Cats yearning for love

My girl-cat Sofie whines. She worries me.

Why cats whine and what to do about it can baffle any cat lover. With my Sofie, I not only check her water and food bowls, I also check to see of her litter box is clean. Sofie is very particular about her litter box. She won’t go elsewhere, but she won’t go in the litter box until it meets her clean standards.

How do I know this? Experience. Plus, Sofie whines about it, stands there in front of it until I give it - and her - the proper attention.

Which is another thing. Attention. Certain times of the day, I can hear the Sofie whine. She visits me in my home office, after I call her while she’s whining, for a little head rub.

She acts like she doesn’t want to be picked up and cuddled, yet after she whines about it for a moment (!), she’s in all her cat glory, soaking up the attention.

She cries at night, too, if she’s left alone in a room after we’ve gone to bed. I don’t know why she doesn’t just follow us to bed. We end up calling her and she sleeps on the bed with us nearly every night.

My husband consults a psychic every now and again. During a recent reading, she mentioned that Sofie is not feeling good. A day after the reading, Sofie had a vomiting incident, so she indeed wasn’t feeling well.

But I think she’s yearning for love.

Photo Credit: pg ~

July 3rd, 2009 by Janet Muniz | Posted in Cat Behavior | (0)