Everyone has routines…even pets.
Our morning is rather funny from the outside perspective.
1. The alarm is set for 5:55 am
2. Loki stuffs a wet nose in my face at about 5:50 am
3. The alarm goes off
4. I hit snooze…three or four times…with Loki moaning in apparent starvation next to my head
5. I finally nudge Kirk out of bed
6. Kirk showers, I try to go back to sleep… Loki continues to harass me
7. Kirk dresses
8. Kirk feeds Loki
9. Kirk throws a handful of peanuts out the window onto the deck for the Stellar’s Jays and collects the newspaper
10. Loki rushes back into the bedroom to lick his chops and breathe cat food all over my face in an apparent attempt to notify me that Kirk must love him more than I do since he feeds him
11. Kirk makes his lunch, his coffee, my tea
12. I roll out of bed, Milo curls up into the warm space I leave behind
13. I head for the washroom, Loki follows
14. Loki and I both use the toilet (he uses his litterbox obviously)
15. I head for the table and open the newspaper
16. Loki rushes out of the bathroom and leaps onto the middle of the paper ready to receive his morning love
17. Milo stretches his way down the hall to say good morning
18. The two cats perch on the edge of the table and watch the window….waiting….
19. Loki usually gets impatient and heads over to the back of the couch and peers around the corner of the window, moaning softly
20.. The blue jays arrive and the cats thrash their tails in frustration at not being able to engage them directly. The jays taunt them from the other side of the window, Loki chatters in frustration
21. Kirk leaves for work
22. I feed Gizmo and turn on the computer
23. Loki begins to bring me…one by one…each and every toy mouse from the living room and presents them in a pile at my feel while waiting expectantly for the next does of affection….
24. Try to get some work done…….
Every weekday….that’s the routine.