# Irritating Habits of Cute Pets? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 7, 2014, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irritating-habits-of-cute-pets/680737 "2014-02-07T05:51:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8491ac/32.png) [@Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fool_in_the_Rain)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irritating-habits-of-cute-pets/680737/61 "2014-02-20T16:24:36Z")
> [@DChord568](#): > > \ > But the one thing he would do that drove me crazy was this: if you were walking through the house and he was in your path, instead of just going off to the side and getting out of the way, he would back up. In other words, he would remain directly in your path until your speed exceeded his…then you’d end up tripping over him. > > Inevitably, swearing would ensue, and he would cower. Happened time and time again. The mother cat Momma does this also, but she seems to be learning that she needs to move to the side. She is a big ol’ chicken, afraid of everything for some reason, but she is slowly, ever so slowly calming down. The kitten, Zelda, collects hair ties, rubber bands, hair clips, bobbie pins and a pull chain (no idea where that came from) and deposits them into the water or food bowl. It is adorable to watch her drag the pull chain around the house, most of it dragging along the floor beside her. We play games with her now, tossing the chain somewhere in the house, and without fail, she’ll find it and drop in in the water bowl. My girlfriend’s cat, Bear, an 18 pound puffball of affection, insists on waking us up at 2:30 and 4:30 in the morning for his head scritches, then, and only then will he go to sleep in the bed. Amazingly, he is on time even with Daylight savings or not. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2014, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irritating-habits-of-cute-pets/680737/62 "2014-02-21T02:02:35Z")
> [@DChord568](#): > > This is past tense, as the cat in question is long-gone. > > We had one who, despite his considerable size, was a big baby…timorous might be the best description for him. Still, he was very sweet and affectionate. > > But the one thing he would do that drove me crazy was this: if you were walking through the house and he was in your path, instead of just going off to the side and getting out of the way, he would back up. In other words, he would remain directly in your path until your speed exceeded his…then you’d end up tripping over him. > > Inevitably, swearing would ensue, and he would cower. Happened time and time again. I thought all cats were born with the innate ability to zig when they are supposed to zag and _always_ go the wrong direction, which puts them right under your feet. 😕 > [@aruvqan](#): > > Jez has started demanding to lay pretty much where my feet and legs need to go on the bed, which makes sleeping go something like reach down and move the cat, listen to her complain, put her at the head of the bed and fall asleep. Wake up in the middle of the night to go pee, get back to the bed and reach down, move the damned cat and go back to sleep, and wake up from a dream where I was caught in a landslide pinning me down to find the cat across my legs again, bitch the cat out, move her to the desk chair and go back to sleep, lather, rinse, repeat. I swear I am going to start putting her on mrAru’s head. I had to check to makes sure this wasn’t posted by my husband - our cat has decided that she needs to sleep on his legs, too, causing him to overheat. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irritating-habits-of-cute-pets/680737/63 "2014-02-21T16:36:00Z")
> [@slowlearner](#): > > We bought a sofa 10 years ago that was said to be cat proof. Every evening since then Kiko has finished his dinner and strolled over to the sofa to sink his claws into it. He always gets one claw hopelessly stuck and I have to get up and help him get it out. Idiot cat. My cats get stuck to things too sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Anise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anise/32/21721_2.png) [@Anise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anise)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irritating-habits-of-cute-pets/680737/64 "2014-02-23T03:48:58Z")
My new little cat has big chunks of time when she becomes Princess Needina of Needy-Land. (crawl) (purrrrrrrrr) (big pitiful golden eyes looking up) (snuggle snuggly snuggleness) You know, this should be kept G-rated and all, but there’s a reason why [this](http://cuteoverload.com/2008/08/03/cats-n-racks-on/) is a thing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irritating-habits-of-cute-pets/680737.md?page=3)