Cutie Pie...or Pest?!?

Now that we have a big table in the kitchen, Oliver has begun a new cute/pesty habit - he has started to sit in the middle of the paper when I am trying to read it during breakfast. This is fairly typical cat behavior, but none of our three cats have ever done it before. Now, however, Oliver seems to think it is the perfect time to get some supplemental petting and attention. It is incredibly cute, and incredibly annoying. He doesn't try to eat my breakfast, thank goodness, but he does shed all over it. Sigh.

This is in addition to his bug hunting behavior, which has started up again, now that he is out on the porch at night. In Austin, he would sit on the porch and hunt cockroaches. When he caught one, he would bring it in to show us, trilling a funny little meow. Now, he hunts crickets and moths. I am fine with rescuing bugs in the evening, but 4 AM is a bit much. That is when he brought me his latest catch. Sigh again.