Group Therapy For Cats
I’m writing this blog as a distraction from the paper I want to finish by tomorrow morning. My topic is “Great activities for chemical dependency group therapy”. I’ve done the hardest part, namely determining what ten activities I want to write about, and so I thought I could use a little distraction in the form of a video blog. My cats were obliging and I figured out a way to actually tie this frivolous cat video into what I’m writing about!
See, my cats have been experiencing some relationship issues with one another.
I have two cats, Barry and Bliss. They were both fairly young when I got them and generally get along very well. In fact, they’re like brother and sister. Despite both being black cats, they are not related. Maybe they’re like husband and wife. Eventhough they’re both fixed, Barry regularly sniffs Bliss’s butt, checking if she’s in heat. Must be an instinctual thing.
They sleep on top of one another, occasionally play with one another and have no food competition. They don’t even compete for my attention, but I do have lots to give. Recently, the introduction of a new element has made matters tense.
I bought a cat toy. It’s one of those “feathers on a 
flexible stick” toys that I know they’ve enjoyed in the past, particularly Barry who is the more rambunctious of the two. A weird thing happened when I brought the toy into the new apartment, which due to its size, requires that the cats be in much closer proximity to each other more often then they’ve ever been before. Barry got possessive of the toy. He’d have it in his mouth, and would growl like a dog at Bliss if she even got near or looked at him. Today, after the toy had reappeared after making a one-week hiatus behind the bed, he actually hissed at her when he had the toy in his paws and she got interested. Hissing!
Whoahh! Hissing? Unacceptable. As a concerned cat/parent, I wondered what this behavior meant.
As I kept searching for group activities for this paper, I came up with an idea, something that might bring the cats closer.
Okay, I’m exaggerating. I didn’t think it would be therapeutic. I just thought it would make for interesting video.
Presenting: GROUP THERAPY FOR CATS!
I am not going to denigrate my cats by calling them dumb, but there is a reason why humans are often so amazed when cats express their native intelligence (which they possess but only display when they want something)…
I tell ya, with all the bickering and drama I’ve witnessed in the last few weeks here on the FriendBurst blogs, I think we could all use some group therapy!
Anyways, back to writing the paper (this blog was about half the length I’ll need for my assignment!).
😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 I’m a huge fan of those cats, it’s ok..I ‘d play with them myself as well,rather than do an assignment. Must be a reeeeally boring one 😈
Kittehs….lol….
You will pay for this J……lol
Making the Kittehs get their own toy may have amused all of us you but we will see when you come home someday and one of your favorite Human toys,(perhaps a flat screen t.v.)has somehow also found its way to the floor,or under the bed……lol
Pray they do not remember J……… 😯
😆 :groovy:
:entertained:
D.
they’re like, “oh there human slave, fetch that fluffy thing for us” 😆
and then the girl kitty take matters into her own paws and gits it dun 😛
Check out the Lizard Brain…that is the turning point for many people. When they realize their own brain is working against them.
We have a really mean and nasty…very evil Black Cat that I think was spawned by Satan at my house…and I love the Hell out of her.lol
If you find a treatment therapy that works let me know.
These are my three (non-basement) kittehs
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The orange tabby is deeply disturbed and I’m kinda afraid to fall asleep around him.
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I have a kitty in heat that is yowling as I type this.
Want her? I know your cats would love that. lol
Seriously, she has been going on for the last 4 days and I wont have enough money to get her spayed for at least 4 more weeks.
She is a circus Kitty that can walk on top of doors and balance on a thread.
A suggestion: when those 2 are fighting over that toy, throw a catnip filled playmouse to one of them. You wont have any problems then.
Dogs do this – they take possession of a toy and use it as a dominance trophy. The dominant dog will become aggressive if anyone tries to take it from them, and they will keep it nearby and guard it. They will even bite a human if they try to take it. That is a dog in need of obedience training, which requires the human (the pack leader) to change their behavior. The dog has to know that the toys belong to the pack leader, who decides with which toys, and when, the dogs will play. When the pack leader wants the toys back, the dogs have to give them back, the pack leader rewards them, and puts the toys back in the cupboard. I guess the same thing is happening with your cat. The cat thinks he is the boss.
Well, what a wonderful night of comments. We learned that Bill is in recovery, Joe has basement kittehs and Mike is doing his best to cast off the mantle of positivity trolling. This WAS a sort of group therapy! G’night!
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your cats are such a trip.. especially Barry..WHO CAN FETCH LIKE A DOG!!! Im still trippin over that!