I So Did Not Want to Get Up This Morning!

[queenoftheskies]

Cause the rain is pouring down outside and it sounds so nice on the roof and I could have really kept sleeping for a while longer.

Sadly, my baby Malik is afraid of the rain. It's not really that loud as it hits the roof, so I guess it must be that we've had thunder and lightning with rain in the past and he remembers that. It was during one of those storms that he started hiding when he hears loud noises. Usually in youngest son's closet.

This morning, he's out slinking around. He came into the bathroom when I got up and cried to be picked up. Since then, he's hidden under the covers several times and is now crouched under my desk between my feet.

Poor baby kitty. (Who is not a baby, but is over 2 years old and 20 pounds.)

Comments

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

I totally thought Malik was a baby until the last line!

[aberrant1.livejournal.com]

That's a big kitty! (Then again, most cats seem big to me as my family's cats have always been of the scrawny, hyper, impossibly flexible kind).

There's nothing quite as pitiful-yet-irritating as a pet with an irrational fear, is there?

[icepicklobotomy.livejournal.com]

Oh, so Malik isn't human after all?

If he's scared of loud noises...well, has anyone been torturing him? Is that even remotely possible?

Also, it may not be loud to us humans but he's a cat. Better hearing and all that.

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Poor Malik. I didn't want to get out of bed this morning, either. SoCo was all warm and snuggled up with me and with the rain coming down, it was sooo nice. I wish I could have stayed in bed all day because then the sun came out and the day sucked.