3.30am
I have insomnia thanks to partying neighbours and I think that bringing the cats into the bedroom may help me get back to sleep.
The fantasy: the cats curl up on the bed, purr and we all drop off to sleep in a cuddly heap.
The reality: Mits starts a noisy pedicure with much slurping and smacking of the lips. Rosa attacks Mits, attacks me, bites me, climbs into the wastepaper bin, drags out a plastic bag and starts eating it (with much slurping and smacking of the lips), jumps from the bedside cabinet to the chest of drawers and back again repeatedly, shifting the glass top of the bedside cabinet closer and closer to my head until I realise, befuddled, that if she does this again I risk being beheaded. She stops for a bit, attacks me again, returns to the bin. I readjust the glass top.
At 5.30 I decide to get up and turn off the alarm clock. Immediately everyone quietens down, I drop off and we all oversleep severely.
This is why the cats sleep in the kitchen normally.
The fantasy: the cats curl up on the bed, purr and we all drop off to sleep in a cuddly heap.
The reality: Mits starts a noisy pedicure with much slurping and smacking of the lips. Rosa attacks Mits, attacks me, bites me, climbs into the wastepaper bin, drags out a plastic bag and starts eating it (with much slurping and smacking of the lips), jumps from the bedside cabinet to the chest of drawers and back again repeatedly, shifting the glass top of the bedside cabinet closer and closer to my head until I realise, befuddled, that if she does this again I risk being beheaded. She stops for a bit, attacks me again, returns to the bin. I readjust the glass top.
At 5.30 I decide to get up and turn off the alarm clock. Immediately everyone quietens down, I drop off and we all oversleep severely.
This is why the cats sleep in the kitchen normally.
Labels: bleeding pests
posted by GreatSheElephant at 3:49 AM
4 Comments:
Oh, that brings back bad memories. The only thing that is currently stopping me from getting a kitten is the thought of all those sleepless nights. Already I don't sleep as well as I used to (damned menopause) so I don't know how I would cope. It's bothering me a lot b/c I really really want another cat.
I really miss the sound of my cat padding around the room at night. It only got annoying when she'd try to use the closet door as a scratching post. The noise from the hollow/echoy sound of the closet was amazing.
Mostly she just shed on my duvet, though, and left me the occassional dingle.
bela - I assume if you start them sleeping with you from the outset that they aren't quite so pestilential. The problem with my two is that I didn't, so they aren't used to it on the rare occasion I decide I want them in the bedroom
I never stopped my pussycat from sleeping with me. In fact, I encouraged her; she didn't want to at first: she'd come and lie on my hair from time to time and then go off for another scuttle around the flat. Those beasties are definitely nocturnal; so am I, but there is a limit.
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