OCD= obsessive cat disorder? Yep, very familiar with that.
Our little girl will not use the loo while we're out. She usually goes on her litter as soon as we get home, as if she's been waiting for us. A bit worrying if we want to go away for a couple of days. She also has a habit of going just as we sit down to eat - which wouldn't be a problem if she could manage it on her own, but like DA's moggie, she'll dig and dig until she has a good size hole...and then instead of pooing in it, stands in it with her bum often overhanging the tray. No matter where the plops land, she'll then go bananas trying to bury it (even if it's not actually in the tray), including mad scraping of the plastic edges. She then neglects to do her proper cleaning, preferring to let her humans do the job with a baby wipe (why bother when you have servants?), except that she prefers OH to me, and will run and hide under the bed if it's my turn on the rota (OH says it must be because I use my nails
)
When the litter gets emptied and cleaned, she'll hang around bothering us until the job is completed and new gravel put in, and then will
immediately pee in it. (Marking her territory presumably?)
She only has dry food - won't consider anything else, which makes life easy because we simply maintain her bowl with nuts in it at all times (she never over eats), except that she wants an audience. Especially if we're immersed in a good movie, or a captivating soccer match. She'll come and sit staring at us until one of us gives in and walks with her (we must be on her left at all times) to the kitchen and her bowl. Shortly after that she will come and stare again, and we have to follow her (on her left) to whichever water bowl she chooses. There are plenty, but not on the floor - they are in her favourite places on the bathroom units, kitchen work surfaces etc. Of course she
can jump up on these, but again, why
bother when you can make your slave lift you? Sometimes she will stare at the fridge first, which she has trained us to understand means she wants an ice cube in her bowl. But usually she just wants us to put a finger in the bowl so that she can lick the water off our finger, presumably because she prefers a slight salinity to her drink.
Every time OH gets out of the shower, she
insists (on pain of death) on being picked up and cuddled, and goes nuts headbutting and rubbing her while she's still dripping wet, resulting in a nice white fur coat. Re-marking her property, I guess?
At night, she comes to bed with us (that's normal, right?) and allows us at least 2 hours sleep before nudging us awake. And when I say nudging, I mean a veritable beating up. Simon's cat (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0ffwDYo00Q) has nothing on this mog. And then it's off on another round of food bowl/water bowl #1/ water bowl #2 etc. etc.
You would think this bitch was born into royalty, but in fact we found her at about a year old, near starving, thin and bedraggled, scrounging food from the cafe next door. We (I) invited her in one day when she followed me home, and she's never left since. It's like she owns the place, and always has.
Love her to bits and wouldn't be without her
