kontextmaschine:

Badger has been better about coming in the window, curling up with me for 2 minutes of skritches and purring, and then walking into the kitchen to eat, instead of nagging me to supervise him eating it directly

this AND he’s been better about waking me up lately

If I wake up to piss starting at like 1040 he’ll pose in the hallway headed to the kitchen I’ll go feed him his wet and he won’t bug me out of bed until like 4 when I’m glad for it

Even if I don’t, he’ll wait for me to drift close to wake from like 1 on

The flip side of this is he has started to do his “I want you to open the front door” signals in an insistent but ambiguous way, like he will loudly claw at the carpet but at the far side of it where he used to right close to the door

And then once he’s baited me into opening the door standing there indecisive, the classic feline annoyance I’d never seen until now

Law of Conservation of Cat