gremlin wife
[animals/venting] our pets have been driving me fucking nuts lately and I'm on the verge of doing something fucking drastic*
gremlin wife
*yelling at an animal that can't possibly understand why I'm yelling and will only be sad
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gremlin wife
From about 6pm to, uh, bedtime, Binx wants something but I can't figure out what! And to get what he wants he will jump up on the coffee table and start
-pulling things off the lap desk I keep felting projects on
-stealing and chewing wool/wool objects
-picking at other things
gremlin wife
-pushing stuff off
gremlin wife
Because this is annoying and causes upset, Luna (dog) has decided that her job is to now aggressively police the coffee table from cats in general and Binx particularly
gremlin wife
It used to be that she would grumble if he was actively bothering things
gremlin wife
Now she starts growling as soon as he fucking LOOKS at the coffee table
gremlin wife
Constantly
gremlin wife
Endless growling
gremlin wife
Escalating occasionally to barking to attempt to warn him off of doing crimes
gremlin wife
But Binx? DOesn't care! He will continue blithely committing his cat crimes, thus agitating the dog literally all
gremlin wife
goddamn
gremlin wife
night
gremlin wife
He has food, so it's not that
gremlin wife
The fountain is running fine, it's not that
gremlin wife
He maybe wants to play, but actually getting him to engage is really hard and involves a lot of just sitting on the cold floor between VERY brief bouts of him batting at a toy
gremlin wife
(he will NOT play with anything on his own)
gremlin wife
He doesn't like being groomed
gremlin wife
If I try to hold him he will sit for a minute or two, but then jump off my lap and BACK ONTO THE COFFEE TABLE TO COMMIT CRIMES
gremlin wife
I've given him a place to sit next to me on a soft blanket but he's seems to only accept that when he's given up on getting anything else
gremlin wife
The only thing that reliably works is if SHIRA lets him on HER lap, which, understandably, she doesn't want to allow all that often because in the evenings she's on her computer doing things
gremlin wife
So lately, all of our evenings have been endless cycles Binx jumping on the coffee table to do a crime > me removing him > Binx jumping > me removing > pointless attempt to get him to play >binx jumping
gremlin wife
To a NON STOP soundtrack of the dog growling and barking
gremlin wife
🍉 catipede
your beasts are on a mission to drive you insane, I'm sorry
gremlin wife
*hisses in frustration
zee
oh god how frustration
zee
ing*
zee
can you put him in man timeout for a bit?
gremlin wife
When he was younger he was a nightmare at night, and we actually had a big crate sat out in the hall as cat prison
gremlin wife
I'm kinda feeling like cat prison might need to return
zee
yeaahhh it sounds like it
🍉 catipede
if you catch him red handed yeah, usually there's no point if you do it after the fact. otherwise yeah, cat prison for baby
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