Goddamn lazy cat...

[Dookus]

I have three cats.

One seems to have a job, as he's out and about all day, and when he comes back at night, tries to tell me all about it.

The middle guy goes out a fair amount and plays with all the neighbor kitties. He's widely loved by all the cats in the neighborhood.

But...

the youngest, my girl Molly, is a slug. What the hell is she so tired from? She sleeps 23.5 hours a day and when awake, demands to be carried everywhere. Now I bow to nobody in my capacity to be lazy, but damn!

[iconoclastic cat]

1. Are you sure she's not ill?

Get her a CAT scan!

No, but really, that's a lot of sleep, even for a cat. Get her checked out.

[Dookus]

2. heheh

no, she seems quite healthy. She's just always been inert.

[King Of Paperboys]

3. For all we know,

Cats may live extra-dimensionally. She may have an incredibly rich and fulfilling life in another universe, one to which we are not privy.

Think about it... it's a hypothesis that can't be tested, and it explains a LOT.

[Dookus]

4. I like your theory

perhaps Molly is busy elsewhere.

[Flaxbee]

7. Yes, absolutely...

I suspect that of at least one of ours; he's so ... different. In a wonderful way, but my husband and I discuss Tom's (the cat's) various time travel adventures and wish we could go along...

We also have one who seems to have a 9-5 job, she scoots outta here at dawn and isn't back until 6-7 or so (must be a long commute); one who's a slug but she's an older girl, needs her rest and has a phenomenally active dream life. The third girl (three girls, one boy) is the guard cat, she stalks around the house inside and out guarding it from demons, bugs, and any other interloper.

[Race4Peace]

5. does she act like she's qween of the world?center of the universe?

I see it all the time.

[Dookus]

6. Yes!

Exactly!


We call her Princess Squeaker Fuzzypants! She thinks she's all that. Is there a cure?

[Race4Peace]

8. Yes: protest

"Get your picket signs for the revolution against the regime!"

[Race4Peace]

9. It's not exactly a cure, but it helps

you can go on strike, like not carrying her, so that it0'll be too embarassing to ask her friends to help her around so that she can do it on her own. If you have a pen lazer, that might coax her to get up and chase it, and she might see how easy it can be to get around on her own.

[Dookus]

10. heheh

she WILL frolic and play when I take out her cat-dancer toy. But other than that, she's just a lump.

[rbnyc]

11. Maybe she was a hard worker in a past life...

...who dreamed of being a lazy cat in her next life.