> Yes, you're right. My cat does that too. Right now she's curled up asleep on top of my laptop case, under my desk. It looks very uncomfortable and it's full of hard plastic connectors and pens and stuff sticking out of pockets, but it's MINE so she's happy.
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> It sure would be great to have human friends who would drop whatever they were doing and come running, all excited and happy, just because they hadn't seen me for a whole two or three minutes. Then again, most of my human friends are capable of retaining more than one thought in their heads at a time, and can conclude that just because I'm temporarily out of their line of sight, it doesn't necessarily mean I'm either dead or have moved to Tanzania and abandoned them forever.
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> Brunnen-"at least, I assume that's what pets think, judging by the way they react when you come back"G

Well i have four cats, which is the essence of the problem. See, when you have one cat, all that they have is you. when you have two cats, they get bored of each other and will be excited to see you. but FOUR? when you reach that number, they just don't care much anymore except once you've gone to bed and the bedroom door is shut and they just absolutely HAVE to serenade you. I love it when the cats show affection, but not when they keep me up all night!

Catti"yawn"brie