Vindictive Cat
My Cat Is Punishing Me
I went away for a week — now my cat is angry with me
For the first time in five years, I and three of my corporate friends got together. Before COVID, we would take a dream trip every two years. The last time we traveled was in 2018. I would not miss the opportunity to get together. I needed to catch up with these women who helped me be successful in corporate America. I was so excited that I did not think about how my trip would affect my cat. After all, my spouse would be home to take care of him. However, I was wrong not to consider the cat’s feelings.
My cat was not happy when I returned. He yowled at me for about three minutes, then turned his back, flipped up his tail like a flagpole, and walked away. He made a show of not asking me for anything. Taking his toys to my husband and demanding pets from him. When it was dinner time, the cat pointedly ignored me and made sure I saw him ignoring me.
At night, he walked over to where he usually slept on a pillow above my head. He then climbed up on his cat tower to stare at me as I prepared for bed. When I picked him up from the tower and put him on his pillow, he sat, licked his paw across his face two times, and leaped to the floor with his tail high in the air.
