Hmm- can you tell I have cats?

My 2 haven't shredded the blinds yet, probably because I keep at least one open at all times. It's in the dining room, so it's not a big deal. If it isn't open, they crawl through and bend it, so I leave it open.

Molly has learned how to crawl between the blind and the window, I see her put her paw up and move it so she can see out. Smart girl.

lmao! My computer room blinds look just like that. I too thought I was looking at the windows in my house. Bentley will paw them out of his way so he can get at the window when he's not in a hurry... if another cat or something is outside forget it. He just rips at them.

ROFL! Got one of those blinds in my bedroom over the bed. They cracked a number of the slats down the middle and I've had to crazy glue them back together a number of times. The one in the bathroom has a permanent bend in them.

Yup.....this is normal!

We have miniblinds in the family room and they've held up, fairly well. We have three units, across the big window and ;eave the center one raised a couple of feet. The two side ones a a bit chewed but, not broken.

I got rid of the living room sheers, some time ago. Those became a lost cause. My cotton drapes have held up, much better. I've had my eye on some deep purple velvet ones but, I'd have to vacuum them, on a daily basis.

LOL - that looks just like the blinds in my mom's and sister's houses!
Are you actually "allowed" to close the blinds? We have shutters that roll down over the outside of our windows and balcony doors (Rollläden - a terrific invention - they're pretty much standard in Germany), but JC objects to them being put down, so usually we just have the ones in the kitchen and bedroom halfway down at night. Heavy drapes have been banished from every room except the spare bedroom, where we leave the balcony door open a bit when it's below freezing, so JC can go out on his balcony - have you ever seen what a curtain rod looks like after a 13 1/2 lb. cat has climbed the drapes and sat on it? We have sheers in all the rooms, but they're full of pulls, and the curtain rods are anchored with 5" screws, because JC likes to "hide" behind them and jump out at us. I've given up on any kind of "window treatments". Do you also have tiny little paw prints on your windows and TV screen? I washed all my windows two weeks ago, and today I noticed that there are about a hundred paw prints again.

All of my windows have nose prints on them. The family room windows have them inside and out. The cats like to sit on the windowsills and tease the dogs and, of course, the dogs smear up the outside.

In addition to being chewed, all of the miniblind cords are coiled up and clothespinned to the top slat. Those cords are way too much temptation and I've heard horror stories, of kitties being hung on them.

I look at it this way - when I see windows with immaculate panes and obviously expensive sheers and drapes, and perhaps all sorts of exotic plants or holiday decorations, I figure that the people are underprivileged, since they very apparently don't have the joy of being dog or cat guardians!

We don't have blinds we have curtains and they are good strong ones so the kitties can't rip them and they are good ones that don't attract the cat fur. I guess we are just lucky.

Looks like my house!
Our blinds are trashed now. These pictures were taken about a year ago when the girls were about a year old.

Zoey in the basement...

Here is Zoey again...Notice she can't just look through the window where the blinds are already open ?!

Both pictures are scanned and not good quality

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Here is Zoey again...Notice she can't just look through the window where the blinds are already open ?!

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"Oh, come ON, Human...if you insist on leaving the wrong piece of window exposed, how else am I to look out where I want??? SHEESH! Humans!"

Almost all of my rooms have pieces torn out of the blinds.
The bedroom for example:
(Notice also the dead plant beside the door. )

I have a question- Where do YOU sleep at night vettech, on the floor? LOL

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I have a question- Where do YOU sleep at night vettech, on the floor? LOL

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I only have a couple that usually follow me to bed.The rest think that when I turn out the lights it's playtime.
But after they all get through with their nightly "run through the house so loud they sound like a herd of buffalo routine" they come to bed.Then I wake up in the middle of the night about to pee and end up knocking cats off me and the bed just trying to get up.Then they look at me like I done something wrong,after they have kept me up half the night running through the house.LOL.

Gotta love em' though.

looks something my kids and cats would do

I leave my blinds up otherwise Twig will bang on them until you pull them up. (annoying to hear at night) We also have curtains on them but they are parted so that the cat sleepers can be there and the kitties can see out of them. My one curtain is COVERED in cat hair on one part only and the other has a saftey pin holding it together so we can have SOME privacy. LOL!
You should see what happens if the ill fated plastic is on the window that the cat sleepers is on! I've had to fix the one in the bedroom two times already(and it's to darn cold to take is off). Twig just HATES having anything in the way of HIS view. LOL!

I have net curtains that need to be replaced because of Rosie!.

Bless them!!.

Susan