A Brief Paws for a Catnap

[mama_kestrel]

There is a feline conspiracy in this house. Note that I do not say "our house". That would imply human ownership, whereas I am coming to believe that they only let us think this is our house because it pleases them to do so.

When my alarm went off this morning, I was dragging. As many people will do, I hit the snooze button. Twice. Miss Silky saw me do it. I didn't think she was paying attention. Hah. Pure human foolishness. The second time, I put it on the bed, out of my own easy reach, and let my eyes close.

The next time I opened my eyes nearly an hour had passed, and I needed to be out the door in 15 minutes if I was to get everyone where they needed to be on time. What, my was my first panicked thought, had happened to my alarm? I knew I hadn't hit snooze again, but my phone screen said that it was snoozed, and had 5 minutes and some seconds remaining. So I watched as I gathered my clothes, and sure enough...the alarm gave the first vibrational buzz in preparation for its full cheerful obnoxiousness, and a tortoiseshell paw moved an inch, patted the screen in just the right spot, and silenced the gadget.

That cat is too smart of my own good.

Comments

[antisocialite_forum]

Trying to be helpful... or teasing... Hm.

- Gladiolus

[alatefeline]

Heeee! Smart kitty likes to snooze!

[mama_kestrel]

And likes her furnace (me) to snooze with her!

[alatefeline]

:)

[siliconshaman]

Conversely I don't usually have to set an alarm, our little babushka cat never lets me sleep any later than few minutes past the time I need to be up.

It's impossible to sleep though a cat licking your forehead, and a hungry cat has no snooze button.

Miss Silky is one smart kitty though, and maybe you'd best set a password before she learns how to swipe to unlock your phone.

[chanter1944]

That is one clever kitty cat! I can just picture this one tortoiseshell paw oh so casually reaching over, like it's the most normal thing in the world to do, patpatpatting at the phone screen, and the snooze shutting up, perhaps in awed deference to the fuzzy ruler? :)

*pets kitty!* Miss Silky, you are an impressive (possibly occasionally exasperating) feline! And you're a tortie, so you're doubtless beautiful. Somebody once described torties as looking like autumn leaves, and I promptly melted.