Does you cat come in without playing silly ruggers?

GlynD

I_luv_cats wrote: »

Hotel for cats!

Can any cat lover say that their home isn't a hotel for cats, with room service 24 hours a day?

penguingirl

GlynD wrote: »

Our oldest hates catnip, actually runs away from it. The younger one goes into the throes of ecstasy but not madam.

Yep he doesn't like catnip either. The only toys he'll play with are scrunched up bits of paper (old car tax disks are his favourite- expensive tastes!), and a fluffy thing on a stick (these). Oh and he likes jumping into bedsheets on the washing line!

aileth

Hahaha this made me chuckle. One of our cats does no games, if he wants to come in, he's in, and will sit patiently by the back door. Our other one is a little b***er and will jump on the windowsill, so you go to open the window to let him in, but because he's a bit thick he doesn't know how to reverse into the space, so then he'll jump down from the window, so you'll go to the back door, open it, he'll tootle up to it, stand an inch from the doorframe for about five minutes before deciding whether he actually wants to come in. If you try to coax him, he's off.

A lot of the time he'll 'fake' you out, where he'll come to the back door, wander back when you open the door, and then race off back to the fence. Feels like he's trying to play a game with you. If you want him in at night, you'll go out and call him and he'll sit on the other side of the fence and stare at you!

Definitely agree with the comments that you've got to act like you don't care whether the cat comes in or not when you open the door for it. If you're stressed or trying to hurry it, they always !!!!!! off again!!

pukkamum

Our old cat, i'm convinced is suffering from dementia and is driving us mad!
She isn't allowed out the front anymore due to her deafness and being slow, i'm worried she'll get run over.
So she sits at the door yowling extremely loudly!
Combine this with her forgetting where her food bowl is, cue more yowling, only wanting to drink from the bathroom tap, cue more yowling, getting up on dd's bunkbed then not being able to get down, it's like living in a blimmin zoo!
We seem to spend all night letting her in and out of the living room!
Still love her to bits though.

Oh and her constantly wanting to be on me, I can't sit for longer than two seconds before she's on my knee, which is lovely except she kneads me with her claws and wants her face as close to mine as possible.
She's a bit stinky too as she's not grooming.
Actually this post has made me really sad.

aileth

My parents' cat is especially a little !!!!!! too. She loves to find somewhere *just* out of reach of your hands and then roll around while giving you a smug expression. There used to be a tin roof at their old house and she'd sit a couple of inches from the edge and look very pleased with herself, or when they had a big queen bed she'd lay right in the middle underneath the bed of it so your arm *just* wasn't long enough.

Someone posted earlier about someone being taller than them getting said cat playing this game and the cat being in shock about it. Their cat hates my OH because he is the tallest out of us all and can easily get her when she plays these games. Each time he goes near her she attacks him!!!

GlynD

penguingirl wrote: »

Yep he doesn't like catnip either. The only toys he'll play with are scrunched up bits of paper (old car tax disks are his favourite- expensive tastes!), and a fluffy thing on a stick (these). Oh and he likes jumping into bedsheets on the washing line!

Both of ours love "Da Burd" which is very similar to what you have posted. In fact I've yet to see a cat who doesn't like Da Burd.

Small, realistic looking toy mice are firm favourites too and can be heard receiving extreme treatment in the middle of the night, whilst holding the breath hoping it isn't a real mouse which is getting it.

Coopdivi

This thread reminds me of Simon's Cat wanting to come in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rb8aOzy9t4

RachRubyD

I don't know if anyone has dogs as well as cats but I also have the problem that if the cat does look like she might be heading into the house and you try coax her in the dog thinks its a game and chases the cat off . This is probs about an hour or so after you been trying to get the cat in by shouting, waving and shaking treats to your arms go numb and trying to lift fences up to get at the cat.

So your then not sure who your more mad at the cat or the dog. The dogs pleased as punch though thats she chased the cat off. Wouldn't mind but the get on really well and kiss each other sometimes. The neighbours must hate us as we shouting and whistling the cat late at night and the dogs barking.

This thread reminded me of when we lived in our old house few years back and had trees and my mum would shout and shout for hours the cat searching for her. Only to realise the cat had been hiding in our trees watching her shout. I know cats don't laugh but I can so imagine ours sniggering in the trees.

aileth

GlynD wrote: »

Both of ours love "Da Burd" which is very similar to what you have posted. In fact I've yet to see a cat who doesn't like Da Burd.

Small, realistic looking toy mice are firm favourites too and can be heard receiving extreme treatment in the middle of the night, whilst holding the breath hoping it isn't a real mouse which is getting it.

I really need to try 'Da Burd' on ours. They are really catnip sensitive so we have a little pouch of catnip, and when they're looking a bit dull me and OH pretend to be magicians and 'Shazam' the patch of carpet in front of them and watch the madness begin. It's also worth it if they're in 'psycho mode' as the catnip coma afterwards is worth the peace and quiet.

GlynD

aileth wrote: »

I really need to try 'Da Burd' on ours. They are really catnip sensitive so we have a little pouch of catnip, and when they're looking a bit dull me and OH pretend to be magicians and 'Shazam' the patch of carpet in front of them and watch the madness begin. It's also worth it if they're in 'psycho mode' as the catnip coma afterwards is worth the peace and quiet.

Da Burd isn't expensive as you can see here http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=da+bird&!!!!!googhydr-21&index=aps&hvadid=25157315286&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=4646332931034223673&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_6svgzsz60e_b

and you can get replacement feathers for it really cheaply (no pun intended).

What I think gets them is the way the feathers flutter through the air. We get some real gymnastics from both of them when using it.

We don't get any psycho stuff from catnip use. We just get the ecstasy phase. All cats are different eh, no matter how similar so many of the traits are, especially going by what we've seen written here.