There is nothing more awkward than a cat
Many years ago now I bought our dear Socks a cat baed. A nice sheltered fluffy cat bed.
Being a cat, she regarded it with disgust and promptly ignored it. Never has she set a paw in it. If placed in it she would extricate herself at the earliest possible opportunity. She has pushed this bed off surfaces and slept on hard wood rather than lay herself down in its fluffy warmth
Every 3-4 months fluffy cat bed is taken out of the loft, presented to Socks for her kitty approval and left out for a hopeful 2-3 weeks while she studiously ignores it.
So now, brother mine visits from his new home (and, consequently, there is no food in the house. At all. It's like being invaded by HUNS!) asks if he can have the expensive fluffy kitty bed for his new cat (yes he has a new cat and good on him for it).
Kitty bed is taken from the loft. It is put down ready to take away.
Socks settles herself happily inside it and falls asleep. It has now been 6 hours and she hasn't stirred a paw from its fluffy interior.
Now you tell ME that she hasn't done that out of pure blody mindedness?
Being a cat, she regarded it with disgust and promptly ignored it. Never has she set a paw in it. If placed in it she would extricate herself at the earliest possible opportunity. She has pushed this bed off surfaces and slept on hard wood rather than lay herself down in its fluffy warmth
Every 3-4 months fluffy cat bed is taken out of the loft, presented to Socks for her kitty approval and left out for a hopeful 2-3 weeks while she studiously ignores it.
So now, brother mine visits from his new home (and, consequently, there is no food in the house. At all. It's like being invaded by HUNS!) asks if he can have the expensive fluffy kitty bed for his new cat (yes he has a new cat and good on him for it).
Kitty bed is taken from the loft. It is put down ready to take away.
Socks settles herself happily inside it and falls asleep. It has now been 6 hours and she hasn't stirred a paw from its fluffy interior.
Now you tell ME that she hasn't done that out of pure blody mindedness?