Are cats mad?

helcat26

Going from snoozing on the windowsill in the sun, to a mad dash up the stairs, dash back down the stairs, then a wrestle with the hall runner rug.


Oh and of course finishing up on her side with her front paws still clutching the rug, absolutely motionless staring at me as if to say "What?"

Torry_Quine

Sounds like my cat.

Pollycat

helcat26 wrote: »

Going from snoozing on the windowsill in the sun, to a mad dash up the stairs, dash back down the stairs, then a wrestle with the hall runner rug.


Oh and of course finishing up on her side with her front paws still clutching the rug, absolutely motionless staring at me as if to say "What?"

Sounds like a pretty normal cat to me.

gunsandbanjos

Sounds pretty standard cat behaviour. Pretty sure they're all mental.

Serendipitious

'Having a mad half hour' was what my mother used to call this.

mrsp1987

Yeah, it's the "mad five minutes", "mad half hour", "mad dash" whatever you want to call it.
It's both perfectly normal and completely bonkers. Wouldn't have it any other way!

ERICS_MUM

My Eric still does this, albeit a mad two minutes. He's 18 years old, bless him !

Lincoln_Imp

Both of mine do that but normally they have a habit of doing it in the middle of the night thus waking everyone up

scaredy_cat

it's what i call ' having a flea up their bum!' - having a crazy 5 mins.

i find that when it's really windy outside, my cat will do this.

gunsandbanjos

scaredy_cat wrote: »

i find that when it's really windy outside, my cat will do this.

It was wild here a couple of weeks ago and I was ready to strangle my two! They spent about an hour charging up and down my hall and through my bedroom when I was trying to sleep.

Pollycat

gunsandbanjos wrote: »

It was wild here a couple of weeks ago and I was ready to strangle my two! They spent about an hour charging up and down my hall and through my bedroom when I was trying to sleep.

Yes, wind used to send my old boy wild.

I found that more than 1 cat was much worse as they used to set each other off.
At least when Murphy (always the only cat) had 'had his fun', he just calmed down and slept.