Cat Won't Let Anyone Sit In Her New Favorite Chair

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MINE 😸

BY LILY FEINN

Meet Yoshitsune — a 5-year-old cat who’s not afraid to stake her claim.

Yoshitsune loves any new item her parents bring home and, naturally, believes they're gifts for her. “[She] likes new things, and is nervous and impatient,” Yoshi’s mom Reina, who asked that her last name be omitted, told The Dodo. “However, she understands the words that people speak.”



Yoshitsune’s latest crush is on a gray and white desk chair her mom recently bought for the apartment. The playful cat especially likes sticking her arm through the narrow space between the seat and the back and leaning against the cushion.

Unfortunately for Yoshitsune, she has to share the chair with her dad — and she’s not happy about it.

Yoshitsune has been monopolizing the chair since its arrival, and whenever her dad tries to sit down, she makes her displeasure known.



The little cat tries everything imaginable to get in the way of her dad sitting in her special seat.

She's tried pushing him with her paw …



… and wedging her body between his back and the chair to make sitting as uncomfortable as possible.



And, if all else fails, she can be quite dramatic, making her most upset face to try to gain her mom's sympathy.



Earlier this month, Reina snapped a few photos of Yoshi defending her territory, and posted them to Twitter with the caption: “The new piece is my place. Somehow my dad is always sitting in the way.”



Yoshitsune's protests always work and her dad lets her sit in the chair without having to share.

Her parents know as soon as they buy their next piece of furniture, they will finally be able to use their "new" desk chair again.

https://www.thedodo.com/close-to-home/cat-wont-share-her-favorite-chair

[CatMor]

1. What a cutie she is.

[TexasTowelie]

2. No need for me to buy new furniture

when my cat has a basket of clean laundry that she can lay across. That's what she is doing right now.

One of these days I'll be caught up and everything will be ironed and hanging in the closet.

[brer cat]

4. The horror!

Then where will the cat sleep?? You are being very selfish to iron and hang up the kitty's bed.

[TexasTowelie]

6. The cat will have to move to either the mezzanine or the penthouse.

In the mezzanine level which is about two feet off the floor there is a plush blanket to lay on. The clothes basket is at the four foot level. Meanwhile the penthouse is the top of the bookshelf which is over six feet off the floor, but I haven't put anything soft up there yet since I only bought the bookshelf about a month ago. I'm not sure that the cat is comfortable in the penthouse though since she is almost as plump as the depth of the bookshelf--one wrong belly roll and she'll be dropping.

BTW, my ironing sprees only level off the top of the clothes basket, plus I have two more bins of long sleeve business shirts packed away so the cat isn't in any danger of losing her sleeping spot.

[yellowdogintexas]

8. LOL my husband put shelves up over his desk

and we have an attic, mezzanine, and first floor

The desk is the basement. One of our cats loves the attic shelf.

[deurbano]

7. What is this "ironing" of which you speak?

[KT2000]

3. Had a cat who piled up all her toys

She did not play with them, she just kept them in a neat pile. She was a neat freak. But they still love their own stuff.

[Niagara]

5. I'm giggling at these photos.

Photo #3 "Get OUT of mai chairrr!!!!!




Photo #4 "Right nowwwwwww!!!!"