what's the most destructive thing your cat has done?

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This morning I woke up, and found about 5 clean folded towels in the toilet!!!
I have a shelf over the toilet, and someone must have tried to jump on the stack of towels for a little nap! Luckily only one of them was soaked! This got me thinking...
My coworker had a bunch of Hummel figourines on her shelf, that she had b/c they were her mothers. Her old cat knocked them all off and broke every single one! She doesn't want to know how much they would be worth now.

So what's the baddest thing yours have every done?
 

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Whoa! My cats have never been too destructive - the worst they have ever done is take down the curtains by accident. This was a few years ago, when Sweetie was an adolescent, around 5 months or so I think. She wanted to climb up the curtains in the kitchen to get onto her favorite spot- the top of the back of the kitchen chair -and they came down. That's all. Nothing compared to what yours have done! Aaaaah I can't imagine!!!!!

What a handful
 

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When Yowdy was younger ..He wanted out! He dug the screen out of my bedroom window and jumped outside! My two younger cats Lily 7 1/2 months and Reilly almost 5 months. Both will climb to the top of the door frames and then slid back down them they have dug the door frames all up in the bedroom and bathroom doors. After they hopefully out grow doing this. I will have to either sand them down and restain them ..or completely replace them.
 

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According to my husband... the zoo
hehe, I had to chuckle a little bit about the towels in the toilet.

Our cats haven't been that destructive
- just don't ask my husband that same question... LOL I don't think he would agree. We had a little furniture scratching incident a few years back. But we are smarter cat owners then we were back then and have now forked out the $$$ for a cat tree/condo.
 

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I think we're going to be leaving our deposit for a new carpet. Captain has dug it up pretty bad around the door...
He's gotten better but when he's decided it's time to go out... watch out!) Part of the problem is he used to go out whenever he wanted and now I won't let him out to late or when I'm not going to be around to let him back in. Poor kitty.
 

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in my old house, the basement is where we kept the litter box. It smelled a bit like urine down there, and I just figured it was because the box was always down there. Within time we found out that Hobbs had pee'd on almost everything that was plastic down there. We had so many things from photographs to clothing, to x-mas decorations etc. in loosley tied plastic bags. That bad boy got almost every one of them. We had to throw out literaley hundreds of dollars in things because of him doing this. I later figured out that he is attracted to the fish oils that are in plastic bags, and made him pee in them. We now keep plastic away from him, with some exceptions. The other day he got into the pantry and pee'd in the napkins
 

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Emily chews blind cords if they're left hanging (which they aren't anymore) and shoelaces, actually any string she finds, she chews it and then vomits it up later on my pillow or somewhere equally as unpleasant. They've broken a few glass statues here and there, and knocked glasses off the counter. Also, Bob makes nice big sctratches in the woodwork with his claws...
 

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Forty years ago my Siamese cat Oscar peed all over the pile of Christmas presents under the tree when we took him to stay at my parents' house for the holiday. Everything was wet and/or streaked with dye from the tissue paper my sister had used to wrap things in. Christmas was not a very happy occasion that year!
 

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They totally destroyed my christmas tree. I put it away without even checking it properly, I couldn't face it but I think because of the weight of the cats lying on the branches, they will no longer bend upwards, just droop down instead so I think next year we will be treeless unless we splash out on a new one and cover it with laser beams so an alarm goes off if anyone touches it.
They also broke so many of the decorations that it would probably look bare anyway.
 

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Rosie and Sophie are quite good really, unless you count the numerous plant pots and vases that they've broken


This is whats left of their frog on a fishing pole after Sophie got her teeth and claws into him
 

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Woah! 5 clean towels in the toilet?
These other stories are horrible too. Peeing on Christmas presents? Yuck! Chasey hasn't done anything really destructive. She knocked my modem off the window sill and broke it once, but that was no problem. I got another modem for no charge. My little sweetie pie is so good!
 

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My cat has done so many things like:
A cupple of months ago when I had just moved into my b.fs, my cat Creep was sick on his Xbox controler. (I had a hankering to play on Halo 2 and couldn't 5 days!!)
Every now and then, if me and my b.f are really unluckly and we are out, my Creepy pees on our bed.
Every now and then she is sick on our cloths for no reason, but she can't warn us.
This is just small number of things she does. If I did list everything she did we would be here all day. I aways clean up her mess, coz I don't mind. Sometimes when she does these things she says sorry but, other times its almost as if she's pleased with what shes done!!
 

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Originally Posted by Kaleetha

I think we're going to be leaving our deposit for a new carpet. Captain has dug it up pretty bad around the door...
Don't worry, that's easily fixed - I did it before we moved from my last place!


Tibby, Molly and Willow are usually really good!! Tibby and Willow have broken numerous Sherry glasses (accidentally) when the walk past the table and their tails nudge the glasses off!!


Molly has thrown numerous plates from the drying rack and they've all made a determined effort to destroy my clothes horse!!
It's now having to lean against the fridge due to so many bends to the legs!!


They also destroyed my parents' Christmas tree, but it still goes up yearly in the same state!!
It's a good job my Mum loves my kitties as much as I do!


Susan, poor froggy!!
 

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My cats aren't that destructive, but I know a cat who, within 2 years, has for example:

Broken a 2 week old TV with a book shelf

Dipped her feet in to mint green paint, covering the kitchen with minty paw prints

Made her mom tear down their bed room closet with a sledge hammer, because she got stuck behind it

Smuggled herself to her mom's workplace

Shut hersel in an oven (luckily cold)

Broken her back legs by jumping unsuccesfully from top of a shelf.


Gods forbid us from having that kind of cats.
 

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Nikitti is pretty good, but he is still only a baby (5 months) so he does tend to want to pounce on everything. He also has a plastic bag fettish so we have to be careful not to leave them around or else he wees in them - I thought it was the colour - same as the litter. He has pooped in our bath a couple of times too I think for the same reason.

Our first cat (no longer with us) was very very destructive. She would get out at night, catch a possum, kill it, pull off its head and then its tail and leave the 3 separate body parts for us to find at the bottom of the stairs in the morning. We had to dispose of 6 little bodies, plus many birds and I managed to rescue both possums and birds from her. I should add the possums were about twice her body weight!!
 

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Somebody has started pushing stuff off of my bookshelves where I keep my collections of various stuff. They knocked over a Lava Lamp, but fortunately it was off at the time. I woke up this morning and one of them had gotten the rose I saved from my daughter's wedding that my sweetie wore on his lapel. (I can't think of the proper word for it so early!) I have a shelf sitter fairy that keeps ending up on the floor, and they have molested several Betty Boops. They knocked a framed album cover off the wall, narrowly missing another Lava Lamp and a marble hourglass. Fifty lashes with a wet noodle when I catch the culprits!
 

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My cats haven't been too bad, they've broken candle holders, but that's just a good excuse to get new ones! They occasionally will knock stuff off shelves, but nothing has been ruined. The only really bad thing Sapphire does is use the door jambs as scratching posts and Simon will try to use the couch as his, but its already ruined (from a severely separationally anxietous dog I had) so I'm not really caring. Our (my ex's and I's) first FeLV+ cat, Jericho, was very bad though, he sprayed something awful, and we were told that a FeLV+ cat could not be put under anesthesia, which I know now is not true, so we never got him neutered, so I'm sure that might have eliminated that problem, but he peed on everything! I really need to get new carpet.
 

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Originally Posted by Ryn

My cats aren't that destructive, but I know a cat who, within 2 years, has for example:

Broken a 2 week old TV with a book shelf

Dipped her feet in to mint green paint, covering the kitchen with minty paw prints

Made her mom tear down their bed room closet with a sledge hammer, because she got stuck behind it

Smuggled herself to her mom's workplace

Shut hersel in an oven (luckily cold)

Broken her back legs by jumping unsuccesfully from top of a shelf.


Gods forbid us from having that kind of cats.
Wow! what's that cat's name? Lucifer?? I love the minty pawprints though
 
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