Please share your quirky cat stories !!!

I find it sad that my cats have a greater delay of gratification than most of the humans I know. 

Okay, I was thinking about this, and Ive remembered something my mother told me about.

Many years before I was alive, My mother owed the famous 'Cat'. The Female ginger tabby, though undeniably reckless, was quite affectionate, curling up with my mother to sleep, bugging her to get stroked, all the typical cat stuff. Now one night, she woke up, still somewhat dazed with sleep. On her bed, however, was not only her beloved ginger, but also another, a Ginger Tom Cat (who she couldn't tell apart from her own moggy), both staring at each other. needless to say, she (my mother, obviously, not the headstrong cat who fully intended to protect her owner) got a little freaked out and squeaked a bit in suprise. according to my Mother 'the Tom Cat gave her an annoyed glare, before turning tail and leaping out of the window'.

my my Morris is extremely attached to me, and doesnt like my bf. Morris is skittish of people and usually runs and hides from everyone but me and my son. a few times he would try to show my bf who owns me by marking territory. only his way of doing it was him climbing in my lap, or on the bed when he saw my bf close to me and he would pee on me. its been months since hes done it and he hasnt done it since those times. once my female, Kitty, "marked" me the way Morris did. when they did it, they would pounce on me, sit down, then scoot their butt, then go. cats are strange.

These stories are all hilarious!    

My 5 month old kitten, Sophie, has a very particular bedtime routine.  She has done this every single night in this exact order.   When I start getting ready for bed, she'll use her litter box, then sit on the bathroom counter and wash me brush my teeth.  Once I climb into bed, she sits on the floor and watches until I turn out the light, then  climbs on top of me and tries to wrestle with my hands or feet to see if I would perhaps like to play before I fall asleep? When she realizes that I am indeed about to go to sleep and am not interested in playing,  she runs around the room once or twice, goes to munch on some kibble, then curls up on top of my knees and gives herself a bath before going to sleep.  

My Rainbow kitty Tiger used to help me weed the garden... as soon as I bent over or got on all 4's up he would go
Sure miss his help weeding...

Zoey does NOT like to be picked up or petted unless it is on HER terms. Which is upside down on the boob shelf...while I'm watching tv...

We had many cats in our lives, some very calm, others very annoying...

Anyway, now we have two cats, and one of them, the black one, is named Eskimo.

One day, we had a problem with a neighbour and a police officer came inside our house. We were talking of serious things, and there was Eskimo, who loves visitors. He was walking around, purring and meowing, very happy to see new faces. The police officer was sitting on the couch, and Eskimo decided to get on the couch too. Finally, he licked the ear of the cop! He did!

So now, I can say that my cat has licked the ear of a police officer!



Meow!

Henry is very jealous of Sophie. He doesn't pay much attention to me UNTIL she comes over for pets or cuddles. It's almost like he watches her to see when she's going to come over. As soon as I pet her or she sits with me, he tries to get in between us. He does not do this with Lilith. I could pet her all day and he wouldn't do anything. The second I touch Sophie though, he's all over me. 

Lilith is the alpha cat in the house and takes no nonsense from him but Sophie gives Lily just as much sass as she gets from her. Lily doesn't care when she does it. She enjoys it. Henry won't mess with Queen Lily.

Lily likes reminding him who the boss is despite the fact that he is twice the size of both her and Sophie. Lily loves to chase him into his room and when he's in there, she will strut out of the room with her tail held straight up and fluffed out like a peacock does. Her little head is held high like, "yeah- you're bigger but I'M the boss". It's pretty funny. I always think of this picture when she does this

 

 These are all such great stories !!!! Thank you for sharing them with me. !

Aw, I'm loving all these cute pictures and stories.  I don't know how quirky this is, but after years of owning a cheap washer (complete with a cheap dryer that had to be turned on with a wrench because the knob broke off), DH and I decided to get a good set.  The dryer has the little window in the front.  Daisy and I sit in front of it sometimes and just watch the clothes spin, fascinated.  The other night I was home alone (well, I was the only Human Bean in house) and heard "somebody" open the laundry room door.  I am pretty sure it was her; I bet she thinks the dryer puts on a big exciting show 24/7.

  How cute @nurseangel.   Maybe Daisy was checking up to make sure you were't missing out on any good laundry programmes.   

NewYork1303 said:

 
Lets see. Cat quirks. Mine have many as I believe all cats do.

Carrot thinks that he is part golden retriever. Whenever the house is too quite and no one is paying enough attention to him, he will bring his toys out to you one by one meowing loudly. He doesn't want to play with them, just have us acknowledge that he brought them. He also loves to burrow under blankets and sleep under them. Many times when we first got him we came home to find a lump in the middle of our made bed. When we bought a new ceramic food bowl for the kitten, he started to refuse his metal bowl and will only eat out of hers most of the time.

Angua is still a kitten. She will fetch crinkle balls when they are thrown. If I leave dishes to soak in the sink she will drink out of them. She will not eat out of Carrot's metal bowl. If he starts eating out of hers, they will just share the food in the bowl. She is a master computer hacker and if I let her near my computer she will somehow hit keys to do things that I never knew my computer could do. She has so far turned the screen off, turned the screen display upside down, and successfully googled some things.

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So to solve the dish problem, I bought a second ceramic food bowl. This is the exact same bowl as the other one, but the first one was blue and this one chartreuse. Now apparently Carrot has a favorite color. I switch bowls back and forth. If I put the blue one in front of him, he will hesitate to eat from it. If I put the chartreuse one down he will eat immediately and purr. 

I also forgot one of Carrot's biggest quirks. He is dramatically attracted to strings and ribbons. If you are putting ribbon on a package, he will be there in a second to try to eat the ribbon. You cannot leave any ribbon or string (including on packages) laying around. He once ate thread from the sewing machine when it was sitting out  which resulted in me pulling tons of thread out of his mouth and calling the emergency vet. We have to come up with creative places to put any gift that has ribbon or a bow on it. He also once ate the ribbon off of a birthday card my mother was giving to a friend.

NewYork1303 said:

 
So to solve the dish problem, I bought a second ceramic food bowl. This is the exact same bowl as the other one, but the first one was blue and this one chartreuse. Now apparently Carrot has a favorite color. I switch bowls back and forth. If I put the blue one in front of him, he will hesitate to eat from it. If I put the chartreuse one down he will eat immediately and purr. 

I also forgot one of Carrot's biggest quirks. He is dramatically attracted to strings and ribbons. If you are putting ribbon on a package, he will be there in a second to try to eat the ribbon. You cannot leave any ribbon or string (including on packages) laying around. He once ate thread from the sewing machine when it was sitting out  which resulted in me pulling tons of thread out of his mouth and calling the emergency vet. We have to come up with creative places to put any gift that has ribbon or a bow on it. He also once ate the ribbon off of a birthday card my mother was giving to a friend.

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You have to use extreme caution when removing string or yarn from your cat - regardless of which end it is going in or coming out of!

If it has been ingested and is in or coming out of the mouth, you really have no way of knowing if any has been actually swallowed, and pulling it could cause esophageal damage if it has entered the throat (which it most likely has because cats swallow fairly quickly!). At the 'other end of the spectrum', if it has been swallowed and the cat is 'passing' the string or yarn and you tug or pull to remove it, you could cause serious damage to the colon/intestines. 

In BOTH instances, it is best to get your cat to a vet immediately to have the string or yarn removed following an exam! It's easy to 'think' you can do it successfully on your own, but it IS dangerous! 

My two female cats are so jealous of each other. If I'm petting Spookie Kissyfur will come over for pets too. They swat each other in the face like French men with there white gloves it's hilarious cause there both declawed in the front. Any ways Kissyfur fetches and Spookie will go chase the toy & sit on it so Kissyfur can't find the fetch toy.LOL

Fyllis said:

 
You have to use extreme caution when removing string or yarn from your cat - regardless of which end it is going in or coming out of!

If it has been ingested and is in or coming out of the mouth, you really have no way of knowing if any has been actually swallowed, and pulling it could cause esophageal damage if it has entered the throat (which it most likely has because cats swallow fairly quickly!). At the 'other end of the spectrum', if it has been swallowed and the cat is 'passing' the string or yarn and you tug or pull to remove it, you could cause serious damage to the colon/intestines. 

In BOTH instances, it is best to get your cat to a vet immediately to have the string or yarn removed following an exam! It's easy to 'think' you can do it successfully on your own, but it IS dangerous! 

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I was lucky in this case since it was weak thread. I removed what he had tangled around his teeth and tongue by gently taking the pieces and stopping whenever they became taught. He's patient with having me touch his mouth since he is used to regular tooth brushing. In the end the vet decided he hadn't swallowed enough to worry about and that the thread thin enough that any he did swallow would likely just break up into little pieces. (Also this happened when I first got him, so long ago at this point.)

But definitely good advice for the future since I know that with a cat that eats string and ribbon I will likely experience this problem again.

These are all great to read, helped some time go by fast at work.

Im not sure if I have any stories as good as these other than Kona loves to sit and watch tv. also she got her first toy a few days ago, a little mouse with something in it so it makes noises and I love watching her play with it, throwing it then "sneaking up on it" and attacking it from around a corner. The wife and I also have all hard wood floors so when she gets in her hyper moods its pretty entertaining to see her run around and slip.

She also loves to sleep on my wifes desk and ruffle up the papers to sleep on. A few times ive seen her eye balling the mantle of the fireplace (where my wife has some things that are breakable) and I see her sizing up the jump a few times but all I gotta say is "Kona...don't you think about it" and she gives me this "darn I got caught look" and climbs down, pretty cute.

Older thread, I know, but here's one.

 A couple months ago I picked up a dvd of the film 'Capt. Phillips' about the pirates hijacking the Maersk Alabama. While I was watching it, Bonnie was asleep on the table and Clyde on the floor. When the scene came on where the Navy destroyer pulls up at night next to the life boat where the pirates are holding the captain and announces their presence by sounding the ship's horn, Bonnie JUMPS up and shoots out of the room, down the hall, and sits by the bathroom door, staring on full alert towards the living room until the movie is over. I figured she was having a dream and the sound just startled her awake. A random thing. Clyde just gives her the "What?!" look with his ears back before going back to sleep.

 A couple days later, some friends were over who hadn't seen the film so I played it again. And again, Bonnie was asleep on the table. And out exactly the same scene, she jumps up and runs out of the room and sits on alert in the hall until the movie ends. She was terrified by the ship's horn for some reason. I live near the railroad tracks and trains don't bother her.

 A couple weeks later, I was having trouble with her suddenly stealing Clyde's food. I tried separating them but she kept finding it and I could tell it was bothering him. On a whim, I searched Youtube for 'ship horn' and found one that sounded close. I played it, and again, she ran off and let him eat in peace. I had to do a couple more times before she finally got the message, but now they eat together fine without boat noises.

 Of course now she eats moths, but that's another story.

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That's a "cat house" we put in our cat room. It's Jake's favorite hiding spot. He runs there whenever he's scared. Sometimes he sits by the "window" and just watches us. If you look through the "door" you can see that he has dragged every toy he can think of in there including 2 wands. One day I was using the wand with his brother, Jake swooped in, grabbed the wand, and ran into his house. The wand ended up just bouncing because it was horizontal and didn't fit through the opening. He has since then perfected the art of getting the wands inside.

Jake also loves water. He frequently hangs out in the sink. If you aren't careful he will break into the bathroom to get in the shower with you. Running water also makes him very vocal, it sounds like he sings.

Toothless is a quirky eater. She paws pieces of her food off of her dish and pulls into her mouth. She also prefers drinking out of a glass (yes glass, not ceramic, or plastic) than her water bowls.

Well, I have to tell about Circe. When I adopted her, Circe was about 6.5 years old and had lived in the rescue where I found her since she was a small kitten.  When she was 4, she finally had become adoptable, and then she was adopted by a couple who kept her for about a year, when their marriage broke up (they'd also adopted three others from the same place).  Contract stipulates that you can't re-home, but are to return the kitties, so the four cats came back, and Circe was in pretty poor condition.  I adopted my first pair (TV and Domino), and then a few months later returned for the next pair (which hadn't been a pair before, but I adopted Circe and Autumn together--Autumn was actually part of a trio that included TV and Domino).

Well, when I adopted Circe, I was told that it might take her a long time to adapt--she'd been in the cat house (the rescue) almost her entire life, and had been described as "aloof" by the people who'd adopted her and the other cats.  Needless to say, when I got them home, they went straight under the bed in the room where we'd set things up for them (with a litterbox and food dishes). 

Autumn was under the bed on a plastic box, in the corner, pushing up the bottom of the box springs--she's pretty near invisible.  Circe was down more towards the middle of the bed (which is a twin size), and I lay down on the floor and poked my head under the bed skirt to start talking to her.  I continued with this, and then reached in under the bed--I could *just* touch the tip of one toe.

I said to Circe "If you just came closer, I could pet you."  Never could I have imagined what would happen next ... she budged forward about 8 inches toward me, and I could stroke her down to the middle of her back--one time, because then she just came all the way out and jumped onto the top of the bed.

Within hours of coming into my house, here is the cat who was predicted to have a more difficult adjustment:


She's been a snugglebug ever since. 

And if she thinks any of the other cats are getting too much attention, she flops over so that she's belly up ...