The downstairs neighbors went out of town and asked us to cat-sit Polly, their mid-sized female cat. Polly has never been left home alone very long so they asked if we could house Polly in our apartment during the duration of their trip.
We said yes.
Polly arrived last night around 7 pm, she complained loudly for about two hours and then disappeared under the bed. We thought she’d gone away for the night.
We were wrong.
Around 11, when we finally got to bed, there was a yowling outside our door. I was opposed to letting Polly into the bedroom, but Gavin won out in the end. I think his argument was “she’s probably lonely and wants to curl up with people” (or something to that effect).
At first we thought Polly needed food, or water. She had both. Then we thought she wanted to keep people company… and curl up and be friendly. After all, Thomas curls up with sleeping people (unless he wants food, then he tries to eat your toes).
Polly just wanted to walk on us, complain, complain and complain some more. Finally, around 6 am Gavin tossed her out of the bedroom and shut the door. She sat outside our door and told us what she thought of her situation.
Gavin gave up and got out of bed at 6:20, I held out until 6:30.
Admittedly that is not the best picture of Polly, but I had to chase her around the office w/the camera and she didn’t want to stand still
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