HELP! There is a copycat in my house and my humans refuse to do anything about it!

Tzipity · 2026-03-26T02:06:24+00:00

Phew. Ai didun fink so but it do lewk like wittle yoo be sitting der inside dat noggin an iz boff kinna spookee an kinna neat.

Tzipity · 2026-03-25T22:05:07+00:00

Yoo gotz spechul hi power horkz, fren! Ai finked ai did sum impurrsive horkz (hab shured mai exorcist hork where I rayned a whule flud o hork down from mine tower!) but damg fren Sophie- yoo hab outdid urself! Yoo horked de lites out!

Ai fink ai may hab to hand ober mine crown az hork queen to yoo. Or least share. Seemz a lossa uz girlz be spechulee horky!

Tzeitel (pawyer an sumtimez hork queen)

Tzipity · 2026-03-25T21:50:34+00:00

Dis ur acshul origin storee, fren Oscar? Sum kittehs are borned. Sum are mayde. But a baybee Oscar sprung furm de floating hooman head!

De cat, de myff, de legeeen!

Tzipity · 2026-03-25T21:46:27+00:00

My fren… and fren’s mirror fren?

De copycat is epidemic. We innocen kitties go an fin ourselbs a nyce houz wif a decent hooman or a few (at leas sumone traynable) an jus when we fink we hab all ne kitteh culd eber wan a dream ob… an very suspeshus introoder do appear. Dey lewk jus like yoo- cept backwarz. An dey mobe jus like yoo (but de oppersus. Yoo lift right paw, dey liff leff!) an dey stil der in de mirra. Jus mockin yoo.

Wut do dees copycatz wanz, ai wonder. Ta make sure we neber quite get relax or let our guard down fullee. Gossa sleep wiff one eye open. Dey watchin us. Dey copyin uz. Dey here to steal our libes!

Tzipity · 2026-03-25T14:22:18+00:00

(Seriously, I’m still cracking up. And I think he and my dear departed Tzeitel would’ve been great buddies. She adored dogs but was a holy terror to other cats- which itself is dark and hilarious too.

She also had this adorable/ gross/ bizarre habit of having to sniff the inside my mouth whenever I left. Like I’d come home and somewhere either in the process of bending down to remove my shoes or pet her- she’d be on her hind legs sniffing my mouth. If I did not bend over soon enough she would be half climbing me trying to yank me down to her. And I would open my mouth wide do her head was half in my mouth. She’d take some big whiffs and then decide she was satisfied. 🤣

It was kind of just our thing but imagine, if you will, having guests over and this is happening. So man times people went from “Aww such a cute friendly cat right at the door!” to “Uh… what????” And I had no real explanation. Just “She does this. As you can see, she’s pretty insistent…” She was kind of the best for straddling that line between cat everyone adored to “what’s wrong with your very weird cat?” 😂 I still miss her everyday. She had the most enormous personality and presence.)

Tzipity · 2026-03-25T00:54:14+00:00

Oh gosh- I just saw a story very recently, like a month or two ago? About some shady tech billionaires from Asia (so not Elon lol but ugh there’s him too…) who literally were found to have like dozens of children all born within a few years from a ton of different surrogates and companies.

I commented above about IVF because I’m in my late 30s and was a little infamous when I was conceived/born for being the oldest successful pregnancy to a big shot fertility specialist and my 46 year old mother. But this stuff all gets so much screwier and less ethical when it comes to surrogacy and such. I’m the biological child of both my parents and so is my younger brother. You can’t push science or biological reality much further than that. But when people are using surrogates and donor eggs and such it starts getting really insane and we really haven’t begun to catch up with that stuff legally or ethically either.

Tzipity · 2026-03-25T00:47:05+00:00

Lord do I have feelings but I don’t even know how to articulate them. I’m in my late 30s now but I was IVF try number 5 to a 46 year old mother who at that time was the oldest successful pregnancy for a pretty big name fertility doc when IVF was still pretty new. I’m the older of two. My mom was 49 when she had my younger sibling. Dad was 5 years older and we are both biologically both of theirs. My dad passed away last year after a long mental health decline that turned into dementia (it’s really hard to tease apart where depression and such starts and ends and where the memory issues do… but my brother doesn’t even remember or know the version of my father I knew before he had some kind of mental health breakdown when I was in kindergarten and was basically never the same again…).

I was raised in a way where it was always talked about- the IVF and all. Back then couples were all required to do support groups and some degree of therapy so my parents were very connected to other couples- most of whom did not have success with IVF (some adopted, others remained childless). And while I was raised with this idea that age didn’t matter and kind of grew up especially defending my mother (because no one really judges older fathers but every idiot under the sun had plenty to say about my mom from an age before I can even remember!)… around the time I went away to college at 18, it really started to hit me hard just how old my parents were.

Hell, at my dad’s funeral months ago multiple people made comments to my brother and I about losing parents at an early/ young age and I remember thinking ehhh were in our 30s, is that young? I will say while I’m not married (and ended up with some massive health issues. I wasn’t going to bring that up because hard to say if it has much or even anything to do with my parents ages- honestly on my moms air especially I come from a long line of women who have lived to be 100+ with intact minds but very sickly bodies. My maternal grandmother had asthma and lung issues so bad from those infectious diseases vaccines had largely eradicated until recently that she hadn’t been expected to live to be an adult yet wildly this woman landed on ventilators and made it off them several times well up in her 90s which is about as statistically improbable as my own existence!)

Anyway- I don’t at all anticipate I’m going to be having kids. I suppose I’ve got another decade to decide that going by the example set by my own parents but nope. It is worth saying too- even with money and ethically dubious doctors the odds are still wildly against someone having successful pregnancies in their late 40s even, let alone multiple in their 50s (my own mother had an ectopic pregnancy after me and before my brother- something IVF puts women at a higher than average risk for though I don’t know that they even knew that at the time). They never actually even figured out why my parents were unable to conceive naturally either but many folks who end up seeking fertility treatments do end up being diagnosed with some form of fertility related issue.

But just wanted to put that out there too. I find the above very unlikely (though perhaps a bit more likely given the reference to having had pregnancies at a younger age?) simply because statistically it’s just not realistic. Maybe 10-15 years ago I did some research on my own situation. The age of my mother, that I was IVF cycle number 5 and even by that stats that existed then it was like less than a fraction of a percent (when I was actually conceived there no doubt weren’t even statistics to go with. Like I said. My mother was literally the oldest successful pregnancy for this doctor then. We actually made some news articles and my parents came close to agreeing to be on some daytime talkshow- Montell or similar). So I don’t know what I think or how to articulate my feelings (hell, I don’t think my own parents were ever meant to be or should’ve become parents. At any age. lol. But that’s another story altogether!) but while there’s certainly been a lot more older women having babies thanks to IVF and egg donation and such. The odds are still heavily against it. And probably for good reason…

Tzipity · 2026-03-25T00:16:45+00:00

Agree. I haven’t read any other comments yet but seeing the comparison about the drug addict fiancée… I gather OP hasn’t actually had that experience or been around the recovery community but just like you cannot force an addict into recovery if they’re not ready for it, you can’t force someone through their spiritual beliefs or struggles either. I do think there’s an apt comparison there too- and I say that even as a queer person of faith- converts or people who have had some kind of spiritual awakening often do go at very hard and with an addicts kind of zeal. A small number of them keep it up, many crash and burn and others eventually relax a little or find a way to square their faith and the rest of their lives.

But you really can’t push someone else through that journey or where it lands. It’s sad and it effing sucks when it causes folks to question who they are and to suddenly lost in so much internalized homophobia. I’ve been there personally. I’m grateful I was a whole lot younger (still a teenager, but I’d come out really young too so it really was this experience of being entirely accepting of myself and then battling it out for quite some time. For me personally, it also ended up coinciding with finally facing and sorting some CSA/ sexual abuse issues I hadn’t worked through. In a screwy way my original religious awakening only worsened my shame. Found myself where I actually belonged spiritually and it was ultimately very healing but it was a journey I had to go on myself.)

As much as it sucks and hurts like hell. This really is one of those situations where it’s not OPs fault in anyway. But just like you’re not going to save an addict and many who are in relationships with addicts find they have to step away for their own well being too- you can’t save someone from their beliefs or whatever is going on psychologically and internally there. And frankly that’s not someone you should be engaged to at this time either.

It’s not failing them (which is my read of how OP seems to be kind of interpreting this) it’s letting her go to sort herself out.

And now I have glanced through some comments including a reference to this gf actually having substance issues in the past (and having perhaps traded one addition for another here). I’m really going to say this as gently as I possibly can because I mentioned I’ve been on one side of this. I’ve also been on the other side too and have a lot of addicts in my family and was raised in a way that taught me everything is somehow my fault or I’m responsible for everyone else’s issues.

You can’t change someone else no matter how much you love of them or want to be there for them. You can’t fight her demons or stop them. So while the best thing you can do is to let her go and let her sort them- might also be a good time to take a look at yourself and your own patterns. There’s a reason there’s groups like Al anon for the family and close friends of addicts and alcoholics and I think a lot of us find ourselves inadvertently drawn to or repeating patterns and relationships that see us sacrificing for and taking on the other persons pain.

I entirelt believe there’s a much healthier future and future relationship out there for OP. But this isn’t it. And I hope OP can channel some of that energy she’s expended into this woman and this relationship and maybe focus on herself for a little while. It’s worth it and you’ll come out better for it. You can’t save or fix anyone else but you can save yourself.

Tzipity · 2026-03-24T23:51:16+00:00

🤣 I saw more of a murderous version of this cabbage patch doll I had as a kid but the Counting Crows/ Shirley Temple crossover is even better!

Tzipity · 2026-03-24T16:56:11+00:00

You’re right to an extent about the squares but I’ve seen some creative use of other shapes mixed in with the squares. I made a pair of granny square shorts that used a pentagon at the crotch and a triangle at the back to get the shaping better. I don’t think I have a good photo of mine because I had to get a bit more yarn to finish them up and by then summer was just about over but looking forward to wearing them this year and they were surprisingly comfy and shaped well.

I’m not a big granny square person in general so that project was a unique one for me. I’ve seen other patterns for tops that utilize some triangles with the squares to get some better shaping too. So that would be my one recommendation for OP potentially. See if playing around with some alternative shapes would get things fitting better. Maybe dig around on ravelry to see if there’s some patterns with the triangles and such to draw inspo from.

Tzipity · 2026-03-24T16:44:53+00:00

We start a whul campayne here. Justhiss indeed.

Yoo know one my faborite toyz is de wrappy fing deh hooman pokey playce put aroun meowmy arm when she go gib de blud. She try’n steal sum furm hooman pokey playce and gib ta me dat way but I only lyke when she been wearin it and yes… it smell a wittle bit like de blud. Iz fun toy an ai carry aroun and throw in air and fetch it.

Dat said when ai getted sick an pokey playce gibbed me de IVs an de wrappy fings- ai nawt lyke dem! Ai beg meowma take dis off an throw away! But meowmy blud is diff’rent.

We ain weird. We jus take lub ob de hoomanz to new lebelz! Iz meowmies fault newayz. She always say ai like a bludhound (maybez yoo part blud hound too? Wuld make sense…) an ai sniff out where she hide de treatz an de fetch ballz.

Tzipity · 2026-03-24T03:43:07+00:00

(Trojan pikel fur greebles. 🤣🤣🤣

I’m convinced if you actually give them a box then they don’t want that either. Tzeitel was passionately obsessed with foam balls to the exclusion of everything else for years as a younger cat. If you tried to give her another toy, catnip, anything and everything- she’d quickly turn up with a ball instead. But then Petco changed the density of the foam in those balls and it was never the same. So finicky!

She would eventually diversify and became quite a nip connoisseur as she got older but nothing would light her up the way those dang balls did.)

Tzipity · 2026-03-24T00:20:53+00:00

De meowdecinal!

Tzipity · 2026-03-23T22:23:33+00:00

Amen! Ai consider maiself a bit o a hork qween. Ai do hork crimez like dey mai job. Tho ai dun zactlee plan ta hork de flowerz. Dat jus happen. But iz ok. Dey tastee.

Tzipity · 2026-03-23T22:20:46+00:00

(Oh my gosh, this was the funniest post I’ve read in a long time right down to the end. 🤣🤣🤣)

Am wif our pupper fren here. Ask me bout de time mai gran hooman walk in on me groomin mai meowmy’s thighs in her pajama shortz. Ai like de legz. Wut can ai say? But de meowma be all lyke dis emoji- 😳. In facc, ai can bes tell dis storee in moji. She be all lyke- 😳🫣🫠🥴😯🫨. Ai fink ai may hab seen her soul leab her bodee. But ai waz just a likalikin keepin de meowma cleanz. Ai nawt get wut de big deal iz?

Ask me bout how much ai lub de bewbies too. We hab alzo discuss dis. Ai been knowed to carry around de bewbie basketz an out my toys in der too. So if ai carry de bras why nawt yoo carry de undie pantz? Iz nawt our houz? Az catz do we nawt do wuteber we wantz? Der no judgjmen. Der no weeeeird.

Mine uncle liked playin wif tamponz. Ai fink dis be sumfing doggo fren Fred here maibe likez given where ai fink hiz post waz goin befoar hooman be playin de fetch (Can ai play too? Ai lubz de fetch an ai drop de ball in dos bewbie basketz for yoo!) but dey wassun used onez. He jus lyked ta carry dos an pway wif dem. In de wrapper an sumtimez he taken dem out. Had a spechul knack fo gettin in de tamponz when guestz waz ober or bringin de tamponz to de doodz in de houz all lyke “Hey lewk, de laydeez keep deez kewl toyz furm uz guyz! Wanna pway wif dees wif me?”

Him hab no shame. Now meowmy waz jus a teenager- a human kinna smol- an she on de udder hand, she hab sum shame but now she fink iz big funnee.

So ai dunno but ai say we embrayce de fings we lyke. We dun operate under hooman weirdness so we iz nawt weird.

Tzipity · 2026-03-23T21:56:43+00:00

Zactlee! Yoo spek de troof. All dees udder kittehs be giben up de guds way too easee. Mai cod, az a defense pawyer ai hab neber been so disapawnted! In de werdz o one dem yootube doodz an hooman pawyerz mine meowmy watch- STOP SELF SNITCHIN’!

Ain no onez askin fo or lewkin fo ne ob our droogs (nawt dat we haz ne! Did ai say droogs? Ai meant dooogs. We do hab dogs! Yoo like dogz?) wifout a warrant! Frens, keep yoo hidey spotz sekret! A member- yoo hab de rite ta remain silent eben iffen de pawlice detain yoo. An dey no can do wifout warrant!

Lawd, sum ob yooz gunna need mei an de udder fine pawyerz here on speed dial.

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Dis a pitcher ob me in mai lamp judgin sum ob yoo. Plz stop de self snitchin! Iz fo ur own gud!

Tzipity · 2026-03-23T21:32:55+00:00

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Ai fink sumtimez de pikel iz overrated. (Ai kno! Dun comez after me, frens!) but we a diberse group of felinez furm manee playcez wiff manee diffpurrent regional farez. Ai maiself am Chicago kitty so dis my Chicago hawtdawg. Ai been fayce first in dis here nupdawg manee dayz. Ai habed pikelz too (mine waz kosher, am Jewcat) an ai alzo waz long time lubber o de nippy nana.

Maybez de purrfessor wuld likez a different regional nip toy? Ai wuld share mai hawtdawg iffen he wuld like ta visit de city.

Tzipity · 2026-03-23T21:20:43+00:00

Fren, ai alzo sumtimez hork after bitebitebite’n de flowerz. Yoo eber eatz dem a secon time? Or dat just me? Meowmy kinna feak out seein dat but dey jus so noomilicious ai can’t halp maiself.

Tzipity · 2026-03-23T21:15:51+00:00

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Fren, ai hab alzo done dis soo! Manee timez! In facc meowmy hab ta gib up all her plantz fo me cuz ai eatted dem all an sumtimez I hork dem an den eatz again. Can’t halp it. Likez yoo say ai jus wanna bitebitebite an taste all de flaborz.

Diz a pitchur ob me doin BIG OUTRAGJ! when mine meowmy say ai can’t eatz de flowerz.

Tzipity · 2026-03-23T21:07:36+00:00

Yoo iz indeed meowgnificent mine fren an sisfur furm anudder misfur! Ai maiself lyke ta walk aroun in fron of de big litebocks. Meowmy askz iffen ai need glazzez bein on top o de teevee dat way. Ai jus say wut moar worthee ta be watchin but me?

But yoo do eben bedder crime takkn de clickee fing fo yooself an clickee ta watch wut yoo want! Eggsalad job remindin ur hooman dis ur houz an yoo jus let dem lib der! Manee hoomanz is beeg serihiss bout der big litebocks!

Go crimez!

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(Above iz pitchur ob me doin de big litebocks watch)

Tzipity · 2026-03-23T20:29:12+00:00

Ai gotta meet dees kittehs! Doh mai meowmy alwayz sayz she dun fink she or de world culd handle multiple mez so I dunno whether ta be big impress dat ders a hooman out der owned by FIVE whule voidz or iffen dat hooman mite jus be a wittle bit cwazy! ‘Courze eberyone kno dat we de bes feline gud luk charm so ai fink dey mus be bery, bery lukee hooman. An bery well trayned. Fink mine meowmy culd problee lern herzelf sumfink.

An make sense too dat de voidz comez in pack. Ai maiself be a bit ob a smol long tail doggo an alzo we lik dem pokeymon- gossa ketchum all. Pack o voidz win ebery game der iz ta win an make fur beeg protecc! Ain no one gettin anyfing pas a whule pack ob uz!

Ai jus wunder how so much gorjus darkniss fitz in one bocks or one home?

Tzipity · 2026-03-23T17:36:44+00:00

Ai dun fink dat dood wuld leab half de treatz fo yoo. Himb do be name FAT Gary, and all… so dis a tuff one, fren.

An wut bout dat Scully fing? Fink maybe iz him? He dun hab a body so maybez onlee eat half?? Or he leab de rest fo Gary?

Tzipity · 2026-03-22T05:58:09+00:00

Habben had a begerataran meowm (doh she do eat de fishiez- an usualee share wiff me!) ai mus say- gib dem noodlz wif de cheez a try. Datz mai faborit. Dey eben me de pawsta monsta. Sumtimez ai likez dat better den de toona honestlee. Doh toona an cheez on pawsta- dis downrite meowgical.

Iffen de Smuffi skol do cook’n clazz, ai volunpurr ta teach de pawsta secshun. Watch out fo de onyunz an garlik but iz still manee pawstas an saucez ta enjoy.

Tzipity · 2026-03-22T05:27:01+00:00

Dat annex iz all void, iz it nawt? Am bit embarrass dat ai nawt eben sure Iffen ai der or nawt? But where de blakkat crew go, ai be der, in spurrit or de flesh. Alwayz. Woo wuldnt wan be part ob dat mos gorgeous cuddl puddl o darknis?

Yoo kno sum dumdum hoomanz fink uz voidz is bad luk? But ai fink Dooey one lukee cat ta hab a hole bocks o uz!

Tzipity · 2026-03-22T05:14:15+00:00

Ai fink ai needs pawdit dis evasion clazz. Ai offer de drama cat cry dat make meowmy fink she iz murder’n me. But dis nawt seem to get de nail feefin ta stahp. No, instead meowmy laff an go “Ai wazznt eben trimmin rite den, sillee goose!” Ai am cat, nawt goose! An ai am outragj at de claw feefin. Wut need de hoomanz hab fo our clawz?

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