You might remember the problems I had right after Mamma Kitty passed away. Shiva was refusing to eat anything that was given to her, and would meow constantly then go insane tearing through the house if we did not keep putting different things in her food dish for her to turn her nose up at.
Well, the food situation has been dealt with. She still meows non-stop if she wants something - like to be let out late at night when it is time for her to stay in the house for the night. But the going insane, refusing to eat, and keeping me awake seems to have been dealt with.
The problem I have now is that Shiva wants my bed. Over the summer months, I sleep on an air mattress out in the living room because it is much cooler than my bedroom. At first, Shiva slept on the other side of the airbed where I had placed towels under the sheets to protect it from her claws.
Now that the weather is cooler, I have put a blanket over where Shiva was sleeping. At first she loved that blanket and slept on it all the time. But for the last couple of nights she has insisted on sleeping right up against me so that I cannot even move. No matter how many times I move her, she still gravitates back to me.
I thought it was because she likes sleeping close to me, but this morning after I got up, she insisted on sleeping in the middle of the blanket and sheet that I sleep with! I move her onto the other blanket that she use to love sleeping on, but she goes right back to my spot where the mattress is not protected with towels.
I can't make her move - I go over to push her over to her side of the airbed, but one look from those sweet, innocent, adoring eyes and I just can't do it.
What am I going to do when I move back into the bedroom? I cannot let her sleep on the bed in there.