My day is meant to begin at 05:45 when my alarm is set to go off but more often than not I am woken earlier by one of the cats who obviously feels that 05:45 is far too much of a sleep-in and that attention is required at least 25 minutes earlier than that.
I generally try to pacify said cat with a couple of strokes and it is usually satisfied with sitting on my wife’s head until the alarm goes off.
At 05:45 it is time to officially drag myself out of bed, load and switch on the coffee machine, feed the cats and head for the bathroom where I will find one of the cats already waiting for me to turn on the tap as it prefers this method of drinking to his boring water bowl/filter/waterfall which cost a small fortune.
This morning I was awoken at 4 am by the sound of metal scraping. One of the cats was trying to drag my trousers out of the room and the belt buckle was scraping on the laminate floor.
His interest was not in my trousers specifically but rather in the bow tie I had hidden from him in my trouser pocket. I had not come back from an oscar ceremony, nor do I dress up to write my books, during the day I work as a drama teacher in a local international school and my tweed bow tie is part of my eccentric drama teacher costume/uniform.
Cat, for that is his name, has taken a liking to my bow tie, fishing it out of my jacket pocket and dragging it off to his food bowl where he positions it in the perfect position for it to watch him eat.
He has even developed the ability to undo the zip on my bag and remove the bow tie from a hiding place I had thought was impenetrable.
When I came home this evening he presented the bow tie on the floor in front of me to demonstrate he had liberated it from my jacket before dragging it off to his food for it to watch him eat.
We have just moved so previously cupboards were not an option but even then I wouldn’t underestimate his ability to retrieve the tie from a closed wardrobe.
If anyone has any handy tips for hiding bow ties from cats, please let me know.
M J Dees 
Put it in a foil pouch. Or a ziploc bag. He’s funny.
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I’d suggest tupperware or the like, or maybe a new stuffed toy friend to watch him eat – Cat, it seems, is a bit of a wierdo :o)
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You could always just give up the bow tie and get yourself a new one. Cat probably misses you and your scent is on the one you wear.
Or like Shawn suggested, a Tupperware container or even a plastic clear jar could be a good choice. Cat wouldn’t be able to open it, but would be able to see it.
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