Six Things Your Cat Wants You to Know
They’d tell you if they could
There was a great meme I saw recently that had a cat staring at its owner and the caption just said “Ever wonder what your cat calls you?” That led me to wonder are there things cats would tell us if they could speak? I suspect there are and this intrepid researcher uncovered (by looking at my own cats) a few things.
1. Stop poking them when they sleep
If you have a cat, you’ve done this before. And who can blame you? Cats are notoriously cute when they sleep. Sometimes, they position a paw over their head or contort their body in such a way that you confuse where the moving parts belong. Still other times, they may seem perfectly asleep, but their legs start twitching like they are running in place. You wonder what sort of dream is happening inside that little brain of theirs. Or they don’t move for a long time.
There’s the occasional thump of their tail against the couch or the floor, silently keeping time to a song we can’t hear. Sometimes, you get the overwhelming urge to poke them. When you do this, they may bat at your hand playfully with a paw or stretch and change positions. The cats in your life kindly ask you to control yourselves. You don’t like it when they poke you when you’re asleep, so please don’t do it to them.
