Every single morning, without fail, my cat will do that. Wake up with me, meow and meow, as I go to make my coffee, meowing at me to get her some food.
I look at her, every single day, say the same thing, in a groggy tone, "You have food, leave me alone."
Yesterday, I caught her drinking out of the toilet. I thought, maybe the kids, hadn't filled her water dish. You know how kids are, they want a kitten, beg you for it, to keep it. Promise they'll clean the catbox every day, feed it, and then after awhile, you're cleaning the catbox, making sure the cat is fed and has water, cause they get irresponsible... Anyway, so I kicked her off the toilet. Wonder why she would drink out of the toilet. Doesnt she know what goes in there? She has to cause her catbox is in the downstairs bathroom. And when I go in there, to go to the bathroom, she pushes the door open, and then goes in the box and does her business. So I have to be interrupted while doing my business, and watch her do hers, at the same time. Its annoying. Why she does that. So she has to know, we all do our business in there. So why would she want to drink out of that same place. That is nasty.
Every morning, I have to repeat this, to my cat. "You have food, leave me alone." In the kitchen, not the bathroom. She'll rub on the refrigerator. Ill open it, she'll try to get in it, meowing. Ill get my foot and push her out of the fridge, tell her again "You have food, go eat it. Shut-uppppp...." Half asleep...
Then she'll meow and meow, weave through my legs some more. Ill walk out of the kitchen, and sure enough, ill hear her eating. The crunchy-crunch of Friskies between her little jaws. She knew she had food. Ill roll my eyes, wondering why she has to do this every morning to me. Torture me with her begging.
What it boils down to, is she's tired of eating the same thing. Ill get her something else on occasion. Cats love tuna, so of course she'll devour that. We too, get tired of eating the same thing. So we go to the fridge and pester spirit. We see the opening - that little opening, and the light in the fridge shows, we dive in and try to snatch something else to eat, while spirit says "You have food, there's your bowl." We look up at spirit and say, "Ive been eating that crap for a long time. I know you've got some leftover ribs, maybe tuna salad, milk, maybe even a brewskie in the back. Hand it over." Then eventually after meowing over and over, spirit will finally say "All right! Just so you'll stop meowing!" Go grab a can opener and open a can of tuna.
We gotta aim for the fridge instead of the toilet. If we're gonna seek out more food. And be persistent. Thats just the way it is.
Now shes sitting down as I write, cleaning herself. I didnt give her the tuna today. I might tomorrow. Depends what mood im in when I wake up. But I think she was trying to teach me a little lesson for the day.
