My cat is gorgeous. The most issue I have with her, is pressing my keys when she wants attention otherwise, she is a cuddle bug. She takes time to trust people, but once she trust you, she trust you implicitly. Doesn’t scratch or bite. I sleep with her curled up under my face, her head on my chest purring, very relaxing.
She actually wakes me up when my blood sugars drop too low and has done for my partner as well. Pretty sure she smells the low blood sugar on our breath. She will get on top of us, meow until we wake up. Once we eat something, she is happy to back to bed. No, not her either, us, she doesn’t want any food herself. Woke me up with a 1.7 reading before. Think that is 30 in the American way of reading blood sugar. I was trying to sleep it off, cause felt awful, felt much better after eating. It’s been so many times now, I’ve lost count. When ever she does it though, she has always been right. It’s also different from the way she wakes us if she is hungry. That’s like a naggy sorta meow and she doesn’t stand there smelling our breath with it. Then the little trill when we get up. So it’s pretty distinct to us.
She also lets us do anything we need, give her pills, clean her ears, trim her nails etc. I’ve trained dogs all my life, grandparents were show people. I just applied that to the cat, with some small alterations, as their motivations are a bit different. I trained her with the backyard now, well two backyards as well. So she knows she can’t leave the perimeter. After all these years, shes never once broke the backyard rule.
I was leash training, but gave up on that, cause there are too many people in the neighbourhood, who let their dogs off the leash and some are pretty aggressive, even attacked kids. Actually had one of the aggressive dogs barge into the old house, right through the front door and went running over to the golden retriever. Our goldys gorgeous as well, so she stayed calm and I just came over and lead the aggressive dog back out. The owner then started panicking, screaming for the dog. Always stay calm with aggressive dogs. I’ve broken up many a dog fight, big dogs to, malamutes, ridgbacks, rottys etc. This was a couple of years before we got the cat thankfully.