MeowStack #35: Tupi and Dotta will manipulate you into submission
and you will like it!
MeowStack is always looking for new kitties to feature. Featured kitties are never sponsored, and we don’t charge for submissions. We just want to meet your cat! Finally, a way to give your feline overlord the respect, admiration, and worship they so obviously deserve:
What is your name, and why are you the most magnificent creature in the universe?
I, Tupi, arrived first and so of course, I am the most magnificent of the magnificent creatures that live here. I was found half-dead in a bin (or so they tell me, I find it hard to believe I would have got myself in such a mess) and when I woke up in the rescue centre, I only had half a tail! But even so, I stalk around the neighbourhood like I own it. Because I do, obvs.
Other reasons why I am the most magnificent creature in the universe include: my surprising sweet little voice, the black smudge on my nose, my propensity to search for "caves" (spaces underneath the human's legs but covered with blankets). I'm also the bravest cat the vet has ever treated. Although I'm not sure I trust the opinion of someone that likes to stick things in my bun hole. He says he is taking my temperature, but why does he need to do that? I'm always the perfect cosy, warm, fluffy temperature, doh!
I'm Dotta and I am the most magnificent of the magnificent creatures that live here because, omg, I am just SO beautiful. Can you believe that indefinable eye colour I have? There quite literally is not a word for it, that's how stunning I am. Tupi thinks he owns this place ‘cus he’s been here longer, but anyone can see I rule the roost. You just need to see us "playing" — my favourite move is to literally just stand on him until he tires himself out waving his legs in the air like a helicopter.
How did you choose your human to be your supplicant?
Dotta: I was living in some place called a cat café — such a weird place, humans pay just to come and stare at us and coo over us and stroke our coats — if we allow. My supplicant was cooing over this little ginger scrap of a thing, but I just sat in the window looking sad and elegant until she noticed me. Then I made sure I was there in the window, looking out every time she walked by. Humans are very easy to manipulate.
Tupi: I was going to go and live with the human's friend who worked at the cat shelter where they took me after someone stole half of my tail, but that other human already had two cats, so when my human came with the other human to check on me, I made big eyes at her and purred when she gathered me up in her arms. I think Dotta mentioned that humans are easy to manipulate.
What is the most amusing way you confound your human?
Tupi: I enjoy shouting at her until she opens the door to the terrace, then I lead her out there and act like I'm going to sunbathe with her (she likes that), then I saunter back inside and sit in the bathroom shouting my head off until she comes back inside to see if I'm okay, then I go back out on to the terrace again. It's a hoot!
Dotta: I'm quite the grown-up lady now, but I still like to go absolutely mental chasing my tail. I like to flick it about and jump in the air at the same time and generally lose it. It's quite the show. I often do it just as the human is about to connect to one of those video call things, just to make sure she is flustered and distracted.
By what means will you inevitably achieve world domination?
Tupi: I'm not sure I can be arsed with that to be quite honest, I'm 8 now. I think I'll just wait for the rest of the cat army to do that, and I'll have a nice quiet retirement somewhere sunny.
Dotta: I'm insulted by the question. With my looks, my warrior skills and my paw/eye coordination, do you even need to ask?
What else does the world need to know about you?
Tupi: I am named after a bar in Portugal, which I find a little below my station, but people seem to like it.
Dotta: I was called Daughter at the cat cafe. The people there didn't know how to spell Daughter, as it is an English word, whatever English is. So the human phoneticized it. On an unrelated note, I really like to rub things on my face like blankets, hands, toys, or just the floor if none of those other are available.
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Oh, my babies! They are so gorgeous and so very cheeky!
I would pay to see video of them standing on the other while the other does airplane kicks