Published on 12, July, 2020
I have counted 53 which apply to me, including the last one
Feel free to add your score, discuss any of the items or suggest new additions to the list.
I counted 37 on this list - had to actually do a tally chart to mark down which ones related to me lol.It's a good way of working out what you do and don't like doing though. I liked 28 - as I always talk to more animals then I do people - me and my cat have great conversations as she speaks back lol!Mweekie xx
I sometimes go for a couple of days without talking to anyone except my hamster... Is that weird? He doesn't make any sounds.
When I visit my dad I always speak to my cat by trying to copy his miaow. I imagine I know what emotion cats are expressing by the type of miaow
Question (forgive me butting in)......do you have non-verbal exchanges of communication with your hamster? Slow blinks, postural body language, please & thank yous?
Well it started like this:
I'm living with my new G/F (about 20 years ago) and I find she's a bit full-on and at the end of some evenings, I want to sit quiet and alone for a half hour or so and decompress. She has a hamster by the name of Frodo, who's a bit feisty and bitey TBF at least as far as I am concerned, (as I would be if I was in a cage 24/7) so I decide that quite time for me will be wild time for Frodo where she gets the run of the living room floor... The first few times pass without incident apart from I'm briefed that she will chew cables, and indeed I quickly learn that if she goes behind the T.V. I need to intervene...
Now you also need to know that I am sitting in the middle of a short sofa, and at the end on my left behind the sofa rolled up into a tight tube and tucked vertically into a corner behind the other end of the sofa is a foamy yoga mat doohicky...
So we get into a bit of a routine, then one night she goes super quiet, and I'm just at the point of going to see if she's behind the T.V.. when there is a huge scrabbling noise on my left. I turn to look and there on the top back of the sofa is Frodo literally radiating a sense of accomplishment. No word of a lie, you could see how pleased with herself she was to be sitting up there by my head. I congratulated her on her achievement and sat still waiting to see what she would do next...
After a short pause she ran up to me, moved from sofa to my left shoulder then abseilled down my chest, landed on my thigh, ran towards my knee, then abseiled off that knee to the floor, before making herself scarce. As I was considering what just happened there was an enormous scrabbling behind me and to the left...
Sure enough, that was the first of many, many, repetitions of that "game", and it only seemed to work if I played my part, She would wait after the climb for me to swivel my head left and pretend surprise, then abseil down to the floor via the same route, and do it again.
I could easily make an alternative explanation for the activity other than it being a game, but if you were there that first night, and saw that look she had after that first climb, you'd know she was clearly having herself a little game with me, and enjoying herself.
What was the game?