Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for January 14, 2024

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    Le'letha Premium Member 11 months ago

    I’m so glad my cats don’t do this. Diesel moves around throughout the night, but he’s straightforward about it. He was there, now he wants to be here, and he’s done. Raven has a specific place he wants to be and stays there (either all the way until morning, or he’s very quiet about going and returning, and Raven rarely goes anywhere without announcing the fact).

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    uncle snipe  11 months ago

    Elvis, still the Pirate Ballerina, doing the Prance of the Sugar Plum Kitty!

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    Gent  11 months ago

    Me thoughts only doggies does this. You become now doggie, Elvis? What next you digs and hide chicken bones under kitty litter sand?

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    Ricky Bennett  11 months ago

    One good turn deserves another…

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    Aspen_Bell  11 months ago

    Most of my cats have done sleep circles but none of them have stomped, although Foxy sometimes comes close when she’s kneading on my legs just before the big crash (14 lbs.) welding me into the bed. This mostly happens when I’ve been to the cancer center for follow-ups (she can always tell).

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    Ahsum  11 months ago

    Sunday Funday

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    JLChi  11 months ago

    How else can he find the best, softest, warmest spot?

    Actually, my cats were always pretty good about already knowing where they wanted to be — absolute center of the bed. If I selfishly wanted it for myself, then by my feet was the best place, until they decided to sit in the window for a while and then jump back directly onto the convenient padded landing spot provided by my stomach.

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    WelshRat Premium Member 11 months ago

    It’s a slow news night for Lupin…

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    uncle snipe  11 months ago

    Gracie has a routine she follows, but it’s usually over quick. She wants her head petted, then it’s either down by my feet, or she hops onto my hip to sleep. Sara, in the other hand, can never find that spot. She paces back and forth until she ultimately hops down and goes off to do “kitty things”.

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    Kitty Queen  11 months ago

    Mine always prance all over my bladder at 3am!

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    Robin Harwood  11 months ago

    Can’t sleep if it isn’t just right.

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    Code the Enforcer  11 months ago

    Do you love me? – (I can really move!)

    Do you love me? – (I’m in the groove!)

    Ah, do you love me? – (Do you love me?)

    Now – That I – Can Prance! – (PRANCE !!)

    Watch me now! Hey! – (Work, work!)

    [ They say ’ Prancing ’ really makes a lot of ’ The Contours ’ on the bed !!! ] … :)

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    dmah Premium Member 11 months ago

    When I was a student, I once did some pet & house sitting for an acquaintance while she and her hubby traveled. Every night for two weeks, the three cats and dogs took turns doing exactly what Elvis did. ALL. NIGHT. LONG. I never understood how she and her hubby ever got any sleep.

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    FreyjaRN Premium Member 11 months ago

    My cats didn’t do a lot of that. They prefer to just be peopleweights.

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    Tigrisan Premium Member 11 months ago

    When I got Loaner Cat/Shorty from my daughter, she most emphatically told me that Loaner Cat would be sleeping with me every night, that she would demand the entire bed and to be prepared because she moved around constantly. Loaner Cat hasn’t spent one night on the bed in the four years she’s been here.

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    I AM CARTOON LADY!  11 months ago

    To every Siamese-Turn Turn Turn-There is no reason-Turn Turn Turn-No time to sleep-A time to prance-A circle is made-How long will this, Last Last Last Last!

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    Jungle Empress  11 months ago

    I love how cats and dogs do this. Whenever Zelda gets on my bed she has to knead in different spots until she finds the most comfy one, LOL.

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    cat19632001  11 months ago

    Lovely to see Pucky’s white floof patch.

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    Kitty Katz  11 months ago

    ABBA: You know the song

    Late at night and the lights are low

    Time for sleep and to bed we go

    But before we settle in you have your ritual

    It must be observed each night!

    …….

    Only you know when it’s time to sleep

    Prancing in a circle each night you keep

    Determining just the right number

    Of your nightly dance

    You need to stomp and prance!

    And when you get the chance

    …….

    You are the Prancing King

    Circling ’round until the right number found!

    Prancing King, no time to romp

    Sometimes you have to stomp! Oh yeah!

    You can prance, you can move

    Until you have it done just right!

    Ooo, see that Meese, no time to sing

    Diggin the Prancing King!

    …….

    Puck and Lupin can already see

    You need your ritual, it just has has to be

    Until you have it just right, that’s just the way it is

    The bed is really his!

    And we all really know,

    …….

    You are the Prancing King

    Circling ’round until the right number found!

    Prancing King, no time to romp

    Sometimes you have to stomp! Oh yeah!

    You can prance, you can move

    Until you have it done just right!

    Ooo, see that Meese, no time to sing

    Diggin the Prancing King!

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    ShadowBeast Premium Member 11 months ago

    Once in a while my cat will lay on me and purr loudly in my ear.

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    cb8ty  11 months ago

    This is my panther Parker. He is so bad the other cats eventually chase him off the bed.

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    jewlie  11 months ago

    I don’t think that it works for humans but on some nights, I would be willing to try it.

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    artchick530  11 months ago

    I thought Elvis was channeling his inner poet (Robert Frost) with his “many circles to prance before I sleep.”

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    dessertlady Premium Member 11 months ago

    Between the dog and two cats that do circles to varying degrees, and a husband who insists he has to wiggle “to get settled” it’s no wonder I have to listen to guided meditation to get to sleep most nights.

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    ladykat  11 months ago

    The cats aren’t too bad at night, but in the morning, after 7AM, if I don’t get up I get yelled at and jumped on and pranced on and danced on and…well, you all get the picture.

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    GaryCooper  11 months ago

    My Melvin just stomps in place (on me) for a long time.

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    Susan Rollinson Premium Member 11 months ago

    Every night! With two torties, also demanding scritches, at various times during the night.

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    davanden  11 months ago

    Mommy’s special annoyance.

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    scyphi26  11 months ago

    Look, I like cats…but admittedly this would be the point where the cat’s getting kicked off the bed regardless. :P

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    ekw555  11 months ago

    but he looks so happy & cozy when he says “there”.

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    rs0204 Premium Member 11 months ago

    My problem comes when they settle across my legs. Because of arthritis and leg cramps, I end up having to dislodge the cats from their perch. That becomes a problem when multiple cats are holding me down.

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    Le'letha Premium Member 11 months ago

    How many circles must a Siamese go around? 42.

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    Granny Roberta  11 months ago

    My Peke Ming who should not be on the bed anyway, because he’s gonna break his back jumping off, will snap like he’s gonna take a finger off if I roll over and accidentally touch him.

    My best cat ever Nikki will lie on my chest under the covers and purr for a long while before she decides it’s time to turn around and get the covers off herself, never mind that she’s also pulling them off me, because my job is just to be a heated cat bed.

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    Daltongang Premium Member 11 months ago

    Nants ingonyama bagithi baba

    Sithi uhm ingonyama

    Nants ingonyama bagithi baba

    Sithi uhhmm ingonyama

    Ingonyama

    Siyo Nqoba

    Ingonyama

    Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala

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    Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala

    Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

    Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (asana)

    Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

    Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

    From the moment we arrive on the woman

    And, blinking, step onto her belly

    There’s more to see than can ever be seen

    More to do than can ever be done

    There’s far too much to take in here

    More to find than can ever be found

    But the moon rolling high

    Through the inky sapphire sky

    Keeps great and small on the endless round

    It’s the circle of cats

    And it moves us all

    Through little paws and prances

    Through day and through night

    ’Til we find our place

    The place to lay down

    In the circle

    The circle of cats

    Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala

    Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala

    Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

    Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

    Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

    Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

    Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

    Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

    Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

    Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

    Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

    Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

    Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

    Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

    Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

    Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala (se-to-kwa!)

    It’s the circle of cats

    And it moves us all

    Through little paws and prances

    Through day and through night

    ’Til we find our place

    The place to lay down

    In the circle

    T

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    Red Bird  11 months ago

    No can do, Woman. Not until he finds the perfect spot to rest first.

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    The Wolf In Your Midst  11 months ago

    People just don’t understand the process cats must undergo to align themselves with the feng shui of the room, galactic vibrations and the best Wi-Fi reception.

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    Neither do cats, really, which is why it takes them so long.

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    scaeva Premium Member 11 months ago

    The cat’s in his cradle …

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    ajwaldtwo  11 months ago

    Poke feet! Poke feet everywhere!

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    metagalaxy1970  11 months ago

    Diesel will actually balance himself on my side on the bed. Those tiny paws………

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    marilynnbyerly  11 months ago

    I’ve had trouble sleeping my whole life so there’s lot of wiggling, etc. Not even my teddy bear would sleep with me when I was little.

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    Teto85 Premium Member 11 months ago

    We’re lucky. All of our present clowder do take a few seconds to get settled and then they sleep for what seems like forever. Right now, Odinsdottir, the big, floofy Norwegian Forest Cat has settled on my lap as I type this. Looks like another 2 – 3 hours in the chair for yours truly. And I am on my third cup of tea……“Sorry dear, can’t move. CWMBO (Cat who must be obeyed) is using me for a bed right now.”

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    kathybear  11 months ago

    Go the F*** to Sleep! Read by Samuel L. Jackson is honestly the funniest thing I’ve heard read. My cat has heard it multiple times…

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    Fennec! at the Disco  11 months ago

    The tortie princess tends to arrive in the middle of the night wanting to crawl under the covers with me. BUT… She wants me to hold up the cover while she peers under and takes her sweet time deciding if she really wants to get under there after all.

    Cats!

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    willie_mctell  11 months ago

    Elvis is persnickety.

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    ikini Premium Member 11 months ago

    OT, about non-BCN calendars

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    emiesty Premium Member 11 months ago

    Honest Q about sleeping cats

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    emiesty Premium Member 11 months ago

    OT prayer request

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    emiesty Premium Member 11 months ago

    My best friend’s nephew, an only child age 34, was apparently poisoned by something and is now in the ICU and not expected to survive. He is being taken off dialysis today to see how the kidneys will function. If they don’t, he and his parents will have heart-rending decisions to make. Prayers for all three and the extended family.

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    skipper1992  11 months ago

    OT

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    Lady Bri  11 months ago

    OT: Update on Trouble (๑′ᴗ‵๑)

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    Kitty Katz  11 months ago

    OT: Missing Cat

    Just saw a posting that a cat in my area is missing. Please send purrayers, prayers, and PotP that Jeff the cat comes home safe and sound.

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