Strange kitty habits

My cat, Zoe, like to sit on the kitchen counter and rearrange the magnets on the fridge. (Not cool when there are things ATTACHED to the magnets.)

I think she must have been a fish in a past life because she LOVES water. She drinks out of the toilet and sits in the kitchen sink and plays with the bubbles after someone has done the dishes. Not to mention the other day when she jumped in the bathtub with me!

Dawn

Dawn,
I have two cats - one likes his face washed with my bare hands wet and my little female is working up the nerve to jump in the shower with me. So far, she has walked around the edge of the tub & shower and sat on the edge while I've taken the shower. The part that gets me, she'll sit there and "talk" to me but not come in yet. The day will come. I can be patient.

I just got Cocoa from a feline shelter last week. She is my first cat. She's a 3 year old female tortie who was dropped off at the shelter by owners who couldn't take her with them when they moved. She has always been a house cat and is declawed all the way around.

She has one odd habit that puzzles me...she appears to get very upset when I'm in the shower...she yowls while I'm in there, and yowls at me when I get out. Once assured I'm ok, (albeit wet), she wanders off. I have left the shower curtain open a little bit and she tries to poke her head in, but doesn't like the water. I have left the shower curtain open (when not in use) so she can scope out the bathtub. I have even placed her in the (dry) tub so she could look around...still the (distressed?) yowling...

I don't get it.....any ideas?

cocoas_person : Hi. I've been giving that some thought about the yowling at the shower. My best guess is that the pitch of the water through the pipes or showerhead maybe hurting their sensitive hearing. I know certain sounds make Mony talk to me (usually trying to get me to stop it). She especially doesn't like bagpipe music which I enjoy. I'm now down to listening to it while I drive - they don't like it at work either.

Smitty chatters at us when we play pool. He doesn't seem to like the clinking of the balls, but I don't really know why. No high pitch noises there?!? I just accept that they all have their idiosyncrasies. That is what makes them so adorable.

Here's a strange cat habit that I can't seem to figure out. My oldest male (Handsome Boyo) steals the baby Jesus from the nativity and hides it. Some years I find it right away and other times I have gone out and bought a replacement only to have him take it too. Once I did not find the babies(I replaced them 3 times that season)until late spring and they were all hidden in different areas of the house even on different levels. I know that Handsome is the one that takes the baby Jesus because I have caught him wth it in his mouth and made him drop it, I replaced it, only to have it turn up missing later the same day!

I have not lost any baby Jesus's, but Smitty does hide all the mice I give him. Sometimes, I feel like I have looked everywhere for them, but still can't account for them all. I guess I will never find all of their secret hiding places!

Wow, reading all of these posts makes me realize just how dull my darling Satey has become
One time at our old house, when he was still very young, this man was working on our enclosed porch, painting I think, and when he'd kneal on the floor to paint the lower areas, Satey would steal the handkercheif right out of the man's back pocket. He also stole numerous nut-and-bolt combos that were lying on the floor for a renovation. The poor man wuld set a few out, go to work, reach down to get another bolt, only to find that they were all gone.
After we moved to this house, when Satey was 2 years, I bought a food-and-water double dish dealie. I was feeding Nine Lives dry at the time. Satey picked up the fish-shaped pieces in his paw, scooped them over into the water side, watched them swim a bit, scooped them onto the floor, then ate them. He used to love two present bows, stuck together tape side. He'd fetch those. Now I must go find two bows and see if it will entice him to play.

my cat 4 1/2 year old black kitty Pigeon drops toys in water dishes, scratches around food, meows endlessly when he has his fav toy mouse Buddy in his mouth until someone throws it for him, and then he fetch it. my other cat dusty will nip at the air if you scratch right where her tail meets her back.

yes kittykratz, my cat loves emery boards, and he also loves sharp objects (4got to mention this) if i'm writing, he'll rub his head on the eraser or the pencil, or somtimes he'll try to rub on wooden sticks or anything else, so i get a blunt object he can rub on.

another really cute thing: when my 7 year old black cat dusty was about 1, i was washing my hands, when she jumped up on the sink. the water was running and i flicked my hands to get excess water off. dusty put her paw under the running faucet, got it wet, then shook her paw just like i had my hand!! that was so cute!

Originally posted by misskitty5864
yes kittykratz, my cat loves emery boards, and he also loves sharp objects (4got to mention this) if i'm writing, he'll rub his head on the eraser or the pencil, or somtimes he'll try to rub on wooden sticks or anything else, so i get a blunt object he can rub on.

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My cousin had a cat who loved to have lotion rubbed on her paw pads. She would go totally limp in their arms while they massaged lotion on her feet!

Illusion; That one about lotion on the foot pads beats anything I have ever read or heard. I would love to see that! What did I tell you? You have some interesting stuff to share ......
THANKS

My cat Lily only responds to kitty kitty! She is so crazy! She loves the toilet! I can not go in there with out her! She waits till I flush and watches it! Also when I am sitting down if I have shorts on she nibbles on the underneath of my thigh! Oh and she loves the cabinets! She is all the time pawing them open and closed, but if I leave one open she jumps in and goes wild! She also loves the fake mice! I was bringing the groceries in the other day (brown paper bags) she was jumping in them to see what I had. I can not put anything on my counter. If I do she pats it with her feel until it hits the floor. She also brings me her food bowl when she is hungery! After I take a shower she walks in and shaks her feet, but she does it every time!

I'm glad to read that someone else has a very curious cat. Nomar my kitty is like my shadow..When I take a shower he comes running in and will sit on the toilet tank until I am through. If I am at the sink he is right there watching every move I make. I don't shut the bathroom door because that is where his litter box is. I always want it available to him. When I am in the kitchen cooking he is there laying by my feet. Even when he is sleeping, if I go into another room he will wake up and find me and stay with me. One day I went to clean the closet and had boxes of clothes. I thought good he's in the other room. I went to start cleaning and found him in one of the boxes staring up at me...Go figure..There's never a dull moment in my house.

RedHead Hon, isn' shower time fun?? It's to the point now where my two will try to race up the stairs to get to me in the bathroom (any time, not just bath time). Oreo wants to sit on the sink and drink from the faucet, Mony thinks she's too good for that and has to have a paper cup rinsed out & filled for her. It has to be rinsed even if I just take it out of the box. She also wants me to hold it up for her.

I've had to admonish them for hissing and swatting at each other over the top of the sink. I have a single vanity and Oreo's rear end takes up over half when sitting and he has to "scrunch" up some if he trys to lie down. Mony, on the other hand, takes up very little room sitting and can stretch across the top with no problems.

You say your cat follows you everywhere and I know all about that, mine do also. Does your cat every walk in front of you (especially when you are in a hurry) and just slows to a snails pace or suddenly stop in front of you? I can't tell you how many times I've almost broken something or my neck to avoid running into her.

Hi TwoCats,
I think our cats are related (haha).
When Nomar is at the sink he will lick the water from the sink. What I did was, I bought a fancy looking soap dish and placed it on sink filled with water. I thought thats much better then Nomar licking sink, but no go. Nomar pushes it into sink and spills water out everytime. One morning I left the doors open on shelves above sink and when I came back into bathroom all I saw was Nomar's butt sticking out. He managed to squeeze in half way. He has to investigate everything! Yes I experienced a few times of almost tripping over him. He'll get in front of me, take two steps then stop. Sometimes he will even roll on carpet and when I'm taking a step all I see is his black stomach laying there...he's too much !!!

Wow! I thought our cats were a bit odd, but after reading these other posts, I'm beginning to think they're more on the normal side!

I think the funniest things two of our cats do, involves the living room celing fan. They'll walk to the center of the living room... happen to look up at the fan, which has a mirror behind it. Evidently they see the "other" cat up there on the ceiling, flickering in and out between the fan blades. They'll sit there with their heads doing that circular motion, which has my husband and I rolling of the floor! But, after about 5 minutes... either all the eyeball/head rolling gets them disoriented OR they just can't figure it out - but they'll start freaking out. They'll hunker down... then slink off to the side, all the while keeping an eye out for that cat on the ceiling. Then they'll run off. Come back and skirt the edges of the room, to stay away from the cat on the ceiling. About an hour or so later, they forget all about the "other cat"... and everything's fine for about a week or so. Then, the process will start all over again. The weirdos.

Strange critters! My Siamese used to love to lick my face after I put on Noxema. I had a difficult time keeping her away from my face. One day the door to the walk-in closet was accidentally closed and she couldn't get to her litter so she simply sat on the toilet seat and did her business in the toilet! My room-mate couldn't believe her eyes! Now if we could just teach them to flush!

Our Simba has to sit on my lap whenever I go to the bathroom. He curls up on my lap and hunkers down for a nap! In fact, no matter when I sit he has to be on my lap. He loves me gently caressing his paws as he sleeps and he loves to be kissed behind the ears. When I read the paper he curls up on the paper with his paws over my arm and settles right in for a nice nap while I hug him close to my body.

Doesn't it make you feel all warm and fuzzy?

Speaking of the ceiling fan...

When my two pedigreed Siamese were babies, they would also watch the fan with interest, even with no mirror behind it...Well, one day, I kept hearing grunts and rowls in the living room only to find both of them jumping up in the air like a couple of jumping beans trying to get to the fan as it turned. Calypso even put herself way up on top of the mantle to try and jump up at the fan blades.

Silly cats...I guess that is why we love them so much.

Gaye and the Gang