Do I want to be carried upstairs? Is that it?
Okay, kitties out there. Mama needs help (on many things, mind you, but specifically this…).
Here’s the MO…I get up, I have petit dejeuner, mama and papa do the same. We are at table, I am wandering around, full and happy, and every day, rain or shine, I start talking. Just a little meow here and there, but meanwhile, I am looking at mama – for what? More food? Playtime? Do I want to go out (we have no garden here)? Want to chat? Want a snuggle? Meow, meow…
So mama thinks that maybe she is supposed to pick me up and snuggle me, and I stay there a minute or two in her arms and then I want down and I wander off to snooze. “What do you WANT, Loulou,” mama cries.
WHAT AM I DOING after breakfast when I start talking to papa and mama? At that other place, I stop at the foot of the stairs, meow loudly with emotion at my portrait and then mama gets up from her breakfast to see what I want and I RUN up the stairs (I, who normally limp up!) and jump on the bed and start bathing as if nothing had happened.
WHAT DOES ALL OF THIS MEAN?
Any suggestions are welcome, mama says.
(Heh, heh, but only I know what I am saying and doing….)
Maybe I just wish my portrait would come alive and play!
Cody sometimes acts similar, I think they do it so that they disturb whatever we are doing to pay attention to them, then, when they get the attention, they don’t want it! lol
I think that is the answer..keeps ‘em on their toes!
My Capucine is a chatterbox. I do my best to respond, trying to reproduce what she says to me. She appears to be satisfied with my performance.
Now, a young marmalade cat has decided to settle down in my house. I already have three cats!!!
But I just cannot ignore a needy kitty, can I Loulou ? So I will have him/her checked and doctored. I am calling him/her Patapon.
Il était une bergère
Et ron et ron petit patapon
Il était une bergère qui gardait ses moutons ron ron…
French nursery rhyme.
Oh, you lucky lady! And a marmalade at that. Mama LOVES marmalade kitties! Quel chance!
It means you like to keep your humans guessing!
Now all that’s missing is the mouse lamp! Strange though, Mama says I’m totally unimpressed by art. Loulou, you need to “splain” things to me. I have your mama’s portrait of me over my bed in the living room. Mama’s portrait of me over the tv, and OUR portrait together with Bacchus (copy of Caravaggio) in the kitchen where we’re drooling over wine and the bowl of fruit. I’m totally oblivious – why doesn’t Mama cook more and paint less!!??
Your mama does BOTH and very well, too. I think you are the MODEL, so you don’t need appreciation, but you should get paid, haha, maybe in sirloin.,
That is a fine portrait. It sounds like you are teasing your mama. XO
I think you are correct. They need their chains pulled every now and then.
You are being a cat, Loulou! Mysterious, frustrating, and interesting.
Aha! A cat!!! Wow, now I know what I’m doing!!! Thank you.
As an artist, LouLou, your MaMa should realize that you are a true connesoir admiring her wonderful work !
That work is by MYA’S mama, Anne Pujalte, who did it as a gift and surprised us all so nicely. She is SOOOOO good.
Silly Mama, you want her to come up and keep you company.