As Killired pointed out, I’ve been remiss in posting, and I’ll just blame it on her and say that I was waiting for her to comment on my previous post! :P

Truth is, I’ve just been too busy. Busy, too much to do in very limited time. Time, limited from lack of sleep. Sleep, interrupted by cats and dogs.

Tom and Jerry. Don’t ask me which one was the cat and which one was the… oh wait, wasn’t one of them a mouse? Which one has the dog? There’s Sylvester and Tweety… but no, one of those is some kind of chicken, right?

You see, it’s all about the fucking cat. And so is this. I wrote eons ago about how the cat takes up the whole bed. Sometimes she’ll sleep on top of Wifey and sometimes she’ll sleep right between us. We won’t even go there, but yeah, it’s a little awkward to have a feline chaperone in bed. The biggest problem I wrote about back then was that standard sheets and blankets were not really designed for the cat-in-the-middle situation. There ends up being no cover for me because they go over Wifey and then under Kitty and then they run out.

I think Wifey did go out and buy a king-sized top-sheet and maybe even a blanket but that’s only part solution and only part of the problem. Here’s the rest of the problem. I can choose to disturb Kitty if I want some covers. And what happens next? She jumps. Might scratch Wifey in the process, and that’s bad enough. And lands on the floor. And scurries off. And scurries by… You guessed it, she scurries right by Mr. Puppy’s crate.

And he starts barking and Ms. Doggy starts barking and Kitty runs under the bed… but it’s too late, there’s too much commotion and it’s still building on itself and we’re woken up by it.

I have no solution. I’m not willing to shoot the cat, though that would tend to deal with the matter quite nicely… No, I’m not doing that. I’ve thought seriously about putting up some kind of barrier so that Mr. Puppy doesn’t see Kitty when she scurries by… I don’t know, will that really work? And then he wouldn’t have such a good view out of his crate anymore. We could shut Kitty out of our room, but then she might be lonely, and night time is the only time she gets to spend with her peeps because she’s afraid to go downstairs during the day when the dogs are out.

So help me out. What to do? Not that I really think there’s anything to be done. How do you keep the cats and dogs from acting like… like cats and dogs?