A question for Desi people specifically. Growing up, my family always did really simple chai with just ground cardamom. Occasionally, we added some ginger too. I'm wondering now, how did your family usual spice their chai?
I have two littermate cats, a male and female, who are currently 3 years old. Both were sterilized as kittens. Both are healthy per vet visit last year.
For the last two months, the male cat has been acting strangely at night, around 10pm. He gets into this "mood" where he starts meowing loudly and lunging at his sister. It's not playful and it's not prey stalking behavior. He is upset, and it really looks similar to a cat warning an unknown cat away from their territory - except it's directed at a cat he's known his whole life.
The strange part is that it only happens at night. The rest of the day, he's totally fine around her, tries to instigate play with her, and so on.
There have been no vet visits or strange cats, and we live on the 3rd floor so no visitors at the window.
Any ideas on what this could be? I'm an experienced cat owner and have never heard of this kind of time-dependent behavior before. I do have a vet visit scheduled for June, and I set up a Feliway diffuser this week.