Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for January 14, 2024

I’m so glad my cats don’t do this. Diesel moves around throughout the night, but he’s straightforward about it. He was there, now he wants to be here, and he’s done. Raven has a specific place he wants to be and stays there (either all the way until morning, or he’s very quiet about going and returning, and Raven rarely goes anywhere without announcing the fact).

Elvis, still the Pirate Ballerina, doing the Prance of the Sugar Plum Kitty!

Me thoughts only doggies does this. You become now doggie, Elvis? What next you digs and hide chicken bones under kitty litter sand?

One good turn deserves another…

Most of my cats have done sleep circles but none of them have stomped, although Foxy sometimes comes close when she’s kneading on my legs just before the big crash (14 lbs.) welding me into the bed. This mostly happens when I’ve been to the cancer center for follow-ups (she can always tell).

Sunday Funday

How else can he find the best, softest, warmest spot?

Actually, my cats were always pretty good about already knowing where they wanted to be — absolute center of the bed. If I selfishly wanted it for myself, then by my feet was the best place, until they decided to sit in the window for a while and then jump back directly onto the convenient padded landing spot provided by my stomach.

It’s a slow news night for Lupin…

Gracie has a routine she follows, but it’s usually over quick. She wants her head petted, then it’s either down by my feet, or she hops onto my hip to sleep. Sara, in the other hand, can never find that spot. She paces back and forth until she ultimately hops down and goes off to do “kitty things”.

Mine always prance all over my bladder at 3am!

Can’t sleep if it isn’t just right.

Do you love me? – (I can really move!)

Do you love me? – (I’m in the groove!)

Ah, do you love me? – (Do you love me?)

Now – That I – Can Prance! – (PRANCE !!)

Watch me now! Hey! – (Work, work!)

[ They say ’ Prancing ’ really makes a lot of ’ The Contours ’ on the bed !!! ] … :)

When I was a student, I once did some pet & house sitting for an acquaintance while she and her hubby traveled. Every night for two weeks, the three cats and dogs took turns doing exactly what Elvis did. ALL. NIGHT. LONG. I never understood how she and her hubby ever got any sleep.

My cats didn’t do a lot of that. They prefer to just be peopleweights.

When I got Loaner Cat/Shorty from my daughter, she most emphatically told me that Loaner Cat would be sleeping with me every night, that she would demand the entire bed and to be prepared because she moved around constantly. Loaner Cat hasn’t spent one night on the bed in the four years she’s been here.

To every Siamese-Turn Turn Turn-There is no reason-Turn Turn Turn-No time to sleep-A time to prance-A circle is made-How long will this, Last Last Last Last!

I love how cats and dogs do this. Whenever Zelda gets on my bed she has to knead in different spots until she finds the most comfy one, LOL.

Lovely to see Pucky’s white floof patch.

ABBA: You know the song

Late at night and the lights are low

Time for sleep and to bed we go

But before we settle in you have your ritual

It must be observed each night!

…….

Only you know when it’s time to sleep

Prancing in a circle each night you keep

Determining just the right number

Of your nightly dance

You need to stomp and prance!

And when you get the chance

…….

You are the Prancing King

Circling ’round until the right number found!

Prancing King, no time to romp

Sometimes you have to stomp! Oh yeah!

You can prance, you can move

Until you have it done just right!

Ooo, see that Meese, no time to sing

Diggin the Prancing King!

…….

Puck and Lupin can already see

You need your ritual, it just has has to be

Until you have it just right, that’s just the way it is

The bed is really his!

And we all really know,

…….

You are the Prancing King

Circling ’round until the right number found!

Prancing King, no time to romp

Sometimes you have to stomp! Oh yeah!

You can prance, you can move

Until you have it done just right!

Ooo, see that Meese, no time to sing

Diggin the Prancing King!

Once in a while my cat will lay on me and purr loudly in my ear.

This is my panther Parker. He is so bad the other cats eventually chase him off the bed.

I don’t think that it works for humans but on some nights, I would be willing to try it.

I thought Elvis was channeling his inner poet (Robert Frost) with his “many circles to prance before I sleep.”

Between the dog and two cats that do circles to varying degrees, and a husband who insists he has to wiggle “to get settled” it’s no wonder I have to listen to guided meditation to get to sleep most nights.

The cats aren’t too bad at night, but in the morning, after 7AM, if I don’t get up I get yelled at and jumped on and pranced on and danced on and…well, you all get the picture.

My Melvin just stomps in place (on me) for a long time.

Every night! With two torties, also demanding scritches, at various times during the night.

Mommy’s special annoyance.

Look, I like cats…but admittedly this would be the point where the cat’s getting kicked off the bed regardless. :P

but he looks so happy & cozy when he says “there”.

My problem comes when they settle across my legs. Because of arthritis and leg cramps, I end up having to dislodge the cats from their perch. That becomes a problem when multiple cats are holding me down.

How many circles must a Siamese go around? 42.

My Peke Ming who should not be on the bed anyway, because he’s gonna break his back jumping off, will snap like he’s gonna take a finger off if I roll over and accidentally touch him.

My best cat ever Nikki will lie on my chest under the covers and purr for a long while before she decides it’s time to turn around and get the covers off herself, never mind that she’s also pulling them off me, because my job is just to be a heated cat bed.

Nants ingonyama bagithi baba

Sithi uhm ingonyama

Nants ingonyama bagithi baba

Sithi uhhmm ingonyama

Ingonyama

Siyo Nqoba

Ingonyama

Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala

Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala

Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala

Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala

Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala

Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (asana)

Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

From the moment we arrive on the woman

And, blinking, step onto her belly

There’s more to see than can ever be seen

More to do than can ever be done

There’s far too much to take in here

More to find than can ever be found

But the moon rolling high

Through the inky sapphire sky

Keeps great and small on the endless round

It’s the circle of cats

And it moves us all

Through little paws and prances

Through day and through night

’Til we find our place

The place to lay down

In the circle

The circle of cats

Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala

Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala

Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

It’s the circle of cats

And it moves us all

Through little paws and prances

Through day and through night

’Til we find our place

The place to lay down

In the circle

T

No can do, Woman. Not until he finds the perfect spot to rest first.

People just don’t understand the process cats must undergo to align themselves with the feng shui of the room, galactic vibrations and the best Wi-Fi reception.

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Neither do cats, really, which is why it takes them so long.

The cat’s in his cradle …

Poke feet! Poke feet everywhere!

Diesel will actually balance himself on my side on the bed. Those tiny paws………

I’ve had trouble sleeping my whole life so there’s lot of wiggling, etc. Not even my teddy bear would sleep with me when I was little.

We’re lucky. All of our present clowder do take a few seconds to get settled and then they sleep for what seems like forever. Right now, Odinsdottir, the big, floofy Norwegian Forest Cat has settled on my lap as I type this. Looks like another 2 – 3 hours in the chair for yours truly. And I am on my third cup of tea……“Sorry dear, can’t move. CWMBO (Cat who must be obeyed) is using me for a bed right now.”

Go the F*** to Sleep! Read by Samuel L. Jackson is honestly the funniest thing I’ve heard read. My cat has heard it multiple times…

The tortie princess tends to arrive in the middle of the night wanting to crawl under the covers with me. BUT… She wants me to hold up the cover while she peers under and takes her sweet time deciding if she really wants to get under there after all.

Cats!

Elvis is persnickety.

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Honest Q about sleeping cats

OT prayer request

My best friend’s nephew, an only child age 34, was apparently poisoned by something and is now in the ICU and not expected to survive. He is being taken off dialysis today to see how the kidneys will function. If they don’t, he and his parents will have heart-rending decisions to make. Prayers for all three and the extended family.

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