Smelly baby
Imagine sleeping in cat hair tho
I find dogs shed significantly more than cats in general.
imagine not
Done
Cats rule.
My cat’s winter workout is walking from bed to food bowl and back.
Nothing wakes a cat owner faster than the sound of hyuk hyuk HYUK HYUUURK on the only piece of carpet in the house.
my cat likes to fake hyuk ON THE BED and then turn and look at us like “so you’re up! and my food bowl is mysteriously empty!”
True, but also no slop water drinking or wet dog smell. Give and take
Yeah I’m a cat person and when I go outside in the snow I want to go alone. No brown or yellow snow, no wimpering because their paws are too cold. Just me and some crisp solitude.
No brown or yellow snow
you’re really missing out. can’t let the dogs have all the fun
Dog shoes my friend. They make fleece, rain boots, waterproof winter, lots of choices. I found a local grandma that makes them but they’re also sold at pet stores.
My last dog wouldn’t wear them. He was a rescue so I didn’t know his background, but if you touched his paws he freaked out!
this is fake news. puppygirls for example do not like going out in blizzard.
Lol, you got me… But my dog would die for me. It’s my honor to walk her in the snow. In fact, I’m hardly even worthy.
My cat would die for me too. He’s my little one-eyed one-brain-cell angel
My cat went up against a dog that was twice his size because it was fucking with our other cat. He didn’t even like our other cat.
Adorable! My cat looks just like him. He is a rare neurologic FIP survivor, my miracle baby.
My cat would kill for me. Innocent people. Minding their own business.
Did you copy paste my cat? He is an orange pirate as well
Aww. Snuggle pirate
So, have an invigorating walk with your buddy or wake up with red eyes and a runny nose, but at least you were warm and comfortable?
Im not allergic to pets.
Are you claiming dog people who are being forced to walk through blizzards don’t get sick or something?
Does this happen to people who aren’t allergic?
It can but my body adapted after a few weeks. Others may not be so lucky.
Legit a tough choice
Y’all in this thread need to get yourselves automatic feeders and start putting out wet food during awake times and not the crack of dawn.
I will never understand letting your pets dictate wakeup hours, except in the special circumstance that it’s a puppy because they can’t hold their bladder. My cats have never woken me up for food. In fact my cats and dogs have always known that if they annoy me, I will stay in bed longer out of spite. I will wake up and lay in bed until I am ready to get up, and no pet is going to annoy me into feeding them. The closest I’ve ever had to a pet waking me up is my current golden who doesn’t wake me up for food, he wakes me up to cuddle, but is fine if I go back to sleep.
It’s not about what you feed them or when, it’s about setting boundaries. We feed canned food morning and night. Our pets sleep on the bed, and know they will get their food when I’m ready to be awake.
My cat knows she only gets food when I get up.
Once she gets hungry she doesn’t give a fuck about that and starts messing with everything next to the bed. I never give in to that and just put her outside the bedroom, but next time she will try doing it again anyway. She’s determined to get her food, even if her ways have never worked. She might just be doing it out of spite tbh.
As far as my cats are concerned, any time there’s not wet food available is awake time.
They make auto wet feeders now too, apparently…
I wish my cats would nap with me like that, but it’s my fault for not getting them used to it when they were kittens. They’ll stay put for a minute under my arm and then dart off the bed.
I think its part personality too.
I was surprised my cats weren’t sitting on my lap, so when they were close to two years old I started holding them captive for very short periods while petting them how they like, and now I can’t keep them off me. It seemed like the only reason they weren’t sitting on humans before is that they didn’t think it was safe.
Aww, yeah, cats are like that. It speaks volumes of people who can earn their complete trust.
That’s not my case here, as we treat them with utmost respect. I actually have all of them on my bed right now, but they just don’t tolerate being cuddled that close. One of them does like kneading and sleeping on us, but It has to be on his terms or he doesn’t want it.
Yeah, that’s what I figured they were like and why I was content to let them be if they didn’t want to sit on me. We just kept having these moments where they clearly wanted to snuggle, but seemed to be afraid I would crumble beneath them and shatter their tiny paws to dust. We’re getting to a point now where I can even adjust my position underneath them, but only sometimes.
this cat clearly wants to escape in the picture
Mine sleeps with me but will randomly start clawing at my neck while purring in the middle of night.
I think she thinks that’s “petting.”
That’s kneading. Kittens will knead at their mother’s stomach while nursing, and adult cats usually continue the behavior to a lesser or greater degree. Some do it subtly and gently, and others are made of knives.
You’re funny. The cat woke me up for food is the reason the dog got to pee outside before the sun came up.
my wife woke me up for food (we shared the last bagel. it had no garlic) and it’s the reason the cats got extra snuggles this morning
The dog can go run out back and shit, I’ll pick it up in the spring.
that’s a long time to leave a dog outside
You clearly have never tried to get a Bernese Mountain Dog out of fresh fallen snow.
I have a golden that loves -20 and new snow. Plays in it for hours with her magpie buddies.
it keeps well around 0C. It only spoils when it starts to warm up outside
This but with my cat standing on my chest screaming in my face for no reason
Lucky. Your cat faces you while standing on your chest screaming its head off. I wake up to the 'ol one eye winker.
On occasion though, that pic is accurate and so worth it.
Right before the unprovoked slash attack
Can’t argue with that; I’m nursing some scratches from this morning.
Make it 5, and only one or two are screaming. The rest are nipping at my fingers or nose, throwing paws in my mouth or on my eyes, or circling around my legs. All because we want breakfast, and breakfast time is “whenever moms alarm goes off, or we wake her up”.
the cat: “wake up and feed me instead of strangling me”
or thier butt on your face after using the litterbox.
As someone with both, I actually really appreciate that my dog forces me out on regular walks.
Yep, without my dog there are days I would not get out of bed, and feel like shit because of it. Even if it’s winter, it’s good for my mental health.
Agreed, my dog has probably kept me significantly more physically and mentally healthy than I would be without him.
But your cat “gets” you
