Naughty Felines: The Cat Chef And The ‘Wake Up And Play With Me’ Technique

A California cat tries her paw at culinary creations, while a video of a void demonstrates the power of feline persistence when it comes to annoying their people into doing their bidding.

Who says cats don’t love their people?

A California cat named Wendy decided to add a little, uh, flavor to her family’s dinner.

When Wendy’s human mom walked back into the kitchen after feeding the family’s dogs, Wendy’s odd behavior prompted her to check an internal camera to see what the tabby was up to.

The footage showed Wendy dropping a dead mouse into the pot.

The foster fail’s humans, however, didn’t appreciate Wendy’s special ingredient.

“As you can guess,” Wendy’s human “mom” told a local TV news station, “it was takeout for dinner that night.”

Wake up, humans!

Anyone who claims cats are oblivious to the people they live with has never really spent much time around the little stinkers.

This void cat knows precisely how to annoy her people to the point where they give up on sleep and get up to feed her:

Which is interesting to me because that’s precisely what Bud used to do, with two key differences: 1) He’d raise and slam the flap to his litter box, which had a distinct creak from the joints, 2) He didn’t do it to get food, since he already gets a bowl of dry food and fresh water just before bedtime.

He did it to wake me up so we could hang out and be amigos.

If I succumbed to his assault of annoyingness, he’d give me a “Mrrrrrp!” like he was saying “Right on, dude. Righteous! So I’m gonna lay on your chest with my nose two inches away from yours and just, like, stare at you all creepy-like while you scratch my head, deal?”

I’ve since replaced that litter box with one that also has a cover, but no flap. I regret that decision, because now Bud just stands on my face and shrieks “MRRRRAAAHHH!!! MMMRRRAAAHHH!” into my ear.

I should have known there’s no winning with our feline overlords.

8 thoughts on “Naughty Felines: The Cat Chef And The ‘Wake Up And Play With Me’ Technique”

  1. Oh you are so right, there is no winning ! Bella knows that scratching our bed on the expensive fabric is “naughty” so she revels in doing it to get our attention at all hours, she has also used the “paw and claw” technique (start with gentle paw and then move to a tap with the claw) to wake me up at early to get her food. Cats – they are masters of manipulation!

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      1. Bertie hasnt visited for a long while now although we have been to see him at the other end of our road – we see his updates weekly on his whats app group. He is loving it at Imogen and Scotts houses – I’ll drop over a few photos on email. We think its because of Simba of Borg being present in our garden and Berties not a fighter at all so he stays away. Bella still goes out and growls/hisses at Simba when he does arrive in her galaxy but they seem to have reached a reasonable “tolerance” of each other now.

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  2. I guess I should be happy that Snoops dropped her dead mouse into her own bowl. My parents’ cat would run her claws across the heat register to get their attention. That was after pulling tissues out of the box stopped working.

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