Caregiver's cats behaving badly.

Freq,

He sounds so cute! Your cat has an adorable personality.

Lucky,

A real tree? My cat jumped in our real tree! Hahaha

I recently heard a news story of a baby koala being in a tree! They had to call a rescue group to get him out. Crazy, huh?

You and your cats are something else Freqflyer~
You all must share ALOT of love and great times.
My 3 cats change their favorite spots all the time.Last,they were all on the bathroom counter,but now their favorite spot is under the Christmas tree.They just love it.

NeedHelpWithMom, you asked what are our cat's favorite spots. With "Jesse James" it is pretty much where he darn pleases. He likes closets and find a good spot, but that means all the clothes hanging down upon him all have orange and white cat hair.

He recently learned to open the bottom dresser drawer which isn't easy. Let's lay on those clothes.

If I am sitting in my office chair, he will jump onto my lap and get around behind me. That means I need to scoot to the edge of the chair. But I do like his hind feet pressing on my back, it feels good :)

He loves the brown kraft paper that comes in the Chewy box. Makes a lot of noise when he plows into it. Then he will take a nap on it.

Bed sheets fresh from the dryer. Makes you want to curl up with him :)

Jesse works from 6pm to 9:30 pm every night looking for mice in our unfinished basement. His favorite spot is at the top of the metal rack.

Bedtime, he likes to spoon me. Except it's his hind feet in my face.

Dosmo,

Nacho sounds adorable!

I would have been one of your neighbors that loved having him visit.

Don’t you love a cat’s curiosity and independent nature? I do!

Yes, Need Help with Mom, I had a cat named Nacho (mentioned him in a prior post) who used to make rounds, daily, of the various apartments in my retirement community. They all opened to the outdoors and had windows facing a private courtyard. He would stop and look into every neighbor's window (some called him the "peeping Tom"). A couple of cat lovers would invite him in. He would check out every room in their apartment and, when satisfied that everything was in order, sit or lie next to them for a while. Then he would ask to go out so he could continue his "rounds". When I moved to another place, some former neighbors would still ask about him. Said they missed having him check on them.

My little cats like butter,so sometimes I let them have a few licks and
my old cat,Savvy,ate potato chips and would lick the cream inside Oreos.
Cats are funny~

gershun - my last cat Toonie, would rip holes in the plastic bread bag and chew the corners off several slices of bread, Go figure.

One time I had put a piece of bread in the toaster and then went to do something else. When I turned around there was a bite taken out of the toast. LOL

My one cat just loves bread. Now I let him eat my crumbs after I've had a sandwich etc.

My Humane Society rescue, (a Maine Coon cat, I am told, named "Shadow"), immediately located any ballpoint pen I had anywhere and appropriated it as a toy. To save my pens, I cut some plastic drinking straws in half and fortunately she just loves them.

Only problem is, now she chases them under the living room carpet, pushes them so far under she cannot reach them. And unfortunately, neither can I! I'm not too steady (at 80 yrs. old), but managed to get them out with a broom stick. Then...major and exhausting project for me, secured the carpet with double-sided tape all around the edges.

Felt really proud of myself, until I walked across the newly taped- down carpet and found underneath, beyond either cat or human reach, I swear, a mouse-sized lump! (not really a mouse, I'm sure). Don't know what it is, but I'll bet I know who put it there...and it wasn't me! (only 2 residents in this apartment, cat and me. Cat looks at me with a typical not-my-problem look). Now am waiting for the maintenance man here to come help.

Golden,

One time I was putting my groceries away. The empty paper bag was sitting on the floor on its side.

My cat crawled inside, turned around and it was like her own little tent.

It was the cutest thing. After that, I saved bags for her to hang out in.

Aren’t they funny?

Favorite places for my cat:

Paper bags

Window Sill

My sofa

The bed

The patio

The staircase

Standing at my feet while cooking hoping that I would drop something!

My lap!

What about your cat? Favorite spots?

ff and shell - cats are truly funny. Pumpkin tends to overeat so I can't give her more treats. Her tummy is round enough as it is. Rocky, of course, is very svelte.

They both looove boxes 💓💓📦📦📦 💓💓. I made them a cat condo out of cardboard bxes,

My last dog Matt once fast dialed my dd in another city. I picked the phone up off the floor and heard her say "Hello". 🐶

Golden,
Maybe Pumpkin had to make a call. My mother's old cat Bumper was always knocking the phone down to play with it. My dad who had a great sense of humor, told Bumper that he could use the phone just not any long distance calls. LOL!😸


FF,
Isn't it just like a cat to make us put a toy together just for them to want to play with the box. Aren't you glad you did all that work?!

My sig-other's old cat Sam was always bored. I found a ball that you fill with treats and as Sam rolls the ball a treat would fall out and man did that ball kept Sam busy for hours. He would roll that ball around until he got every last treat out of it, and he never let any of the other cats play with it until he was done, by then there was no point for the other cats to play with it!! Sam wasn't much for sharing!😾

Today I got from Chewy a cat box toy which has numerous holes in it on several levels, one places cat treats into the box and the cat tries to figure out how to get the treats, the treats drop from one level to the next.

Oh dear, I thought the box would come already assembled. No "some assembly required". Everything needed assembly. I had always pride myself on figuring out how to put together a box, such as banker boxes. This box was so complex, I wanted to scream. Instructions were haphazard. I could tell a process-writer wasn't part of writing the instruction.

Finally got the box together, dropped in some treats. The cat investigated but decided the Chewy box was more interesting =^..^=

Naughty Pumpkin has once more knocked the house phone down and the receiver skittered under furniture so I had to do some major bending and heaving to get it and nearly caught her under the sofa, I have moved that phone to a new location as I rarely answer it anyway. and hope she won't knock it down from there.

Rocky is so well behaved. She wouldn't think of knocking things down. 🐱🐱

Dosmo,
Shadow does like water! Oop! Darn smartphones!!!

Dosmo
That is so funny the we have the same kind of cat. I named mine Shadow because she kind of moves through the house like a shadow...here one minute and gone the next. My Shadow doesn't seem to like water as well. I wonder if it's a Main-coon thing?! Does your cat bit? Mine does if you try to pet her and she doesn't know you.

I did not watch that Tiger King show. Did any of you? I can’t imagine owning a Tiger!

Remember Elsa? Born Free movie. I saw that as a kid.

All of the big cats are beautiful, tigers, lions, leopards, cheetahs, panthers, etc.

Dosmo,

They respond to the can opener or the crinkling of the cat food bag! They are smart!

Plus, my cat responded to “Here kitty, kitty, kitty.”

I love the name Shadow.

Was she a cat or a kitten when you got her?

Does she play with toys? My cat loved balls of yarn that I made for her. I bought a couple of toys for her too.

She was super playful until shortly before she died at age 16.

Oh, Gershun. They sound so pretty!

Solid white and solid black NHWM. They were beautiful.

I came home and my cat was in front of the TV watching Animal Planet. Yes, really! Guess he just stepped on the remote. Relieved at least he wasn't watching "kitty" porn!
Love the bird called "Puppy" and the cat named "Birdie". Do you call, "Here, Birdie, Birdie" for the cat? Wonder what the neighbors think!
Dogs know their names. Don't know if cats ever do...or they just ignore you (unless you have food). Mine always respond just to "kitty".
Shell- I have a Maine Coon also named Shadow! Got her from the Humane Society. They did surgery for her dislocated hip (cause unknown), but her mostly amputated tail can't be fixed.I named her Shadow because of her color and fact that she follows me everywhere. No snow here (S. Texas), but she seems to like water and has the paddle-like paws!

Gershun,

Solid black and solid white?

Those are cute names.

My neighbor had a cat that had four black paws and she called him Boots. She had another one with all white paws that she called Socks.

It really is fun hearing the names.

Kids names now are very interesting! Can’t tell if they are boys or girls these days. They go either way. I know girls named, Taylor, Jordan and Tyler, which are also boy names.

I had a black cat named Cleo. At the time I also had a white cat named Hobbes. They were such a contrast to each other but so beautiful.

I remember the caretaker of my bldg. at the time would come over and call them Black and White. Then he'd say "like the whiskey" and he would laugh. He was an alcoholic. :P

Pam and Shell,

My friend named her chihuahua, Chiquita. That’s cute too!

Pam and Shell,

Funny!
Oh, yes. Teletubbies was weird! 😂

I love The Raven. Read it every Halloween! I like Poe.

Pam,

The 40’s were different.
He would be arrested and it would be on YouTube and Facebook now!

Pam, that's funny. When I was a kid we had a cat named Spooky and he was black. The funny thing is my aunt named him and she was black too!


NHWM, it is fun to hear all the different names people call their pets. I had a cat name 'Poe' after Edgar Allen Poe. She hated when I called her by her full name--in short we called her ' Poe Poe.' I hated the fact that people thought she got her name from the 'Telly Tubbies.' Ugh!!!

NHWM,, my parents always told the story of when Dad was in the navy, they had a cocker spaniel named spook, and he was black. He loved to chase the black mailman down the street. dad had to go after him one day and yelled "spook you black bastard get back here" The mailman was running for his life! Now Dad would probably get arrested! ( I am not after getting dissed here, it;s how it was in the 40s ) My hubs wanted to name one of our black cats Sambo,, and my DD wanted to name her chihuahua Taco.. I cut that off quickly! My family is racially mixed, so they just were not thinking.. So we have Bellas and Chloes and Butterbeans and Merlins.. and a bunch just named Garage stinkys and porch family.. LOL

Shell,

Another friend that has two cats named them, Buttons and Bows. I think that is cute too.

I love hearing names.

One time my daddy was calling for our dog when he got out.

It was really early in the morning. The newspaper guy was delivering his papers.

My daddy said, “Henry!” My dog was hard headed and wouldn’t come when called. So daddy screamed loudly, “Henry, get your a** back here!”

The paperboy walked near to our porch and told my dad, “That is a horrible way to speak to your paperboy.”

My daddy told him, “I wasn’t speaking to you. I was yelling for my d*mn dog!” LOL.

We laughed about the paperboy’s name being Henry.

NHWM
'Extra' for a name of a cat- that is funny! I read a book once were the character (a woman) had two cats name 'had I', 'but known' & it took me a few pages to realize that was their names. It was a very good book, but can't remember the title.


Send,
Yes, I named my cat Birdie because she sounds more like a bird than a cat. 🐦😸

Dosmo,

I am allergic to cats so that’s why I didn’t get another one.

Mine lived to be 16. We do miss them terribly. Don’t we?

Your cat sounds like my cat was. She would catch lizards too! Yes, she would bring them over to show me her catch!