Monday's Question Of The Day - January 15, 2018

[MoochNNoodles]

Sorry Im late. We have some family visiting this weekend so we're having a mini-Christmas today.

My Mom's cat decided he wanted to join in the game of Chutes & Ladders.

He's curled up with me now though.


How do your cats greet you when you get home?


My 2 depend on how hungry they are. Noodles will come ask for food and check out anything we brought in. Especially the groceries! Mooch is actually the more affectionate cat but she tends to either watch from her bed or sit off to the side where she won't get stepped on. Once my kids are out of the way she comes for pets.

 

[kashmir64]

All five run up to the door to greet me. The dogs jump up, Samai just brushes up against me and Onsa squeaks. (she still doesn't meow). Then they follow me around like I had abandoned them and none are going to let it happen again.

 

[Kat0121]

They usually don't. I have a chest freezer in the kitchen by the front windows. Sometimes Sophie will sit on it and if she's on it and sees me pull up she will go to the door. Lilith doesn't at all. She's the queen of the household and I am expected to greet her- not the other way around.The dog is usually laying in the hall by the front door. More often than not, she doesn't even bother lifting her head in acknowledgement when I have to step over her. She gets a pass though. She's almost 16 years old and quite arthritic.

 

[Kreatorcat]

Jack sees me once a month or so for two days. He is getting deaf and blind,but the moment he "feels" me,he gets up and becomes my boy again. No sense in trying to make him stay down,even if I just curl up next to him on the bed,the moment he realizes I am there he gets up and loves on me. For Kim(his kitty-mama),when she gets home he starts playing with his toy mouse and running around the apartment. We suspect he is trying to show her he is still a mans-man,and king of the castle. It makes her laugh every time.

Wherever Pepe is in the living room,he just sits there staring at me as I walk in. I go right to him and give him scratchies. By far the most nonplussed cat I have ever seen.

 

[Boris Diamond]

The only one I get a welcome from is Seal. He climbs up on my chest and nuzzles. I put my arms around him and hold him for a while. He puts the top of his head down against my arm and purrs and purrs. Diamond will run around excited, mainly because he thinks - correctly - that it is food time!

Leo cannot be bothered to wake from his nap. But he gives me plenty of affection at other times.

Lilah has started to get excited when I get home, though I think that is mainly abut food.

 

[Merlin77]

Our three youngsters are absolute ruffians and greet us with charging right at us and assaulting us with purring, meowing and will demand food. Snake, meanwhile, runs up to us like a dog and vibrates her tail very rapidly (basically the cat equivalent of a dog wagging its tail). She's our special kitty.

 

[Draco]

They wait by the door, I see them sit and once they see my car pull up, they start to spin in circles and meow as I come in. Monet will then jump on the table for me to say hello with pets and kisses.

Sometimes I don't see them at the door, but as soon as they hear my car, they appear quickly at the door.

I have a security camera, I'll turn it on before I go home to check on things sometimes. Usually the cats hang out in my bedroom when I am not home. When it's close to time for me to come home, I see them hanging out in the kitchen, watching out the door for me

 

[Max's Human]

MAX and MOUSE, kitties meet me at the front door like I have been on vacation....
DAKOTA and TIC, the canines meet me at the gate out front, usually barking LIKE the yard is full of bad guys!!

 

[Lari]

Sometimes Lelia is on the windowsill as I pull my car into my parking space, but she's always at the door when I open it (as long as it's the back door). Then she hightails it out and into my bedroom because it's playtime, and greetings get in the way of that.

 

[neely]

9 out of 10 times Carleton greets us at the door. If it's past his dinner time he lets out a peep otherwise he comes up to us for pets. Either way he's always glad we're home and makes us feel guilty when we have to leave.

 

[cassiopea]

I usually find all of them perched in front of the door as I walk in to greet me. A couple of them purr and rub against me and the others wait for me to pet them - it is heaven

 

[MoochNNoodles]

She gets a pass though. She's almost 16 years old and quite arthritic.

Sometimes I feel bad when my mother's dog gets up to greet us because she's old and having trouble with her hips. I try to go to her but she still wants to stand up. Poor ol girl.

Our three youngsters are absolute ruffians and greet us with charging right at us and assaulting us with purring, meowing and will demand food. Snake, meanwhile, runs up to us like a dog and vibrates her tail very rapidly (basically the cat equivalent of a dog wagging its tail). She's our special kitty.

I LOVE when Noodles does "happy tails" like that! It's one of er favorite communications. She does it a lot when she's begging for food. I think of it like "ooohh I'm so cute. Feed me!"

They wait by the door, I see them sit and once they see my car pull up, they start to spin in circles and meow as I come in. Monet will then jump on the table for me to say hello with pets and kisses.

Sometimes I don't see them at the door, but as soon as they hear my car, they appear quickly at the door.

I have a security camera, I'll turn it on before I go home to check on things sometimes. Usually the cats hang out in my bedroom when I am not home. When it's close to time for me to come home, I see them hanging out in the kitchen, watching out the door for me

My soul-kitty Glory used to sit on the end of my bed looking out the window every day when I was a kid. She could see me walk up the road from the school bus.

 

[raysmyheart]

MoochNNoodles , I love the pretty cat playing the board game.

Often, Speedy is in the window when I drive into the driveway and I can see her lean forward, like "Is that her"? I see her disappear and I next see her when I open the door. I give her big praises and she runs to her little rug, plops down and loves to get more praises, waiting for me to brush her and more praises. She seems so happy. She doesn't even care about supper, just wants more praises and brushing.

 

[MoochNNoodles]

MoochNNoodles , I love the pretty cat playing the board game.

He is such a love bug! He was 1 lb and wanted to literally sit in your pockets when my Mom brought him home. He's 14 years old now and still such a sweetie. I told my DD to bring her fidget spinner for him the next time we go over there! I'm betting he will LOVE it! Noodles likes them but shes never gotten excited over a game spinner!

 

[micknsnicks2mom]

my three almost always come running to greet me! my impression is that they're thinking, 'where have you been, mom? you were gone so long!' most times, i'm not gone more than 2 or 3 hours.

 

[amysuen]

I've never noticed our cats coming to greet ME, but when DH comes home they go running to the door to greet him. Maybe because I'm home most of the time and rarely go away alone so they're confused when I do?

 

[jcat]

Mowgli greets us right at the door from the entryway and rubs himself against our legs. I swear he tries to steer us into the kitchen.

 

[Winchester]

MoochNNoodles that's a great picture! Banshee used to sit on my lap while we played cards with friends. Sometimes I'd ask her what card I should discard and she'd reach out and touch a card; sometimes, I'd play the card she touched, but not always. Hydrox, The Old Coot, would lay on the top of the Scrabble game and try to "hide" the tiles from us. Then when we'd reach into the box to get a tile, he'd swat at us. "My tiles! Leave them alone!"

The Beast meets me as I come in the front door. The cats are around the steps, but away from thundering Beast paws.

From the cats: Feed us. Feed us NOW! Starving!

From The Beast: Gotta pee, gotta pee, gotta pee right NOW!

 

[Kreatorcat]

Great thread! I love reading this kinda stuff. Thanks to the o.p.

 

[MoochNNoodles]

DD tried to get Noodles to play with the spinner from Chutes & Ladders this morning. She watched the spinner but smacked DD instead. Typical!