Confused Weather Kitty

[captain_slinky]

Our cat is NOT happy with the schizophrenic weather we've been having in the last 48 hours. It's been intermittent beautiful sunshine and soul-drenching downpours.

Joey (our cat) just stands at the door, bellowing that guttural "MrrrrrOWH" that cats usually reserve for emergencies like "Somebody locked me in the bathroom again because I was being Ninja-Kitty and you didn't notice me slip in to hide behind the shower curtain" or "Somebody obviously replaced the hole in my Kitty House with a smaller one because now I am stuck and I know that I'm not THAT fat" or "You feed me every night at 8pm, but it is now 7:45pm and you aren't even getting ready to feed me". Y'know, EMERGENCIES.

OMG! As I am typing this, I just discovered why he's Emergency Meowing! During the downpours, EVERY CAT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD (about 5 cats in all) is using our covered car port as their shelter! Makes sense, since our car port has quick-and-easy access to the large grove of bushes and trees out back - none of the other car ports are so close to the Jungle Fortress Battle Arena (I swear, that little grove is like THUNDERDOME for those cats)!

LOL HERE THEY GO AGAIN! We just had a sunburst, al the cats left, Joey calmed down... now it's raining again and here come the cats!

"I challenge you, Mister Whiskers! I'm calling you out! For the honor of my beloved Missus Puss-Puss whom you have defiled in a manner so base and uncouth, I shall have justice! Come to the center of the arena and I shall eviscerate you with my claws and chew at you with my vicious fangs till you are no more! You have wronged me and mine, sir, and I demand satisfaction! COME OUT, YOU COWA- Whoa, hang on... rain? RAAAAAAIN!!! RUN FOR IT!!!"

Comments

[snarky-imp.livejournal.com]

It is ever so thoughtful of you to have a cat port for the neighborhood felines in these times of such meteorological distress.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

I know, right? I feel like I should take some snacks out there for them, poor things! "Okay you boys, time out - I've made lemonade and tuna fish sandwiches" :)

[aurora77]

I was reading the post thinking, a cat would say he typo'd that. It's not a "car port", it's a a "cat port". XD

[khristle.livejournal.com]

I love that our dog is like "SHUT UP CATS" We only make noise when there is someone at the door!"

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

"Hmmm, he called it a Car Port? Guess we'd better pee on more stuff out here!" - EVERY CAT IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD

[aurora77]

One of my cats was getting stressed out about neighborhood cats coming up close to our place. We looked up all the info online about how to keep cats away from our place. We started spraying a cat repellent spray at the outside edges of our yard and putting out hair trimmings and citrus peels in our flowerbeds and under bushes. We planted some lavender, too.

[aurora77]

Oh, and we kept an eye out for the cats and chased them off when they came around. I'd read by the back door, where they loved to hang out.

We wouldn't have been so thorough, except that they were really stressing her out. She would throw herself at the windows and doors while hissing, spitting, growling, screaming... She wouldn't calm down for at least an hour each time. It was disconcerting.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Yeeeeaaaah.... Cats in our neighborhood don't care about that. It's fun to see people move in to a new place here, be all excited about putting in a flower bed the first year... plant lavender, leave orange peels, spik the ground with chili pepper half way through the year, then give up and accept that it's just a big Cat Poop Garden the next year :)

Most have gone so far as to just pave their lawns!

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Poor kitty!!! Lucky for our cat, the Dog acts like an over-protective older sibling and starts yelling at the cats when they won't go away. "LEAVE HIM ALONE, YOU STUPID CATS! WE ONLY MAKE NOISE WHEN THERE'S SOMEONE AT THE DOOR OR DRIVING IN OUR CUL DE SAC! NO GO HOME!"