Six Ways To Tell if Your Cat is Spoiled

Mine are and I’m okay with that.

Scout sitting pretty in her bowtie/ Photo courtesy of Author

Cats are unique and amazing, unlike any other species. Thousands of years ago, they came out from the forest and chose to live around humans. This move helped control the rodent population and probably cemented our fascination with these glorious creatures.

There’s a saying, dogs come when they’re called, but cats take a message and get back to you, or not. Their choosing domestication did not affect their independent nature.

Cats do what they want and by most accounts, we let them.

Does that make cats spoiled? Probably. Here are six ways to tell if your cat can be classified as spoiled.

1. They wake you up every morning at 5:30 AM to get breakfast.

I made the mistake very early in my cat-mom tenure of letting my cats determine when they ate breakfast. I’d jump out of bed whenever they meowed for food.

Part of me did this out of fear that my neighbors might hear multiple meows at once and realize had more than one feline friend living with me. My cats learned they could get their way with me by simply meowing. A habit was formed.