doing yoga while I slept

we just need yoga-certified cat instructors.

One of the advantage of having older animals – in my case cats – is that they are totally chill with sleeping in.

Lucky you, Lazybuddhist! My cats are 12 and 14 and they have little breakfast alarm clocks in their bellies … at 7am every day of the year they start into their ‘get the big guys up’ routine until one of us finally gives in and serves their brekky. Annoyingly, they are both ready for a post-brekky nap after we are wide awake … grrr…

Years ago when I had three cats I was living in the apartment next door and had a single bed … many mornings I would wake up in some sort of weird pretzel-like position wondering wtf? until I did a cat count and discovered Lua curled up next to my neck, Azar nestled up against my lower back and Sunny tucked in somewhere behind my knees … it was kind of like doing yoga while I slept.

Now I have a fabulous king-size bed and just two cats (Lua passed away three years ago) but strangely or otherwise the two boys still end up taking up way too much space and I still wake up all twisted around in odd postures. I’m sure there’s some sort of Law of Filling Available Space to explain this …

Lazybuddhist (I like the avatar, too), you have just hit on the tension in our household the times we’ve gone to the animal shelter to rescue a new pet. I’m more inclined to adopt older animals, partly out of helping out an older animal less likely to be adopted, but also because they are a bit calmer and more settled in. Mrs. Ombud leans toward the younger, for good reasons, too. It is a good bit more effort training and exercising them. And some day they will be my comfy old pals, content to sprawl in the sun and warm their bones.

Are the bunny/cat escapades online any where? Worth relating? If you have a link I’d love to see.

All it really takes is consistently setting boundaries; the critters want to be with us, are programmed to test limits just to find what they are, and settle in nicely given a chance.

Black on the tongue, hm. I’d never guess chow, but as I look at her face there is a different shape around the eyes and nose… sort of an angularity.

Most people keep bunnies in hutches at the bottom of the garden and only take them out maybe once a day to play with (less, in some cases once the novelty has worn off)… then they wonder why the rabbits bite and get skittish. Ot they complain they are ‘boring’.

Imagine doing that to a cat or dog.

Dobby Rabbit would sleep outside my bedroom door every night, lying prone across the entrance (tricky when stumbling out of bed for bathroom trips in the middle of the night!).

Then at about 6.30am he’d stretch, hop casually away for about 10 feet and then turn and launch himself into a run at full pelt down the hallway and into my room (he needed a run up to reach the bed as its quite high off the ground).

Once there he would sit on my chest, with his paws on my chin, til I woke up. If I wasn’t lying on my back, he’d come right up to my face and wriggle his whiskers on my nose…

He’d follow me into the bathroom and as I showered he would also perform his morning ablutions. Anyone who hasn’t witnessed a rabbit wash his face and ears has missed out on one of Nature’s biggest treats.

I miss him.