Bedtime Wishes and Dreams
Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 at 5:51 pmCategory: Uncategorized
This topic might be odd but if you have animals you know about these dreams and wishes.
We have a seven cats…count them SEVEN!! I think I’ve introduced them over past blogs but if not here are their names~ Amie, Angel, Demon Child (yes thats his name, totally earned as well), Shadow, Spike, Star, Wendy. I love all my brats but do you know how hard it is two fit two adults and seven cats on one queen size bed?
Now that I’ve got you thinking on where everyone sleeps let me one-up ya. A few years back we bought my in-laws a Shar Pei (ya know the really wrinkled dog) from a dog rescue place. Her name is Katy.
Katy is a hyper child. She gets very excited and sometimes whinny but a very loving dog. We’ve tried to explain to her she doesn’t belong to my husband and myself but this is totally lost on her. She thinks since we saved her from the jail we own her.
Ok back to the point here. Katy has wiggled herself into now sleeping in our room. The living room couch just isn’t good enough anymore (btw she’s not suppose to be up there lol). Anyway she is afraid of storms…big time. The wind starts picking up and she is totally afraid. Let the lighting or thunder start and you’ve a dog in your lap. She’s too big to be a lapdog.
Well, this past weekend we had storms all weekend and she was either at my husbands heels or mine whimpering.
Time for bed and as the now normal, she enters the room but instead of laying on her blanket on the floor she starts to whimper and cry. She wants to snuggle on the bed with the rest of us. WHERE??? I haven’t a clue where this 50 pound dog is going to sleep. But she is so afraid and I feel so sorry for her. Well I turned my heart to stone and told my husband there is NO room for her on the bed…at least not with us in it.
Ok I swear I’m not that evil. She whimpered a bit more and I said fine…let her on the bed. Needless to say that night that poor queen size bed was tested to its weight limits lol. I think this is were they got the saying : snug as a bug in a rug.
Here is a picture of Katy.
Hope your getting your sweet dreams…minus the heavy breathing of a Shar Pei.
March 24th, 2006 00:52
Oh but I kinda know what you’re going through with your troop, Haven.
Jaggers my darling kitten finds ways to make bedtime almost impossible. For one thing she’s decided that MY side of the bed (we have a queen size too) is HER side of the bed. So she comes over (and of course her highness waits until I’m comfortable and in deep sleep) and “slaps” me silly! I wake up annoyed, no very annoyed; Rich and I make do with about a foot of space. Jaggers, we’ve come to find out likes to sleep with several pillows (MY pillows). Now keep in my mind this is only 1 cat. Heavens no, I cannot immagine seven Jaggers.
Shar Peis are smart dogs, really cute picture of the little creature (50lbs huh?)
March 24th, 2006 01:19
Actually the hubby corrected me, she’s around 60 pounds. When we adopted her she was very under weight but look at her now.
I know what you mean about the cats with pillows. I use to sleep on two pillows, now I’m lucky if I get a corner of one.
It’s still amazing to me how a small little kitty can take up an entire side of the bed…but they do. Amie is the worst. She will cuddle between the husband and I, then work her magic. She slowly pushs us over and wiggles until she isn’t touching anything except her head on the pillow. I think what makes them bigger is the tail.
Animals are just too funny. Also a word of advice, get a cat tree. Since cats love being number one on top they will often sleep up there, hence freeing up the bed lol. In truth, cats are natural hunters and they enjoy being up high so they get a better view of their prey..which I sometimes think is ME.
March 24th, 2006 01:24
OH I forgot to add that since I have really long hair (think yarn ball for cats), we’ve had to stuff pillows above our heads (between the bars on a metal frame). Before they would crawl under the bed..up the back and pull, chew and yank on my hair. Plus putting huge knots in it. No amount of conditioner gets that out lol.
March 24th, 2006 11:30
OMG, my hair is not that long ( a little past the shoulders) but I know what you mean about chewing and yanking. Jaggers does it ALL the time I’m trying to sleep.
Thanks for the advice on the cat tree, we need to invest in one of those. Jaggers is now “countersurfing”. She gets into everything! Chews everything, wants everything. And she choses the only good things we have to destroy.
Why should Jaggers bother to tear an old towel when she can do her “magic” on the new ones?
But don’t get me wrong we love her.
Isabel
March 24th, 2006 14:49
I totally know what you mean. My husband and I built a bookshelves thing (with my own design) with doors. For the doors we used screen (because for the moment plexi*sp*glass is too costly). Well needless to say they catched loved the screening and now the double doors are totally open even though they are closed. They clawed at the screening and we had to remove it because I was afraid they would swollow it. Dang cats.
But your right no matter how bad the children act you still love them.