# Does anyone ever take their cat and... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 19, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-take-their-cat-and/196111 "2003-08-19T02:38:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rexnervous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@rexnervous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rexnervous)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-take-their-cat-and/196111/1 "2003-08-19T02:38:32Z")
sit him on your lap, fold his ears down on his head, and go “Hey, it’s Flopsy the Rabbit.”? What? ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-take-their-cat-and/196111/2 "2003-08-19T02:46:21Z")
Yes, althought I call it “Little Dutch Kitty.” Zoe is always rather disgusted at this! ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-take-their-cat-and/196111/3 "2003-08-19T02:51:59Z")
Ya’ll must have declawed cats! I’d attempt that stunt right after I put my hand into a wasp nest. Do we have pictures? Of kitty or your wounds? Heh. ---
**Author:** ![TeaRoses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@TeaRoses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaRoses)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-take-their-cat-and/196111/4 "2003-08-19T02:55:02Z")
I’m with Blonde, I’d be dealing with long red scratches shortly after the “sit him on your lap” part. ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-take-their-cat-and/196111/5 "2003-08-19T02:56:37Z")
My friend picks up her cat’s hind legs as he walks on his front legs, and goes “Wheelbarrow ride! Little wheelbarrow guy!” Then he flops over and purrs. He’s a sweet cat. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-take-their-cat-and/196111/6 "2003-08-19T03:08:03Z")
I do that with Buffy all the time. It makes her look like a creature from a fantasy novel. She just looks so goofy! ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-take-their-cat-and/196111/7 "2003-08-19T03:15:38Z")
No, but when I was a kid, I always took our cats to our pond to teach them how to swim. I think we had the fastest swimming cats in the county. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-take-their-cat-and/196111/8 "2003-08-19T04:12:20Z")
I do that with my cat - then I say “Kitty’s got no ears!” And she looks at me funny. We also have “Battle of the Kitties” with our two cats - pick them both up under the arms an march them over to each other, where they proceed to swipe at each other. The fun never ends around here! And sometimes, I pick them up and swing them to my shoulder upside down and spin them around a few times and throw them on the bed - seriously. This is why we sleep with the bedroom door closed - so they can’t kill me in my sleep. ---
**Author:** ![Necromancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ac91a4/32.png) [@Necromancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necromancer)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-take-their-cat-and/196111/9 "2003-08-19T04:13:22Z")
LOL@ **Earl**. I have a cat, [Mia](http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-4/129656/QNPMFUYF%5BWPBKYYPOVRK-Mia4.jpg), who adores water. She’s often in our garden ponds, though she doesn’t get into the pool. Most of my cats like to sit on laps. Anyone’s lap will do, whether you want them to or not, though this is especially true if you’re wearing your best black trousers. I squish their ears down from time to time and let them pretend they’re Scottish Folds. I’ve got a recently adopted kitten, [Yeager](http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-7/129656/yeager2.jpg), who loves to fall asleep hanging upside down with his mouth partly open to show his fangs. He looks kind of like a vampire bat, so we nickname him Bat Cat. I must take a pic of him as Bat Cat one day. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-take-their-cat-and/196111/10 "2003-08-19T04:22:41Z")
I don’t do that but one of my favorite things to do to him is to scratch him behind his left ear until he can’t handle it anymore. This usually takes about two to three minutes until he backs away, shakes his head for about a minute straight, and then starts scratching at it like crazy. I’m guessing it’s sensory overload. Another favorite pastime is to wait until he’s cleaning himself and then ruffle the fur he just licked clean. His tail will start twitching and he’ll flatten his ears against his head after about two or three swipes and it almost always ends in my having red lines running down my hand. ---
**Author:** ![Gulo\_gulo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bcef8e/32.png) [@Gulo\_gulo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gulo_gulo)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-take-their-cat-and/196111/11 "2003-08-19T04:23:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rexnervous \* > \*\*sit him on your lap, fold his ears down on his head, and go “Hey, it’s Flopsy the Rabbit.”? > > What? \*\* My version is to pin their ears back and call them Batcats. When they squint their eyes and sneer, it adds to the image. It’s worth the dirty looks and ankle swats. Really it is. ---
**Author:** ![Q.N.Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3da27b/32.png) [@Q.N.Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.N.Jones)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-take-their-cat-and/196111/12 "2003-08-19T04:29:00Z")
I haven’t tried that one yet, but I regularly bathe them and clip their toenails without injury, so I’m guessing I could get away with it pretty easily. I’ll have to give it a try. In order to get them to hold still for nail clippings, I swaddle them snugly in my old baby blanket. They end up looking like a furry Baby Jesus or something. It cracks people up to see it. Cosmic Creepers hates it, but Oedipuss Rex actually likes to be cradled like a baby and lets me sing “Rockabye Baby” to him. Hey, does anyone else make up songs for and about their cats? My best friend and I both do this. Are we just weird? ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-take-their-cat-and/196111/13 "2003-08-19T05:12:29Z")
I call it Kitty Earstyles. There’s the beehive, the flip, and the sassy bob. And I also make up songs for the cats, although truthfully I usually plagiarize other people’s songs and modify them for cat use. ---
**Author:** ![AveDementia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@AveDementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AveDementia)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-take-their-cat-and/196111/14 "2003-08-19T05:14:59Z")
Hovering Kitty Butt!!! When a kitty is laying down, you slip your hand under their ass and try to hold it up in the air as long as possible. Our **Fattums** just meows pitifully and looks annoyed, but **Smidgen** has a short temper and sharp claws that have little hooks at the end that catch under your skin. Whee! Good times. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-take-their-cat-and/196111/15 "2003-08-19T06:10:15Z")
Another fun one is when they’re lying down on lino or tiles (something slippery at any rate). See how far around you can spin them before they either plant their paws firmly on the floor you can no longer spin them or get up and stalk off looking annoyed. [sidenote] Nobody does annoyed/pissed off as well as a cat. As long as you stay out of the way of the claws, it is truly a sight to behold. [/sidenote] ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bee\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e480ec/32.png) [@Queen\_Bee\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bee_1)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-take-their-cat-and/196111/16 "2003-08-19T06:45:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aesiron \* > \*\*I don’t do that but one of my favorite things to do to him is to scratch him behind his left ear until he can’t handle it anymore. This usually takes about two to three minutes until he backs away, shakes his head for about a minute straight, and then starts scratching at it like crazy. I’m guessing it’s sensory overload. > > Another favorite pastime is to wait until he’s cleaning himself and then ruffle the fur he just licked clean. His tail will start twitching and he’ll flatten his ears against his head after about two or three swipes and it almost always ends in my having red lines running down my hand. \*\* oh my gawd! When I stop snorting and the tears stop rolling down my face from laughing so hard (and of course, when I catch my breath so that blood can once again flow to my brain) I’ll think up some of the things I’ve tortured my almost 20 year old cats with over the years. ---
**Author:** ![hyperjes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@hyperjes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hyperjes)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-take-their-cat-and/196111/17 "2003-08-19T06:50:45Z")
**rexnervous** , **d\_redguy** and I do that to our three sometimes. Our version is to say “Hey! You’re a seal!” The cats seem fairly unaffected. Really dumb, I know. I don’t have any idea why we do it. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bee\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e480ec/32.png) [@Queen\_Bee\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bee_1)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-take-their-cat-and/196111/18 "2003-08-19T07:00:11Z")
OK, now that I can breathe: I had a roommate one time that would run her hand back and forth on the cat’s back yelling “Pet Job!!!” (hey – the cat loved it!) Of course, she’d also push the cat in when she caught it trying to drink from the toilet. There’s also a variation/combination of Wheelbarrow Ride/ Hovering Kitty Butt, invented by a former significant other. He used to pet the cats and when he ran his hand down their back, he’d lift them by their tail and have them walk on their front feet. He wasn’t exactly a favorite of theirs. ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-take-their-cat-and/196111/19 "2003-08-19T13:42:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gulo gulo \* > \*\*My version is to pin their ears back and call them Batcats. When they squint their eyes and sneer, it adds to the image. > > It’s worth the dirty looks and ankle swats. Really it is. \*\* See, when I do this (put my hand in front of her ears and lay them flat back against her head), I call it “High-Speed Face,” 'cause it looks like they’re being exposed to a high g-force! ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-take-their-cat-and/196111/20 "2003-08-19T13:50:52Z")
One of my cats has ears that will fold inside out (it happens a lot when she’s cleaning her face). I’ll tuck both her ears backwards and yell “Gang signs!” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-take-their-cat-and/196111.md?page=2)