Mar
5
2013
Coco, Tilla and Cool Hand Luke have their nightly routines. The first two are two of my dogs (I have four) and the third is one of my cats (I have seven). Coco, when she is ready to retire for the evening, lies down on the far side of my bed. In fact, once in awhile she even jumps on my bed after I have gone to sleep.
Her brother, Tilla, last night joined me in my office (or “man cave” as some people would put it) and while I was watching TV came in the room and nudged shut the door and laid patiently there waiting for me to retire. As soon as I was finished watching TV and left my Lazy Boy chair he immediately jumped on it. His bed time is nine (but not mine) and if I am not on the chair he will take it. More than once he wouldn’t budge. I had to sit on him before he reluctantly left so I could watch TV.
Cool Hand Luke’s favorite spot is in the same room. The black cat (interesting enough the two dogs mentioned are also completely black) will sit on some books perched on top of a book case to the left of my Lazy Boy chair and by the window. She is often found there. That is a new spot for her. For a long time she used to lie curled at night at the head of the bed to the left of me.
She does not get along too well with some of the other cats. For a number of months other cats were often lying together on my bed especially Jasmine, a dainty female, with some or all of her four kids she had in two litters. Sometimes Buttons, a tiger colored cat (we have two), will lie on our bed too; although he often hides under the bed. He sometimes terrorizes Cool Hand Luke. Of late, the cats have not been spending the night on the bed so Cool Hand Luke has returned occasionally to her old spot.
The other pets’ routines at night I have not noticed or they do not have the same ones every night. The other cats are great at disappearing. My wife who sleeps on the other Lazy Boy chair in the living room says the cats are quite noisy at night. I would not know. I sleep solidly.
