It really doesn’t seem to matter how many times I explain to my cat, Buster, that he doesn’t want to eat my yoghurt. In the moment, he is 100 per cent convinced he will find it delicious. He gets this look on his adorable little face that is nine parts curiosity, one part serious indignation.
As I raise the spoon towards my lips, he studies its path from the tub to my mouth with the kind of intensity I usually reserve for a Jake Gyllenhall movie (or maybe Henry Cavill pre-Superman). I find myself explaining to him that yoghurt is not a cat food. Again.
He meows.
He is so intrigued and just has to know what the heck I am eating. So (and I am not kidding I am a total sucker and this happens every time) I relent and dab a small spot on my finger and stick it out to him. He sniffs it, takes a very tentative lick and then wrinkles his shiny wet nose and turns tail and walks away.
Sometimes, he runs.
And I am left, once again, with cat-aminated yogurt on my finger.
He can’t help it though. He’s just your typical, super curious little ball of fur. Cats just love to know what their human friends are up to. All. The. Damn. Time. Curiosity didn’t kill the cat, the cat owner who can’t take two steps without being followed fell down the stairs and landed on it.
Well, this is what I tell myself, but maybe it’s not normal? I’m no expert, so I decided to ask someone who was about some of Buster’s peculiar habits (and also a longstanding mystery about my childhood bestie Joe).
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I had a wonderful cat who liked his water fresh, preferably 'running'. If I couldn't see him around me, I'd try the bathroom. There he was, sitting in the bath, staring at the tap. He's look at the tap, then look at me, then back to the tap. Very clearly he was asking me to turn on the tap just a little so that it would drip and he could lick the drips for a drink of water. He certainly had me well trained!!
Oh my lord where do I start?
He jumps in the bath water with the baby then acts surprised that he's wet
As soon as he hears a car door open he races to jump in the car and won't get out
He burrows under the baby's playgym and walks around with it on his back like a turtle
Loves taco mince that drops on the floor, but not spaghetti mince.
This all happened today.
😹😹😹 What a great cat! 💗