{"id":8,"date":"2007-09-19T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2025-06-23T16:50:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T20:50:35","slug":"conversations-with-a-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Conversations with a Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On walking into the kitchen this morning to get my coffee, Bubbles followed. The dialog was as follows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/birthday-014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-62\" title=\"birthday 014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/birthday-014-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/birthday-014-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/birthday-014-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/birthday-014.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bubbles: Meeee OWWWW<br \/>\nMe: I didn&#8217;t step on your tail<br \/>\nBubbles: Mrow<br \/>\nMe: Breakfast is in 20 minutes. Lemme drink my coffee. You know how cranky I am before my coffee<br \/>\nBubbles: Prrrrt<br \/>\nMe: Well, you don&#8217;t have to AGREE with me<br \/>\nBubbles: Prrtttt oowwwwwww<br \/>\nMe: Still, its rude.<\/p>\n<p>I pour my coffee and add the sugar and cream. Bubbles watches closely. As if it were a top secret process that she was going to have a pop test on later.<\/p>\n<p>Bubbles: uuuuOOOOOOWWW<br \/>\nMe: (shows her the coffeemate) See, this goes in first<br \/>\nBubbles: Prrt. Prittt.<br \/>\nMe:(stirs the coffee and adds the sweetener) And then you tear the tops of the little packets and pour them in<br \/>\nBubbles: (stares and then shoots a significant look at the cat bowl) EEEEEOOOOOOOW<br \/>\nMe: Well\u00c2\u00a0<em>technically<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0I haven&#8217;t had my coffee yet.<br \/>\nBubbles: Muhrowowow<br \/>\nMe: Okay FINE. I&#8217;ll feed you. Then leave me alone, okay?<br \/>\nBubbles: Prrrrit.<\/p>\n<p>And then the other cats run in<\/p>\n<p>Me: Ah, so you are the designated Noisemaker this morning.<br \/>\nBubbles: MeEEEOWWWW<br \/>\nMiss Kitty: ehhhOOWWWW<br \/>\nFurby: (opens her mouth but no sound comes out. That Persian Mute thing)<br \/>\nI put the food down and the happy silence is only broken by the sound of crunching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On walking into the kitchen this morning to get my coffee, Bubbles followed. The dialog was as follows. Bubbles: Meeee OWWWW Me: I didn&#8217;t step on your tail Bubbles: Mrow Me: Breakfast is in 20 minutes. Lemme drink my coffee. You know how cranky I am before my coffee Bubbles: Prrrrt Me: Well, you don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-crackers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24594,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/24594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}