Cat post #1 (you've been forewarned)

Just thought everyone should know that. Not that you care. <:) She has been up all night with me -- she does that when I stay up all night; it's so sweet the way she stays up when I'm up, sleeps when I sleep, etc. ...not always good for her, but really sweet -- and she gets so rummy the next day, I can tell she's exhausted...but she still tries to stay up, and follows me around in whatever I'm doing, generally.

She happened to be sniffing at her Booda-Bone (cloth string/rope that's really made for dogs to chew on), which I use to rub catnip into & for her to chew, claw with her back feet & hold with her front paws, & generally massacre and slobber all over- and I thought it could use a refreshing of catnip, so I rubbed some new nip in it.

Well, she went at it...but being so tired, she loses steam fast on it. When I looked just a while ago, she was splayed out on her side, eyes wide open but unfocused, tail twitching, lying next to her catnip bone. I had to talk to her and look really close to make sure her sides were moving- breathing - to know she hadn't expired!

I looked away, and checked again in a few minutes, and her eyes were closed, nose still near her catnip, little paw twitching; dreaming. SO cute. It was like she'd had a hot toddy or something; something finally to put her out in her exhausted state and make her sleep like the dead for a while.


*Now she's awake again, though, fighting to keep her eyelids open. If her eyes could be red-rimmed, they would be. LOL

Why does she do that?-Try to stay awake because I am?

If I were to go to bed right now for 8 hours (or however long), she would come join me in the bedroom, in her little bed, and sleep probably as long as I did. And get her rest.

I don't understand what motivates [different] cats; nor what cat love is. I think they all show they love you in different ways, some similar to each other, some unique. Since I can't figure out what a cat gets from staying up, even though exhausted, to be where I am, & be awake when I'm awake or to sleep when I sleep...I can only think of it being a manifestation of cat love.


**10 minutes later:

I just scooped her up and hugged her and tried carrying her into the bedroom & putting her into her cat bed (on the OFF chance she'd stay there), and told her to "go to bed" (sleep), which she knows (understands)...
...once I plopped her down, she spun around and playfully smacked me on the nose {soft paws; claws in} before jumping right out of bed and running back into the living room. <:p

When she bopped me I squealed, said "Heyyy!", chased her retreating tailside into the living room, and called her a stinker.

I love my kitty. :)