Spoiled!

It is a not surprise to the regular reader (all one of you) to know that my cats are spoiled. Today's behaviors are some examples of how spoiled they are:

Taki loves playing with the ping pong balls I have obtained.  Today, she was sitting, staring under the reclining sofa.  She has spent several nights captured under the sofa, not intentionally, because she gets under there to retrieve something, and has not gotten out before I lowered the leg support.

Well, I checked under the sofa. There were two ping pong balls stuck under the sofa, and I rescued them.  A couple of times later in the morning, I had to rescue ping pong balls under the sofa. Taki is very good at staring under furniture to let me know that she thinks there is a ping pong ball underneath. More often than not, she is correct.  So, I check when she gives me the signal.

Mid-morning, I turned the heater on to warm the bathroom before I took a shower.  Haiku went immediately to sit in the bathroom in front of the heater.  Haiku likes it warmer than cooler.  One unfortunate consequence of changing from a water bed to a conventional mattress is that Haiku cannot get on the heated mattress and warm up.  There are plenty of places for her to get warm, and she does get under the comforter on the bed to warm up.  Haiku is like me, and likes it warmer rather than cooler. So, she likes to sit in the bathroom when the heater is on.  I took my shower, and shut off the heater.  Haiku sat in front of the heater, looking at it, for a long time. It was cool in the house, and I think she wanted the heater on.  I did not turn the heater on. She has lots of other options. 

Mid-morning, Sake became inconsolable. She kept picking at me and picking at me.  I finally went into the kitchen and gave her some Cornish game hen.  That was what she wanted.  She had not eaten any of the liver I had put out earlier.  Tonight when I fed, she started doing the same thing.  I put out liver, and rewarmed the game hen, and she settled down.