30 (More) Things I Love About My Cats

Almost two years ago, I wrote a post titled “30 Things I Love About My Cats” and I’ve been meaning to do a follow-up post because, I mean, there are not just 30 things I love about these girls! No way! Here are 30 more things I love about my girls:

1) Ellie’s love for a good box to sit in. Whenever I get a box that’s big enough for her to sit in, I’ll keep it around for about a week so she can enjoy it.

2) The way Lila eats. She grabs a few morsels of food in her mouth and shakes her head back and forth furiously as she eats. It’s hilarious.

3) When the girls chase each other around the apartment. They love using the couch as a launching pad to pounce on each other!

4) The way Ellie plays with her toys! She mainly loves small toys she can bat around the apartment and I often have to rescue some of her toys that she batted underneath a closet door. She will run all around the apartment playing with these toys!

5) Lila’s love for crinkle balls. She doesn’t play with a ton of toys, but whenever I give her a shiny crinkle ball, she will bat that thing all around the apartment.

6) Whenever they both curl up next to each other on the couch. They don’t snuggle with each other, but they will sleep side-by-side and it always makes me melt.

7) Waking up to Ellie sitting right on my stomach or back, or cuddled up between my legs. I almost always wake up to her next to me, as close as she can get!

8) Lila’s hammock. I bought this little cat hammock for Christmas last year and for a while, neither of them used it. But now it’s her favorite place to sleep! I have it near a window so she can enjoy the sunshine during her hammock naps. 🙂

9) The way they look at me with such delight in their eyes when I turn around with a box of treats in my hands. Yum-yum time!

10) When Ellie “talks” to me. She is my chatty cat who loves to have a good conversation with me. I’ll ask her a question and she’ll meow right back to me, as if answering me. And we’ll go back and forth like that a few times! It’s cute.

11) How Lila will come out of my room mid-morning (she usually naps under my bed in the mornings) and jump right up on my desk to get petted. It’s like she wakes up from her naps and says, “Where’s mama?” And then finds me! I love that she needs me!

12) Whenever we are all snuggled together in bed. I call it “family time” and it makes me so happy to have my little family on the bed with me.

13) The way Ellie sits on my dresser (which is right across from my spin bike) to stare at me while I do a spin workout. It’s almost like she’s judging me? Hmm.

14) The way Lila will grab Ellie by the neck and bring her close to her so that Lila can groom the top of her head. Lila loves grooming Ellie.

15) The way Lila will jump right on Ellie, first to give her kisses and then to bite her. That’s when the wrestling starts!

16) When Ellie lets me pick her up and hold her like a baby. She’ll let me kiss her neck and rub her little thigh and it makes me so happy!

17) How fluffy Lila is! She is so snuggly and petting her soft, fluffy fur is truly the best thing ever. It always calms me down!

18) How excited they both get when they are chasing a bug around the apartment! Anytime I see them running around the apartment in tandem, I know they’re tracking a bug. 🙂

19) How happy Ellie gets when she gets to go outside on the patio! She will rub herself all over the rug (and sometimes the dirty concrete, ugh) and meow like crazy. She’ll poke her head out of the slats of the railing to see what’s going on outside. She’s happiest when she’s out on the patio, I think.

20) When Lila emerges from beneath the couch. She slithers out like she’s a snake and then just sits next to the couch for a minute, as if gathering her bearings.

21) Whenever I find them both sleeping on my bed in the middle of the day. It rarely happens and when it does, it makes me squeal.

22) The way Ellie can jump from the floor to the top of my office chair! It’s quite a leap and it always scares me a little when she does it because I’m usually not expecting it. But then she’ll lay down on the top of the chair while I work and it’s super comforting to have her there.

23) How Lila reacts when I get out the treats. She starts squeaking and doing big circles around the table. Homegirl loves her food!

24) Lizard Patrol! We don’t see as many lizards here as we did at our old apartment (which was on the first floor; this one is on the third), but whenever they catch one hanging on the window ledge, they don’t take their eyes off him/her for a second!

25) The way Ellie watches TV with me! She loves football most (probably because there’s a lot of action happening on screen that she can follow along with) but she’s also watched other shows with me and it’s truly the cutest.

26) The way Lila will “boop” my face in the morning. She stretches out her little paw and boops me right in the nose! I always respond with, “Did you just boop me?” Hehehe.

27) Their sweet dispositions towards each other. They rarely fight and I’m really glad they seem to really love each other!

28) The way Ellie loves sitting in the little groovy bus my mom bought her for her birthday. Every time she goes into it, I pretend she’s taking a trip to my mom’s house for a visit. Whenever she walks out of the bus, I’ll ask her what she did at my mom’s and then, when I’m talking to my mom, I’ll ask my mom how the visit went. My mom plays along with my ridiculousness. 🙂

29) The way Lila will always jump up on the dining room table if I sit there with my laptop to work. She’ll rub her face against the side of the laptop and sometimes, she’ll bump her head against my hands that are trying to type, forcing me to stop typing to give her pets. She’s demanding!

30) The obsessive happiness they bring me. I didn’t think I could love a pet as much as I loved Dutch (my dachshund who died in 2018 at the age of 16), but I do. They are as much a part of me as he still is, and I can’t imagine my life without them.