Things on tables offend Luna. They offend her very, very much, and nothing gives her more joy than to give the offending item a hefty smack and to send it clattering to the floor. Offending item not near the edge? batbatbatbatbatbatbatSMACKCLATTER CLATTER
Once, I stood next to her and caught the (I think it was) bottle of contact lens solution before it hit the floor, and put it back right next to her. She was Not. Amused. Still was compelled to try to smack it to the floor, though.
Silly cats.
All yuman possessions belong on the floor, where they can be chased and killed. We had one cat who claimed a particular bottom bookshelf as hers. Every night, she’d carefully pull all the books out, curl up in her chosen nest, and snooze. Each day, we humans would put the books back in. Finally we gave up and put a nice basket with a blanky in the bottom bookshelf. Fluffy was happy that she’d managed to train us so well.
Nowadays, we simply avoid the battle of wills on this issue, and put small blankies on top of the waist-high bookshelves. The cats will generally leave the books in the rest of the shelves.
I now have to keep my contact lens case in the bathroom cupboard. My two 5 month old kittens have taken to hiding it. I’ve also recently put collars on them, ready for when they’re old enough to go outside. One of them has figured out how to get it off. She likes to hide that too.
One of my kittens (remember Bounce? his sister, Bobbin) didn’t think things belonged on the floor. She thought they belongs in that little hole in the middle of the sink. When the disposal finally locked up and the plumber came, he found leaves (she caught them outside and brought them in–like dead mice, only cracklier!), loose change, caps, and a spool of thread.
Now that she’s matured, she just looks with mild disgust at things that belong in the little sink-hole, instead of actually moving them.
We have a halfgrown kitten, and he thinks that all of our wastebaskets are his personal toy chests. He’d knock them over, we’d pick stuff back up and put it in the righted baskets. We’ve finally weighted down all the baskets with scrap metal, making them too hard to tip over. We got tired of this game, and he was doing it more and more.
If he wasn’t so darned cute, we’d have strangled him long ago. Of course, this pretty much applies to all cats.
One of ours, Bridget, believes that nothing should block that little hole in the middle of the sink – namely, the pop-up stopper – as it prevents her from hunting all the Unspeakable Creatures that live in the drainpipe. She pries it up and off and out of the bathroom sink whenever we forget how things are Supposed to Be and try to put it back.
Also, woe be to you if you put anything down the kitchen sink and forget to use the garbage disposal on it, because it will be fished out and spread all over the floor (dead).
I should try that. I have a cat who loves to knock a few books off the bottom shelves so he can climb behind and pretend that he is in a fort and we can’t find him. I gave up and left the books off the shelf for him.
my nod the naughty loved to tip and empty trashcans. she also loved to lick, chew, and rip plastic. after a few tries at thwarting her we ended up hanging small plastic bags from door knobs out of her reach and not having a trashbasket in the bathroom.
she passed away in early january, and i finally realized (in about august) that i could leave plastic bags around and have trashbins around again.
now i have 2 boy cats who are just unbelievably crazy around paper products. toilet paper and paper towels are not safe around them. after lager the loveydovey emptied the entire roll of tp into his litter box we decided to keep the tp in the medicine cabinet instead of on the holder.
unfortunately we decided to keep the extra rolls on the window sill. this a.m. lager and stretch the superduper got to the extra rolls. it was not pretty.
thankfully the girl koritsa the kuddley is above all this type of behaivour.