I think that you should know this because turning on the heat at night produces one of the most adorable and important kinds of winter cats, the LIMBS LIMP AND DROOPY SUPER TOTALLY PASSED OUT DANGLY TAIL AWESOMELY COMPLETELY BLISSFUL WINTER RADIATOR CAT™️.
Here, for example, is Sloth demonstrating the kind of total relaxation and oh-fuck-yes-radiator-time posture you can expect from the LIMBS LIMP AND DROOPY SUPER TOTALLY PASSED OUT DANGLY TAIL AWESOMELY COMPLETELY BLISSFUL WINTER RADIATOR CAT™️. I will honor my responsibility as a person who a) dwells with cats and b) has access to the internet and post many more photographic examples of this very specific and very important kind of cat as autumn turns to winter.
This is Trout. Trout likes the bathroom radiator the best and he has A HEART SHAPE ON HIS CHIN.
Hermy* has claimed the bedroom radiator because Hermy has claimed the entire bedroom and despite our house being a cat rescue where she lives with both biological and adopted siblings she chooses to believe that she is my ONLY cat and I only have eyes for HER and she is the only cat allowed in my bedroom or my HEART. (She is capable of looking through every other cat as though they aren’t there in order to maintain this belief. She REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE other cats and only occasionally acknowledges other humans. I am The Favorite™️, and yes, I feel VERY special.)
*She was named years before mediocre wizard book TERF revealed her TERF-iness, sigh, please do not take this as an endorsement of mediocre wizard book TERF but rather as an indication that she had learned her name several times over before the mediocre wizard TERF revealed her TERF-y ways. My cats and I and everyone else in our house abhor TERFs.
This is the bathroom radiator; when it’s on it can burn the hell out of a human but it’s perfection for a cat. They compete for who can press right up against this one — I would have thought that two cats could share, but I have learned from the intense competition and full body stretch of victory that they absolutely CANNOT share, thank you very much.
This cat is Alphys, a beautiful chonk of a tortie love with a face whose fur is split perfectly in half. Even the whiskers grow out white on one side and black on the other. She is basically a work of art and when she isn’t pressed against the bathroom radiator, she likes to chirp on the sink until someone turns on the water to drink directly from the tap AND brushes her for at least four minutes. (There is a bowl of water that lives on that sink and at least twenty other sources of water in the house, but they are not right nor desirable and if she has to EXPLAIN THAT you just DON’T GET IT, MAN.) The brushing and the drinking from the tap are also two activities that go together, and she CANNOT drink if she doesn’t have BRUSH time and please DO NOT suggest otherwise.
I adore her, 10/10, a VERY high quality cat, an excellent cat, a top notch goddamn creature.
