Having an elderly and increasingly deaf cat who like likes to sleep deeply in very odd positions and often doesn't wake up until he's touched (or smells food) really isn't very good for my blood pressure in this heat

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devonkiwi@mastodonapp.uk — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:09:08 GMT

@afewbugs Cats are so adaptable. My 18+ year old cat lost her sight about 15 months ago. She always used my bathroom as a base, and now lives there full time. She has food, water, toys, a bed and a litter tray, and seems perfectly happy.
It does make the early morning trip to the loo interesting though!

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afewbugs@social.coop — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:45:37 GMT

@elduvelle I have been having a lot of emotions that I'm really too hot to feel right now

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elduvelle@neuromatch.social — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:16:05 GMT

@afewbugs this thread is hilarious, thank you for this

(also I hope you are all well despite all these emotions!)

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forestfjord@wandering.shop — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:37:12 GMT

@afewbugs @moonrabbit

I have a dog like this now 🥲🫶

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moonrabbit@sunny.garden — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:34:32 GMT

@afewbugs tbf humans are just the same, at both extremes ...

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pete@social.coop — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:29:18 GMT

@afewbugs Fiona has finally accepted that the rabbits do not want frozen bottles of water in their run. They stay as far away from them as possible.

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afewbugs@social.coop — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:26:56 GMT

@moonrabbit when I was a kid we had a dog with the opposite problem, if it was snowing and you let him out to pee you had to go out with him and physically drag him back in when he had finished, otherwise he'd just stay out there eating the snow till he was shivering

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moonrabbit@sunny.garden — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:25:21 GMT

@afewbugs we keep having to go fetch cats down from the hottest place in the house

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autoperipatetikos@neurodifferent.me — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:23:00 GMT

@afewbugs they do make me laugh!

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tantramar@zeroes.ca — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:22:40 GMT

@afewbugs I mean, which of us hasn’t been there…? ‍️🤪

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afewbugs@social.coop — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:20:45 GMT

Today's unhelpful elderly cat update: he took himself off to sleep in a shady corner that we were worried was too hot for him, so we pointed a fan at him and came back 15 minutes later to find out it had fallen over. So Charlie stood it up and pointed it back at him, and he came out of his corner to smack it over again. So we've accepted he doesn't want a breeze and are leaving him to it

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shezza_t@mastodon.ie — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:36:20 GMT

@afewbugs #SamCat, who is a young 5YO, scared me into thinking he was having some sort of seizure.

He bolted into the house, eyes big, tail thwapping, and his back and flank twitching non-stop.

When I finally cornered him, I discovered he had loads of prickly grass seeds stuck in his fur.

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bashstkid@mastodon.online — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:24:07 GMT

@afewbugs Cats never appreciate a witness to a loss of dignity.

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apostateenglishman@mastodon.world — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:06:39 GMT

@afewbugs The indignity!

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afewbugs@social.coop — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:04:10 GMT

So the same cat almost gave my wife (who is working from home) a heart attack later in the day - he started walking oddly and then sitting down and she panicked that he was losing control of his back legs in the heat, then realised he had a poo stuck to his bum

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hedders@mas.to — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:07:52 GMT

@afewbugs sympathy.

See also - large goldie puppy who wants to sit or lie on me at all times (and who is bored because it’s too hot to take her out or to play with her too energetically).

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afewbugs@social.coop — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 07:13:35 GMT

@Gulleko after he failed to respond to all the bustling noises of us getting out of bed I eventually found him lying on his back with his head under the ramp of the cat tree, which was a scary few seconds until I noticed him breathing

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carstenboll@mstdn.dk — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 07:10:05 GMT

@Pepijn @afewbugs This is the level of dad-joke (cat-joke) I come here for!

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gulleko@kind.social — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 06:59:55 GMT

@afewbugs The older our cat gets, the more often I get anxious and have to make sure that she's still breathing. Luckily she breathes fairly visibly so I only have to look at her for a few seconds.

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pepijn@mastodon.online — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 06:57:46 GMT

@afewbugs You have a cat though, which is allegedly lowering ones blood pressure.

It's a real Cat-22.