Cat asking for CONSTANT attention
I have a 13 year old orange cat. I love him with my whole soul. He never liked to play to much, even when he was younger he preferred to chill out.
Since he’s old, he can only really play for 10 minutes at a time throughout the evening. He’s tired and I think his joints are starting to hurt. He has his favorite toys and couldn’t care about any new ones we buy him. Doesn’t care about cat nip or his tree. Literally nothing but like 5 toys 😭
The issue is he is constantly asking to be pet. He will wake up from a nap just for me to pet him and then go back to sleep. He begs to be pet all day long. I work with profoundly disabled adults and I have very high functioning autism. Some days I am so overwhelmed and so touched out that my cat crying and crying and pawing at me drives me insane. Sometimes, I just want to be alone and he’s practically wearing my skin. I can’t even open my eyes without him knowing. He’s literally begging me right now.
He’s always been like this, but it’s getting worse as he ages. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong that he’s not stimulated enough 😭 he’s my baby, but petting him all of the time is also unrealistic. Could it be old age?