Cat Territorial Politics

The cats have decided to camp out in my bedroom to avoid the August heat. They're also trying to avoid my roommate with his flea comb, but he usually finds them anyway.  I don't think they quite grasp that he can see them, even if they can't see him.

In the mean time, cats being cats, everyone has established their own territory within the confines of my room. Tink is the least likely to hang out in my room, but when she does, she's stays in the window at the back of the room. I have a desk in front of it, and I think she believes this gives her nice protection against me seeing/touching her. Again, this is because of that theory cats have that if they can't see you, you can't see them. I have no problem seeing her. However, I do have trouble trying to touch her because the desk and my fat keep us apart. Le sigh.

Rowan and Rhiannon are trying to share a shelf and that is causing all manner of awkward compromise. For a while, they both wanted to sit on the top shelf. We'd see Rhi sitting in front, with Rowan pushed up against and slightly on her, as if Rhi has grown a second head. While we found this quite amusing, they apparently saw it as beneath their kitteh dignity and after some hissing and batting at each other, decided to alter their arrangement.

Rhi now has the top shelf to herself and Rowan lurks on the shelf just below. For a while, they would sleep in the same direction, then Rowan started facing in the opposite direction of whatever way Rhi was sleeping. This proved to be a wise decision on Rowan's part because one day, Rhiannon decided to puke where she was sleeping. She always does that. The cat for some reason doesn't have the sense to go puke somewhere else. Anyway, instead of puking off the top shelf onto Rowan's head, she only got the tip of her tail. This made clean up easier for everyone! Plus, Rowan didn't feel compelled to kill her.

Cats are strange about these things. In two weeks, all of these favorite napping spots will be abandoned and wars will be fought over new ones. Sometimes, these spots are inexplicable places on the floor.  You can never tell where the cats will want to sleep. All that you can be sure of is that if one cat lays there, the other cats want it.