Small Talk: The Prayer Closet

[BetyBee]

Our dsh black cat, who died about a year ago at just shy of 19 yo, was a tiny cat with a loud voice! Midnight was very vocal and would always answer back when we talked to him. We choose not to sleep with our cats (I'm afraid they'll get caught in the workings of our Sleep Number bed), so we would say goodnight and close the bedroom door. Just when we were settling in, every night he would meow LOUDLY 10-11 times. I think he was serenading us to sleep!

[Absolom]

7 hours ago, Mindthinkr said:

I have found no other solution than to get up and feed her. I do keep fresh water for her in the bathroom and some dry kibble by her feeding station. I empathize with your lack of sleep because I’ve had a lot of cranky days due to lost sleep. Good luck. 

Time release feeder with an ice pack?  We used one of those for our diabetic cat who was to eat at timed intervals. 

(I now see the previous suggestion of a timed feeder.  They're great.)

Edited January 26 by Absolom

[jcbrown]

I've share my life with more than one short-haired kitty (for some reason not the long- or medium-haired ones) who loved to stand in the stairwell where the acoustics are best and practice kitty arias at about 3 AM. One of our current tabbies will bring toys upstairs to me when I am in the bathtub, talking to herself the entire time before carefully setting the toy on the bathmat. Delightful little weirdos, cats.

[Minivanessa]

Hi small talk friends! I left cold Colorado two weeks ago in the minivan, headed for the desert SW. I've been camping with a few friends, and then at a big meetup. I've stayed in hotel rooms a few nights especially en route because this girl don't camp in ffrreezing temperatures. 🥶 At the moment I'm solo boondocking although there are plenty of other campers in the area. It's a little chillier here than I'd like but it's tolerable. I'm happy to be away from serious winter weather for awhile.

[oliviabenson]

If you getting snow tomorrow/sunday stay warm and cozy!

[BetyBee]

13 hours ago, oliviabenson said:

If you getting snow tomorrow/sunday stay warm and cozy!

Thanks! I plan to spend the day finishing my book club book. Snow is supposed to start around 4pm.

[oliviabenson]

I think it started snowing at 8 pm or so.

Glad it's the weekend and I can stay home.

[Jynnan tonnix]

On 1/26/2025 at 12:41 AM, sixlets said:

What kind of cat do you have?  I only ask because we had a Maine c****, and she was loud.  She would carry her toys around the house in the middle of the night and meow with them still in her mouth.  And my favorite?  She barked when she was unhappy.  Maine's tend to be very vocal cats in general, and she lived up to the nth degree.

Our Cora started doing this a couple of years ago. She was never all that interested in her toys, but after we got Emrys as a kitten, and got him some various toys, Cora got fixated on some of the bigger ones (and she's quite a small cat with short legs like the munchkin breed), and started hunting for them during the night, yowling with pride when she managed to find one and bring it upstairs. We got to where we had to try to track them all down and hide them before bedtime, but if she couldn't get one of those, she would settle for one of the little mice, or even a rubber band and announce her conquest nonetheless. And these are ear-splitting yowls which sounds as though she is in dire distress...as I said, she started doing this when we got the kitten, so she was about 18 years old at the time. So definitely seems to follow the pattern of being a senior thing, but she doesn't seem to have any particular dementia-like symptoms, and is chugging along quite nicely for being 20 years old. She is fairly deaf, though, so I suppose she just has to yowl loudly enough to hear herself. 

On 1/26/2025 at 12:41 AM, sixlets said:

What kind of cat do you have?  I only ask because we had a Maine c****, and she was loud.  She would carry her toys around the house in the middle of the night and meow with them still in her mouth.  And my favorite?  She barked when she was unhappy.  Maine's tend to be very vocal cats in general, and she lived up to the nth degree.

Our Cora started doing this a couple of years ago. She was never all that interested in her toys, but after we got Emrys as a kitten, and got him some various toys, Cora got fixated on some of the bigger ones (and she's quite a small cat with short legs like the munchkin breed), and started hunting for them during the night, yowling with pride when she managed to find one and bring it upstairs. We got to where we had to try to track them all down and hide them before bedtime, but if she couldn't get one of those, she would settle for one of the little mice, or even a rubber band and announce her conquest nonetheless. And these are ear-splitting yowls which sounds as though she is in dire distress...as I said, she started doing this when we got the kitten, so she was about 18 years old at the time. So definitely seems to follow the pattern of being a senior thing, but she doesn't seem to have any particular dementia-like symptoms, and is chugging along quite nicely for being 20 years old. She is fairly deaf, though, so I suppose she just has to yowl loudly enough to hear herself. 

On 1/26/2025 at 12:41 AM, sixlets said:

What kind of cat do you have?  I only ask because we had a Maine c****, and she was loud.  She would carry her toys around the house in the middle of the night and meow with them still in her mouth.  And my favorite?  She barked when she was unhappy.  Maine's tend to be very vocal cats in general, and she lived up to the nth degree.

Our Cora started doing this a couple of years ago. She was never all that interested in her toys, but after we got Emrys as a kitten, and got him some various toys, Cora got fixated on some of the bigger ones (and she's quite a small cat with short legs like the munchkin breed), and started hunting for them during the night, yowling with pride when she managed to find one and bring it upstairs. We got to where we had to try to track them all down and hide them before bedtime, but if she couldn't get one of those, she would settle for one of the little mice, or even a rubber band and announce her conquest nonetheless. And these are ear-splitting yowls which sounds as though she is in dire distress...as I said, she started doing this when we got the kitten, so she was about 18 years old at the time. So definitely seems to follow the pattern of being a senior thing, but she doesn't seem to have any particular dementia-like symptoms, and is chugging along quite nicely for being 20 years old. She is fairly deaf, though, so I suppose she just has to yowl loudly enough to hear herself. 

On 1/26/2025 at 12:41 AM, sixlets said:

What kind of cat do you have?  I only ask because we had a Maine c****, and she was loud.  She would carry her toys around the house in the middle of the night and meow with them still in her mouth.  And my favorite?  She barked when she was unhappy.  Maine's tend to be very vocal cats in general, and she lived up to the nth degree.

Our Cora started doing this a couple of years ago. She was never all that interested in her toys, but after we got Emrys as a kitten, and got him some various toys, Cora got fixated on some of the bigger ones (and she's quite a small cat with short legs like the munchkin breed), and started hunting for them during the night, yowling with pride when she managed to find one and bring it upstairs. We got to where we had to try to track them all down and hide them before bedtime, but if she couldn't get one of those, she would settle for one of the little mice, or even a rubber band and announce her conquest nonetheless. And these are ear-splitting yowls which sounds as though she is in dire distress...as I said, she started doing this when we got the kitten, so she was about 18 years old at the time. So definitely seems to follow the pattern of being a senior thing, but she doesn't seem to have any particular dementia-like symptoms, and is chugging along quite nicely for being 20 years old. She is fairly deaf, though, so I suppose she just has to yowl loudly enough to hear herself. 

On 1/26/2025 at 12:41 AM, sixlets said:

What kind of cat do you have?  I only ask because we had a Maine c****, and she was loud.  She would carry her toys around the house in the middle of the night and meow with them still in her mouth.  And my favorite?  She barked when she was unhappy.  Maine's tend to be very vocal cats in general, and she lived up to the nth degree.

Our Cora started doing this a couple of years ago. She was never all that interested in her toys, but after we got Emrys as a kitten, and got him some various toys, Cora got fixated on some of the bigger ones (and she's quite a small cat with short legs like the munchkin breed), and started hunting for them during the night, yowling with pride when she managed to find one and bring it upstairs. We got to where we had to try to track them all down and hide them before bedtime, but if she couldn't get one of those, she would settle for one of the little mice, or even a rubber band and announce her conquest nonetheless. And these are ear-splitting yowls which sounds as though she is in dire distress...as I said, she started doing this when we got the kitten, so she was about 18 years old at the time. So definitely seems to follow the pattern of being a senior thing, but she doesn't seem to have any particular dementia-like symptoms, and is chugging along quite nicely for being 20 years old. She is fairly deaf, though, so I suppose she just has to yowl loudly enough to hear herself. 

Oops...my post was not going through, so I kept trying, but now it appears to have posted multiple times. How do I get rid of the duplicates?

[Absolom]

Click on edit and delete the extra.  Edit is after clicking the three dots.

[Ancaster]

On 2/10/2025 at 4:29 PM, Absolom said:

Click on edit and delete the extra.  Edit is after clicking the three dots.

Top right hand corner for the three dots/edit.