#exacerbated by the fact he's basically pair-bonded to my partner. in Ike's esteem addi is The Fucking GOAT.

[bilbobagginsomebabez]

so the thing about smart housecats who used to be stray is they need a Challenge equivalent to an actual real bird when they kill. and the thing about that is cats are really fast and have a physics engine in their brains. so the thing about that is you have to move the rod with a string & toy on it really fast or it's boring. and the thing about that is the rod and the cat are moving faster than i can really see. and the thing about that is the cat is Not looking at the rod, he's looking at the toy.

so basically i keep hitting our cat with the rod while trying to create engaging play and he's clearly beginning to resent me for it.

#there is no way to explain to this cat that Actually it's his fault for being smart as fuck and too goddamn fast #like he truly just thinks i'm useless and suck shit at playing #exacerbated by the fact he's basically pair-bonded to my partner. in Ike's esteem addi is The Fucking GOAT. #i dont feed him so he thinks i dont know how to feed him or there's something wrong with the food when i do it. he hates toys if i use them #first. has to be Introduced By Addi #we have to replace toys like weekly to keep him entertained. i had to learn to make cat toys because he just rips them to shreds. #keeping him happy and appropriately enriched is SO HARD and most of the time he decides I am Simply Not Good Enough #but he's smart enough to know he can request that I Produce New Toy. not play with it! just produce it and hand it over to addi. what a cat #staring at my cat like TRULY. truly. HOW is this my fault #bastard man i love him so much.