Today we were watching YouTube.
We decided to watch a video of the cat island in Japan. One of the cats in the video meowed which caused my GFs cat to immediately look at the TV, and thus see another cat.
It ran over and started meowing like crazy watching the cats on TV.
I felt bad because it’s an indoor cat and doesn’t have any other cats around, so I switched to a bird video to entertain it.
meowing intensifies
After about 15 min of this we turned the TV off went to the dining table to eat dinner.
As we were eating, the cat was standing in front of the blank TV, meowing and trying to get up onto the TV stand. Not sure if it wants us to turn it back on, or if it’s sad because it doesn’t have any cats to hang out with. Judging by the sound of the meows, it sounds like the later.
TL;DR watched a cat video on YouTube. Now my GFs cat has an existential crisis/potential YouTube addiction.
EDIT:
I know we should get a second cat. There’s a few problems:
- the cat is really old (15) not sure if that would stress him out in his old age.
- the cat lives with my GFs mom. And she doesn’t want another cat.
- our landlord doesn’t allow pets, so we can’t bring him to our place and get another cat.
He is well loved and gets lots of attention though. I’m currently saving for a down payment so I can actually buy a place (hopefully by end of 2023). We might be able to get a second cat at that point.