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good morning! 


this morning i woke up to find a power cord chewed through! 
  yup, our little deedee has started chewing on cords/cables now -- i caught her 'in the act' this morning. it has always been punky who was the 'chewer', and some of you may remember that not long ago i bought 200 feet of wire loom and covered as close as i could get to every bit of cords/cables that i was able to. i've just ordered another 100 feet of wire loom, and a complete replacement for the electronic item the cord belonged to -- basically no replacement power adapters sold for the item.

so with this on my mind, and in the spirit of finding the humor in the situation, for today's Question of the Day......

Please share stories of the naughty, naughty things your cat(s) have done!  (and we still love them dearly)

i'll start!

deedee and punky -- oh my! the complete list would be quite long! but then, they've just recently become adult cats (13 months old now). of course there's the cord/cable chewing 
. and the other big thing they do that's pretty naughty is running the 'Indianapolis 500 speed trials' through the living room and over me as i'm sleeping during the night.

our jaspurr -- i always say that our jaspurr has no faults, and it's really true.

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little snick
-- she could open pretty much any (lower) cabinet door! it didn't matter if there were magnetic closures on them, snick could still open them. i finally found a solution, setting plastic (kitchen) storage canisters in front of the (lower) cabinet doors -- and i continue to keep them there. i always told my snick that she was 'too smart for her own good'.

my mickey
-- mickey really didn't have any faults either.

okay, now it's your turn!
 

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When I was a teenager my Tiger lily lapped up my contact lens with solution before I could put the lid on the case.
My eye doctor didn't believe me lol
 

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Kiwi spends the night bringing bags, paper and anything else she can carry upstairs. I have woken to find my bedroom looking like a rubbish dump and found my bra in the kitchen. No wonder she sleeps all day
 

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Where do I being with Morgana? 



- Knocks things over all the time, intentionally.
- Stole the dogs bone from the kitchen counter a few times
- Drinks vodka. Have to keep tabs on this especially!
- Is able to open doors by turning doorknobs with both paws. It's like this little shuffle technique.
- Is able to open cupboard doors. Has crawled into said cuboards to explore the inside (Have photographic evidence of this swimming around TCS)
- Chewed up my cellphone charger when she was younger
- Steals snacks, like chips or fries etc via ninja style
- Decapitates flowers
- Has gone potty in flower pots before, has since ceased
- Has gotten into my back account and made some online purchases while booking herself a holiday to Barbados.

And so forth and so forth....

And might be kidding about the last part.

I love my little naughty minx. I have always been attracted to really clever animals, so despite having to watch over some of the behaviour I wouldn't change my mischief for the world.




Camelot:

- Tries to steal food. He adores food, will try and get it from anyone at anytime.
- When he used to be a free part time outdoor cat (He would only be outdoors if someone was with him) he saw another cat and went after him, both of them disappearing in the bushes. Long story short, Camelot was missing for four days until he was spotted by a neighbour a kilometer down the road. He was famished, but happy to see us. I live in a rural area with fields and forest so saying I was concerned was an understatement! Never again!
- Before he got his snip snip he had a tendency to be quite enamored with my housecoat on a daily basis....



Altogether he is quite a laid back kitty, my darling squishy! 

 
 

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Sophie is so naughty but she's so cute. What has she done?

She broke a lamp in my bedroom by pushing it off the stereo cabinet it was on down to the TV stand where it broke into little pieces. I went into the bedroom ans she was lounging in the spot the lamp USED to be in trying hard to look innocent.

Pushed the surge protector/battery backup, the Amazon Fire TV box and the router/modem off the TV stand in the living room. The surge protector was too heavy to push with her paw so she pushed it off by backing up against it with her tush.

Knocked pictures onto the floor- both off the wall during a bout of the zoomies and off dressers and nightstands when she felt that they were in her way.

Got back behind the washer and dryer which are in a closet with bifold doors in the kitchen. I had to pull the dryer out to get her and in the process, the duct that goes from the dryer to the wall ripped and I had to replace it.

Tried to trick DD into letting her in her room by crying pitifully in the living room. She knew DD would come running to see if she was OK and her plan was to sneak in the room. It didn't work. She also tried to get in by going into DD's bathroom which is next to her room and opening the cabinet with her paw then letting it go, making a thumping sound. She did this over and over until DD went to see what the noise was. Sophie was hoping she'd run out of the room and leave the door open so she could sneak in. She did not.
 

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Hekitty can open every door in the apartment.  She couldn't open the front door in the old one, just because it was a little stiff, but this one is handicapped access, a lever, and she has opened both the front and back doors twice now.  I've taken to keeping the deadbolts on at all times.
 

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The worst thing Artie did was about when I first adopted him.  He had an episode of the "Zoomies" after doing poop...

Well, he ran around so crazy, that he jumped on my dresser, and in the process of zooming around, caused the table lamp to fall and completely break!! 

And he still kept on running!!

That was the end of a table lamp. I now have a floor lamp next to my bed!! 
 

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My now 2 year old black cat Casey was adopted as a 7 week old kitten.  His first night home.  I set up an extra litter box in my master bathroom for him. I also set up his food and water on the other end of the bathroom.  He decided it would be fun to stand in his water bowl to drink water.  This was adorable.  However he took his wet paws into his litter box and got litter stuck to them. Next thing I know he jumped up on my bed with litter covered paws. We had to change all of our bedding quickly before we went to bed because he left a trail of litter on and in my bed.  His water bowl and food were moved from the bathroom to our 2nd bedroom far away from the litter box.

Sonny my 6 year old buff tabby loves tearing apart white shoes laces from gym shoes.  We have to keep our gym shoes hidden in closets to protect them.  We also have to make sure our guests do not leave their gym shoes out in the open.  Sometimes he will even go after the laces while you are wearing the shoes. Hubby took off his gym shoes last night and forgot to put them in his closet.  We woke up to pieces of shoe lace all over our bedroom.  He never eats the shoe laces but he leaves pieces of them everywhere.  He will also spill glasses or cups of water off my coffee table.  A friend of my hubby always sleeps with a glass of water in reach.  When he visits us he brings a water bottle with him that has a lid. Our coffee table has a top that opens up so it can be used as a dining table.  Our friend had a glass of ice water on the table with it up and fell asleep on our couch. Sonny woke him up by dumping the glass of water on him.  Our friend is a cat person and forgot to move the water before he went to bed.

Apollo is the best behaved of my 4. He is 3 years old and is a red tabby.  He does however have a meow that reminds me of someone yelling at me. We refer to it as being cussed out in kitty.  If he can see any empty spot in his food bowl he makes sure you know about it no matter what time it is.  I now shake the full bowl of food before I go to bed. He will also sometimes cuss me out for not being daddy when I get home from work.  I get home first.  He decides when it is time for hubby to go to bed.   He has woken me up talking loudly in the hall when he thinks it is hubby's bed time.  He unplugged my alarm clock one night.  Thankfully it has battery back-up and we keep the batteries fresh. I have a medical issue that sometimes requires a heating pad and he will steal my heating pad if I get up to use the bathroom.  He then then cusses me out in kitty when I want it back. I have tried giving him his own heating pad when I am using mine but he does not care.

Starbuck is a nine year old tabby. I adopted her when she was a six week old baby.  When she was little I could not eat cereal sitting down because she had to be in the bowl. She also thought nose biting was communication when  she was a baby.  She has outgrown both these behaviors. She will only come to bed with me if I pick her up and bring her to bed.  She protests when I pick her up and sometimes runs away when I put her down. If I have toast and do not eat it fast enough she will lick the butter off my toast on me. I do not make toast often though.  She also wakes me up when she wants to groom me.  This usually happens around 3 am when I don't have to be up until 7. When she is done grooming me she goes to sleep.  Sometimes I can not fall back asleep and that makes for a long work day.
 

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They've done so many terrible things that I can't remember them all.

Throwing up in one of my shoes has to be near the top of the list. Or leaving dead voles under the couch to decompose and make the whole house smell. And just this morning Hiro walked past my yoga mat and sprayed it! That's got to be one of the worst things they've ever done.
 

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You all have hilarious cats! And Norachan? Ewwww, just ewww. 

Hydrox, The Old Coot -
  • Brought a live mouse to bed. It's hilarious now, not so much when it happened. He also ate everything but the hind end of a mouse; he left that for me to clean up and I left it for Rick to clean up. Not going there. Nope. Uh-uh. I took the cat back to the bedroom with me and went to bed (working night shift). Rick came home, cleaned the entrails up, came back to the bedroom and had to knock on the bedroom door. He asked me why I locked the door...."The mouse was dead and the only thing left was its butt. What's it gonna do, drag its butt back to the bedroom? Drag itself on what?" I didn't know and I didn't care; that mouse was not going to get past a locked door. 
  • Hydrox is also the one who got stoned on nip and then proceeded to jump to the top of the freshly waxed tv. He slid completely across the tv and then crashed in a heap on the floor, taking a ceramic Santa to the floor with him. Poor Santa broke his hand and Rick had to glue it back together.
Banshee -
  • Unrolled a roll of toilet paper one day. I walked into the bathroom and she and Whisper were sitting in nest of paper on the floor and she was having a grand time. Whisper looked at me and said, "I am so outta here!" and took off. Banshee looked at me and said, "What?"
  • Banshee is also the one who dragged my bra into the living room and then got caught in it and went butt over tin cup.....when we had guests for dinner.
BooBoo -
  • Used to hike his kitten butt up to the top of the kitchen cabinets in the middle of the night and then yell for me to come get him down because he was too afraid to make the jump back to the floor.
  • He also ate a spider, who then bit the inside of his throat. He went into shock and we had to do an emergency run to the vet. I think he was around two years old at the time.
Ms. Pepe -
  • Chewed the cord to my computer mouse (it was not plugged in at the time, thank goodness). And, of course, I had to tell the clerk at Staples that "my cat ate my mouse!" 
     
This story involves a collective effort on behalf of the RugKittens. One day, I had made peanut butter cup cupcakes and they were cooling on the rack in the kitchen. I was going to make a tuna casserole for dinner and was draining three cans of tuna in the colander in the sink. I was vacuuming in the living room and Ms. Pepe who was napping on top of the tv, decided to jump down. The problem was that a claw was caught in a doily on the tv. The doily went to the floor with Pepe and the crystal basket that was on the doily crashed to the floor and shattered. I had to clean it all up and then inspect paws to make sure nobody was hurt. Walked out into the kitchen and there was Boo, munching on peanut butter cups that he had managed to paw out of cupcakes. Chocolate! OMG, the boy ate chocolate!

So I ran back to the computer room (where our only phone was at the time) and made a frantic call to the vet. As I was explaining to the vet that the boy had eaten chocolate, I walked back into the kitchen.....to see Banshee's hind end sticking out of the sink. Her front end was in the sink and she's having a great time chowing down on the tuna. I said, "Banshee! Get your butt out of the sink and stop eating people tuna!" and hung up on the vet tech. Got Banshee down, got the tuna cleaned up, started draining three more cans of tuna, got Boo out of the cupcakes again, checked said cupcakes, and managed to save most of them. It turns out that Boo had really only eaten parts of two peanut butter cups. And then I remembered that I had hung up on the vet tech. Called her back and she said she completely lost it when I yelled at Banshee to stop eating people tuna. She said that Boo should be fine, but to keep an eye on him. And he survived. Banshee survived the tuna, too. Me, on the other hand? Well, it was a good day for the cats, not so much for Mom. (And Ms. Pepe. Rick said that he had it on good authority that Pepe was really mad; you see, she started the whole thing rolling, but she didn't get to eat any peanut butter cups or any people tuna. Rick said she was not amused.)

I've got some really good stories to tell. But you all get the idea. We always say that the best times of our lives were when we were raising the RugKittens.
 
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Lucky :rbheart: was my little mischief-maker! He liked to open doors that were locked, always knocked stuff down walking in places he shouldn't. Such a loving little boy though. What I wouldn't give to have him knock something over again. His adopted nephew Oscar is very much like him in the mischief-making department, although he's not nearly the klutz Lucky was.
 
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Where do I being with Morgana? 



- Knocks things over all the time, intentionally.
- Stole the dogs bone from the kitchen counter a few times
- Drinks vodka. Have to keep tabs on this especially!
- Is able to open doors by turning doorknobs with both paws. It's like this little shuffle technique.
- Is able to open cupboard doors. Has crawled into said cuboards to explore the inside (Have photographic evidence of this swimming around TCS)
- Chewed up my cellphone charger when she was younger
- Steals snacks, like chips or fries etc via ninja style
- Decapitates flowers
- Has gone potty in flower pots before, has since ceased
- Has gotten into my back account and made some online purchases while booking herself a holiday to Barbados.

And so forth and so forth....

And might be kidding about the last part.

I love my little naughty minx. I have always been attracted to really clever animals, so despite having to watch over some of the behaviour I wouldn't change my mischief for the world.




Camelot:

- Tries to steal food. He adores food, will try and get it from anyone at anytime.
- When he used to be a free part time outdoor cat (He would only be outdoors if someone was with him) he saw another cat and went after him, both of them disappearing in the bushes. Long story short, Camelot was missing for four days until he was spotted by a neighbour a kilometer down the road. He was famished, but happy to see us. I live in a rural area with fields and forest so saying I was concerned was an understatement! Never again!
- Before he got his snip snip he had a tendency to be quite enamored with my housecoat on a daily basis....



Altogether he is quite a laid back kitty, my darling squishy! 

 
ahhhh, your Morgana sounds like a sweet and naughty(!!!) little girl! 


and your Camelot sounds like a very sweet boy! 
 
 

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1. Margaret and the bra:  I once lived in an apartment. The laundry room was in a separate building, across the street, so, in bad weather, I often hand-washed my underwear, and hung in over the shower head. Margie was a kitten then, and loved to watch me take a bath in the morning.  I had placed the dry bra over the door knob.  I leaned over in the tub to shampoo my hair, and happened to glance toward the door. Margie had somehow gotten herself into the bra cup, on her back, and was hanging from the door knob in my bra!

2. Loki and the beer: DH used to make beer. Basically, once it's ready to drink, you siphon it from the carboy jug into the bottles, which are in a divided crate.  DH was doing this in the kitchen. I walked in to find Loki standing on the back rungs of the chair, draped over DH's shoulder, watching him with fascination as DH squirted the beer into the bottles on the floor.

3.  The Hooligan Sisters and the yarn:  Lucie, Kara and Gemma are known as "The Hooligan Sisters" for a good reason. They were older kittens when this happened, and I regret not having taken photos.  I had a ball of yarn in a storage ottoman, which had a heavy lid. In fact, I had three of them , side by side under our bay window. DH had gotten home from work before me. He left the "crime scene"  as he found it, so I could see it: yarn, tautly wound throughout five rooms downstairs--and I mean tautly wound!  It looked as if a human had done it--winding it throughout the rooms several times, and around furniture legs, and back through each room. It must have taken them hours to do. I accused DH of pranking me, but he swore that they had done it, and I believe him!  I had forgotten about it, and put more yarn in one of the ottomans. We watched as Lucie puzzled out which one it was in. She kept walking back and forth, testing the lids with her paw, until she found it. It took her about 15 minutes.

4. The Hooligan Sisters and the mini-blinds:  This is how they got their alias. My Brother-In-Law was staying for a few days. Normally, the guest room's mini-blinds were left up, but he would roll them down at night. He likes to keep the door ajar.  Did I mention that this room is normally the kitty boudoir? The next morning, I asked him how he slept :"Ok, except for your little soccer hooligans tearing the room apart."  They destroyed the blinds! I guess they wanted to look out the windows at night. 
 
 

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1. Margaret and the bra:  I once lived in an apartment. The laundry room was in a separate building, across the street, so, in bad weather, I often hand-washed my underwear, and hung in over the shower head. Margie was a kitten then, and loved to watch me take a bath in the morning.  I had placed the dry bra over the door knob.  I leaned over in the tub to shampoo my hair, and happened to glance toward the door. Margie had somehow gotten herself into the bra cup, on her back, and was hanging from the door knob in my bra!
What is it about cats and bras? 
 Banshee liked my bras, too. 

Years ago, Peanut Butter used to love to watch me in the bathtub. He'd come into the bathroom, jump on the edge of the tub and just sit there. Watching. We'd talk back and forth; well, I'd talk and he'd meow back at me. One night, I was in the tub and I was shaving my legs. I don't know what got into PB, but he just stood up, stretched, and dove into the tub with me. I was shaving the front of my left thigh and, to this day, I still have the scar from the razor. PB jumped into the bathtub, and hit my right arm, which was holding the razor. It was ugly, but fortunately, no stitches were necessary and Rick and I eventually got the cut closed and got the bleeding stopped. No ER visit. But I still have the scar on the front of my thigh. 

And Peanut Butter? Just as fast as he jumped into the bathtub, he jumped back out, ran around in the bathroom (water was everywhere), and shook himself like a maniac. Rick got him toweled off and wiped the bathroom down, while I was trying to get the bleeding stopped. 

It was an interesting evening. And yeah, PB still watched me in the bathtub after that (but I never shaved my legs in front of him again!
). 

Peanut Butter was also the kitty who ate the tails off of our t-bone steaks one afternoon. I had taken them out of the fridge, seasoned them and was waiting to start the grill. Our son (who was still a baby) had awakened from his nap and was fussing. I went back to his room, brought him out, changed diapers, and was feeding him in the living room. And there came PB into the living room, dragging a t-bone. Oy. It was my fault; I never should have kept the meat out on the counter. (And you know, you'd think I'd have learned my lesson!!!) PB ate the tails off both t-bones. I think we went to KFC that night. Dear Richard was not amused. 
 
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Sophie is so naughty but she's so cute. What has she done?

She broke a lamp in my bedroom by pushing it off the stereo cabinet it was on down to the TV stand where it broke into little pieces. I went into the bedroom ans she was lounging in the spot the lamp USED to be in trying hard to look innocent.

Pushed the surge protector/battery backup, the Amazon Fire TV box and the router/modem off the TV stand in the living room. The surge protector was too heavy to push with her paw so she pushed it off by backing up against it with her tush.

Knocked pictures onto the floor- both off the wall during a bout of the zoomies and off dressers and nightstands when she felt that they were in her way.

Got back behind the washer and dryer which are in a closet with bifold doors in the kitchen. I had to pull the dryer out to get her and in the process, the duct that goes from the dryer to the wall ripped and I had to replace it.

Tried to trick DD into letting her in her room by crying pitifully in the living room. She knew DD would come running to see if she was OK and her plan was to sneak in the room. It didn't work. She also tried to get in by going into DD's bathroom which is next to her room and opening the cabinet with her paw then letting it go, making a thumping sound. She did this over and over until DD went to see what the noise was. Sophie was hoping she'd run out of the room and leave the door open so she could sneak in. She did not.
ahhh, the beautiful yet naughty little Sophie! 
  i loved reading about your Sophie's plans towards gaining access to your DD's room! 
  i wonder whether she'll eventually be successful......
 

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ahhh, the beautiful yet naughty little Sophie! 
  i loved reading about your Sophie's plans towards gaining access to your DD's room! 
  i wonder whether she'll eventually be successful......
If she does it won't be for a while. DD is back at school and won't be home until Thanksgiving. I did have to go in there a couple of weeks ago because I was going to see her and she needed some things. When I went in the room, Sophie heard the door open and thought DD was home so she stalked the door for a while before she gave up.
 
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Hekitty can open every door in the apartment.  She couldn't open the front door in the old one, just because it was a little stiff, but this one is handicapped access, a lever, and she has opened both the front and back doors twice now.  I've taken to keeping the deadbolts on at all times.
aaaaaaaahhh!!! i think your Hekitty opening the front and back doors would fall into the category of 'too smart for her own good'!  
 
  i think i'd be keeping the deadbolts on at all times too!

your story reminds me of our little deedee and punky, and their naughty forays into the hall closet. i have one bathroom in my house, on the first floor. so it never made sense to me to keep my towels and clothing upstairs in those closets. instead, i use the downstairs hall closet near the bathroom which has two sliding doors -- which hang from a track just above them, and which can literally swing forward and backward when nudged/pushed. the two girls very quickly discovered that they could easily gain access to the hall closet by pushing or pulling either of those sliding doors. once inside the closet, they'd play and wrestle and generally knock clothing and towels off the shelves -- have a 'party' in there! i'd find them curled up on piles of clothing and towels on the floor. i ended up installing two steel corner whosies and two 'L' brackets for those sliding doors, which prevents the sliding doors from swinging when pushed or pulled. our deedee and punky were not pleased when they discovered that i'd done this.
 
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The worst thing Artie did was about when I first adopted him.  He had an episode of the "Zoomies" after doing poop...

Well, he ran around so crazy, that he jumped on my dresser, and in the process of zooming around, caused the table lamp to fall and completely break!! 

And he still kept on running!!

That was the end of a table lamp. I now have a floor lamp next to my bed!! 
i can just imagine your Artie zooming around your home -- like an orange streak! 
  that's smart, to replace your table lamp with a floor lamp!

i didn't mention what the electronic item was that it's power cord got chewed through, but it was my cordless phone system. i was totally without phone for almost 3 days. the other day, it struck me what my two little pint-sized chewers remind me of......


......the termite in The Pink Panther episodes.  
  only, instead of dealing with the problem the way the pink panther does, i have hundreds of feet of wire loom covering the cords and cables in our home. 
 
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