Chocolatey fun ...

Oops!  I think I've upset my human again.

She left her box of chocolates on the living room.

And it was just too much temptation for me.

A whole box of chocolates to play with.

I just couldn't resist & had to play with them.  

I managed to get one out of the box & batted it round our living room with my paw.

I had great fun.

I don't think my human was amused.

The human thinks I'm stupid ... I'm not ...

My human is very kind and buys me yummy treats.  She keeps them in the cupboard where I can't reach them and so I have to ask her when I want some.

I don't know why, but she seems to get annoyed with me.  I know I ask for them lots of times, but so would you, if you knew that yummy treats were in the cupboard and you couldn't get them.


She keeps saying to me; "You can't just keep eating these."

Well; what else does she expect me to do with them?  And she's not going to eat them is she?

And then she says; "These are meant to be treats.  You're just meant to get these when you've been a good girl."

Well; I'm always good.

Sometimes she gives me them to 'bribe' me out of here counselling room when she's got clients coming.  She shakes the packet and I go running into the kitchen.  She thinks she's clever because I always go running for the yummy treats.  What she hasn't realised is that I only go into the counselling room when I know she's got clients coming because I know that if I sit in there, she'll give me treats.  See; these humans think they're clever, but they're not as clever as us cats.

And then today, she tried to con me.  The second time I asked her for yummy treats, instead of the treats, she just put a few of my crunchy biscuits on the plate!?  Does she think I'm stupid?  Did she think I wouldn't spot the difference?

Of course, I knew straight away.

I just looked at them.  And then I looked up at her.

And then she laughed at me.

And then she gave the proper treats ...

Keep calm and stroke the cat ...

This mug recently appeared in our home.  I have no idea where my human got it from, but it's good advice, don't you think?!

Wise, wise words ...

Keep calm and stroke the cat!!  And as far as I'm concerned, the more often my human does just that, the happier and more content we both are ...

I do happen to know though from the things my human reads that research does actually show that stroking us cats does help people relax and keep calm. I don't know why they had to go and do research ... all they had to do was ask me and I would have told them just how good us cats are for our humans.

Taking care of us is such an honour, it gives humans a sense of responsibility.  And a reason to get up each morning and go out to work, to earn money & provide our food and the lovely warm homes that we live in.

It's funny, but writing this, is making me realise just how good my human is at taking care of me.  The last lot of humans I lived with weren't so good.  They just threw me out  like I was rubbish.  How dare they!!  It still makes me really angry to remember.  And especially when I think about the weather that they threw me out into ... it was deep snow and I had to live outside in it!  I had to find shelter under peoples' cars and there were no warm knees to snuggle in to then ...

I was very sad at that time.  And very lonely.  And very stressed too ... so much so, I licked all of the fur off my tummy & down my legs ... a silly thing to do really in all that snow cos it was cold!  My human later began to call me her little 'Raggy Muffin' ...

Mmm ... tempting treats ...

But that was when my human first noticed me ... & I noticed her.  She seemed really lovely when she first began speaking to me and stroking me.  And then she began tempting me with treats ... I was little bit scared at first, because I know you're not meant to take things off strangers ... & you're most definitely not meant to go into strangers' houses.  But this human stranger seemed really kind ... & I was starving and freezing!!

Me, living in the snow, & thinking, 'I'd like to live in that home ...'

No; I really don't want to go back out in that ...

So in I went ... & I've never looked back really!


At first, she didn't let me stay, but she did tell me to keep coming back and that she would feed me.  And she did.  Every time I went there, she gave me food to fill my tummy.  And I began spending more and more time there, until I just moved in with her ...

I'll tell you the full story one day, but for now, it's nice to know that my human and I love each other and take good care of each other ...

This is me making myself comfy in my new home ... you can see how sad I'd been by my bald patches ...

Feline happiness ...

I've just been looking over my human's shoulder as she's been writing on her blog ... she was writing about how different things make people happy and that success means different things for different people.  Click here if you'd like to read it .... http://therapywithsharon.blogspot.co.uk/  'We all walk different roads.'

It's made me think about how complicated these human creatures are.  They seem to do and think about a lot of different things ... seems like a lot of hard work to me.  Unnecessary hard work.

I mean, happiness and success are easy aren't they?  What more do you need than a nice warm house, nice food and a cost knee to snuggle on ... that's what happiness is.  What more is there?!

Me; happily snuggled on my human's knee

Humans are funny creatures ...

My human never stops ... I get tired of seeing her working; with clients, on her computer on her websites, her blog, her research & PhD, reading, etc., etc.  

What all this means is that she doesn't give me the attention I deserve.  Her and I share lovely cuddles and play good games together sometimes ... but she spends more time with her work things than she does with me.  And I don't think that's fair!

Take today for instance ... she's been out all day.  She came home, did something on her computer, shut me out of her counselling room whilst she saw one of those client-things, had her tea, gave me a little cuddle, and then she's been working on her computer and with her books all night ...

I mean, look at this picture ... I had to squeeze my way on to her knee, pushing her arms and that book aside so that there was room for me on there.  That can't be right can it?

Mind you, I do learn a lot from her books and the things she looks at and writes on her computer ... I'll tell you a little bit about it all someday.  It's quite interesting all this stuff she reads about humans.  They're funny creatures, don't you think?  

And if she has to read lots of books to understand them (& herself, I guess), what chance do I have as a cat!?

Oops ?!

My human does some funny things sometimes, so how was I meant to know what was going on when I went to use my litter tray (as you do!) & found it not there!? The floor was all wet & smelly too!

I thought I should investigate cos I was worried that someone had crept into our house when we were busy on the computer & stolen my litter tray. What would I have done then?

But phew! There it was in the bathroom! Sitting with my dinners & the kitchen bin .. I told you my human does stupid things didn't I?!

What was even more odd though was that there was no litter in my tray! Now that's never happened before! I wasn't sure what to do cos I don't know where litter comes from ... there must be a cat litter shop somewhere that my human goes to; but she's never taken me there! Which is a bit of a cheek isn't it? I mean, I'm the one who uses the litter, shouldn't I get to choose it? My human does a good job though; she always gets good stuff.

Well, what's a cat supposed to do? So there I was, quite happily minding my own business doing my business when my human came in & started laughing at me?

"Could you not have waited 2 minutes, Elsie?" she asked. I was just cleaning the floor (that's what the funny smell was!) & your litter tray!"

Well; how was I meant to know?

And of course, she then had to wash my litter tray out all over again! Oops!

But at least it's nice & clean now ...

Saturday snuggles on the sofa

I've been a bit fed up with my human this week ... she's been off work, so I assumed she'd be spending lots of time playing with me. No such luck though!

I know she wants to get this new website of hers up & running, but the amount of time she's spent on her computer has been ridiculous. I've had to keep sitting at her feet & shouting at her to remind her that I'm still there. And then, she has the cheek to complain about me disturbing her! A cat deserves some attention, doesn't she?!

I can though, to a degree, understand how addictive these computer things can be. I'm quite pleased with how many times I've been able to write on here this week ... mind you though, most of my posts have been written on my human's mobile phone whilst she's been too busy to be bothered to play with me!

She'd had enough of the computer tonight though! And it's been lovely because she & I have been able to sit together on the sofa.

I just love nights like this ... snuggly cuddles on the sofa with my human ...

Lions ... am I not enough?!

I can't believe she's bought another one. Another book about lions!

My human went & fed a lion a few weeks back, & okay, I understand it must have been good. I mean a lion's just a bigger version of me ... & who wouldn't want more of me?

But since she came back she's been obsessed with them. Pictures, books, DVDs, TV programmes, cuddly toys ... they're all over the place.

If I didn't know just how gorgeous I am & just how much my human loves me I could begin to develop an inferiority complex.

A lion can never compete with me though. I mean, my human couldn't have one of them curled up on her knee, or snuggled into her in bed like I do, could she? And if one of those tried to help her with her computer work, they'd just break it wouldn't they?!

So, much as I'm getting a bit tired of all this lion stuff I don't think I've got anything to worry about, do I?!