The kitten has very specific needs and places for affection times. She is not a lap cat. Heaven forbid. But she'll walk into the living room right in front of me and then flop onto her side. This is where I am to get onto my hands and knees above her, roll her onto her back, and rub her head and kiss her belly. She purrs like a train. I love her very silly ass.
Our cat kneads my husband's arm when it's bedtime. Right arm, never the left one. It must remain outside the covers and easily accessible, but not moving, until said cat has decided he's done kneading it. This usually takes about ten minutes. No one is allowed to pet the cat while this is happening, or interrupt the kneading in any way.
I know I'm on the Cat community, but my dog is running cat software on dog hardware.
She will not accept going to bed without me brushing her teeth.

My cat literally expects us to be awake at a certain time and will keep meowing us until we awake. I noticed if I don’t wake up my cat will make sure I do.
My cat used to gently bite my cheek to wake me up because I'm a heavy sleeper
He's just testing to see if he has to eat you or not
Sometimes I pretend I wake up and walk for a second out of the room, when she go out with me I come back, close the room and sleep again.
My cat has learned the days of the week. He allows us tu sleep in Saturdays and Sundays, but he does not want my wife to be late for work
1030pm does seem like a healthy bedtime. I could use that kind of encouragement.
My bedtime is 11...
...am I work night shift
Hey me too. You are not alone.
Not cat, but rabbits
My bunnies know they get fresh hay before I go upstairs to bed. My boy bun will run back and forth between looking at me and looking down the hall to the garage where his hay is. My girl bun will hop on the couch and glare at me with her adorable look of disappointment. They tell me to go to bed so they get food lol
Cat knows what's up. Getting enough sleep is very important.
My pup gets upset if I'm not home before dark. My partner works from home and gives me updates on how angry the pup is, as soon as the sun starts to set. This dog sits and stares at the front door, tiny ears quivering as he grumbles.
Anyways, I obey my curfew. (He's fine if I get home then leave.)
Mine demands breakfast between 3 and 6am. Then about an hour later she requires that I get up and sit with her, on the floor, next to her cat door. There is a couch near by. But No. We sit on the floor and look out the 5x5 inch cat door window and I pet her until she gets "scratchy bitey" and I go clean my wounds and go back to bed. I'm not that into this routine, but I love her so...
This.... Would not fly in my house lol.
Granted my cat is plenty annoying an hour before it's time to get up, but I certainly don't encourage this behavior.
The most I do to appease him is call him to the bed, where even though he can, he won't jump up, I've gotta reach over and put him on the bed.
Ok maybe I'm trained too..
Cats hate any change to the routine. Don't fuck with the system
my dog won't herd us to bed, she just disappears and curls up in the dark alone on the bed
it's funny when we're staying at somebody else's place and instead of doing the usual dog thing and wanting to be around everyone (which she did lots of earlier), she just quietly disappears to pass out
"I have to go home, it's my cat's bedtime" is an excuse I gotta keep in my back pocket. Also, it's probably true, I have one of those cats
My dog has worked one over on my parents. She won't eat until she gets a treat from my Dad (the appertif, I like to call it), and then she'll eat her food and go over to my Mom and she won't leave her alone until she gives her more treats for dessert.
If this routine is disrupted, she makes a big fuss.
You may want to re-term the treat as an hors d'œuvre or amuse-bouche... Unless your dad is really passing alcohol to your little buddy. Either way, she's being properly spoiled and the courses should expand as her palette develops.
Fair enough, lol. I would call it an amuse-bouche but I hate the way it sounds when I say it 😖
I mean some people also train their pets instead of letting their pets train them lol
My horse insists that I play music while we hang out. She knows it comes from my phone and if I take my phone out, she'll fiddle with it with her lips until I turn in music.
She loves when I sing and I'm so glad I'm usually there alone because I'd be embarrassed if anyone heard me serenading the horses lmao.
I recently got a lyre and I'm gonna learn how to play it for all the horses
“My horse” ❤️
Also if anyone heard the things I say to my dogs in private, I would be mortified.
I’ve started call one of them Mr. Stinky Wiggles and I sing a modified version of the Oscar Meyer song to him.
You're gonna be so popular with all the horses!
100000%
You are my favourite person on the internet today. I mean, you or your horse. But, you know.
Horses, and most field, work, or food animals, are so dope. They're just a big version of a small thing one calls a pet. All intelligence, all joy. All way more real than any LLM that might exist. Had one horse that waited for his opportunity to break out and he'd run for a half a mile and always come home. It was his game. I was some very young age child and I'd be out there trying to "corral" him - he was a HORSE - he never put me in danger, he would just feint and run off, and then calm down and come back home, his mission accomplished for fun.
I had a few escape artist horses as a kid that just wanted to be chased back home. It was a game
My dog tries. I just yell at him and then he lays down next to me instead. This has been a thing for like 3 years now.
This will be fun with daylight savings.
Who would buy a cat because it does this?
One does not buy a cat. They appear and you feed them.
This is known as the CDS. Cat Distribution System.
TWELVE POUND ???
It’s not that bad. Depending on their natural size, I don’t think they’re overweight until 13-14.
They could also just have one of the big breeds like a skogkatt or a Maine coon which can easily get a lot heavier than that without being unhealthy at all
My small cat is only 10 pounds. What's so capital tense about 12?
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