Advantages of being a geriatric cat

[Jaded]

1) Vacuum cleaners are silent.

[border-rider]

2) No-one has the heart to shout at you for cruelty to soft furnishings

[Regulator]

3) Your human beings are even more compliant to your every wish than normal.

[little miss mac]

Bless him. Is Alfie deaf now? How old is he?

[onb]

You can be rude and poke your tongue at whoever you like

[Kathy]

4) You get to stroll into to garden of the Neighbour-who-hates-your-humans, puke violently at the feet of said neighbour, and then sit there watching the ensuing recriminations, apologies and cleaning efforts with a look of innocent confusion on your face.  

[ed_o_brain]

You can attack posties, yet your human would not believe that you could ever do such a thing
Posties boycott home after 'cat attacks'

[Regulator]

2) No-one has the heart to shout at you for cruelty to soft furnishings

Surely if they did, you wouldn't be able to hear them anyway... 

[Jaded]

Bless him. Is Alfie deaf now? How old is he?

Yes, he only hears the food dishes, and that is if he isn't asleep. He's 16 now.

[Kim]

1b) ...so are 80s power ballads.


(I have a friend with one cat who's scared of the hoover in the usual manner, and one who doesn't mind the hoover, but exhibits a similar reaction to 80s power ballads.)

[onb]

I have a similar aversion to Jennifer Rush singing The Power of Love

[Regulator]

I have a similar aversion to Jennifer Rush singing The Power of Love

That was 'our tune' for an old flame and me...  quite a sad story behind it - but that's for another thread.

[onb]

I have a similar aversion to Jennifer Rush singing The Power of Love

That was 'our tune' for an old flame and me...  quite a sad story behind it - but that's for another thread.

Tell it to Simon Bates.

[Flying Duck]

5)  You get much more tinned food than dried food as all your teeth have fallen out...