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I have had no thanks for opening and closing the door for the cat. It is expected that I do it.


Tabitha owned you and it sounds as if you performed all duties and responsibilities as and when she required.

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I have a Siamese...enough said...

S/he might be keeping you busy according to this interesting article in which it is mentioned that "The Siamese cat can be very demanding" and "These cats become totally involved in their owner’s life":

http://www.we-are-siamese.com/siames...rsonality.html

That was like it was written personally for my cat! He is everything that was mentioned in that article!

I love him to death but he is hard work at times....but I wouldnt be without him!

my cat Emma peers through the plastic "window" of the cat flap, miaows and waits for the door to open

It is a good article isn't it?

There is no doubt that Siamese are beautiful cats.

There are pedigree cats living around here but I haven't seen any Siamese yet in this area. Perhaps they are kept as house cats in this locality. Maybe owners do not want them to become part of the local cat gang . I wonder what percentage of cat owners have a Siamese resident.

I was not sure how much a Siamese kitten costs to buy so have just looked on the internet and the price - as I sort of expected - seems to be about £300 - £400.

There is another interesting article about Siamese cats on the left of the following page:

http://www.pets4homes.co.uk/pets4hom...edinfo/siamese

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My cats are really well behaved compared to your lot. I wouldn't call any of them high maintenance really.

Archie is very demanding when it comes to food, and Shadow is very finicky about his litter tray, but Woody really couldn't care less so long as he has a bowl of biscuits and water.

One of my childhood cats used to do the knocking on the cat flap thing. The other one would sit on the kitchen window ledge and scream to be let in, so we had to open the door for him - that cat was not going to use a cat flap when his servants were around. He also used to monopolise my dad. He would sit on my dad's lap all day and night if he could, and would go off in a huff if he didn't get his own way.

Have 2 high maintenance cats. I leave them downstairs on work nights and go down to let them upstairs first thing in the morning.

Routine starts.

Mini demands I open the upstairs bathroom door, jumps into the bath and demands again that I turn the tap on so she can have a drink. In the meantime, Max demands that my husband lets him in under the covers. He proceeds to maul him - doing the padding on naked skin is not nice. All I hear is "that's sore max" but no chasing him out from the covers.

Then when I'm in the shower, I hear howling from the door. Hubby lets whoever in. They they want out again immediately. This goes on until showering is over - both me and husband.

We leave them in the house then when we go to work. then we come back.

Let them out via the kitchen window for about an hour - mini comes back after about 10 mins. Max visits wherever he goes and then demands to get in via the sitting room window. He howls outside until we open it and let him in. He immediately runs to the back window and fecks off again and the cycle begins.

Mini has taken to a seat that my husband always sits on. She come in and stares at him, meawoing pitifully until he gets up. She jumps in then and settles down for the evening.

Max follows me about for the rest of the evening. Wherever I sit, he jumps on my lap, no matter how often I get up.

I wouldn't change any of this though - that's cats.

Your cats are certainly keeping you busy, JonyMcB, but I can see from what you have written that you recognise that they own you (and not the other way around).

I have to "latch" my cat on to his biscuits by stroking his head before he will eat.

He takes up the bed and growls if I disturb him.

He gets very grumpy if he isn't allowed to nibble my jumper.

He hates cuddles though and only delivers affection rarely.

His meow isn't a meow as such, more of a lament. He sounds so distressed, I think people must think we are cat abusers.

Well our cat had a bit of a health scare recently and in our eagerness to spoil her a bit we have created a monster.

My daughter took to giving cat little tidbits of salmon or chicken whilst she was cooking.

So now, whenever either of us is in the kitchen, we have a small, silent but rather reproachful companion sitting and gazing up at us. I was eating a piece of buttered toast in the kitchen earlier and she was looking at me pitifully. I explained that cats don't eat buttered toast, but she wasn't convinced. In the end I tore off a tiny bit to prove my point. She ate it.

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Don't they always do that, when you say something isn't for cats they prove you wrong and eat it. Mine have eaten pasta, curry, crisps etc. But you can bet that if I put it in their food bowl they would walk away in disgust.

Kitty-whipped! (She sounds adorable, btw).

ha ha.... loving this thread
I have one cat that will only drink from the bath tap and is *very* vocal until I turn it on, she really doesn't care what business I may be taking care of at the time either.
Another that if, in her humble opinion, I haven't been paying enough attention to her, will bang at the cat flap until I appear at which point, she'll push the flap open and look up at me, as if she's showing me how to open the cat flap for her. TBH she has far too many tricks/demands to list here... I'd be typing all day
All 3 of the cats regularly forget how to use the cat flap and treat it as a little cat window to see whats going on prior to me opening the door for them.
naturally, I am considered their seat warmers because I daren't get up off the sofa without a cat jumping in my spot.
Oh, I'm also apparently my boycats chief food taster because he wants try whatever I put in my mouth... works a treat getting pills down his neck though, I simply pretend to eat a pill and then refuse to give him one... do it for 2 or 3 minutes and then offer him the pill, he'll wolf it down which is when he realises he's been duped (score one for the humans!)

To be fair to The Beast he is not really high maintenance.

He does not have a regular meal time, depending on when we get up, it could be anything from 05.30 to midday before he sees breakfast, equally if we are out all day he may not see dinner until late, and he has grown generally tolerant to that.

As a kitten he would regularly come and kick us in the face until he got fed.

He gets fed what we give him, which could be 'normal' sachet food, chicken livers, fish on offer for a few pence late in the supermarket or some of what we are having and he doesn't complain.

He will kick up about cheap cat food, and to be honest I don't blame him for that.

He comes and goes as he pleases through his flap, unfortunately the late night inward journey generally includes another creature.

He screams about it something chronic but we have recently decided to ignore that and he will just get on with eating it or clear off in a huff.

He will have his git moments, like when he will come and sit on one of us on a weekend morning and do his impression of a concrete block with claws to facilitate getting breakfast.

After nearly eight years we have reached a state where we tolerate his gitness and he realises that he wont get any better staff for the money he pays