Her day (as far as we know) starts about 7am when she scratches on our bedroom door. Sometimes I hear her scratch as early as 5am but I ignore her and go back to sleep because if I let her in, she won't let me go back to sleep by lying on the bed where I sleep.
I get up and let her in the room. She makes this cute almost-purring sound as she comes through the door as if to say "It's about time." She used to jump up on the foot of the bed and curl up. But now she goes and lies down next to my wife's head and scratches the sheet. When my wife wakes up, Lily then goes to the foot of the bed and stays there as long as she wants, which usually ends before we're both out of the shower. Sometimes she hides under the bed where she knows we can't get her. Most the time she leaves on her own.
She gets her morning meal once we get downstairs in the kitchen.
She gets her afternoon meal later if she finishes her breakfast. Some days she doesn't seem very interested in eating. Some days she acts as if we starve her.
Then she usually sleeps most of the day. I know cats sleep a lot but I wonder what she does at night. Once recently I got up at 5am for a medical procedure and she was awake and acted surprised to see me.
She has a favorite chair with a blanket on it to sleep in and if not there, she like to sleep on her favorite blanket on the couch. She doesn't seem to like to sleep on leather and most of our furniture is leather. Also, on the couch, she likes to sleep on the crack between cushions on her blanket (see picture above).
Around 6pm she wanders into the family room where I'll be watching the news. She'll jump up beside me on the loveseat and curl up. I'm the only one in the family she'll do that with.
If she's eaten her afternoon meal, she gets treats. But she has to earn them with nose boops. My finger touches her nose. She wants this and will grab my hand to pull it down to her nose. She probably wants it because she so desperately wants treats.
She'll do that for a while and then maybe she gets bored. She'll jump down and move to the couch or her bed and sleep some more.
The last thing in her day is "momma time." This is when, after I go to bed, she and momma sit on the loveseat and momma feeds her snacks. This is very important to Lily. In fact, if I don't go to bed on time (staying up to watch a late football game, perhaps), she'll glare at me.
When I do go to bed (late or not), she'll go upstairs to the bedroom. My wife will get ready for bed, too, even though she goes to bed after I do. Lily will hang around, sometimes wanting scritches on her back from me. But she always leaves with momma for their time. Momma time ends when one of them (usually Lily) falls asleep.
And that is Lily's day.
Do you have an animal that has a routine? Let me know in the comments below.
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