Every morning he'll jump in my chair with me during morning coffee and head-butts my legs and knees until they are arranged to his satisfaction, then flake out across them and go to sleep.
He head-butts me in the night if he wants me to make more room for him on the bed. When he decides it's time to awaken in the morning, he gently albeit persistently head-butts my face until I comply.
He has to eat mostly tinned meat as his teeth are largely gone after a couple dental surgeries. He just genetically had bad teeth. Caledonia the Calico Manx has teeth issues too, so her diet is now pretty much the same, so they have to be fed rather than just sashay up to the kibble and nibble all day. It's all a Great Routine several times in a day.
This noon I was having none of it, so Hobbes proceeds to go thermo-nuclear, walk down my stomach, and stomp my bits. You can well imagine the rather negative response he got from that; out he went in a huff and I rolled over.
Just as I'm drifting off, a feel a cat jumping up on the bed and my knee gets a head-butt. It was Lucy the Micro-panther. Odd, as that isn't her schtick at all. She looked at me gleefully, jumped down, then waited a minute or so. Up she comes again, butts my knee again, then cheerfully springs off the bed like a gazelle.
Then I look down the hallway and her odd behaviour becomes clear. Guess who very obviously communicated to her what to do and put her up to it.
The scheming little bastards, all three of 'em!
They never cease to amaze me. Hobbes obviously communicated what to do and set her up to take the fall if I responded badly to it. Both he and Cal'y had pretty baleful expressions, as you can see, and Lucy thought it was great fun to poke the bear apparently.
I shudder to think what plan "B" was.
"They're organised, I tell ya!"
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Well, aren't they just the cutest things... - sarge July 13, 2026, 2:12 pm
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