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

Oh boy...I wrote about one particular incident with Reilly here
http://www.thecatsite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75515

I thought my home had been broken into there was so much destruction!

My biggest gripe with mine are the parties. (Refer to the contest section to see photos of their last "catnip" party in my absence ).

Other than that - the biggest thing is my little tabby bring us clothes. Wouldn't be too bad except they are clean clothes and she has to drag them across the cellar and up the stairs to do it (i.e. - not so clean anymore ). Not sure if anyone else has a cat that does this, but it's every day and it's hysterical! We come home or wake up to clothing in the kitchen and outside our bedroom doors. The thing is she delivers the laundry to the right person most of the time! My daughters get socks, shirts, and pants and I get clothes too. Funniest thing in the world to see a little tiny tabby dragging a pair of adult jeans up the cellar stairs.
My daughter is convinced that she knows what to bring because the other day she said her feet were cold and less than 10 minutes later, here comes peanut with a pair of her fuzzy socks in her mouth.
I have yet to see how she gets some of them though because some are in a basket (no problem) but others I hang on the line . She must jump up and grab them. I don't know how she does it, but it's funny as heck.

Harley likes to play in the bathtub - well, he apparently likes the shower curtain liner as well - he tore it to shreds

Not sure if this is destructive, but it was uh... messy.

When Snickers was just a kitten, he went wading in the toilet. The scenerio: It was during a HUGE party; lots of people; toilet got stopped up, no one told us, the homeowners. Someone leaves the seat up with all the toilet contents bared to the world; Snickers, being just a curious kitten, was trying to drink (ugh) from the toilet, and fell in.

Snickers went running through the house covered in ... toilet contents. Toilet contents got all over the place before I could wrangle him & clean him off!

Snickers is still toilet-obsessed, even though he's approaching 15 years. But his little brother Hammie has him beat; Hammie can sense an open toilet-lid from the next room. I have signs on all three of my toilets to "please keep the lid down" with his pic on it stating he likes playing in toilets.

That's about it really; other than the usual stuff like Hammie shredding toilet paper rolls, or the times Zorro & Snickers knocked down Christmas trees (separate years, different houses)...

Leo ripped up some carpet in my parents' house and he's pushed a few dishes off of the counter here. Gracie isn't really destructive...she'll just get into everything, so we have to keep stuff locked away.

Great stories guys, keep 'em coming. I have another story that happened recently..
I was growing some cat grass in a little "garden" kit my co-worker got me. I stopped watering it a long time ago- probably b/c dh put it on a high shelf next to the kitchen cupboard, b/c he decided the cats should get near it . I knew it was mostly dead but wasn't bothering to deal with it. Well, I left a cupboard open, and Zakk jumped into the cupboard, and reached around to the shelf to get to the grass. There were these little mini vase type things in there- one suddenly fell and smashed on the floor.

I also read in this months cat fancy about a guy who had a glass shop and a "visiting" stray that he fed. The cat never touched anything... until the day it got locked in after closing, freaked and broke about 4,000 dollars worth of stuff!!

I hesitate to post this.

On our way from PA to CO, we stopped once in MO and again in KS. We stayed overnight in a hotel and town that shall remain nameless in Kansas. This was the cats' 2nd night on the road and they were beyond stressed out.

We smuggled them into the motel room and opened the carriers to clean them. They promptly peed on both beds, chewed through the telephone cord, and pooped in the bathtub (despite several litterboxes new and clean right next to it). The kicker was when, with a sizzle and pop, a lamp went out and Eowyn emerged from under the table where it was, making chewing motions and rubbing at her mouth with a paw. The cord was chewed through. Thank god she was ok.

We stripped the beds and hauled the linens to the motel laundry; he did the wash while I drove to a local walmart and bought a new phone cord and cleaning products. There was nothing we could do for the lamp. We cleaned the room, and as soon as the laundry was dry, we re-made the beds, loaded the cats back in the carriers, and then back in the cars, and left the motel.

He has since admitted that I was right in just wanting to drive straight through from MO to CO. That had been our original plan, but he had insisted we stop in KS.

That was truly the night from hell. And I absolutely do not blame them for the way they acted.

My gang is collectively known as The Dismantlers.

One has serious peeing issues. I could not begin to count the things he's destroyed.

Most expensive would be my DVD player. Someone broke one of the cables.

Originally Posted by rosiemac

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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Hey...well at least he still has a smile on his face!
Linda

When Toby was about 6 months old he somehow got the container open that I keep my dentures in at night.
Thankfully the chew marks on them were able to be sanded out and I did`nt have to replace them.....that could have been an expensive thing to have to replace, not to mention that i`d be house-bound until the new ones were made!!!(insert toothless grin here)
I wonder if house insurance would pay for new teeth if your pet ate yours?
I learned my lesson though...and keep them stored in a high cupboard with the door shut now at night!
Linda

Well my cats don't really "destroy" anything other than each other but here are some things they've both done which are "annoying" at worst and "funny" at best.

Napoleon has a "scooting problem" (have had everything checked out, need to change his diet, AGAIN) after he poops, and right after we moved recently he pooped and must have had a little diarrhea...jumped on the couch (for which we just washed its slipcovers) and SCOOTED all over, leaving a big ol' skid mark on it. Had to wash it again!!! He hasn't really been scooting again until recently, and then he does it on the wood floor (I think he learned from us saying NO when he tries to do it on the rugs)...leaving again a big ol' skid mark.

He has also DESTROYED his scracthing post, which was actually Cassie's, but I guess he's claimed it as is own. But I guess that's a good thing, better than the furniture

Cassie is my sweet baby girl and rarely destroys anything...but the only thing she has "destroyed" recently was a rug and the infamous couch that Napoleon scooted on...she jumped on the table, and knocked over a fresh cup of coffee all over the couch and rug. Luckily, we have one of those rug cleaners and had to drop the slipcovers off at the laundromat since it was close to closing time when it happened.

always attacks the christmas tree and the ornaments. it has gotten to the point that i have to purchase a small tree since i get tired of picking the ornaments up no idea why she does that. she also goes into my makeup and pulls out the pony tail holders and plays with them. she taught my other cat how to do this and now they are both driving me nuts not only that but they fall into the toilet and i have to get them out of course...ew.......my other cat butter has a weird obsession with climbing into the bottom kitchen cabinets and hiding. she gets stuck cause her big butt can't fit through..... sometimes i really wonder about them!

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.

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Thanks for posting this. It makes my Jordan seem like an angle. Jordan has never done any large damage, but he's good at lots of little damage & he is good at always staying 1 step ahead of my cat proofing. I have baby locks on all cabinets, on my freezer door, on my medicine cabinet & no knobs on my stove. He has broken many glasses, knocked all the medicine out of the medicine cabinet. I no longer have a circulating water dish because he figured out how to flip it over & once he figures out how to flip something over he does it EVERY day. My cats are also chewers. They chew to get my attention. Anything I don't want chewed must be put away where they can't get at it. Including my cell phone which has teeth marks in the antena. I've got 2 bad stories that could have been total desctruction. The first was when Jordan knocked at jar of tomato sauce out of the cabinet onto my stove. Well if something heavy is droped on it the piolt lights go out. So I came home one night to an over powering smell of natural gas (I live in a 400 sq foot apartment so it doesn't take much to fill it with gas). Then most recently one of the cats jumped on the stove & their foot must have slipped because next thing I know the cord to my curling iron (Wich I set there to cool in the morning) was in flames. So I've got a new curling iron, but I hate it & I'm sure I'll never find that one again. I loved that curling iron. But at least they didn't burn down the whole place.

Where to even begin???

I've had cats that never broke a single thing, and others, wellllllll...........

Here's a short list: urinated on a new couch, inside a heating duct, on all the suitcases in the basement

ate or knocked over all house plants (which I no longer bother with!)

knocked over and broke many, many knick-knacks that I didn't really need

Chewed up books/magazines/papers (only the dogs eat library books)
torn up lots of good carpet

caught a helpless gerbil in his aquarium

Broken lamps

Walked through paint/tracked cute kitty paw-prints everywhere

Gotten a head stuck between the rails in a kitchen chair- I quickly sawed the rail off; cat was fine

Broken a model Inuit Eskimo mask

Ruined countless screens, looking outside

climbed up canopy/mosquito netting, decorative, on my daughers' beds; completely ruined 2 of them

Now, the list of good things they've done would take the rest of the day!

My two stray boys who have been patiently confined to my bedroom/master bath area since shortly after Christmas are amazingly good, apart from knocking over their water dish (on purpose for the 10th time) on a library DVD-- they are such angels. They both get neutered tomorrow; finally!!
These cats have always lived outside and fended for themselves, but they are so calm and sweet in the house. Just wait until they meet the other 8... what havoc they will wreak... they are worth it.

A street. Seriously. Our street was a bit ripped up, as the sewage pipes and water mains were being replaced. Jamie got out, and crawled into an exposed pipe. He was a kitten at the time. When we couldn't get him to crawl back out, we called the fire department. They didn't have any luck, and called the water company. They came out, used a camera on a cable to locate him, and had to dig up the street and saw through the pipe to get him out. We can no longer insure Jamie in this country, and our deductible was awfully high.

Originally Posted by jcat

A street. Seriously. Our street was a bit ripped up, as the sewage pipes and water mains were being replaced. Jamie got out, and crawled into an exposed pipe. He was a kitten at the time. When we couldn't get him to crawl back out, we called the fire department. They didn't have any luck, and called the water company. They came out, used a camera on a cable to locate him, and had to dig up the street and saw through the pipe to get him out. We can no longer insure Jamie in this country, and our deductible was awfully high.

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Oh I know it's not really funny...but Jamie!!, such a naughty kitty!

Originally Posted by Sar

Don't worry, that's easily fixed - I did it before we moved from my last place!

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How did you fix it? I'd love the advice.

I think Jamie takes the cake for destructiveness.... poor baby!

When I wa growing up, we had cats all the time (mostly my doing because I would find them in the barn, and bring them inside, and keep them in my room untill my parents would find out, and I would tell them that I loved the cat, and then it became a family cat)

Anyhow, I was also a hamster fanatic, I had so many hamsters. One time, one of the cats got into the hamster cage, and took "nibbles" out, and killed him while we were sleeping. It was a very sad day. But that's about all I've had in the destructive part of my kitty life.

Oh naughty cats, gotta love them! This thread has me howling!

Hmmm, I think the worse thing was Pushy knocking over the ceramic jar I kept their treats in. I couldn't even be mad at him 'cos I was proud that he was smart enough to figure it out where the treats were and how to get them!

I just thought of that Motrin ad where the through a long series of events a cat wrecks the house and car and gives its owner a real headache!

Where do I start?

Knocked the wooden silver chest off the fridge and shattered it (wedding gift of course).

My first cat put me thru 3 sofas (before I knew how to train them to use a scratch post).

Screens in windows: can't tell you how many I have had to replace over the years. I have learned to rescreen a frame in less than 5 minutes due to practice.

Carpet: had a problem pee-er way back when and had to throw out every scrap in the house and have every floor in the house refinished (many thousands of dollars).

Clothes: many of mine like to kneed and I get holes in anything I wear around the house. My home wardrobe is now limited to a few items.

Scratch posts: can't get mad at them for using them, but I'm always replacing carpet and rope on them.

Glassware: I've switched to plastic with lids. The dogs get more of them with their tails when left on the coffee table. The cats would catch them during their "crazy" runs around the house.

If we go the dog route:

Ate thru walls, floors, and wallpaper. Constant claw marks on the back door where they are compelled to stand on it to greet me as I unlock it. They got a stack of magazines we left out on the coffee table a few months back. We came home to 1 foot of debrie covering the living room floor.