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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 08:45 PM
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What is wrong with my cat?
He won't stay out of the kitchen cabinets, keeps going in and just sitting there. Just him...the others are chilling.
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Spinzonner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 08:46 PM
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1. Related to Martha Stewart's cat ?
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 08:47 PM
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2. you gotta keep your weed in a better hiding place!
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 08:49 PM
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4. Ha!!
Never in THAT cabinet...this is under the kitchen sink...connects to another sapce where the dishtowels are stored.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 08:47 PM
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3. How many cats in the house?
it may be time to buy one of those little 'cat houses' at Target. He may need his space, unless he is very old.
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 08:51 PM
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6. 3...his sister, and their daughter
(Yeah, I know...not a very selective little fucker, was he?)

Everyone is fixed now...Youngest just turned a year old today!
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 08:53 PM
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7. Mine crawl under the bed to escape each other
usually. Cardboard boxes are favs too.
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 08:54 PM
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8. Scribbles, the the birthday girl loves cardboard boxes
She will defend a cardbox box against the other cats for hours.
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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 08:50 PM
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5. He's looking for that hurt pidgeon on the other thread. eom
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 08:56 PM
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9. Just read it...how awful!!
Bear wouldn't be looking for a pidgeon though...he's a chicken.
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merwin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 08:58 PM
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10. My cat does the same thing. I had to put child locks on the doors :-)
He also likes to eat plastic. Bad mix.
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 08:59 PM
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11. the cat is telling you he's hungry for soemthing other than what's
in his bowls
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 09:03 PM
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12. next week it will be your laundry basket, or some other spot
that only he knows is magic. All my cats take "spells" regarding certain locations in the house. A couple of months ago, my siamese mix was sneaking off to the staircase, and curling up on the THIRD STEP, and only the third step for long afternoon naps.

One of my other cats would hide in a cardboard box upstairs.

After the siamese got over the stairs, he napped on the sofa for several weeks. Now he is back to the water bed.

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1monster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 09:24 PM
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16. One of my cats has been lying on the top of the stereo speaker on top of
the entertainment center. Sigh. I had to take all of my little collectables and such off the top of the entertainment center after she knocked an antique oil lamp off the top of it... Fortunately, it landed on my son's sax case before dropping softly on a rug. The only thing that broke was the replaceabale chimney.

We have seven cats here and they all have their changing favorite places to sleep. My kitty has been sleeping on the top shelf of the closet the past week or so. Before that, it was on the dressser.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 09:07 PM
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13. When mine does that it means there is a mouse in the cupboard
Edited on Fri Feb-11-05 09:07 PM by GreenPartyVoter
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 11:32 PM
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19. I looked to see if he was hunting something in there
No evidence of rodents (or anything else!)
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 09:09 PM
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14. he is exchanging data with the mother ship....
Edited on Fri Feb-11-05 09:10 PM by mike_c
The spot with the best mind-link reception moves around a bit as the plasma field distorts, so he sometimes has to sit in strange places to keep the uplink. Nothing to worry about as long as he doesn't start to glow.
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 11:31 PM
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18. Knowing Bear as I do, you're probably right
He went sprinting down the hall, jumping and twisting in mid-air for no reason too...I thought that he was chasing a bug, but he wasn't. I think the aliens are closer now.
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Carni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 09:22 PM
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15. He has discovered that he can do that
And thinks he's cool...

I have a cat who throws things.

He launches anything that is not nailed down that is light off of any and every surface.

Such is the nature of intelligent cats
(AKA big pains in the asses lol)
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 11:30 PM
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17. I have a cat who plays in the water dish
I'm sure she thinks she's special when she drops her toys in the water dish, then amuzes herself by batting the toy around before getting it back out again.

She's also learned how to open the shower door...not cool! I spend half of my shower closing the damn door back. It makes me think of Paula Poundstone though, when she talks about how they freak out when you squirt them with water...."What do they think when we take a shower? My cats just sit outside the shower door, watching, amazed. When I get out, they're like 'Are you OK? Man, it was all over you! There was nothing we could do! you must have been REALLY bad!"
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 11:40 PM
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20. He is actually doing gravity tests.
Cats always need to be sure gravity is working, expecially early in the morning. They detect weakenesses in the earth's gravitational field before dawn, and therefore find it necessary to shove things on the floor to be sure those things won't float away. They also need to do it in your bedroom so you will wake up in case the gravity stops working.
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 11:42 PM
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21. SO, she's testing gravity by opening the shower door?
How about when I go to brush my teeth, and I have to move the cat out of the sink to spit?
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 11:45 PM
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22. No. Then she's just being an obstructionist.
Mine does the same damn thing. I wonder how he'd like globs of toothpaste in his fur?
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 02:07 AM
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23. LOL...Scribbles has almost been toothpasted before
I'm trying to push her out of the way, and she's pushing back, playing a a game.
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 02:08 AM
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24. Cats like to hide
My cat likes to sleep on my clothes in my closet. Who knows why
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