#Rebel and Rumble

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She keeps waking up too late for the sunny patch and then staring at me like it’s MY fault.

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There are atomic clocks with less accuracy than cats wanting dinner.

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I can tell she’s finally losing weight because she no longer causes the couch to close when I’m not sitting in the seat. 😂

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RIP Rebel

I had to have my little black cat Rebel put down this morning. She'd been going blind for a couple months, but seemingly doing alright otherwise. Then in the last two weeksish she started to lose a lot of weight, not use the litterbox as often, and pee outside the litterbox. Then over the last fiveish days she started to have some swelling in her abdomen. The vet suspected some sort of abdominal cancer, and also found she'd developed a pretty serious heart murmur.

Given that she was 14ish years old, and going blind on top of the other issues, I made the hard decision to let her go. Any treatment would've just stressed her out way to much and would've been for me, not for her.

She was such a cuddly little sweetheart and I'll miss her so much. I adopted her when she was three just after I started college. She moved between so many houses and apartments with me, watched me draw so many things, hung out with me while I wrote and edited so many books. She loved to drape herself across my knees when I had them pulled up to my chest at my desk. She was there through a lot of bad stuff, a lot of depression. I'll miss her so much.

(Please feel free to share, but I'm asking that you don't attach any photos of your own pets. I don't want to see them right now.)

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They’re friends.

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Who needs a soft comfy bed when there’s a three-ring binder full of dinosaur facts?

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She has a new routine where, every night after dinner, she SCREAMS at me until I hold her like a baby for at least fifteen minutes.

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Someone needs to explain to my cats that licking all the gravy off does not count as eating dinner and really takes away from their tiny screams of supposed starvation.

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I always bought my cats shreds wet food, because that’s what they seemed to like. But I recently got them paté because the store was out of shreds. In doing so I have discovered that my little black cat would kill a man for paté. She now has to be fed separately from her sister to prevent her stealing all the food. There’s no aggression, just slow, calculated theft.

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Because of the windstorm I moved the cat tower away from the window which is being treated as a HORRIBLE INSULT. The tower has since been moved back, but they are still protesting by periodically coming into my office to yell at me and also refusing dinner.

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My cats receive an A+ in staring at me accusingly for staying up past bedtime to watch scary TV shows.

“You have thrown off our whole cuddling schedule,” they say.

“Couch cuddles must transition to bed or reading chair cuddles no later than 10pm,” they say.

“You have betrayed us,” they say.

“You’re gonna regret this when you have to go to work in the morning,” they say.

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Almost there, and I didn’t even have to drug them! I did have to listen to only podcasts with male hosts, though, otherwise they seemed to think I was talking to them and started crying. 😂

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She has discovered that if she wakes up early enough the sunny patch ALSO includes her favorite blankie. Livin’ her best life.

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It is AMAZING how well cats can tell time in relation to food. I am a human, part of the species that INVENTED TIME, and I can’t tell it as well as this furry gray demon who is screaming at me because it is 6:01 and dinner is at 6.

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The biggest problem in my household is that my cats and I are equally fond of chicken, so my ability to make chicken based foods for myself ALWAYS requires providing them with chicken based foods as well or there is a lot of crying and dramatic flopping because how DARE I make cluck meat for myself and not them???

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Look at this wiggle butt. So fuzzy. And slowly turning brown in the spring sunshine.