Cat Logic!

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I woke up this morning and found that Sakura shredded the toilet paper for the second time this week (and only the second time ever). She seems to only do it while I and my husband are asleep. It's like cats know that they're doing something bad, so they wait to do whatever they're going to do at the best time they think they won't get caught. It's funny how they think, "No, stop!" is conditional, like it really means "you can't do that in front of me, but it's totally okay if you do it when I'm not looking." Sakura also likes to dig Charvone's food out of his bowl and then eat it, like she thinks "Hey, it's not in his bowl anymore, so it's fair game now!" Cat logic...
Oh, this story is so observant and so true.  I agree with both you and 'nurseangel'...."no" must have some magical time limit that expires...when our cats think so.

( @CStS ...Now that is a good idea for a thread..."Cat Logic...or Why Your Loving Cat Can Try to Get Away With Bending the Rules"...or "Cat Logic and Cat Loopholes") 


So cute that Sakura finds that if the cat food is not in Charvone's bowl...then it must be allowable to eat, and if humans are not watching, they really won't mind the mess.  Sounds like great 'cat logic' to me, too.
 
I can't even be mad at Sakura for trying...
Plus, she does the cute big googly-eyes look that Puss In Boots from the Shrek movies does.
 

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So cute that Sakura finds that if the cat food is not in Charvone's bowl...then it must be allowable to eat, and if humans are not watching, they really won't mind the mess.  Sounds like great 'cat logic' to me, too.
 
I can't even be mad at Sakura for trying...
Plus, she does the cute big googly-eyes look that Puss In Boots from the Shrek movies does.
Actually, I think you came up with the idea of "Cat Logic"...@CStS...I just batted some "titles" around.
  (I'll gladly take co-credit, though)...but I'm glad that you did make this thread. 


Hmm...Cats Finding Loopholes and Bending the Rules. 

There are a few I can think of...but the main one that my 15yr old cat, Spotty, does...is gives the most plaintive, sad sounding "meow", which is fairly short but loud.  Whatever I am doing I just have to stop, and see what he wants.  He's not even sad, but just knows how to use that Cat Logic on me.  Whenever Spotty does that meow, whatever is happening at the time, fades to the background.  He's very clever in using it for attention. 
 

If your Sakura can do the big googly-eyes look, then, true...anything that she does would be okay.  You won't be able to say no. 
 
 
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Asha...nope. There's nothing this little princess is yelled at for...so far anyway. Give her time...
 

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Blackberry is a little cat, almost kitten-size.  Because of this (I think) Speck tries to push her around.  And he tries to do it when I am asleep or not looking, because he doesn't want the "no, no" and a lecture. "No, no, Speck!   She's just a little cat.  We don't want to be mean to the little cat, do we?"  
 Hmm, maybe that's why he looks shocked when Daisy is getting a lecture...he gets them too, and I didn't realize it until now.  
 
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frik, aka "princess kitty", aka "pk", sometimes does not like the litter box - even after her puppa (or mumma) has cleaned it.  if a plaintive mew gets no response, then her logic is this:

"i must pee in litter.  but the litter does not have to remain in the box."  so she scrapes a tiny bit of litter onto the linoleum and uses her now perfect non-litter box.

the only other cat logic that comes to me is how they scaddadle when i get angry.  they zip in different directions.  later i see them - one eye at a time - looking at me from a distance to see if i am still mad.  their logic:

"if she's not yelling, it's ok to come back out."
 

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My laptop is on a table with a window near it, to the left front.  At this window, outside, is a birdfeeder set up for my little Speedy to observe,  

Many times Speedy will jump quickly up from my right side, onto the computer keyboard and then onto her perch at this window to the left.

After watching birds or traffic from this window, she will turn around and start to go toward the keyboard, but I quickly put my left arm up so that she cannot re- enter to the front, on the keyboard.

OK, no problem, I think.  With my arm up she will go behind the laptop, avoiding the keyboard. 


No, Speedy now gets in back of the laptop, takes a dive over the screen, and makes a nice landing on the keyboard again!
  I don't mind though, even if she has ample room to pass to and fro behind the laptop, she is just using her KITTY LOGIC  which humans have not completely deciphered at this point in history!

When I am lucky, I can catch her, give her a kiss on the head, ask her what she is doing, and get her to sit in my lap for a while and watch the mouse on the screen.  I would have it no other way. 


                                                               
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frik, aka "princess kitty", aka "pk", sometimes does not like the litter box - even after her puppa (or mumma) has cleaned it.  if a plaintive mew gets no response, then her logic is this:

"i must pee in litter.  but the litter does not have to remain in the box."  so she scrapes a tiny bit of litter onto the linoleum and uses her now perfect non-litter box.

the only other cat logic that comes to me is how they scaddadle when i get angry.  they zip in different directions.  later i see them - one eye at a time - looking at me from a distance to see if i am still mad.  their logic:

"if she's not yelling, it's ok to come back out."
This is indeed CAT LOGIC.
 

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OK, no problem, I think.  With my arm up she will go behind the laptop, avoiding the keyboard. 


No, Speedy now gets in back of the laptop, takes a dive over the screen, and makes a nice landing on the keyboard again!
  I don't mind though, even if she has ample room to pass to and fro behind the laptop, she is just using her KITTY LOGIC  which humans have not completely deciphered at this point in history!
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There seems to be a theme running through this thread...in that our cats will do things...often...'when we are not looking.' OR...know they are too cute, and can get away with things.  Cannot blame them for using cuteness. 


@raysmyheart   My cat Spotty, will also walk all over my keyboard, but usually this is okay, since he's telling me to go to bed, computer time is over, I've been online for too long.  I appreciate this type of cat logic. 

What I don't understand is that if I place my Spotty, on my left side...so I can pat, stroke, massage his back...he always insists on going to my right side, (while I'm on the computer)..so that I cannot use the 'computer mouse' and pat him at the same time.  If I move him...he just walks away....then I feel guilty. 


Does any one else have a cat that you place in some spot, and they always, always, get up and move?   Sometimes coming to that exact same spot later...but acting as if it were 'their idea' and not yours.
 
 
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