omgpurplefattie:

a-promise-that-i-keep:

captain-snark:

fuck-these-skins:

rainbowbarnacle:

thischick25:

pearlmemethyst:

things i love about cats 

• when they run across the house at full speed for no reason 
  
• when they sneak up on u and start sniffing u and their whiskers tickle u 
• when u close the door to keep them out of ur room and they stick their paws under the door 
• the little butt wiggle before they pounce on something 
• their tiny sneezes 
• when u put a bag or a towel on their head and they start walking backwards 
• the thing they do with their ears when they hear a loud noise 

• small meows
• BIGmeows!
• rolling with the paws up and looking right at you because they know you will die of cute
• when they sit near you and just purr because they love to be near you and are happy
• little kitty tennis noises when they are trying to catch a fly or the toy on a stick

• dancing and trilling while you make their breakfast
  
• that thing where they wanna look out the window but the blinds are down so they stick their head past them with their body sticking out
  
• waking up with kitty snoozing on your feet
  
• falling asleep to the mattress gently moving while kitty grooms themselves
  
• that thing where they’re in a stalky mood and you twiddle your fingers at them and they stick exactly half their face out of hiding to look at you.
  
• when they natter at things out the window
  
• solemn joyous paw flexing
  
• that sound they make when they notice you that you’re pretty sure is your name in cat language
  
• When they pause in the middle of grooming between their hind legs and stare at you with one leg up in the air like, ‘wat’
  
• getting scent marked. you are theirs now!
  
• gallump gallumph gallumph gallumph
  

This is perfect

• when they bunt their foreheads against yours
  
• when the tap you to let you know they want to be pet
• Slow blinking to let you know they love you 
• rough kitty tongues when they think you need to be groomed
• little wet paw prints after they drink

• the trill they make when they wake up sometimes
  
• when they groom themselves and forget to pull their tongues back in so they sit there with a little bit of tongue sticking out of their mouth for like an hour
• when they try and catch things with tiny paws and no claws because they know it’s actually a toy
• making the bed and they dart under the covers and pretend you didn’t notice
• loaf mode

Pertaining that ‘my name in cat’ thing: Lucifer says “Mawu!” when he wants something from me. Of course, I always respond so he gets positive feedback on using a name to call me. (My online nickname, a short version of my RL name, is Maru.)

sophiamcdougall:

It just occurred to me that cats seem to know what a conversation is. They observe the rules. In my experience, they can meow endlessly as long as you ignore them, but when you start talking back, they don’t meow over you. They wait for you to finish your point and then reply.

For example:
Muriel: MEOW.
Me: What do you want now?
Muriel: MEOW.
Me: I’ve fed you, and I’m quite busy at the moment.
Muriel: MEOW.
Me: Stop meowing outside the door. If you’re going to complain, at least come in and meow at my face.
Muriel: MEOW.
Me: FINE. *gets down from ladder, fetches tease toy, plays with the bloody cat.*

And this wasn’t going to be a feminist post, but as I was typing it, a voice inside me breathed “and if cats can learn this skill, so can men.”