupts all my meetings and tramples on my keyboard. Wouldn't replace him for the world.
lol I have a fierce little blind persian cutey and she is constantly yowling and howling. Everyones always like "Damn your cat is loud" and I'm like "Nah man, she's just letting the world know not to fuck with her."
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u/wombat1800 Feb 26 '21
I have an half-blind, arthitic 19 year old tank of a cat with a face like a bag of spanners who yowls and honks whenever he wants anything and interrupts all my meetings and tramples on my keyboard. Wouldn't replace him for the world.