Little Miss Angry Cat ...

Following on from my earlier post, I knew I'd have no trouble in persuading my human to guard the door whilst I ate my yummy roast chicken & gravy.

She remembers what happened the other night when I caught stupid black-&-white cat stealing my dinner.

I was angry. Furiously furious if you remember.

And because I couldn't get rid of all of my angry feelings towards stupid black-&-white, I held on to some of them.

Now I understand from my human's work that it's not good to hold on to feelings.  It's best to express them safely & let them go. And then you feel okay.

But I hadn't been able to do that the other night.

I was still feeling angry inside.

And so when my human said that it was time to go to bed & I didn't want to go, my anger was reignited. 

And I lashed out ... literally ... at my human.

And when us cats lash out, we can do real damage with our claws.  And I'm ashamed to say that I hurt my human.

Look what I did to her.

I didn't care at the time of course because my angry feelings just needed to come out. But they came out towards the wrong person ... I hurt my human instead of stupid black-&-white cat.

This is what happens when you don't express your feelings properly.

But at least human knows how angry I can get. And I'm sure she'll not want me to get angry again like that tonight.

Which I would do if stupid black-&-white stole my yummy chicken & gravy.

She'll guard the door for me, no problem ...

Wouldn't have happened if she'd gotten up sooner ...

Oops!!

I woke up nice and early this morning; the numbers on my human's clock said 05:38.  I don't really know what that means, because us cats aren't as obsessed with time as you humans seem to be.  We just listen to our bodies and to the sun.  

And at 05:38 this morning, it was a gorgeous sunny day outside & I wanted my human to open the door for me so I could go outside and enjoy the early morning sunshine.  I miaowed a lot & jumped on her, & rubbed my face against hers.  And it did wake her up ... it always does.  But she wouldn't get up.  I kept trying, but she just kept lying there.  And yes, she cuddled me & stroked me & we had a few snuggles, but she still wouldn't get out of bed.

This is my angry & fed-up face!!

So I gave up.

I went & sat on the windowsill in the living room & looked outside at the lovely early morning sunshine.  And felt really sad and sorry for myself.  I didn't want to be sitting inside looking outside.  I wanted to be outside in the sunshine.

My sadness and self-pity soon began to turn into anger & frustration through.  How dare my human deprive me of the fresh air and sunshine.  How dare she do that to me!  As my anger built up, I began to feel helpless too.  Helpless, because I couldn't open the door myself.  I can't work keys ...

As these feelings kept going round & round inside of me, I could feel my body filling with adrenaline.  I knew I had to get rid of it somehow, because it wasn't going to do me any good.  All of these negative hormones cause stress ... & I didn't want to end up stressed.

So I did what any cat would have done.  I had, what you human's stupidly call 'a mad half hour.'  I went racing round the flat, burning off all of my negative energy and feelings.  I raced through every room ... I knew my human could hear the thud, thud, thud of my little feet.  Have you humans noticed how, sometimes us cats can stalk through a house silently, & yet at other times (like this morning), we make a lot of noise & sound much bigger & heavier that we really are!?  We're clever, aren't we?!

Anyway, as I raced back into the living room, I ran along the sofa & I made a big jump from the little side table my human has there ... & ... crash!!  It fell over.  And everything fell off it.

I've never managed to knock the table over before!  But I guess that just shows how angry & frustrated I had felt with my human.  All of those feelings filled me so full of energy that I did that! To be honest with you, I got a bit of a fright!  But don't tell my human that.  I hadn't realised just how strong I could be when I was so very full of anger!  Don't worry about me though; I'm alright.  I didn't get hurt.  

It was good though, because my human got up then to see what I'd done.

 And I got to go out & sit in the sunshine ... relaxed & happy at last ...