Dilemmas, dilemmas...

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My cat is currently sound asleep on my desk. Curled up, looking incredibly adorable and deceptively innocent. Entirely too cute.

She's been there for about three hours, which means her little kitty batteries will be fully recharged soon.

It's almost bedtime.

So...do I...

Let her sleep, knowing full well that she will spring to life 7 seconds after I go to bed and pester me most of the night...

- or -

...Wake her up and wear her down with the laser pointer so that she'll collapse in bed beside me and sleep peacefully all night, but knowing that I will be on the receiving end of pitiful, heartbreaking "but Mommy, how could you wake me up?" eyes? (not to mention the off chance she will simply glare at me, go back to sleep, and - in between keeping me awake - cough up a ball of spite hairball in my shoes during the night)


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Don't even try to outguess a cat. Use a Zen-like approach and accept whatever will happen.
 

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Wake her, apologise CONVINCINGLY, explain the scenario, then go crazy wiv the laser. ;)
 

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Don't even try to outguess a cat. Use a Zen-like approach and accept whatever will happen.

What alley said.


See, this is why bedtime with a cat almost feels like disarming a nuclear weapon. I have to do SOMETHING, choose ONE path, and doing the wrong thing could easily blow up in my face...
 

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Smarties are sweets similar to M&Ms. They come packaged in cardboard tubes. :)

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The similarities between mine and Alex's posts are disturbing...
 

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Dude, we even have almost the same dog. One of us is a copycat.
 

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Dude, we even have almost the same dog. One of us is a copycat.

*Whistles inconspicuously, kicks the door to his "Alex shrine" shut.*

Iz imagining it.
 

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Ahhh... okay - we have Smarties, but they're wrapped in cellophane (which, of course, might provide nearly as much laughs. :D) And I think they are a little different than yours...


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Putting tubes on is too much trouble. Just put squares of scotch tape on the bottom of the cat's paws.
 

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Or a sock on its head. They back up like crazy to get it off...

Umm.... not that I've tried it or anything... it's just something I - er - heard. :D

Really, the cat was fine - pissed off as hell, but fine...

When my sister was visiting, she dressed my cat up in clothes. CLOTHES!! I thought my cat would claw her face off, but no. The cat ate it up. If I tried to put clothes on her, I'd be a dead woman walking.
 

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Frankly, you're damned if you do, you're damned if you don't. I wore out my kitty for about 45 minutes last night with fishing pole and green rat. Felt bad because she was panting. Let her chill out. Made sure she was ok.

Went to bed. Half an hour later she was pouncing on my head. If I would have turned on the light and caught it on camera, this is what it would look like. Coming at my head.

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