You know you've got a cat when...

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..you're awoken at 6am by the sound of a cat vomiting at the foot of the bed.

(He then proceeded to jump onto the lid of the wicker wash basket and puke. Dripping it through on to the white washing inside. Wonderful.)
 
mattd85 said:
I've got more than 1 cat at the min, bengal cross kittens everywhere
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neil_g said:
..you're awoken at 6am by the sound of a cat vomiting at the foot of the bed.

(He then proceeded to jump onto the lid of the wicker wash basket and puke. Dripping it through on to the white washing inside. Wonderful.)
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Classic!

Mine usually do the sofa. Then the carpet then as many places as possible with tiny dribbles.

My mildly bulimic one has a revolting habit of puking just eaten food right back into the food dish or very close by.
 
neil_g said:
..you're awoken at 6am by the sound of a cat vomiting at the foot of the bed.

(He then proceeded to jump onto the lid of the wicker wash basket and puke. Dripping it through on to the white washing inside. Wonderful.)
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Thanks for the Tuesday morning giggle (sorry!!!) At least yours waits until a (vaguely) decent time - ours (on the rare occasions she night voms) tends to upchuck at between 2 and 3 am... She has also done the bowl refilling thing and then proceeded to clear up after herself. Delightful creature! Downstairs is now laminate flooring so easy to mop up after a regurgitation but (of course!) she usually chooses to puke on either the furniture or the rugs.

BUT, she can be forgiven all her sins since she was the thing that convinced me that I was actually quite ill a couple of years ago. I was sitting on the end of the bed, trying to muster the energy to stand up when she jumped up onto my lap and nuzzled into my belly. That was enough to tip me over backwards where I lay for about 4 hours unable to move the 2' or so to get to the phone...
 
I've been feeding my mum's cats while she's away and yesterday I found what used to be a mouse in their bowl.
Makes a nice change from the middle of the floor or hidden under the sofa.
 
The mysteriously disappearing puked biscuits is another classic cat activity. Ewwwwwwwwww.
 
^^ Nice. Mine decided she wanted cuddles and strokes before I went to work. A turning point? Maybe. Normally she just wants to bite me
 
Whenever I see my four month old kitten, Jet, go into deep REM sleep and he start twitching away, I imagine him dreaming like this . . .

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......when you see see a cat in your house and your first thought isn't what the **** is that cat doing in my house. :thinking:
 
Ian, he's probably dreaming of a pair of bullocks so beware!

Maisie celebrated her 10th birthday yesterday. Well, we celebrated it and she pretended she was still a kitten. Just waiting for her to discover the new blind pulls...
 
Well my kids and I got a kitten last week, settling in extremely well, i have had cats before although it was awhile back now, it's made me chuckle nodding my head at so many of these!
I remember one Xmas many years ago my previous cat decide to climb the huge Xmas tree in the middle of the night, toppling it over! I've never screamed so loud wondering what the hell the noise was :D


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...when the number of bells on the cat collar required to stop him from bringing home blue tits, sparrows (and the occasional grass snake) becomes akin to a troop of highly irritating morris dancers running round the house.
 
I know they annoy the hell out of Maisie! Unfortunately the 3 she has currently haven't stopped her catching things completely but has reduced the score a LOT! Mum and Dad had her before we took her on after they both died and they lived on the edge of Dartmoor. Barely a day went by without her bringing some poor critter in. :( Didn't take her long to get used to a collar and bells but we did make sure the break away safety clasp was weak enough not to cause her any injury when it gets caught on something. We have a couple of spares "in stock" since she's quite good at losing them!
 
Hawk bells are quite good. They seem to be more effective than the normal cat bell.

I certainly know I have cats. Wherever I go I seem to leave a cloud of cat hair behind. Places that are pristine become fuzzy within minutes of arrival.
 
srichards said:
Hawk bells are quite good. They seem to be more effective than the normal cat bell.

I certainly know I have cats. Wherever I go I seem to leave a cloud of cat hair behind. Places that are pristine become fuzzy within minutes of arrival.
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Tell me about it, I stood up ya work the other day and caught sight of my chair. It's covered in cat hair.

:oops: :$
 
My late beloved black cat was a very keen hunter and I remember being rewarded with bats in the house on three occasions. Once, on arriving home from a trip to Cornwall at about 1 am to find a bat circling the bedroom, and still doing so at 3.30 am before I grabbed it out of desperation!

More recently, and perhaps less pleasantly, being woken with a wet duvet as the cat had presumably 'marked her territory'!

We recently acquired a kitten having lost the black one six months ago. He's lovely but the first thing he did was to wet both mine and my son's beds over successive nights. Cats, you've just got to love them!
 
Yes we had that problem when our two were a couple of months old. I think they couldn't differentiate the soft duvet surface with the litter tray? They both did it on the same evening. They probably watched each other do it...

You know you've got a cat when you can't have a pen anywhere in the coffee table without chaos ensuing.
 
You know you have cats without their own watches/clocks when (at this time of year) all 4 of them climb on the bed to wake you because it is daylight (at silly o'clock) and they deem it that it is their breakfast time and their dumb human is slacking by sleeping on the job. It does not help that the elddst cat can open a latched bedroom door.

S
 
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fabs said:
You know you haven't got a cat when you wake up in the morning and all the bits & bobs that were on your bedside table the night before......



.......are on your bedside table.
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My bedside lamp has seen better days, the shade no longer screws to the lamp o_O

Hugh Jarse said:
You know you have cats without their own watches/clocks when (at this time of year) all 4 of them climb on the bed to wake you because it is daylight (at silly o'clock) and they deem it that it is their breakfast time and their dumb human is slacking by sleeping on the job. It does not help that the elddst cat can open a latched bedroom door.

S
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4am is popular at ours. It's either playtime or "lay on daddy's chest and paw his face" time.
 
When you have to hide under the duvet as soon as you get in to bed and kitten thinks it's play time and still finds a way in :D


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neil_g said:
My bedside lamp has seen better days, the shade no longer screws to the lamp o_O



4am is popular at ours. It's either playtime or "lay on daddy's chest and paw his face" time.
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The girl of our 13 month old 'kittens' shouts at a very high decibel level in an awful tonal range. So she is not popular.... her twin brother is mute. No sound out of him since we got them at 12 weeks. He prefers a right paw in the slave human's nostril. He is lookibg at me right now as if he knows I am writing about him.......
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Possibly the only good thing about waking up a 4:30 - 5:00 most mornings is being able to wake the cat up rather than her waking us up! We knew Maisie was a pen chaser and hider before we took her on so we don't leave them out for her to play with (and hide...) BUT, I usually dump my specs and shades on a shelf and she likes sitting on that shelf. Of course, the area where my specs are are where she wants to sit or stand. Luckily, they bounce!
 
Yep, Neil. Caught Jet, now six months old, in the act earlier on this afternoon . . .

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Mind you, doesn't help that he is an indoors cat, even though he has been neutered, jabbed and chipped.
 
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You know youve got a cat when you cant leave your clean underwear on the bed in the morning while you go and have a shower before you leave for work...


...I dont need to add fur to that area thank you pussy cat!
 
It's not just clean, fresh out of the drier clothes that get catted, it's paperwork here and the more important the form, the more likely she is to put paw prints all over it!
 
your furniture and carpets are ruined..............................
 
:ROFLMAO:
 
...your display gets rotated by 90° and you have no idea how to undo it - indeed, you had no idea such a thing was even possible.

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Apparently, as I found out after appealing for help, you need to press Ctrl + Alt + Left arrow to do this. So it was a pretty nifty bit of footwork. The Alt key is between the space bar and the Windows key, and a bit of experimentation shows that if you press either of them as well as Ctrlt + Alt + arrow then nothing happens. So she must have picked out the Alt key and only the Alt key with with one paw, and landed on Ctrl + left arrow (which are next to one another) with another paw. Very impressive.
 
You also know you have a cat who's been sleeping on the Sky Plus box when you find it's absolutely full because fifty six programmes have been downloaded from Catch Up TV ... the entire contents of 4OD! :rolleyes:
 
But is there anything good in what she recorded?
 
Nod said:
But is there anything good in what she recorded?
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No, but be fair! She's a cat!

She did try! The first half dozen programmes were episodes of "Alan Carr Catty Man!"! Then several episodes of "8 out of 10 Cats"! ...
 
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