Timeline for Why can my cat not sleep anywhere else other than my mother's lap?
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| Nov 28, 2018 at 8:37 | comment | added | Sonevol | Let us continue this discussion in chat. | |
| Nov 28, 2018 at 8:33 | comment | added | Flater | @Sonevol: Then your cat's situation is pretty much the same as my cats'. But that means the initial point still stands: when you're home, the cat can come to you whenever it wants, there's no need to meow. If you make the cat come to you when it wants attention, then it will learn that meowing is wasted effort. If you keep indulging the cat by going to them whenever they meow, then you are enabling their "meowing for attention" behavior. | |
| Nov 28, 2018 at 8:30 | comment | added | Sonevol | All three of ours bedroom, living room, dining room, study room and bathroom, toilet are limited within those three rooms. But our house is more than 200 years old huge 2 storey apartment with most rooms locked. The two maids rooms are outside. Garden is on roof. And there are two tenant families. And we are the sole humans in the vicinity, with town about half an hour drive. | |
| Nov 28, 2018 at 8:00 | comment | added | Flater | @Sonevol: Note that my comment hinges on how often you spend time in these three rooms and how often you're in the house but not with the cat. Our cats never go outside either but they have access to the whole house (barring some storage rooms) and have access to us when we're home, which is most of the time we're not at work. They are attached to us but not dependent, yet don't meow for attention from another room. They come to us and only meow if they need something (food, plays) and we're not making eye contact (e.g. watching TV). | |
| Nov 28, 2018 at 7:58 | comment | added | Flater | @Sonevol: Cats are generally independent creatures but that does not mean that some cats cannot become attached or dependent. Especially if you're keeping them confined to limited area, especially if they're effectively only seeing you when you choose to visit them. Of course that creates a dependency; because your cat is well aware that it cannot survive if not for your visits (including feeding). While I'm aware this is an overstatement (for the sake of clarity, not rhetoric), you're pretty much arguing that independent animals should therefore be okay with near-solitary confinement. | |
| Nov 28, 2018 at 4:47 | comment | added | Sonevol | And century old unused wells with open mouths covered with herbs as death traps. | |
| Nov 28, 2018 at 4:46 | comment | added | Sonevol | Also I forgot to mention that our cat is forcefully confined to three rooms and never allowed outside. So if we are outside she has no way of reaching us. It is because we live in a place which is lethal for a house cat who has never ever experienced wild life. Here we have scorpions, spiders, wild dogs, foxes, poisonous snakes, ferocious monkeys, occasional leopards, eagles, kites, to name a few. | |
| Nov 28, 2018 at 4:36 | comment | added | Sonevol | Cats are generally independent animals. I don't think it is natural for a cat to get terribly nervous when the cat is alone and no human is nearby. Also I don't think it is natural for a cat to not able to sleep calmly without human touch. | |
| Nov 27, 2018 at 12:02 | history | edited | Henders | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 27, 2018 at 10:54 | history | answered | Flater | CC BY-SA 4.0 |