Who do you blame?

I can usually point my finger at Casey if any mischeif is done. Gracie can get into trouble once in a while but Casey is the Troublemaker-in-chief.

with 4 cats i've gotten pretty good at figuring out who to blame. 95% of the time it is Sloth, he is still a kitten and no matter how much I tell him no, scream at him, turn beet red he DOES NOT learn. He has learned to identify my footsteps so if hes the counters, he waits until i am 2 seconds from rounding the corner and leaps for dear life and takes off running down the hall cause he knows hes in trouble. Possum is 100% innocent (except for jumping on counters) but if you tell him no he stops what he is doing and gets his butt away from the badness. Worm likes to get his grimy little paws onto the coffee table and only bat the strange looking things off and then ignore them. Anything that seems like it was done out of spite is done by Kricket.(usually behavior things like peeing in the dirty clothes hamper) Poor Sloth gets all the blame and no matter how mad i get at him, his dumb lil butt comes running up to me purring and headbutting....how do you stay mad at that. Darn cat is to smart for his own good.

Originally Posted by Rosiemac

I don't point a finger at any of them really?. If something gets broke, it's happend, i can't turn the clock back so i just carry on as normal

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I'm the same.

Originally Posted by Persi & Alley

How about you? When you find something amiss in your home do you immediately know who to blame? And as an adjunct, have you ever done something bad and blamed it on one of your cats?

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Kitty profiling. I know their habits fairly well. For example, shredded paper towel or chewed on paper is Sherman's doing. It helps that I have caught him in the act as well.

Sho never does anything... he's just Sho the lazy cat. Tomas is somewhere in between but generally never does anything bad.

And nope, I never have. I'm clumsy and everyone knows it.

You mean you keep breakables out where they can be broken?

Our OTB cat Max trained us very well. Anything, and I mean anything, left on a counter or table (or any high platform) was pushed on the floor by him. And if it didn't break on the way down, the dogs would grab it and chew it up. We called this phenomena the "Max Factor". Within a month of adopting Max, we stopped leaving things out in the open and have never really done so since.

But a few months back, DH pilled Stumpy and left the pill gun on the kitchen counter. The Max Factor struck (even though Max crossed 10 years ago), and it was pushed on the floor and eaten by a dog. It had to be Koko who pushed it off. She's a little stinker with anything left out in the open for more than a minute or 2.

And busted screens are always Spanky's doing. He broke out thru a screen in our new house early on and since that time loves to escape outside. We replaced all of those screens with pet screens, then had some new windows installed. He promptly busted thru those screens and we replaced them. The little bugger broke thru a pet screen the other night so now I have to find something stronger. Would rebar look tacky in a living room patio door?

Both Linus and Pixie can get into mischief at the drop of a hat, however they each have their own specific things they like to get into. So I can usually figure out who did what by whatever damage was done..but unless I actually saw the crime, no one does the time.

I also have a tattler in the mix though in the form of Sassy. When the other two get up to no good Sassy generally seeks me out and stares at me. I have woken up plenty of times by getting a paw in the face and him staring at me as if to say "you better get out here quick.."

However the worse punishment is me saying to them in a deep voice "what did you do now" which generally ends up with them rubbing up against me, then falling in front of me looking like oh so cute little angels...and they are forgiven. All the stuff I liked better then them was destroyed years ago.

It is very obvious who has who trained in my household..

Depends on what it is.

Anything shredded/ripped/torn it's Danny for sure. But everything else falls on Harvey!!! He's such a mess. Luke never gets blamed for anything...other than getting cat hair on my freshly folded clothes, .

Nothing was every disturbed when all we had was Punkin. Well, we found "staple marks" on the edges of papers, if we left them out, but otherwise he is the best cat we've ever met.

Then we got Sterling. Nothing is safe on a counter or table or dresser. Especially pens, pencils, and batteries.

Then along came Ella, and what Sterling hadn't pushed off, she did.

So if something is on the floor, actually all we know is who DIDN'T do it!

I love this thread! It's a relief to know that I'm not the only individual who singles out a kitty to blame when things go bump in the night (morning and afternoon, too ).

In short, the guilty subject in my home is always Delaney. She's going to be a year old at the end of this week (June 5th) and is the most rambunctious kitten I've ever met. When I adopted Laney from the shelter a couple of months ago, my first experience with her was when she hopped from the volunteer's shoulder to mine! I should've known then what I was getting myself into, but, alas, I was blissfully anaware . But, trust me when I say that I always know whose the one causing trouble. In fact, I just needed to invest in some nice organizational supplies because Miss Delaney likes to knock anything and everything off the table, the desk, the dresser...you get the point, right?! So, yeah, Delaney's my trouble-maker. But, really, I wouldn't have it any other way !

it is always the bad kitty's fault! I have three dogs but at least I can train them! They are good doggies, she is not good, not so much, good for cuddling though. LOL

LOL cococat!

I have learned which cat is more likely to cause a certain kind of mischief. Kinko loves to chew on cardboard and plastic, while Chloe rummages through the trash; I swear she gets enough food! She's just a piggy!

Originally Posted by missymotus

I'm the same.

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Me too. My cats rarely ever break anything and I don't mind if they do.

Awwww, more alienate Persi!

Poor Trout too, it is always her...because literally it has to be unless its my fiance

That would be Aristotle, aka The White Tornado. All crashes are blamed on him. I hear one, yell "Ari!" and hear a "What!" like meow from the area of the crash.

Years ago - and other kitties - I heard the rumble of a stampede and a crash from the bathroom. I found a cracked window and no kitties anywhere near the bathroom. In fact, they were all asleep.

Originally Posted by Persi & Alley

How about you? When you find something amiss in your home do you immediately know who to blame? And as an adjunct, have you ever done something bad and blamed it on one of your cats?

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99.9% of the time it is Figaro who is being naughty so he is the one we blame.

And I MIGHT have knocked over a small plant and blamed it on the cats. No one saw me do it so there is no evidence! Also when I was living at home I may or may not have knocked over a speaker and broke it. Mom and Dad just assumed it was the cats and I just never corrected them

There can only be one guilty party here But he is mostly a good boy.

I do blame him for me not hoovering because I don`t want to wake him up when he`s sleeping

I blame all my pets just so that I get the culprit all the time! haha I guess it depends on what the catastrophe is. If it's something off my breakfast buffet, I know it's Schweppie. But if it's food related or someone's been in the garbage, it's Kiri, my dog. But if something else has been knocked over, it's My Little Guy - probably playing chase the dog with Kiri. But Kiri has an expressive face so she usually has the puppy dog look that prevents me from getting angry. My Little Guy has this naive, innocent look that just makes me melt. And I can't really blame Schweppie as he doesn't give a poop about the other two so he stays up on the buffet so if he's clumsy, then that's okay.

Most often it is Riley that does the "bad kitty" things He just can't seem to help it. The one exception being when an ink pen is gone missing from the jar, or is found on the floor. I know then that Xander has been climbing on the desk and playing with them because Xander has an ink pen fetish. He just can't resist them!

Originally Posted by Persi & Alley

Please excuse my ignorance but I do not know what CH is. It does not sound good and I am sorry for Forest.

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Originally Posted by Arlyn

Cerebelar Hypoplasia (sp?) it is like Cerebral Palsy, the brain isn't usually affected, just the motorskills

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I'm sorry to take so long to check back in here, Lee. Many people are unfamiliar with CH, and I'm always happy to educate them on my special boy.

Arlyn is correct. It's cerebellar hypoplasia. It is like cerebral palsy. His cerebellum didn't form correctly, so he was born with poor motor skills. He walks like a drunken sailor and has a bobble head, but he's otherwise perfectly healthy. He's also one of the happiest creatures I've ever met, so there's no need to feel sorry for him. Forest is just fine with himself...he's just not sure what's wrong with the rest of us.

Here's a link to a great You Tube video of a CH kitty:

Now that we have the the "baby" in the house, Natasha, when ever something turns up missing, we know who is to blame....she is. Natasha is a huge thief!! She takes pens, hangers, cell phones, the corded phone, keys...anything that isn't put away.