A Purr-sident of the House: Cats Taking Charge of the House

 Every household/home has its own set of rules – but only when and if you live with a cat you have actually been caged and rules are reversed. For me, I was living under one monarchy and four rules – Bunty, Babli, Mini and Prince Goldie. Together they had formed a furry government where every paw mattered and the humans…. We were just humble citizens following our royal decrees.

 Some of the laws of the land included:

 Law #1 – The Lap Tax:  Lap time is most precious time to these felines and there was exclusive time that was allocated for the same. It was the ultimate sulk and stare combo where resistance was futile. 

 

Law #2: The Royal Banquet Clause: Prince Goldie always insisted that his bowl would be overflowing at any given point of time with cat food. If even a single grain of kibble would be visible it would be considered a national crisis. All of meows if such an event happened would be enough to bring the staff of human running to his beck and call.

Law #3: The Sunbeam Sovereignty: Every ray of visible sunbeam belonged to Bunty, Babli and Mini. Prince Goldie would get visiting rights which had an approval that would be rare. Once any of the cats stretched out in the patch of golden light it would be declared royal property until sunset.

Law #4: The Midnight Zoomies Act: It was a well-known act that at 3.00 AM every night Bunty, Babli and Mini led an operation that was known as Operation Midnight Patrol where they could tear through the house while Goldie would be on tow. They had only one mission to keep in mind during this act and that would be to keep us humans awake which was also considered a security check as well.

 

Law #5: The Bed Occupancy Treaty: Bed occupancy with cats is never easy for humans. There was a strict law which permitted only 20% of the beg to humans while the remaining 80% was permitted to ownership of the cats- Bunty, Babli and Mini. They sprawled like royalty while they left humans all curled up on the edge like peasants.

 

Law #6: The Snuggle Mandate: Immediate compliance to unlimited cuddles, head scratches and chin rubs were to be provided to humans. All forms of cuddles with humans were included in this law and if there was no immediate compliance then furniture scratching sanctions would follow.

 

Long May They Reign 

Under the president-shipsy of Bunty, Babli, Mini and Prince Goldie it was both demanding and heart-warming. Order was enforced discipline and reminders of who was constantly the President of the house.

While the humans may pay all the bills, they ran the kingdom!