Kittens aren’t little humans

Good intentions can go awfully wrong if you ignore good advice. A sound piece of advice us don’t let kittens on your bed.

I was watching television in bed and Felix fell asleep, curled up next to me. He woke up after about an hour and went down to the middle of the bed. He stared at me and he appeared to be happily pawing the bed. Then he started making a series of meows and I thought he must be feeling very happy. He got up and then I noticed a series of poos. Felix pooed on the bed.

I picked him up and put him in his litter tray and cleaned up the mess. I put him in his makeshift bed, but after a couple of minutes Felix was crying outside my bedroom door. I thought that I should give him another chance. He was ok until I got up to the toilet. When I came back he’d gone back in the other room and left me a patch of wee on the bed. Felix’ cat pee smells like all the hells of fishy hell.
More cleaning. Felix in the other room, bedroom door closed and cat meows ignored until the morning.

The morning meows were happy enough, I turned the bathroom light on and he used his tray. He makes little meows when he goes for a poo. I gave him a kitty biscuit for being a good boy and he then went and had something to eat. The bowl was nearly empty, so he had been eating while I was asleep.

So, today, I have moved the food and water bowls into the sitting room and put his litter tray in the other corner. Bed, food and toilet all within a few (human) feet. This is the advice I was given by the previous owner (carer is probably the right word for a cat, I don’t think anybody can own a cat). Kittens aren’t small humans and different rooms for different purposes overwhelm them.

Let’s see how the new regime works out.