Strange Strange Cat...anyone else?

I love hearing about the quirks of other people's cats. :) My indoor cat is 13 years old and up until a couple of years ago she would drink out of her water dish, by her food dish. But then she decided she wanted water in the bathroom sinks. And it has to be fresh. She'll jump up onto the bathroom counter, after she has meowed enough that you know she wants a drink, and will watch as you put the stopper in the sink and put 2-3" of water in the bottom. Then she will drink, but only if there are no soap bubbles from soap residue left on the sink. She likes drinking water from both downstairs bathroom sinks, and if I go upstairs and she follows she will run right to the bathroom up there and sit on the counter and wait for me to fill THAT sink for her as well. :)

And when she uses her litter box for #2 she will tear through the house when she's done, it's the only time she will run in the house so we always know why.

Mine is like that as well. He also will just dip his paw in the water bowl and drink off his paw. My other cat likes to have a little tea cup on the bar to drink out of.
There there is also the ever popular-- eat only out of the center of the dish.
 
We have 5 cats (and 3 dogs, and 6 kids...)

Cat #1 is a wanderer that visits other houses, and sleeps there for days at a time. He has been on FB (posted by someone else), and sleeps with our neighbour during the day as he sleeps off his night shift. He went trick-or-treating with us one year and went into people's houses when they opened the door. He was super chill when they kicked him out. He was all, like, "whatevs". People around town ask about him more than they ask about my kids! His name is Jake, as named by my son when he was 5. He's a mostly white cat with small patches of grey tabby. Jake leaves for days at a time, up to 10 days, and then comes home for a day or two. He then sleeps for about 18 hours then is off again. He comes home sleek and fed, and clean. I don't know exactly where he goes.

Cat #2 is a caterwauler. She's a black tortie DSH. She cries and cries to be let outside to the point of being completely, utterly annoying. She also likes to put her paws on your chest and lick your chin in affection. She totally hates being picked up, even as a tiny kitten. She is a wee, wee cat. Her name is Cricket. She once caught a squirrel and was very proud of herself, until we pointed out 1) it was already dead, which we knew because: 2) it was in a squirrel trap! She dragged that thing home. Gross.

Cat #3 is a female Maine Coon and she's just sweet as pie, but she likes to eat lying down, scooping food out of the dish a few kibble at a time, and eating it like she's Cleopatra. She won't chow down at the bowl, it has to be scooped out. All the Maine Coons are indoor cats.

Cat #4 is a male Maine Coon and he's pretty chill, except he likes to greet us in the morning by reaching up and stretching against a leg, which hurts when the claws come out. He also likes to play on the stairs as you walk down them. It's his 'thing'. He can't pass a water glass or cup of coffee without trying to knock it down.

Cat #5 is also a male Maine Coon and he's super chill, but begs for food all the time. He's given himself bad GI issues lately by getting into stuff he shouldn't. They are free-fed with food and water all the time, so it's just him being gutsy. He's huge (like 18-19 pounds at a year old and still lanky!), and is the clumsiest cat ever. He's been shooed off chairs a few times where he doesn't land on his feet, instead falling to the ground in a very un-cat-like manner. He's a big, sweet oaf.
 
I have four cats:

Cat 1: My family doesn't believe I have four cats. They believe there are two little black ones but only agree on one grey one. No one ever sees the other one. Even my niece that cat sits when she are gone. She is very skittish and hides from everyone but us.

Cat 2: Is DH's cat. Littermate of cat 1 but MUCH morse social. She sleeps with DH every night. She doesn't like me much though.

Cat 3 and 4 are also litter mates. They are kittens and they are high maintenance. They tear into everything. Love to pay through garbage to find toys. One of them tore one of my bras open this weekend (haven't torn anything else though but like to paw at those). They aren't afraid of water actually they kind of like to play in it. What they do hate is if they get too wet Mom and Dad insist they need to be dried off with a towel... they don't like that part.
 
My cat is fat, lazy, and waits for us to leave for the day so he can have the house to himself. If we come back for something (or when I work from home), he gets annoyed that we are there invading *his* time. Many days, I've walked in on him laying in my bed with his head on my pillow like he's a human. I open the door, he lifts his head up, looks at me in disgust, and falls back asleep.

When he is tired, he stands in the hallway and waits for DS10 to go to bed, follows him, jumps on the bed and lays there waiting to be petted. Then when DS15 goes to bed, he does the same thing with him. If the boys stay up late, the cat gets annoyed and will come up and hide under my bed or go to his last resort of DD, who is the one who saved him from the shelter in the first place and takes on the majority of the care! (poor DD!)

Oh, yes...he also wants us to stand and watch him eat. Which we don't do - he's lucky we even remember to feed him (kidding!!). But he keeps trying - we fostered him as a adult cat from a no-kill shelter just after he lost his paired match, then of course ended up keping him. We believe he was owned by a little old lady or man who doted on him, gave him his own bedroom suite, and stood by at attention as he ate in his former life.

Oh, and he hides all the time. We didn't even see him for about the first 2 years he lived with us, and then he started coming out after the younger kids went to bed. Now he comes out more, but really just wants to do his own thing until it's time for his nightly petting by the boys. And when we have company, he doesn't show his face. Most people who visit don't even realize we have a cat until they spend the night.
 

My one cat LOVES the smell of bleach. It is like catnip to him. He will roll around on the counters after we clean them in ecstasy. He follows the cleaning people like a dog. One day I was cleaning their litter pans in bleach water in the bathtub and he was standing in the edge of the tub inhaling the fumes. His big sister cat took that opportunity to try and get rid of him by knocking him in to the bleach tub. (This was before I knew about his bleach fetish or I never would have left the door open.) He got his first bath that day.

My Leo is like that. Rolls on the counters and in the bathtub after I use bleach. He and Tevka both love catnip. Leo just rolls in it, but Tevka eats it.

Leo loves to ride on my husband's neck/shoulders. He'd do it to me, too, but I won't let him. He'll jump all the way from the floor up to his shoulders and often misses slightly and digs his claws in (that's why I won't let him lol). After we wash our hair, if we don't dry it right away, he sits behind us (or on dh's shoulders) and basically attacks our heads - rubs them frantically and bites on them while holding them with his hands.

I can't think of anything else weird they do. Leo does talk to us and we answer, then he responds. Oh, he prefers we lift him up onto his cat food table rather than making him jump up there. He'll sit and meow at us, then look at the table, then back at all.

Tevka is skittish, but cuddly. She prefers my dh and is usually snuggling on him in the evenings. I call her my sister wife and dh hates it lol. I swear she gets triple the affection I do.

Leo's toy of choice are pony tail holders and Tevka likes to bat around pieces of dog food.
 
One of our cats plays with an old duck finger puppet (like you get to amuse an infant). She sometimes takes it to the water dish and drowns it. The first time I saw in in there, I thought maybe she'd been batting it around and it went in by accident. But one day I saw her pick it up and drop it in on purpose. I guess she knows that ducks belong in the water?
 
Our two boys are litter mates, 2 of 4 kitties that were born feral, and we got them when they were about 4 months old. Potter (black/white/grey tiger with lines on his forehead) and Weasley (ginger tabby... DD was 7 when she named them) are now 15.5 years old and going strong. They are strictly house cats; we can leave the doors wide open and they'll go to the threshold, stick their noses out and sniff a bit, then turn around and come back inside. We joke that they learned early the harsh ways of the great outdoors and are taking no chances on returning! The boys are best friends and different as night and day, with Potter being the more active. Potter loves to chase lights; Weasley couldn't be bothered. Potter also likes to sit on the "highest" point available; he'll sit on the newspaper instead of the rug, or on the arm of the sofa instead of the cushion. One day we came home and he was on top of the cabinets- and there's only about a foot of space between the cabinet and the ceiling! Potter decided he was a lap cat at the age of 12, for some unknown reason, but although Weasley will lay right/up/against/me, he will not stay if I put him in my lap or try to hold him. They are both talkers and will have great conversations, with DH especially. In the past few years, Potter has stopped using the litter box for #2 sometimes, instead pooping behind the litter box. DH tries to outsmart him by putting the litter boxes about 2" from the wall, but Potter still manages to get his hiney in there. Drives DH crazy!! Weasley's favorite thing to do is stride around the house with one of DD's hair elastics in his mouth, caterwauling like he caught the most amazing prize, which is pretty funny and foolish-looking! Also, when he wants to be fed, he'll come in and stare at us, then gallop like a mad thing into the entry hall... then come back to see why we haven't followed him and do it all again. Potter's favorite trick? I hang dish towels over the low-cabinet doors and handle of the oven, and Potter systematically hooks them down onto the floor. I hang them up, he pulls them down. Annoying but funny- you'd think I'd learn, right?
 
My four cats have their quirks (all do!) but the one I consider "mine" (the first pet who was brought in by me and not my parents) likes to put his toys in his mouth and walk around the house meowing loudly to them, which we call "talking to his friends." I find it completely adorable, but he has a tendency to do it at late hours of the night so the rest of the family isn't too thrilled sometimes :rotfl: He was obsessed with drinking out of the bathroom sink for a little while but has now changed his obsession to coconut oil. If I so much as touch the jar, or sometimes just open the cabinet we keep it in, he starts pacing and waiting for you to serve him. He's a handful but I wouldn't have it any other way! :love:
 
Our cat (rest her soul) use to freak out over DHs sweaty stinky work socks! When he'd come home she'd wait for him to take his socks off then she'd roll on them flip them up on her face. Rub them all up her nose and tweak out like it was cat nip. It was hilariously nasty. Lol
 
I love this validation of my own cats' weirdness! The ponytail holders, toys in the water dish, sunbeam following...it's all so familiar.

Another one of our cats is really confused. They have a natural instinct to bury their treasures in the cat box. But this one paws around near the cat food dish when she's done eating. If someone drops a sock or glove near the cat dish, she will use it to cover up the cat food left in the dish. (Thankfully it's dry food). I still laugh at her over it.

Mine does this, too, even with paper! It's the weirdest thing, and I thought she was the only one.

Same cat thinks she's a dog - plays with water, comes when called, insists on being walked (to the point that I can't get anything done until I comply), and loves people. She "surveys the realm" from the top of the kitchen cabinet and is most attached to DS (even though DH picked her out). She loves to ride on your shoulder, is very compliment when being fussed with (brushing, etc.) and purrs constantly. She has claimed the spare bed as "hers", but maintains a favorite sleeping spot in almost every room, including a basket on top of the computer cabinet, a blanket in our room, and her own special window seat in DS's room - consisting of a blanket on top of a low bookshelf, where she can both see out and keep an eye on the guinea pig. And she snores, loudly.

The other is the total opposite. DS picked her out, but I'm the only one she'll cuddle with, and only when she says. She disappears when strangers are around. For months, one of our friends (who now feeds them when we travel) thought we were playing a joke on him when we said we got two. She loves to play, but hates to be picked up or fussed with. She likes ponytail holders, steals mittens, and wrestles with shoes, and her favorite treat is...lettuce! (We call her our bunny cat.) She's also the clever one, and the reason we still have a child lock on the cabinet under the sink, even though our kid is 15! But her weirdest quirk lately is a daily desire to explore the tool room (unfinished part of the basement). She wants me to go in while she just rolls around on the floor for a minute, then pokes in some corners and comes back to purr at me. She does not appear to be hunting (no sign of a mouse or anything) just loving a chance to spend a couple of minutes in an otherwise forbidden area).
 
We have one cat who LOVES to be brushed. My DD will brush her hair downstairs most of the time and that cat will run to her if she notices or hears her take out the brush and stare her down and meow. It's like she's saying -- you get the brush whenever you want, now brush me too human! She's the only cat I've ever had that will come running when she hears me open the cabinet where we keep her cat brush and start meowing and get really excited. The two other cats will come over, but hate to be brushed! Luckily the other 2 are both very short hair cats and don't require regular brushing.
 
We have 3 cats and some of these are so familiar. One loves to get his butt scratched while he eats he'll meow at you when he's hungry until you follow him to the dish. One will only drink very fresh water, straight from the tap or a fresh glass from the fridge. He also requires a fresh ice cube from the ice maker every morning. He has a super cute little tail vibration/shake when he's excited about something. When he lays on the couch next to you he spreads his paws open and waits for to lay your arm along his tummy so he can use you as a body pillow.
 
If you open a can of tuna in our house, you will turn around to find our Two Stooges sitting next to each other, staring at you like the Grady twins from The Shining. It's a little unsettling.

When you feed them - we have a special table for them; Monster goes on top with her dish, Dio goes on the floor underneath. They get the exact same food. About halfway through, they swap places :confused3

Monster has lost many of her quirks - she's 16 now and we think she's more interested in sleeping in a sunbeam 24/7. But she still begs food from you - she especially likes bacon, tacos, and Italian sausage. She will even take it off your plate herself. She used to open the bathroom cabinet - just checking it out, I guess - and sleep under our bed. I once took a photo and posted it with the caption "We literally have a Monster under our bed." At 3 a.m., she lets you - well, ME - know that she wants treats by attacking my feet under the blanket (I'm sound asleep, not moving, and *pounce*).

Dio is one of those cats that races around after he does #2 as well. He sleeps in the bed between DH and I. And he hates when we put a toilet paper tube on the half-wall to go out to the recycling bin. He gets up there and swipes it off. You put it back and he pushes it off again, over and over...
 
We have 5 cats (and 3 dogs, and 6 kids...)

Cat #1 is a wanderer that visits other houses, and sleeps there for days at a time. He has been on FB (posted by someone else), and sleeps with our neighbour during the day as he sleeps off his night shift. He went trick-or-treating with us one year and went into people's houses when they opened the door. He was super chill when they kicked him out. He was all, like, "whatevs". People around town ask about him more than they ask about my kids! His name is Jake, as named by my son when he was 5. He's a mostly white cat with small patches of grey tabby. Jake leaves for days at a time, up to 10 days, and then comes home for a day or two. He then sleeps for about 18 hours then is off again. He comes home sleek and fed, and clean. I don't know exactly where he goes.

Cat #2 is a caterwauler. She's a black tortie DSH. She cries and cries to be let outside to the point of being completely, utterly annoying. She also likes to put her paws on your chest and lick your chin in affection. She totally hates being picked up, even as a tiny kitten. She is a wee, wee cat. Her name is Cricket. She once caught a squirrel and was very proud of herself, until we pointed out 1) it was already dead, which we knew because: 2) it was in a squirrel trap! She dragged that thing home. Gross.

Cat #3 is a female Maine Coon and she's just sweet as pie, but she likes to eat lying down, scooping food out of the dish a few kibble at a time, and eating it like she's Cleopatra. She won't chow down at the bowl, it has to be scooped out. All the Maine Coons are indoor cats.

Cat #4 is a male Maine Coon and he's pretty chill, except he likes to greet us in the morning by reaching up and stretching against a leg, which hurts when the claws come out. He also likes to play on the stairs as you walk down them. It's his 'thing'. He can't pass a water glass or cup of coffee without trying to knock it down.

Cat #5 is also a male Maine Coon and he's super chill, but begs for food all the time. He's given himself bad GI issues lately by getting into stuff he shouldn't. They are free-fed with food and water all the time, so it's just him being gutsy. He's huge (like 18-19 pounds at a year old and still lanky!), and is the clumsiest cat ever. He's been shooed off chairs a few times where he doesn't land on his feet, instead falling to the ground in a very un-cat-like manner. He's a big, sweet oaf.


Are you SURE that first cat really belongs to you? ;)

Our outdoor cat used to get around a lot too. (She's 15 now so has slowed way down.) She's a long hair calico, and once she had a bunch of mats in the fur on her neck. And one day she came home with her neck cleanly shaven! I have a guess on who did that, and have thought about sending her back a couple times since then!
 
I love hearing about the quirks of other people's cats. :)

Agree. Enjoying all the stories in this thread. :thumbsup2

We have 4 cats. (I know what you're thinking. No, I'm not the crazy cat lady.

We have 4 cats and I don't fight the stereotype. I asked for a crazy-cat-lady mug on my 40th just to be sure everyone else knew. :rotfl2: Thank you and to everyone here who adopts rescues. :goodvibes

And it is a 'meerkat' pose!! I fell over laughing the first time I saw one of our cats do that but I didn't think to associate it that way. LOL. Thanks. :)
 
So many silly cats!
Mine also is obsessed with towels, and her favorite is my hair towel. Its to the point that when I'm going to be washing the towel before using them again, I'll throw them on the floor and let her be in heaven. She holds on and grooms it, and then uses it to wash her head and rolls around in it. So weird.
 
We don't have a cat, but my Landlord's cat has adopted us as part of her family lol. She is old, and if she is in the back and hears us in the kitchen or bathroom she will cry like she is getting murdered to be let in. She does that more often, but sometimes she will do it at our front door. When she sees us outside she does little cordial meows before approaching us and rubbing on us. My favorite thing is when she is inside and decides to nap with us/on us. Its so sweet. DH doesn't appreciate the affectionate clawing that comes with that though :laughing:

One of her things though is, she likes to get on the roof of her house, and when she sees us wants to come with us but she is terrified of jumping to get down. One time she nearly skidded her face on the walkway because she fell so awkwardly. We have tried coaxing her into letting us help her down, but she insists on standing there with her little legs shaking in fear before she takes the leap and runs down the wall.

Another one of her quirks is, we refuse to feed her (because then we will never get rid of her lol) but we started putting a water bowl by our washer for her to have a drink because she tried drinking out of our glasses before. Now when its empty she likes to circle me until I get the hint, and as I fill the bowl she meows. She is so cute. I dont think its convincing me to get my own cat though. I still prefer dogs.
 


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