My kitty Zorro is doing it right now AIFLoud.

Damn, Steph.

do you want soup or stewy chicken?

Stewy chicken.

Man, it has not been the best day. I need to call and argue with insurance, I found out today that in five days of overages I doubled my phone bill, and my sister just called crying because they are at the emergency vet. The Queen Bitch of their cat herd, who's 18, may be going into kidney failure. I mean, long life and all, but it's never easy. I kind of hope it's time, really. It's still sad, though - I think I had just graduated high school when we adopted her.

Blergh. I tried really hard to be productive tonight and not fuck about on the internets, and I still ran out of time to do even half of the things I wanted to.

Hah. Our foster cat will stand in the middle of the living room and meow like we're starving him to death and he hasn't had human contact in YEARS...because he can't figure out that we walked around the corner or something.

Never mind about the chicken, it's gone bad. That's the final failstraw for tonight, I'm taking half a Xanax and going to bed. ISTG, every time I think I have my life and finances going along fairly well, I fuck it up in a big way. I guess I'm still the James Emm Effing Bond of self-sabotage.

{{smonster}} A chicken and a phone bill, that's not a major lifefail! It'll be all right!

Why do cats go into empty (peopleless) rooms and wail?

At least some of the times they do that, it is a hunting behavior. When cats go out together for a spot of cooperative hunting, they will call to each other that way - on a larger scale, lion prides will roar in turn whie out hunting together. It isn't the full-on dominant male ROAR for territorial boundary defense, they are just checking in with each other. I have also known cats to croon when they have prey or toys in their mouth. I'm not sure if it is a "come and get it" or a "look what I have and I'm not sharing".

The crooning is usually mama-to-kittens, "Here's dinner, come out of hiding."

I have no idea about calling in empty rooms, unless they're taking sonar measurements for size, in case the mothership needs a landing spot.

Better tomorrow, smonster.

I have also known cats to croon when they have prey or toys in their mouth. I'm not sure if it is a "come and get it" or a "look what I have and I'm not sharing".

My cat Pico would kill his favourite toy every night in the middle of the night, and felt the need to tell me about it by meowing urgently until I got up and congratulated him. Once I figured it out, there were a lot of half asleep, "Oh what a brave kitty" speeches from my bed.

they're taking sonar measurements for size, in case the mothership needs a landing spot.

This is exactly what it is. I mean, no actual scientific evidence here, but I have decided that it sounds awfully cool and is therefore plausible.

Rocky does it coming out of the litterbox. it's weird, but since he used to be a biter and hasn't bitten for a while, I don't complain, and it seems that he meows more in general...kind of a "Use your words," thing. Should have named him "Belker" maybe, Ginger.