My cat does X just to make me crazy.

[kaitcat]

Last edited Mon Feb 13, 2012, 09:59 AM - Edit history (1)

My big, beautiful boy sits right next to my head and grooms himself. He makes that lick-lick-lick-lick-lick sound and it drives me absolutely up a wall.

[Rhiannon12866]

1. This can't be uncommon here...

Tommy enjoys standing on my keyboard, likes to get between me and the computer screen. He likes to conduct experiments with gravity and push off anything I have up here so he can watch it land on the floor. One of these days, he's going to make his first post, LOL...

[zbdent]

5. I thought that was where FreeRepublic got most of their semi-intelligent postings ...

they couldn't afford the monkeys banging on the keyboards ...

[Rhiannon12866]

21. FR is way too user unfriendly for most humans

Let alone most cats...

[jamesatemple]

10. My cat makes it a point

to occupy the chair that I want to sit in. I don't know how he does it but if I'm headed to the computer I'll find him curled in the computer chair. If I desire to kick back in my recliner, there he'll be. He doesn't fuss whenever I pick him up and move him. But I don't go to the bathroom and come back expecting the chair to be empty. Yep, there he is. Mind reader. That's what he is.

[Arugula Latte]

14. I've got a Tommy, too.

He's a sneezer. Specifically, he'll come check out my face in the middle of the night when I'm sound asleep and then, from a proximity of about an inch away, proceed to sneeze all over my countenance.

Lovely.

[ret5hd]

2. Scene: 3:00 AM, lights out, deeply asleep...

aaaaand...ACTION!

our maine coone gingerly walks up to my head. he lightly taps my head with his paw. he waits a second to see if i respond. he extends his claws and taps again, more forcefully, then lightly mews. he waits again. he extends his claws again, pushes them against my skull and mews louder. he continues this escalation until i get up and let him out the back door which HAS A KITTY DOOR!!! then five minutes later he decides he doesn't like it outside and comes right in THE KITTY DOOR.

repeat at 4:45 AM just 15 minutes before i have to get up anyway.

[Arugula Latte]

13. ...

Kitties. Gotta love 'em!

[csziggy]

17. Just make sure he does not have access to any weapons

[emilyg]

18. LOL

[Sanity Claws]

3. My cat licks me

He likes to sleep near my head and licks me while I'm trying to sleep or when he thinks I should get up in the morning.
I hate it! I tell him that I don't like it and I stick my head under the covers so he can't lick my face but he keeps doing it.

[HopeHoops]

4. He looks like my big boy's late brother. He would sing at the bottom of the stairs.

We called him "Pavarotti" when he did that.

[zbdent]

6. Three words, in the middle of the night, during an especially enjoyable dream:

"OBOY! A MOUSE!"

followed immediately by a pounce, and a scream ...

[kurtzapril4]

7. If my husband or I

Are stupid enough to leave clothes on the floor..or on the bed...Tennessee will pee on them.

[progressoid]

8. Deciding that she wants to snuggle around my neck just after she's visited the liter box.

Ewww.

[GoCubsGo]

9. Mine does that, too.

Right as I'm trying to fall asleep in bed. I hate hate hate it. She also parks herself on my lap, and then pitches a fit when I change position when her weight causes my leg to fall asleep.


No. My cat is not spoiled. I swear to the Flying Spaghetti Monster, she's not.

[sakabatou]

11. Walks in zig-zags almost as though she wants to trip me.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. Annoying Things My Cats Do:

Jeoffry licks me. And licks and licks and licks until I'm covered in cat spit. And he sits on my right arm when I'm at the computer so I can't do anything, and refuses to leave. I shove his fat ass off me and he comes right back.

Milo does this passive-aggressive thing where he waits until I've almost fallen asleep, then he tries to knock over the lamp on the table next to the bed. I yell at him and he stops. Then he waits a few minutes and does it again. And again. And again.

Pixie picks fights with the other cats for no particular reason, almost always at night when we're all sleeping peacefully on the bed. Then all of a sudden there's all this hissing and screeching and running around, which wakes me up. When I read in bed she stands on my chest and points her butt at me, just a few inches from my face. And she chews on my hair.

I do love them, though.

[Arugula Latte]

15. Awww, but how can you be mad at that cutie pie?

My stomach hurts from laughing at this thread. I can so relate to almost all of these pet peeves (pun intended). But, the nuttier kitties are, the more I love 'em.

on edit: As if on cue, the second after I posted that one of my kitties started doing that "heaving" motion and proceeded to puke on my computer desk.

[LynneSin]

16. If my cats are doing X, not sure who is dealing it to them

I thought Catnip was the extent of their drug use.

[csziggy]

19. He asks to be let in by climbing the window screens

Which are now shredded. If I want to open my windows this spring I'm going to have to re-do the window screens for this room!

The really annoying part is that I will let him in the front door. He goes upstairs and hassles my husband until husband comes downstairs and lets him out the back door. Five minutes later, the cat is shredding the screens so I let him in the front door.

Repeat at five to twenty minute intervals all weekend and every evening. My theory is that he wants to make sure we get sufficient exercise.

[applegrove]

20. She used to whine. We've since got into a new routine and she seems more relaxed. I now

rub her belly which she likes. And I fist bump her head - she'll head butt in reply. She likes that too.