Category: Animal House
hi all and and here we can share stories about the funny things our cats have done or the things that they get up to and make us laugh like for instance i had poured myself a glass of milk and left it on the bench and my cat loved to get up on there and i had gone to put the milk away and i turn round and i see him with his head in the glass and took a couple of laps of milk though he didn't get to drink it all, lol, smiles.
I can think of a couple...though one is part funny, part scary.
Ming, a kitten I had once, decided to leap at my screen door one time. The door was firmly shut, but the screen was coarse. Poor Ming got about four feet up it and then got stuck and started to cry. I didn't know whether to laugh or freak out. Guess he was after a bird outside or something.
This same kitten once made me laugh rather hard because he got not one, not two but three ping-poing balls into my empty bathtub, then proceeded to bat the living hell out of them. That cat was so wired he was mewing at them, growling at them, hissing at them and generally having a grand old time. I eventually went in there, and he jumped out of the tub, flopped at my feet and let out the longest mew I'd ever heard from him till that point, all plaintive and sad.
One other story from Ming, since he was quite the energetic little guy when I had him. I used to have an armchair facing my computer, while my couch/futon was about three and a half feet to the right. Well, for a little while I had it flat and just never bothered folding it up into couch mode; Ming used to delight in springing cleanly from the futon to the back of my chair, whereafter he'd sprawl out, put his back paws on the right side of my neck and his front paws on the left, snuggle his belly against the back of my neck and start purring. This isn't funny so much as it was endearing, I suppose.
Maybe not funny, but certainly strange.
We had a cat when I was in college who would fetch a ball of paper and bring it back to you. I first discovered this because I was typing out a term paper - yes typing on a typewriter. I'd got something wrong on a sheet of paper, so tore it out of the typewriter and tried to shoot a basket but missed the garbage can. The cat ran got it brought it back to me and meowed with it in its mouth. I then shot the basket again and made it, and it went and jumped in the wastebasket and brought it back to me.
Lol in the era of electronic devices I bet some of you foos haven't shot a basket ...
I have. Can't say my aim's very good, but I've shot a few.
thanks for sharing and some of those were funny and i thought the one about the kitten was rather cute, smiles.
I use to have a arm chair that was in front of my computer and my cat would jump onto the arm and then climb in behind me and with his paws it would push my bum and i would end up giving the chair to him or landing on the floor and i would then get another chair but when bringing it into where my computer is and shift the other one he would jump out of that one so i'd have to go and bring the other one back, smiles.
when my cats were kittens they went into the bath tub and grabbed the plug and played with it and hid it so then we couldn't find it, lol, smiles.
Oh my god, these were super funny. Max, my little kitty, decided to swish his tail through a candle and his tail got burnt a bit. Haahaha. My mom ran out into the living room and ran her hand down his tail and it was all ash. Now the funny part of this is, his tail was so fluffy he didn't feel it, so he was just like, "Hi Guys." Just chillin like nothing happened. Then, the idiot did it again 3 years later. Lol.
I've lived with at least one cat ever since I was in high school, so I can think of way too many stories to mention in one post. But a few do stand out. When my mom decided to leave a company she had worked for for a really long time, she received many gifts. One of them was a huge African Violet plant in a huge round clay pot that was shaped more like a larger than normal mixing bowl. One day she noticed that the plant had somehow gotten flattened on one side. Finally one day she caught our cat lying in the bowl on the plant because it was on a table in front of the front window, and I guess lying in the plant was more comfortable than trying to get comfortable on the window sill. When my mom realized the cat was lying there, she yelled and headed over there to get her out of the plant, the cat jumped out in fright and ended up sending the whole thing flying. So after we cleaned up all the mess, there was no more plant for her to sleep in.
I had another cat that used to love to jump up on the small bathroom window sill. One time I was taking a bath, and the cat came in and got on the side of the tub. Now I know she had never had trouble jumping from the side of the tub to the window sill before, but I guess seeing the tub full of water made her nervous, so she kept looking down at the water, then back up to the window several times. Finally, she jumped but missed and splashed down into the water. I had been afraid this would happen so made sure I had gotten all my exposed skin out of the way of her claws. I don't even think her feet touched the bottom of the tub she flew out of there so fast. I sat there in the tub laughing my ass off for several minutes. I had a retired old man for a neighbor, and he always spent his summer days sitting out in the yard, and I often wondered if he heard me laughing like a loon in my bathroom.
OK, now reading some of the stories here has reminded me of a couple more stories of my own. The cat I have now had a funny reaction to my laptop computer when I first got one in 2005. He kept jumping up on my desk and walking across the keyboard. I must have picked him up and put him down on the floor at least a dozen times, but he kept coming gback up to walk across the keyboard. Finally, after he had stayed away for awhile, I guess he just had to have the last word. He jumped up, but instead of walking across the keyboard, he went behind the laptop and reached one paw out from behind the raised screen to tap just one key. Then he jumped down, and he has never shown any interest in my computer ever since.
Another cat I used to have liked a certain chair. Trouble is, it was also my favorite chair. But she was not the type of cat to like to sit in my lap, so she always wanted to have the chair to herself. If I was sitting there watching TV, she would sit on the floor in front of me and just stare at me until I felt guilty and would go sit somewhere else so she could have her favorite chair to herself.
Well my last cat Max was once sitting with Maria, my significant other of a few years back. Well she had one of those TV trays and she'd been using it to do some drawing. Earlier that day she must have had a piece of candy on that table and somehow a bit of residue was leftbeind, so Max started licking it. Maria thought it was cute so she grabbed the Flip Camcorder she'd bought ad started filming. Well wenMax realized e was on camera he started showing off and in the process rolled right off the couch. He reached out a paw to try to catch himself but got his claw stuck in the couch cushion whenhe landed on the floor. He had to actually climb back up onto the couch in order to get it unstuck. LOL.
hahahahah i am enjoying the funny stories that you guys are posting and keep them coming, smiles.
Some of the things that your cats have done are cute too, smiles.
Lmao to so many of these! So a couple involving my cat Shadow.
One time a friend stopped by to visit me on her way home from running some errands. She had a cat of her own, and one place she had stopped was to buy more cat food. So we're sitting there talking, and all of a sudden we hear, "crunch, crunch, crunch." Turns out Shadow had silently chewed a hole in the side of the new bag of cat food my friend had, and was eating out of it, never mind that he had a fresh bowl of his own, and of the same kind of food.
I was fairly new out of college, and still in the habit of having what I called carpet picnics at my house when friends were over. The thing where we'd order pizza and other side items, and because there were too many of us, or because I simply wasn't used to the idea of having a dining room table after living in a dorm for years, we'd sit on the floor around the pizza boxes instead of at the table. Shadow would come over and stand in the lid of the box, and simply stare at the food. He never tried to get at it or eat it, would just stand there and stare at it. He particularly did this if we'd ordered cinnamon sticks. The cat had a thing with cinnamon.
He also had a thing for the sun, like many cats. The window next to my bed faced directly east. I think Shadow had an internal clock for the sun, because most mornings he'd come in about sunrise. If the sun was up, he'd lay in the windowsill in the direct light and purr his head off. If it was cloudy, he'd come in, look for it, and not finding it, would make an angry meow and stalk out of the room. He'd be back fifteen or twenty minutes later, and look for it again. If it was up, he'd lay in the window and purr. If not, another angry growl and back out of the room. This usually got repeated a few times, either until the sun came out, or until he resigned himself to the fact that it wasn't going to.
LOL Alicia to that last story about your cat being angry when the sun wasn't out. He probably was yelling at you because in his mind it was your fault. I once read a book where the author described living in Calofornia with his cat. One day there was a mild earthquake, and his cat disappeared. In a day or two he found that his cat had moved in with the people across the street. Apparently he blamed his owner for making the house shake and figured these new people wouldn't do that to him.
LOL. I don't think I've ever met a cat that didn't like the sun. My cat Joan Jett likes to lay in front of the sliding glass door out onto my patio when it's nice because that spot gets a lot of sun.
Our daughter had a kitten for awhile and this kitten would clomp around the house. I do mean clomp. I know people say cats are very quiet with their feet.
I said once he sounded a lot more like a cow than a cat, so her and her friends started saying kitty cow instead of kitty cat.
My cat can sound like a herd of elephants sometimes, then at others he is so quiet he can be right beside me and I don't realize it until he brushes up against me. Even running up and down the stairs, he can sometimes be so quiet that I don't realize he has come up to the second floor with me, but at other times, like I said, he can sound like a herd of elephants on the steps.
hahahahah i know what you mean my one that i had sounded like a horse when he ran because he was big and the cat here sounds the same, smiles.
My younger sister's cat who has a lot of interaction with my mum is quite a funny character like when she talks to him he ignores her and how he does this is he turns his head away from her when she is talking to him.