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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Cats provide low maintenance love and companionship. When my wife goes to sleep first she says "Bed Time" and Gizmo goes scrambling for the bedroom. He likes to lay touching me when I come in, and he'll stay by my side until I wake up. Then I have to feed him breakfast. There's something important to him about me offering him food. Like a little ritual.

Then he likes to go outside, probably to take a satisfying morning dump in my plants. We have play time till he gets tuckered out, and then it's nap time. He often likes to perch on the back of the chair so he can be next to me, or in some place he can keep an eye on me.

He knows his name, comes when called, can do some minor "tricks." Cats aren't necessarily the solitary loners people think they are. I think most people don't read cat's well, they don't adapt to humans as well as dogs. Some of their natural behaviors are downright inconvenient to humans, like clawing things for fun. Biting. I suspect when we make them repress this nature for a lifetime they go a little addled.

What's not awesome about that? And I don't have to walk him and he takes plenty of naps so I don't need to tend to him 24/7.

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You have substituted having kids with a cat. That is pretty sad. And proves my point.

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not all people can have children.

As for me, I have two children and my wife helped convinced me to get pets for their sake. I think pets are good for children, to add love to the home, and give children something real to do, helping them learn responsibility by keeping the pet alive, giving them experience in caring for someone other than themselves so that they are better prepared to in the future become parents themselves.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

People can have pets and kids, and love them both.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Sure thing, MITTENS 😶

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I appreciate your comments! It looks like you and your wife both enjoy having a cat, so that's something you have in common and that helps your relationship, too.

My wife played a big part in convincing me to get a cat. Now we have six cats!

Your cat likes to keep contact with you while sleeping in bed. Some of my cats do that, too. And that's actually a benefit to me during cold weather because they help me stay warm, especially on those occasions when my wife wasn't in bed with me.

Yeah, my cats scratch stuff, too. I recently made a scratching post out of free wood and they direct some of their scratching toward that. YouTube video

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My wife played a big part in convincing me to get a cat.

Same here. Although I love animals, I didn't particularly want the responsibility of caring for something, especially something so long lived as a cat. She had us adopt her sister's problem cats, that lasted nearly two decades, and now Gizmo, he's a 2yr old now but we got him as an abandoned kitten, only 4 weeks old and still being bottle fed.

Cool vid, we had a Kiki too. I don't know why I never thought of using actual wood for a scratching post.