My cats will sprint around my apartment, making the most pathetic mewls, meows, caterwauls, and any other sound you can imagine. This happens every single day. They run up to me, headbutt me, pretend like they want to play, but then the second I get any of their toys (of which I own EVERY SINGLE CAT TOY EVER MADE), they run away or hide under the bed. It's like they're afraid to play with me, but they constantly want to play with me. It's frustrating, to say the least.
The horrendous sounds they make are by far the worst part. Every noise sounds like a dying cat. I turn out my light and try to go to sleep, and all of a sudden I hear an "ACK" that seriously sounds like it could belong to a cat who just had its neck snapped. The worst part? they literally will not stop making these sounds until I get up out of bed and chase them out of my room. I don't know how every single sound out of their mouths sounds like a dying cat, but they do. I know full well that they're fighting with each other and are fine, but every time I have to check because that's honestly what I imagine death sounds like.
They do this at least four or five times every single day, including fighting 100% of the time within 10 minutes of me going to sleep. It's incredibly frustrating because every time I try to play with them, they ignore it, or I have to do 100x the work they do just to get them involved. I'll snap a rubber band and send it flying, which one of my cats loves, but then I have to walk to wherever it landed and flick it again. All he'll do is chase it, then look at it. Throwing toys results in me chasing them more often than the cats, they are deathly afraid of most Da Bird toys now for some reason (probably me vocalizing my frustrations after the dozenth time they refused to play with it), except for when I remove the feather and then they'll chase the safety pin at the end..... for about 20 seconds. Regardless of what I do to try and play with them, it lasts maybe two minutes if they're in a really playful mood, but usually more along the 30 seconds to one minute scale. I know full well that this is causing their insane and annoying levels of energy, but I can not figure out what to do to appease these animals.
Oh, they WILL play with dangling strings and whatnot, but that does nothing for my problem. They aren't getting a single lick of exercise out of that. 99% of their playing now involves lunging at a string that is less than 6" from their faces.
The horrendous sounds they make are by far the worst part. Every noise sounds like a dying cat. I turn out my light and try to go to sleep, and all of a sudden I hear an "ACK" that seriously sounds like it could belong to a cat who just had its neck snapped. The worst part? they literally will not stop making these sounds until I get up out of bed and chase them out of my room. I don't know how every single sound out of their mouths sounds like a dying cat, but they do. I know full well that they're fighting with each other and are fine, but every time I have to check because that's honestly what I imagine death sounds like.
They do this at least four or five times every single day, including fighting 100% of the time within 10 minutes of me going to sleep. It's incredibly frustrating because every time I try to play with them, they ignore it, or I have to do 100x the work they do just to get them involved. I'll snap a rubber band and send it flying, which one of my cats loves, but then I have to walk to wherever it landed and flick it again. All he'll do is chase it, then look at it. Throwing toys results in me chasing them more often than the cats, they are deathly afraid of most Da Bird toys now for some reason (probably me vocalizing my frustrations after the dozenth time they refused to play with it), except for when I remove the feather and then they'll chase the safety pin at the end..... for about 20 seconds. Regardless of what I do to try and play with them, it lasts maybe two minutes if they're in a really playful mood, but usually more along the 30 seconds to one minute scale. I know full well that this is causing their insane and annoying levels of energy, but I can not figure out what to do to appease these animals.
Oh, they WILL play with dangling strings and whatnot, but that does nothing for my problem. They aren't getting a single lick of exercise out of that. 99% of their playing now involves lunging at a string that is less than 6" from their faces.
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