Making the bed
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nwhikerBamBam is not an elderly cat. He's... middle-aged, maybe. He still acts young, but the consequences of experience are starting to impact our day to day life.
Take making the bed. This is not a complicated process: pull up the duvet (in a cover that gets washed with the sheets, no bottom sheet), toss the decor pillows on the bed (three of them), done. It's a matter of just a few seconds for two people, a bit more for one since you do have to walk around the bed.
We used to reliably do it every day. For the past... oh 6 months? that hasn't been happening.
See BamBam has become absolutely vicious about hopping onto the bed the second one of us gets out of it. So either I get out of bed less than, oh, 15 seconds after dh does, or he does after I get up, or BamBam takes over half the bed and it becomes impossible to make said bed.
Move the cat, you say?
About that. Attempting to move the cat or to chase him away will result in him gripping on, all claws out. After more than one sheet ruined and one duvet cover that had to be mended, we have learned that that, alas, is not as easy as it sounds, considering we are two able bodied adults and he's, well, a cat.
So yeah. Unless one of us happens to remember later in the day, at a time when BamBam is not napping on the bed, he settles in the second one of us gets out, and usually does not move until early afternoon.
He didn't use to be that wily.
Take making the bed. This is not a complicated process: pull up the duvet (in a cover that gets washed with the sheets, no bottom sheet), toss the decor pillows on the bed (three of them), done. It's a matter of just a few seconds for two people, a bit more for one since you do have to walk around the bed.
We used to reliably do it every day. For the past... oh 6 months? that hasn't been happening.
See BamBam has become absolutely vicious about hopping onto the bed the second one of us gets out of it. So either I get out of bed less than, oh, 15 seconds after dh does, or he does after I get up, or BamBam takes over half the bed and it becomes impossible to make said bed.
Move the cat, you say?
About that. Attempting to move the cat or to chase him away will result in him gripping on, all claws out. After more than one sheet ruined and one duvet cover that had to be mended, we have learned that that, alas, is not as easy as it sounds, considering we are two able bodied adults and he's, well, a cat.
So yeah. Unless one of us happens to remember later in the day, at a time when BamBam is not napping on the bed, he settles in the second one of us gets out, and usually does not move until early afternoon.
He didn't use to be that wily.
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