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Mimic Sez "Being Cute Doesn't Hurt"

Reader Stories: How I Human-Proofed my Cat House

From dinane

Mimic Sez

If you are gonna sleep on the BED, you haveta be CUTE!

Mimic Sez

Ruling the house from the HIGHEST point is important!

Your name, sex, and other pertinent details 'bout you 

I am MIMIC! I am a boy cat and I am almost 19 moons old. I have awesome furs and I LIKE to play. And Momma says I talk a lot.

Your humoms/pops name(s) and gender (sex in humanspeak) 

I have a Momma and a Daddy. Sometimes Momma calls Daddy "Mike" and Daddy calls Momma "Diane" but they are just Momma and Daddy. Momma is a girl human and Daddy is a boy human.

I Human-Proofed my Cat House and now am the Master 

I started human proofing REALLY early. As soon as I SAW my Daddy, I told him "meep!" so he would KNOW he has to take me home. And when they saw my family cat tree, and me PLAYING on it, they knew to get ME one TOO. It was already here when I got home!

Oooh, and there are soft perches EVERYWHERE in our house! They are ALL MINE!

But best of all was that I got Momma and Daddy to let me sleep with them on the bed. They thought they wouldn't let me, but I showed THEM!

How I conquered my humans' resistance 

This is how I got to sleep on the bed. FIRST, I just jumped up from every angle. Just in case it was just one side of the bed that wasn't allowed. THEN, I cried. It is important to cry quietly, though, so your parents don't kick you ENTIRELY out of the room. Just sound a little pathetic. Then I lulled them into thinking THEY won by sleeping a couple nights on the top of my awesome cat tree.

After they thought they succeeded, I waited until they were asleep and snoring and I sneaked up between them and settled in! I was SO proud and SO happy and SO excited and I couldn't help but purring. My purring woke up Momma and Daddy... I thought I was done for... But THEN, the next morning, Daddy said "I guess that's over." and Momma said "He looked so PROUD!" and Daddy said "I wish we had just let him sleep there from the beginning!"

That was awesome.

Tips and Tricks 

  • If you want beddies everywhere in your house, all you have to do is take naps where there ISN'T one until the humans get you one because they feel bad!
  • If you don't like the food, just go on a hunger strike! Just be careful not to lose TOO much weight, though, or you will have to go in the EVIL CAR to the vet place.
  • Make sure your parents worry a lot about you drinking enough. That way they will give you LOTS of cups. Or bowls if you like that sort of thing.
  • And remember, humans are very trainable. If you give them JUST a LITTLE love, they will dote on you FOREVER!

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