high maintenance pets.....

ok, so our pets are becoming incredibly needy......curiously helpless at times......i was awakened this morning by the cat howling downstairs........she was sitting primly at her food dish, and i was surprised to discover that it was full, not empty.....she immediately started eating....just wanted an audience for her breakfast ritual, i suppose......then the dog started crying at the backdoor.......wanting in....this from the dog who would just sit quietly at the door.....expecting someone inside to just know that he wanted in......or out......now he is just senile enough that he will sit and howl on the deck.....like he cannot remember how to get in the house........and the big yellow dog?.....right now he is at basecamp 2/next door getting his nicotine fix, eating heartily....he'll come home about supper time here........big baby..the good news is that they all appear to be getting along these days......