what funny thing has your cat done?

[mssocks]

Oh gosh - every day is a story at our house. Today Beanie was carrying a plastic bag ( who knows where she got it or had it stashed away ) in her mouth, trotting around the house. I announced "suppertime!" A note here to say that Jake eats on the floor while Beanie eats on the ironing board above him. It's the only way she has a fighting chance to eat her food. So I yell suppertime, Jake comes barreling out from wherever he was - runs me down. Beanie delicately trots out to the kitchen, carrying her little bag, hops onto the book case, then the iron board, walks right to the end and throws the bag down onto Jake's head. I had a good laugh over that one.

Beanie will also nurse on my armpit. eewww! She was adopted as a stray about six months old, and it was obvious she was well cared for. Either dumped or a run away. So I have no idea why she has mother issues. I try to keep her from getting the deoderant - sure that is really bad for her.

My bathroom is full of hidden items. I have a decoy toothbrush in the holder ( Jake is the guilty chewer ) while the REAL one is safe inside a cardboard tube. My feminine products are the really little ones with no applicator? Beanie can pull JUST ONE from the box. It will then be batted around in the tub and carried around the house like a cigarette. I recently bought a new sofa. When the old one was being removed, you got it - FULL of tampons underneath!

 

[magicmirror]

I like cats, mostly kittens (although I could never have a baby anything and let it go when it grew up) my hubby despises cats (for good reason, when we were first married they were everywhere, wild ones, and made footprints on our vehicles everytime we washed them). So we can't have a cat, unless I suddenly bring one home (accidentally, for my little girl) so the cat stories makes me sad. But, if you have on in the house, how do you make them not jump on your table, or counter, when you have food sitting out?? Thats the only thing that bothers me about them, my little girl wants one, but I could not stand to have to watch to make sure they didn't get into the food. How do you avoid that??

 

[Tazicket]

But, if you have on in the house, how do you make them not jump on your table, or counter, when you have food sitting out?? Thats the only thing that bothers me about them, my little girl wants one, but I could not stand to have to watch to make sure they didn't get into the food. How do you avoid that??

I've never had that problem with any of my cats. (And I've had at least one cat at all times for my entire life). We always make sure to push the chairs all the way under the table, so that probably helps. Crickey likes to sleep in the chairs. I guess if you had a problem with one jumping on the table, you could invest in a spray bottle and fill it with water. Then, you just say "NO!" and spray them till they get down- this usually works with cats. I guess it's a good thing that I don't have this particular problem with my doofus-y cat, b/c sometimes she just stands there while I'm spraying her until she's soaked on one side (cause I don't want to spray her in the face)!

 

[klmall]

Our cats never go for our food and never jump on tables (at least when we're around!).

We did have one cat that would jump up on the table while we were eating and we sternly yelled and smacked her on her nose. Eventually that cured her!

Over the years we have found that cats do have distinct personalities and will surprise you with their interests as all these posts attest to! One of our current cats adores water left in glasses on the floor but if ice is present she ignores it. She delicately dips her paw into water glasses left unguarded and licks the paw, repeating until full. It's like watching an artist perform!

FYI - My DH was a confirmed dog lover and cat hater until we got married and I had never had cats while growing up either. But we were only allowed cats in our first apartment so he gave in and it's been a series of cats ever since including one who lived with us for 22 lovable years! Since we are basically lazy pet people who won't bother with walking a dog or all the high
maintenance most dogs need I've converted DH to a cat lover. DS is convinced that cats are his long lost siblings!

 

[dis sjw]

thank you all for sharing your cats stories and pictures i really enjoyed them thanks,dis sjw i hope to have a cat someday

 

[klmall]

aGoofyMom! Your story about the running cat reminded me about our very first cat who once almost scared us to death.

We were sound asleep in our master bedroom which was down at the end of a long hall when suddenly the hallway lights turned on! DH and I sat straight up in bed and I asked DH to go check for burglars before DH sleepily said to me "Burglars don't turn on lights!". Then we both crawled out of bed and down the hall but couldn't figure out what caused the hall lights to turn on by themselves. Eventually we went back to bed and back to sleep.

It wasn't until a few nights later when I was up late sewing in the room next door to our bedroom that I solved the mystery. As I worked I heard a thumping noise in the hall. I peered out into the hall and watched our cat (the same one quoted earlier as 'the tail drooper over the tv screen') jumping as car lights raced down the hall. Obviously she had won the kitty olympics and reached the hall light switch that night (and thoroughly puzzled us!)

 

[aGoofyMom]

I had a cat that would turn on a certain light - Sheba, the maternal - would decide to look for affection in the middle of the night & touch her nose to the touch control lamp beside my bed - that got old very quickly.

Mischief - the door walker - did scare the daylights out of us one night. I woke up screaming to the sound of glass being smashed. DH let go once I fully woke up and threw on the lights. Nothing was disturbed that we could see. He checked the rest of the house & came back. Nothing anywhere had been disturbed (including DD who was about 2 or 3 - she slept through everything). I was shaking because I swore the noise was right beside my head, and I am closest to the windows. Finally I got out of bed to check & found a smashed tea light lamp. As I came closer, said feline came out of her hiding spot and ran for it - wide eyed & tail 3 times it's normal size. In trying to find a spot to sleep, she had pulled on a table cloth by accident & pulled down the lamp. I think she was more scared than we were.
We cleaned up what we could - I decided not to vacuum up the little shards because I might wake up the little one (this doesn't really make sense knowing how loud I had screamed) covered up the rest and went back to bed.

Mischief & the Timbit is another good one. Mischief is showing her age now, but was inspired enough by the scent of 2 remaining Timbits to make it up to the counter early one morning. DH went down to make coffee, and she never heard him coming. There she was on the counter, he watched her pull her head out of the box Timbit clenched in her teeth. She was so startled, she just opened her mouth, dropped the Timbit, then gave him that "well at least you could help me down" look. She didn't even try the typical cat "it wasn't me" look.

Ahhh I love all these cat stories - what a great thread...

 

[Tazicket]

We had another cat when I was younger- her name was Woogie. When we moved into a townhouse, Woogie would run down the stairs and around the corner and jump onto my Mom's piano bench...Well, one day Mom had just polished the piano bench and Woogie raced down the stairs and jumped onto the piano bench, slid across it and flew into the kitchen!!! One of the funniest things I've ever seen!!!

Also, at the Law Office I just finished interning at, they used to have two cats that lived inside. One of them would hang out upstairs until the head lawyer came in (he's a really nice guy and a major cat lover). Shadow (the cat) would fly down the stairs, run into his office, jump up on the desk, and knock all of his papers on the floor!