Is it time for the men in white coats?

I'm giving my cat a pep talk...

Every day when I get home from work Holland automatically thinks it's time to eat. Sometimes I get home at 6:30 (meal time) or later, so I DO feed her when I walk in the door. But today I got home at 5:30 and it's been non-stop pestering. I just caught myself telling her that she needs to wait a half hour more, that I know she can do it and that I believe in her.

Yikes.

The cats do the same thing with my husband (he feeds them) they start bugging him around 6pm for food.... they get fed at 8pm!

no that sounds normal to me... I tell mine if you stop trying to kill/trip me Mommy can get you guys fed faster.

I have a conversation with at least one of my 2 girls every day about this. How dinner time is the same time every day; the same as it was yesterday and the day before. Being a stay-at-home-Mom....I'm too available for pestering!!

Midnight does the same thing, only for Temptations. Every time someone walks into the kitchen he's right there begging for 1

Ginga is the same, she annoys me for hours for food, she is always hungry! I feed her at around six to seven at night though sometimes I find her in the kitchen, sniffing for more food

Try eight of them With their different wants and needs. Some want outside nonstop. My heart can't take it when they are out there. So if I want to relax I make them stay in. Otherwise I have to be ready to spring into action if I hear someone yell.
Eating time, some don't care for can food. Dry is free range. Although they may go on a diet soon and be timed. Just more of them puke then. All that compation amoung them.
As far as talking... I live alone with them. They are all I have to talk with. Its sort of scary when you start understanding what they just said to you. That is when I started seeking human comunnication. Something wrong here.

Well, if they're coming for you, it won't be long til they come for me, too. (Maybe we'll be sharing a room?)

Honestly, I talk to the kids all the time. The other Saturday night, I had just gotten out of the shower and was toweling off. Mollipop was in the bathroom and she wanted me to open the curtains so she could go into the open window and I was trying to explain to her that I couldn't open the curtains until I was dressed, that it was not a good idea for anyone to see Mommy naked....I said that they'd end up poking their eyes out to rid themselves of that sight.

Well, that was the weeekend we were trying to catch Lily, the little stray kitten. My sister and niece had come over that night with flashlights. And as they walked through the back yard, they heard Molli and me "chatting". So they stopped to listen to what I was saying and finally my sister said, "No, we don't want to see you naked!" Scared the crap out of me and, I think, even Molli! Then I realized who it was.

My sister asked me if I always talk with the kids and I always do. We carry on long conversations sometimes, esp if I'm on the computer and one or more comes into the computer room. I talk to them (complain, really) when I'm feeding them that I'm trying to get their food ready as fast as I can and I don't appreciate them yelling at me and could they please be a little more quiet? They don't listen, but at least I feel better. Sandy thinks I'm just a wee bit crazy, but that's OK.

Molli and Tabby will sit on the floor by the fridge and look longingly at the top of the fridge where Da Birds are. Then they'll start yelling at me to PLEASE play with them. "OK, OK! Let's get Da Bird and play for awhile!" And the whole time we're playing I'm chatting with them, too. "Wow, you jumped high! Good job! Nice catch!" It's hilarious.

We talk all the time. So I guess the little men will be here soon.

Add me to the padded room list. I talk to my monsters ALL the time. But then again being home all day every day with them Im not surprised either. I will sit at the one side of the couch with them and stare out the windows watching the birds. Last night while Croc was crying because his daddy wasnt home (they sleep together) I was talking to him telling him to sleep on daddys pillow and its ok he will be home tomorrow. Gigi and I talk to each other while Im in the shower because she sits on the counter and yammers at me.

Herc doesnt talk that much but when he does its funny cuz he kinda yodels at me. Tubbs aka Mouth doesnt shut up. She will talk to anyone and anything. Ive caught her with Franklin pinned down and her grooming his head and she was meowing at him in between grooming moments. Hilarious.

I like talking to the munsters..they are my friends and I know what they are saying. LOL

Put my name on the list. I talk to all the animals all day long. I try to mediate differences in opinions with the cat and the bird. I try to mediate issues with Missy and Kairi, I try to make sure Kairi doesn't hurt Angel the maltese. I keep advising the fish to swim low when Kairi is around, and I keep trying to explain to Kairi to torment all his brothers and sisters is not going to make them like him.

On another "I'm quite crazy and talking to my animals" story, yesterday I was watching shows I had DVR'd, and asked Kairi if he had seen that particular episode of Hoarders, and I think he had.

On the upside, I'm not talking to the voices in my head!

yet today that is.....

This is why I no longer give the kids their treats at the same time everyday anymore. They would drive us NUTS, so now it's just a random treat.

I talk to them all the time! They totally understand me too, but choose to ignore 99% of what I say.

I love hearing what people talk to their cats about. Don't get me wrong - I talk to Holland ALL the time, but I just had to laugh at myself reassuring her that she could make it to 6:30... Usually when she pesters me I tell her I'm pretty sure she isn't going to waste away. Or if I'm out and she misses dinner by a few hours I tell her I'm surprised she isn't all skin and bones.

I also give her a hard time when we are cuddling and she decides she is done being loved on, I ask her where it is that she thinks she needs to go? The looks she gives me are priceless... if cats could roll their eyes I'm pretty sure she would.

Everyone in the house talks to the cats.

Sneaky will kind of listen.

Holly is just like the 2 teenagers in the house and wants nothing to do with anyone

Jasper (wuss that he is) just loves everyone. And the funny part is (that's going to have me taken away) is that I think he understands us

When we got him and he was still spraying everywhere- I read somewhere that you were supposed to pet and talk to the animal. Praise how well he breathes That way the nervous animal feels more safe and secure as you are talking to him. So we'd say as we were holding and petting him "Jasper- you're such a nice cat. You do such a good job sitting around". And he'd make these grunting noises like he was responding to us

Cheryl

I talk to Autumn all the time and she usually answers me back. Sometimes she starts the conversation and we just talk back and forth for awhile. As I've said before, sometimes I think she has Siamese in her bloodline somewhere, she is very vocal but I think it's cute. There are times tho when she gets on my nerves.

I talk to my babies all the time too. Kind of on the same line as you telling Holland it's not time for dinner, I will talk to Genever while I'm out in the backyard and she's whining at the screen door to come out.. Sometimes I'm not going to be out there for long, soI don't want to take her out. "Nooooo, not right now. No, I'm sorry! Because I'm coming right back in!" Or, I'm doing something where I won't be able to keep an eye on her. Or there are the times I'm out petting Mister if he's around, and I tell her "No, you can't come out while he's here, he might have cooties, remember? I know you don't care, but you're not the one who pays the vet bills. We don't know where he lives. So you have to stay in right now." I'm sure the neighbors think I'm a nut.

I also just talk about random stuff too with the cats when we're inside. BF does too, and their Uncle Scott and theirs step parents Scott & Jess when they're over.

Originally Posted by My4LLMA

Midnight does the same thing, only for Temptations. Every time someone walks into the kitchen he's right there begging for 1

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Only 1? My 2 girls are always begging DH, the giver of the treats, and he gives them 3 or 4 at a time, sometimes more!! I have told him and told him not to give them so many, but they have him wrapped around their little paws. DH has went so far as to put some of their dry food in an empty pouch and call it their weekend "treats" They actually fall for it since it is from the same bag.

oh god me too!!! cynder has a habit of wanting to use the litter box when i try to clean it. i will clean it and then he looks at me and I say well ok come on go poopy in your box, or he will wait all day to use the litter box and as soon as i get home i go to clean it and i look and say well mr cynder you have to use the litter box when mommys away thats not good holding it all day, do you want to get a uti, and he just looks at me lke im crazy or did you miss mommy today and he's all purring in my arms, but for the record my hubby does that too. as we speak he is talking in cute baby talk to cynder, be nice meow meow, go see mummy.. lmaol

The first thing I do when I get home from work is tell Holland I missed her and ask her how her day was. As if I don't know she spends most of every day napping...