Really clumsy cat

GemJar_2

I have a beautiful little adventurer cat who loves to jump to all the highest places, the mantle piece, the top of the book shelf ect, only problem is, he knocks EVERYTHING off either in the process of jumping up, walking or jumping down, he's so far smashed countless things, including my OH's Iphone, my fruitbowl and ornaments.

Yesterday he fell off the top of the bookshelf onto my head and then proceeded to claw at my back for dear life (ripping my top) until he eventually fell on the floor.

The person we got him off stupidly let a huge dog near him when he was a kitten and as a result he has half a tail, and although I realise this is probably why he's so clumsy, I wondered if there was anything anybody could think of to save everything else in my house from being smashed / dropped?

I've tried moving everything away from where he likes to jump, he just finds new places to destroy everything I own! I love him to bits but he's driving us all insane :rotfl:


Edited to add that just after I posted this, he found a way to drop my ps3 pad into his bowl of water.

On the up side, heres a video of him playing fetch with a plastic bag...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sGVvrDEab8

skr80

Can't see the video due to pc restrictions but your post made me laugh
We have two kittens - one of which (the male) we have named Forrest as he is also rather stupid when it comes to cat agility and (deliberately) padding things off ledges / shelves etc. My back looks like Freddy Kruger has been playing with it (or Edward Scissorhands) with the raked talon marks I have from his 'lets climb up the back' game

Buttonmoons

One of my cats will climb everywhere, he's ripped insulation off my pipes to get to a hole up high to hide in the walls. Needless to say, that door gets closed now!

Earlier, he was walking on the radiator, freaked out (someone must of farted a bajillion light years away and it scared him) and the result is a cat screaming :eek: cause his toe is caught on the rad. Doh. It's okay, little bit bloody but the nail is still there......he's such a sausage.....I gave him some prawns

dizziblonde

One of ours (never the sharpest pencil in the box - between his ears was a vacant space for rent) that's long since departed decided one day to sleep on the dining room table... mum's laptop (back when they were incredibly incredibly rare and horrifically expensive) provided by the company was blocking his stretching out room - so he hoofed it off the table and broke a good couple of grand's worth of computer.

We also had one who had an inner ear infection which he recovered from but never got back his sense of balance - cat jumps on sofa... cat falls straight off the other side of arm of sofa. Poor guy walked like he'd drunk half a bottle of vodka for another few years till he died!

balletshoes

Buttonmoons wrote: »

Earlier, he was walking on the radiator, freaked out (someone must of farted a bajillion light years away and it scared him) and the result is a cat screaming :eek: cause his toe is caught on the rad

so sorry, i know your cat was obviously in pain, but your description had me laughing out loud at my desk here - my colleagues are looking at me funny :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Buttonmoons

balletshoes wrote: »

so sorry, i know your cat was obviously in pain, but your description had me laughing out loud at my desk here - my colleagues are looking at me funny :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Lol, glad it gave you a laugh he is very skittish and I've no idea why because he was raised in a stable, with horses snorting and banging around and dropping a fork is nowhere near that loud! He's clearly just mental, or has became mental from facepalming into the door when he sees the hoover come out :rotfl:

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Tail's probably got very little to do with it - he's likely to just be blimmin' useless.


ETA: AWWWWWWW.

Well, he'd be useful as a messenger pigeon....

little_evo

We currently have our big black and white boy Moe who THINKS he can leap to any space in one leap. At night he used to leap on top of the wardrobe to a box there and settle down. This wardrobe was directly beside my head.

Then came the night he decided to make a leap and failed miserably, he managed to catch the box and its contents causing it to fall directly on my face and I came to with a nasty black eye and a deep scratch on my nose.:eek: No one believed me when I told them the cat did it. Needless to say we moved the wardrobe and anchored it to the wall to stop any futures mishaps. Now his favourite place is to lick my husband's eyebrow at 2 o'clock in the morning and nudge him with his nose so he will lift the duvet up so he can crawl inbetween us to snuggle and sleep.:rotfl:

dizziblonde

My mums house is built into a riverbank, therefore the dining room windows at the back of the house look out onto a gap which is dug into the hill between the house and retaining wall. There's a fence along the top before the drop, which runs about level with the upstairs window ledges (can you tell where this is going yet?). The cats want to be in on a morning, the humans don't want to walk down through the house to let them in, so started opening the window for them to jump across and get in (about a meter wide gap). Works fine apart from one of them isn't as good at jumping than the other and has misjudged the leap several times, leading to anyone in the dining room getting a view of cat plummeting past the window.

bethie

my girl has a fracture pelvis and after 5 months at my house is finally figuring out the limits of her jumpingability....

full jumps to counter tops, tables, TV, radiators, and desks are out. (she has also given up trying after falling on her back just a bit too often...)


however, as a nice mommy, side tables and chairs are sprinkled throughout the house.... so we still find her in some very strange places...!

GemJar_2

Hahaha so my conclusion from this post is that ALL cats are stupid and clumsy oh well at least its not just mine (who has just managed to walk off a table backwards with a crisp packet on his head). Cheers guys!