What's With The Laundry Delivery?

Ever since my kitten discovered the laundry room he's been carrying laundry upstairs and delivering it to my feet. At first it was just socks...then bigger socks, then it expanded to nylons and underwear and yesterday (blush) he hauled up one of my bras that he'd climbed onto the washer and pulled down.

He brings them up and makes the same funny throaty mewing sound he makes when he's in pursuit of a bug, then he flops down on his side looking mightily proud of himself, starts purring and has one of his very rare moments he wants petting and praise. And he's very persistent about it--the other day I came home and found about ten socks outside my son's door and it turns out my son was inside his room with the door closed and mewed loudly until he came out to acknowledge the gift.

I'm seriously wondering if I wouldn't have a pile of dead mice in my kitchen if he were an outside cat.

Originally Posted by Pippen

Ever since my kitten discovered the laundry room he's been carrying laundry upstairs and delivering it to my feet. At first it was just socks...then bigger socks, then it expanded to nylons and underwear and yesterday (blush) he hauled up one of my bras that he'd climbed onto the washer and pulled down.

He brings them up and makes the same funny throaty mewing sound he makes when he's in pursuit of a bug, then he flops down on his side looking mightily proud of himself, starts purring and has one of his very rare moments he wants petting and praise. And he's very persistent about it--the other day I came home and found about ten socks outside my son's door and it turns out my son was inside his room with the door closed and mewed loudly until he came out to acknowledge the gift.

I'm seriously wondering if I wouldn't have a pile of dead mice in my kitchen if he were an outside cat.

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Awww that's so sweet! He is brining you a gift. If you would like this to stop you may have to start putting your dirty laundry in a big bin with a lid. Also is your little one fixed yet? That could be part of the issue.

Oh, we had him neutered at the earliest possibility. What started out as a sweet little thing at 2 weeks hopped off our laps at 4 weeks and started attacking everything that moved. At 8 weeks we had to leave him here during a vacation and scheduled frequent stops by caretakers who know and love cats. We'd call home and they'd be reporting things like "he's sure full of vim and vigor" or "well, that's a mighty little hunter you have there" and "Uh...he's *very* male". (He comes from a wild mama who's been around the neighborhood for years.) We got home and found he was treating everything that moved as prey so moved his neutering appointment up for ASAP. He's still full of vim and vigor but he has for the most part stopped attacking our legs. We're still working on biting hands but I'm encouraged that if the leg thing stopped this can too.

sounds like he's hunting your laundry!

My female cat Much will drag clothing from anywhere she finds it and drags it to the landing directly in front of our front door. When I answer the door, I always have to check to make sure nothing is there because she has brought down some embarrassing items from the laundry basket. And she calls the whole time she's dragging.

What is really sad is when we come across a garment wrapped around the stair bannister and know that she tried really hard to get it downstairs.

That is so cute! He is feeding his humans on freshly killed socks and undies! Yum!
I have had success in making my kittens stop biting by screaming VERY loudly, much more than necessary, when I was bitten. It scared the daylights out of a couple of them, but it did stop the biting.

Originally Posted by krazy kat2

That is so cute! He is feeding his humans on freshly killed socks and undies! Yum!

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LOL. I've decided it's definitely a male predator-prey thing. I've had a heap of jeans sitting on top of the dryer for the past two days and he's taken to sleeping there on top during the day like he's king of the mountain. *And* the types of clothing he's bringing up is getting more alarming by the day: over the past two days he's brought up a pair of Spiderman pajama bottoms as well as a Lord of the Rings tshirt (still damp). He must have finally met his match though because I found a heavy wet adult sized Spiderman tshirt pulled halfway across the laundryroom.

I was seriously concerned he might be damaging the clothes but I caught him in the act yesterday pulling a sock down and heading up with it and he was surprisingly gentle. Still, I think we're going to put off taking in any foster kittens...

Ha Ha I think that is so cute. At least he is bringing them to you. Everytime one of my little freaks get into something they are not suppose to they run and try to hide with it. They "killed" it and do not want it taken away

This story is a classic - a kitty that delivers laundry!!!

Question is: Can you get him to actually wash and dry it first?

Too cute.

Now I have to teach Libby this, because she doesn't ilke to deliver laundry, she likes to run off with it. It's not even like she's attacking it first... she just likes running around with socks mainly!!

My husband and I were going away for a few days last week and I was sorting clothes to pack. I put out 3 pairs of socks. While hunting for other things to take (back turned all of 5 minutes) she'd managed to run off somewhere with all 3 pairs.

She has such a sock/shoe/foot fetish. It's so funny.

My Abby has a pair of my socks that she adopted when she was 4 months old; she's now 8 years old. She found them one day before I had put them away and decided to carry them around in her mouth while meowing.

I thought she wanted to play but she doesn't. If I throw them I'm the one doing the fetching, she just looks confused that I tossed it across the room, LOL

She doesn't even want to cuddle them, she just wants them in the same room as she is in. She will interupt a nice cuddle session in bed, jump down, go find her socks and then meow frantically while carrying them. I can tell by her meow that she has the socks and for some reason she seems to forget where I am in between leaving me and finding her socks, so I have to call her until she comes to the bedroom, drops the socks by the bed and jumps up and resumes her cuddles.

If I'm in the living room she will go and find the socks in the bedroom and bring them out and drop them near me all the while meowing.

I think it's her way of announcing herself to me.

I saw on the news a few weeks ago about a cat in the USA that goes around the neighbourhood stealing gardening gloves. The owner has a small clothes line that she has put out front of her yard and hangs the gloves on it so that the neighbours can check periodically if any are theirs. The cat even goes back for the second glove to make it a pair that it's snatched, LOL

Here is the link to that story:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2...ent_646399.htm