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Readers Respond: You realize you're kitty-whipped when...

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By Franny Syufy, About.com

I'm a self-confessed kitty-whipped slave to cats, but I'm not sure when I first became aware of that fact. If you consider yourself in the same CATegory, please complete this sentence: You realize you're kitty-whipped when. . .

NOTE: Questions or responses to others cannot be published. Think of this as your own mini-article. Finish the sentence

My cats allow me to live with them

when you don't make the bed because there are several little furballs laying in the middle of it....when you make their breakfast of salmon and shrimp before you make yours consisting of coffee and cold cereal....when you let the answering machine get the call because there are two little critters asleep in your lap....when you know she will be on the sunporch for only two minutes because it is too cold, but you wait by the door to let her back in....and finally, I lost my oldest, Dudley on Oct 14 and yesterday I found a bird feather that was exactly his colors, beige and white, and started crying again. Rest in peace my furry little boyfriend. I always loved men with fur on their backs.
—Guest sleepswithcats

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

You're eating $.39 tuna from a can, and the cat is eating $4.00-a-can prescription diet salmon feast.
—JohnDopp

You realize you're kitty-whipped when

it's 90 degrees outside but you put on your fluffy sweater because Fiona won't sleep on your lap if you don't.
—Guest Nancy

You know your kitty-whipped when. ..

you get up from eating dinner to turn the water on in the sink because your kitty (who has neveer drank from a bowl in his life) is standing in the sink staring at you, and then two hours later you realize you left the water running! Ouch!
—chikkie55

Strays

You have little time to yourself because you have taken in 20 strays and given them a loving home. Litter box cleaning becomes a full time job!
—Guest Deanna

cat related Sleep deprived

You know you are kitty whipped when how you slept that night depends on whether your cat was SLEEPING or PLAYING
—Guest Marcello's slave

When I realized who eats better

When you open your cupboard to every flavor of cat food ever made. You open your fridge and you have one can of beans....expired
—Guest scratchpost

Ice cream

your kitty has such a penchant for creamy vanilla ice cream that she always has some of yours.
—Guest Helz

im owned by my cat

when you pay rent but your cat runs the house. everthing is done for the cat. i am there only to wait on them hand and paw. they are the fur covered lords and ladys of the house.
—Guest merita

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

you sleep in the recliner next to your bed because your 5 furkids beat you to it and there is no room for you without disturbing them.
—Guest Wendy in Kansas City

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

You adopt one at a time 11 cats and they now enjoy the living room furniture and there is no room for humans to sit there, and when your husband and you have to take separate vacations because you can't possibly leave them alone for more than the time it takes to go to work to earn the money for cat food, vet bills, cat toys, etc. etc. etc., and when they get their place in the bed first and you hate to disturb any of them. Each one is a precious addition to your life, and you are so grateful you have him or her!
—alicia_mott

You realise you're kitty whipped when..

You spend Christmas without your family (they're in the UK) because you don't want her furryness to wake up on her own Christmas morning.....
—Guest Tigger

I know I'm kitty-whipped when...

I look at the pet section every time I go to a store just to see if there is something he might like... I go on ICHC (icanhascheezburger) every time i am on the computer... I litter my room with paper balls that he will play with for 6 seconds... I turn the bottom drawer of my dresser into a pull-out cat bed complete with more paper balls and a wire binding from an old note pad hanging down... I sneak him a whole can of tuna after I was told not to... I let him make my white sheets black from his fur... He will jump on my bed and plop down anywhere and I won't move from the uncomfortable postion he has put me in... funny I still love and he still dosn't love me...
—Guest Ash

I am reluctant to

visit my son in a city 800 kms away, even though I haven't visited him for more than 2 years, because Tigger is going to ignore me for days after I return.
—Guest Lisa

You start to think you're normal

...when you start to think that you have a healthy life living alone & speaking to no one but your cats, whom you provide a dialogue for as well.
—Guest catcrazed

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

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