Percival, within the past few weeks, has decided he likes to talk. He used to be such a quiet cat, and now he has things to say.<\/p>\n
I think I preferred him when he was quiet.<\/p>\n
The bolt on my bedroom door’s knob doesn’t work. Well, actually it does<\/i>, but it doesn’t hit the plate on the door frame correctly, so the door doesn’t actually stay shut–a good push, not necessarily a hard one, will open it.<\/p>\n
Percy has become quite adept at pushing the bedroom door open.<\/p>\n
So I’ve taken to barracading the door at night. Close the door, wedge a laundry basket against it, and then a plastic clothes tote against that. It’s a strange system, but it works. Percy will push against the door, but it doesn’t move, and eventually he gets the idea and goes somewhere else to sleep.<\/p>\n
He’s become persistent, though.<\/p>\n
First, he announces his presence at the door by miaowing loudly.<\/p>\n
Second, instead of just pushing against the door, he rams the door. Repeatedly. Thunk!<\/i> A pause. Thunk!<\/i> A pause. Thunk!<\/i><\/p>\n
I think you get the idea.<\/p>\n
Repeat step one, et cetera<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Where he used to get the idea fairly quickly–as in, within two or three minutes–the current thunk!<\/i> routine can last upwards of half-an-hour.<\/p>\n
Last night I made the mistake of getting up around two-thirty to use the bathroom. I didn’t position the barracade quite<\/i> right, and Percy managed to get the door open enough that he could get into the bedroom. Whereupon he decided to stand on my hip and miaow for attention. I ignored him, and eventually he went away.<\/p>\n
Woody, who was always a talker, decided he’d let me know at 3:30 that he wanted out. So, he came and stood by my head and screamed, but that’s what Woody does–if he isn’t crying, he screams, and vice versa. Again, I ignored him.<\/p>\n
I love the cats, I know they want the attention, but not in the wee hours of the morning.<\/p>\n
Cats have the luxury of sleeping twenty hours a day–exhausting work, I know. People don’t have that luxury–Allyn likes his sleep, what he gets of it. Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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