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You realize you're kitty whipped when...

You have to make up the bed before the cat will be able to sleep on it.
—Guest Ann

...when you brag about vet appointments!

My Pepper had two vaccines, claws clipped, and a microchipping all at once. She handled it BEAUTIFULLY. I told everyone I talked with that night (my mom, my husband, my sister-in-law, and the next day my coworkers) how proud I was of my baby girl! ...when the cat-sitter looks at you funny and says "what if I can't make it over twice a day at the precise times kitty requires food?" and you think it's unreasonable because why shouldn't kitty get her food when she likes? ...when the rest of the world gives you strange looks and says "...well...you sure love that cat...don't you." and your first thought isn't to shut up, but to continue talking about your furball! ...when you're speeding home after work not to make your dinner, but to make sure kitty gets hers! ...when you, the non-morning-person, think it's adorable that kitty waits outside the bedroom and "knocks" on the door for her breakfast each morning--at 6:30am! Oh how I loves the kitty.
—Guest Megan

Tom

When your kitty has double the number of beds and then some in the house than you have and when she sleeps by the window she gets covered up immediately with a kitty blanket during the winter months.
—Guest moonriver4

You know your Kitty whipped

When you close your front door and my kitty Belle makes me pick her up and carry her to the laundry room, Where her snacks are. Of course she gets her snacks, but if I dont follow through with this everytime no matter how many times I open the front door. She will jump me and bite my leg , she goes into the attack mode, airplane ears and all. She is an interesting feline.
—Guest Jan

sleeping with kitty

When you lay in one position all night so as not to disturb the cat sleeping next to you
—Guest mrubyshell

your butt hurts so bad..

from being in one position in your bed, while one of your kings is between your knees, sleeping, on top of the blanket, and the other one is curled up between your body and your outstretched arm. Of course, they are both so comfortable and sleeping, you must freeze yourself in position in order to let them be happily asleep.
—Guest natalie

stay in bed

When you go to get up in the morning, you lay back down for just a min. Hiddie comes over and goes to sleep on you . So you lay there while she sleeps and you need to get work done! Never wake a kittie!
—Guest bluebird45us

You're kitty-whipped when . . .

you have to cough and you feel that familiar tickle in your throat but you do anything to keep that cough from blasting out and startling the sleeping kitten on your chest.
—awwood2

Water must be fresh.

When you buy a forty dollar drinking fountain, and still turn on the bathroom sink for himself to drink from, because he will sit and wait until I do.
—Guest Barbara

You realize you're kitty-whipped when...

you wake up again in your recliner, decide to go to bed and then realize that one of your kitties is curled up fast asleep in your lap--and you smile to yourself as you wisely close your eyes and go back to sleep.
—dottiebj

kitty meows

Your kitty meows pathetically and you drop everything you are doing (I was kneading bread dough)to pick up the kitty and ask him whats wrong.
—nikismom

You know you're kitty-whipped when

You install a cat door into your bedroom to keep the dogs out, and the cats can come an go as they choose.
—Guest Sassy

You know you and your boyfriend are...

You know you and your boyfriend, "kitty's friend" are whipped when you don't get any sleep at night unless kitty gets his kitty crunchies. Also you can't go into the bathroom in the a.m. to put your contacts in without him getting his drink of water from the sink or into the kitchen without him getting his treats & if I try to ignore the meowing my boyfriend is after me to get up. Yes we love our little king. We worship him just like the Egyptians worshipped Bastet.
—Guest MaryFabry

He Owns the House

Every year he puts on his 3-pc pin-striped suit, eyeglasses, gets out his little typewriter, and types a lease that will provide us a place to stay for the coming year. We are so thankful.
—Guest m.landreman@wright.edu

yep, I am

you cancel your doctors appointment that you had to wait a month to get, to take your sick kitty to the vet...your kitties drink filtered water and yours comes from the tap...you can't resist those big begging eyes saying "please let me in the bedroom for a minute mama" and you give in and then he overtakes the bed like the king of the house and you let him sleep there all night, he even lays across you making it hard to breath, but he looks so comfy and is purring and you do not have the heart to move him...you set your alarm for 7:30 even though you do not have anywhere to be until 10, because you know your husband never heats the wet food from the fridge and peanut only eats it if its heated, and your husband never opens a new can if there are some in the fridge, and you know tiger only eats fresh wet food, so you get up early long after your husband is gone to "fix" breakfast and make the babies happy. you know you are kittywhipped when you are on this site :-) :-)
—Slomenick4

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You realize you're kitty-whipped when...

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