What skills or lessons have you learned recently?
I have learned that my cat can control me with his mind, although that’s not really a recent discovery. And, although certainly skilful on his part, it’s probably the exact opposite for me.
We already know that Louis Catorze is the master of creepy staring, eventually making the subject feel so uncomfortable that they stop what they’re doing and give him what he wants. He usually does this when he wants food, or when he wants us to join him his favourite place: the living room.
We now have a new one to add to the list and I discovered this the hard way, i.e. by trying desperately to give him all the things that I thought he wanted, but having my efforts rejected and ultimately failing in my quest to make him stop the staring.
It was torturous. The more I scrabbled around in desperation, the more intensely he stared.
I eventually discovered what Catorze wanted: he wanted to sit on my lap, but he didn’t like my leg position. So he’d decided to stare and stare until I changed my leg position to something more comfortable for him.
He doesn’t like it when I sit with legs folded under me. He will tolerate legs out and feet on the floor, although it’s not his favourite. What the little sod likes the most is for me to sit with my legs outstretched and feet on the coffee table, even though this is the least comfortable and most damaging for me. In fact, some time ago, this position was what resulted in my Laziness With Cat injury and weeks of physio.
Here is the silly beast (below), enjoying his favourite sleeping position. And, every now and again, if I shuffle around to make myself more comfortable, he lifts his head and scowls at me.
I know: I’m pathetic. But I also know that you would stoop just as low, if not lower, to make your furry overlords happy, so please don’t judge me.
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