Really clumsy cat

balletshoes

GemJar wrote: »

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!

i'm rolling about - again! thank goodness I'm at home reading this :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Yolina

I've got 1 small cat who is a climber (all the way up the door frames when she wasn't even 6 months, curtains... nothing is safe) and 1 big one who pushes stuff off furniture on purpose (if his dinner is late or some such dramatic event, he'll walk to the coffee table, push something off, sit smugly and stare at me)

KiKi

The only tip I have for you is: remove all ornaments and anything you value.

I have two cats, who are INCREDIBLE at jumping - truly amazing. I no longer have candles, vases, flowers, ornaments, photo frames or anything on surfaces. I hang all photos on the wall. All plants live outside, except my aspidistra which can't be eaten because it's too big. Sellotape has to be locked away (seriously).

As for Christmas cards, forget it; I might as well not receive any. And I bought two beautiful Monsoon tops about three years ago which were shredded, literally, within days of each other.

I'm afraid you just have to accept that your cat will wreck your house, wreck your clothes, and wreck your furniture - and yet, somehow, you will end up loving them more for it...

KiKi

gazebo

I'm so happy to discover it's not just my cat who has an obsessive compulsive disorder when it comes to pushing things. She'll get a certain look in her eye and happily spend an hour roaming the house looking for things to push. It ranges from candles, to mobile phones, to vases, to mugs, to just about anything really. She is extra happy when the object bounces, though does stop if something smashes - comes into the room we're in and looks at us with a really innocent expression. We have to then go and investigate what she's broken.

She also plays fetch and is really really content playing with bottle tops. She'll happily chase them for hours.

She doesn't like it if you watch her lose her cool. Classic one was a misjudged leap to the top of a book case. She didn't account for the swivel computer chair moving as she pushed off, so what was a relatively simple distance suddenly got bigger as she left her paws - the resulting look and thud as she hit the side of the case was amusing. I did of course check she was ok, she went to sulk by the fire as she was embarassed at have being caught.

Buttonmoons

My cat purposely drops things in his water bowl to jazz up whatever game he's playing.

A pen lid becomes a boat, a pony in my pocket, some prey, bounce bounce aha! Gotcha!

Then I will look at it with disdain, lick my paw all casual like, and bang, tip the lot over.

Thanks Archie, for soaking my carpet.....again!

It is hillarious to watch though.

Yolina

lol Gazebo, my big one has always done it so after over 12 years I'm used to it but I've blue-tacked a lot of things in place which limits what gets pushed off

And yep Buttonmoons, the little one (aka the Bengal terror) loves putting her toys in the water bowl too - she used to then drop them in my bed a 3am too which wasn't that fun (for me anyway) and I had to remove the cat drinking fountain because she decided that it was for playing in rather than drinking from

dizziblonde

GemJar wrote: »

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!

Do You've Been Framed still pay for video clips? I sense a money making venture for you if they do.

925dancer

My 6.45kg boy is the clumsiest creature you will ever see. Watching him haul himself over the neighbours fence to come in for dinner is a sight of inelegance to behold!

He regularly misses things, like a dining chair where the seat is at his eye level and he STILL misjudged it and fell. Or jumping the very small gap from kitchen sink to window ledge, missing his back legs, landing on a very unstable pizza box on top of the bin, scrabbling around for grip and then knocking over a jar with lentils in it sending them everywhere! This is the second jar of lentils to be sacrificed in the name of trying to save furry face.

He is also a stroppy object pusher, I know he wants something when things start flying off surfaces. The best one was I had a stack of CD's I'd been burning photos onto next to the TV. He wanted his dinner but it wasn't dinner time, so he jumped up next to them. Looked me square in the eyes and started pinging them off one by one.

Gotta love em!

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

My old girl cat, who simply has to be the centre of attention, leaped the 5 foot from the dining table to the old tumble dryer in a desperate attempt to get my attention a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately for her, I had just placed a clean, folded fleece blanket on top of it as I was in the process of sorting the laundry (and ignoring her).

So, cat landed at speed on a surface that glides against the metal surface underneath.

Kind of like indoor aquaplaning.

The linen bin was another 3 foot past the end of the tumble drier.


My sides hurt for hours.

GemJar_2

wow I don't think I've laughed so much when reading a thread. Just rang my OH at work to read it all to him and he's in stitches too. SOOO thankful its not just us. I'll be watching him like a hawk from now on with a video camera- lets face it, thick cats do make fantastic tv