Strange cat, strange picture

[thistlechaser]

I understood my previous cat. It's not fair to compare the two, as Dax and I had lived together for twenty years, and Ellie New Cat has been here for two years and a couple months, but still. Ellie is just so odd.

Dax had had a whole lot of cat beds. I kept them around in hopes Ellie would eventually use them, but she never did, so last weekend I bagged them all up and threw them out (they were too well-worn to donate). Now Ellie sits in the spots the beds were and stares at me and meows. For hours. The exact spot where the beds were. Just sits there and stares at me.

This has gone on for a week now, so tonight I moved her favorite bed into one of the spots where Dax's bed had been. Now she sits next to the spot/her bed and stares at me and meows. So what is it? Missing the scent of the Other Cat? Were the beds somehow company to her? Or is it just that something is Different and she feels the need to let me know?

Ellie tale #2: For the first time in a long time, Ellie got scared. Not an all-out panic like she used to get into, but scared for sure. I was changing the sheets on my bed, and she was busy "helping" me and ended up under a sheet. SHEET MONSTER OH NO. I rescued poor wide-eyed her and she decided to let the sheets live/let me finish making the bed.

In other "#2" news... Today's Awkward Stock Photo is really, really... awkward. Tell me what advertisement or news story would need a stock photo like this? (I hope to never see that story in print, whatever it's about.)

Comments

[spike7451.livejournal.com]

My cat Spike will not sleep in any bed I have bought for him over the years. If he's not sleeping on my bed (his favourite spot) he sleeps on the floor or the couch, never in any of the nice, comfortable warm beds I've provided. I've given up on the idea of a cat bed, my friends with cats have done well out of the beds though. :)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ellie isn't big on beds either. Bed-like things (towels, clothing)? Maybe. But real cat beds? Generally not interested. I guess it will save me money in the long run, and if she's happy just sleeping on the floor...

[teaandfailure.livejournal.com]

I think it's just SOMETHING IS DIFFERENT MY ROUTINE IS DISRUPTED I AM GOING TO WHINE ABOUT IT.

Penny doesn't seem to mind this kind of thing, but it drives MoonUnit into a deep and debilitating depression every time I move furniture.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what I think it must be. You'd think she'd be happy to have Other Cat smell out of her territory!

but it drives MoonUnit into a deep and debilitating depression every time I move furniture.

Hahaha poor MoonUnit. :D

[hamburger.livejournal.com]

My Mom got two cat beds when I adopted Jazzy, in spite of me being fairly sure she would not sleep in either of them. I was right.

Cats are just... weird for weirdness sake sometimes. Mom thinks Jazzy's favorite toy (feathers on a stick) are sometimes a toy and sometimes her 'baby' as she will drag them under the bed and just sit next to them. She gets frantic if they're not where she can find them when she wants to.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

It sure would be interesting to know why cats think what they do. Jazzy and her featherbabies sound cute but (as you said) weird. Ellie likes to sit on her toys -- she piles two or three of them up and then sleeps on them, as if she were nesting.