We need to talk. (A Post by Kitter)

To the people of the house:

She’s cute, right? Yeah…….she is cute, but we need to talk about something.

See, I’m a cat. I like loving and attention as much as the next cat, on one condition: it has to be on my terms. MY TERMS. That means I get to decide when and where the loving will occur. For the record, when I am cozily napping on a blanket on the floor, this is not the time OR the place for loving. Until recently, we all seemed to have an agreement on this point, and we were all happy.

Until. Recently. It seems that the little one has discovered me. It seems, too, that she rather likes me, and has no apparent awareness of propriety when it comes to interactions with Kitter. She has no awareness of when and where might be the right time to interact with me. She also has no concept of propriety of volume when she screams at me, of gentleness when she reaches for me, or of limits when I walk away in an attempt to stop the attention.

I am worried. I have a nagging feeling that this is only going to get worse. Can we do something about this, or is this just another one of those things that I need to “just get used to"? I’d like to know now, so that I can prepare myself. Or hide. In the closet. In the dark. Forever. Or at least until she turns 18.