The cat man do

Mandycat and I fought for my pillow from 11:05 last night until 12:28 this morning.

Lady goes to bed 3-4 hours before I do, and gets up 2-3 hours before me as well. Guess there’s less me to put up with that way, or else she’s a mutant vampire and lives for light.

Went in at 11:05 and there on my pillow was Lady’s head, but with no body. I looked over to Lady with body sleeping on her pillow. Realized 2nd head was Mandy all curled up.

I picked her up to move her and she bit me. Put her at the foot of Lady’s feet where she normally sleeps and lay down. Mandy immediately ran back up and lay on my pillow, curving around my head. I said no, picked her up and put her purring body back at Lady’s feet.

Cat walked up my body, sat on my chest and stared at me. Put her back and turn on my side.

She walks back up my body, sits on my hip and stares at me. Put her back.

She waits ten minutes until she thinks I’m asleep and comes back up to my pillow and wraps around my head. Put her back.

She waits, sneaks back up to lie between Lady’s pillow and mine. Put her back.

This goes on, and on, and on.

I finally put her on the floor, she jumps up on the dresser and jumps down and lands on my chest. Put her back on the floor. She jumps up, runs across me and hides behind Lady and I say fine, lay back down and she creeps over me to my head.

Finally on her 15th try, she jumps up from the floor, runs over me, and crawls under Lady’s arms beneath the blanket and sleeps the rest of the night.

Fifteen tries in ninety minutes.

I know she’s a life form with her own rights, but it is my pillow.

I think her reasoning is she jumps up on the back of my recliner chair and sleeps behind my head during the day as I sit in it, one little paw on my shoulder, one on the back of my neck; so if she can sleep at my head during the day, why not at night?

Gotta admire a life form that knows what she wants and goes for it. Reminds me of all those B-movie actresses in the 1940’s film noirs . . . and of Lady.

In fact, these past 30 months I’ve learned a lot of Lady from the cat. Each has stubbornness, a steel of will.

And I’m fortunate to be with both.