I know this is a pretty cat-centric board because its populated by liberal wankers (I keed! I keed!) but surely not everything little fuzzy-wuzzy feline overlord does is pleasing to its owners. What do your cats do that drive you nuts?
What I don’t like:
Jumping in bed (or onto the kitchen counter where I prepare food n shit) with me “fresh out of the shitbox”, smelling like cat poo (is there a worse smell?) and rubbing all up on me purring while I am asleep. Yuck!
Using my furniture instead of the provided scratching posts to sharpen their claws on
Twirling around my legs and getting underfoot at the worst possible time, rendering me to choosing between allowing myself to be tripped or stomping on the cat
Disappearing random objects I find valuable that it finds fun to bat around until it ends up in some nether region behind/under something that’s completely inaccessible.
I haven’t had a cat in a looooooong time (allergies got worse as I aged) but I remember that shocked & betrayed feeling I had when a cat *was *enjoying the petting…until she wasn’t, and told me with a BITE. I hate that!:mad:
A long, long time ago I spent a few weeks in Ireland with a host family. They had two cats: Baby, the orange-and-white larger although younger one, still behaved like a kitten and was a horrible attention whore (btw - long hair looks pretty but it’s a bitch); among other sins, she’d walk me up by walking over me - I did not particularly enjoy waking to a fat cat’s paws on my face but the worst part was that while her front paws kneaded my face, her ass would be sitting on an area that tends to be extra-sensitive in 15yo girls (that is, on my girls). I much preferred her adoptive mother, midnight-black, short-haired Lucy, so called because according to her owners she was about as cuddly as Lucy from Peanuts; they were extremely surprised that she’d come sit on my lap… the wonders of sharing chicken. No bones were involved; the bribe was a carefully-selected piece of thigh meat.
My cat eats shoelaces. If anyone leaves a pair of sneakers unattended for any length of time, the cat will have bitten off a length and swallowed it. Then she usually barfs it up on the carpet. So a destroyed pair of shoe laces AND a pile of cat barf. Um… thanks?
Middle of the night tearing through the house like they are on fire. (who said cats are light on their feet…it’s a lie) waking you up early in the morning, them promptly falling asleep. Guess they have done their job.
Mine scratches and yowls at my door every morning starting around 6:30AM demanding to be fed. And she has a meow that could wake the dead. Not so bad on a weekday when I’m getting up anyway but on the weekend it’s utterly maddening. SHUT UP!
Also, I’m constantly having to vacuum my bathroom because she kicks litter all over the floor (despite having an extra-large litterbox with high sides).
But she thinks I’m the greatest thing since sliced bread, so I put up with her.
They stop eating and drinking and you think you can save their lives with lots of expensive vet treatment, then die anyway. Bad kitties. Or maybe I should say bad vets.
I have a cat that likes to sleep on my pillow, curled up around my head, and knead with his claws in my scalp. Ouch. If he’s not doing that, then he wants to cuddle up in my arms to sleep, which isn’t as great as it sounds- it’s rather uncomfortable for me, since I like to be able to turn over, move, etc. He needs to learn to sleep at the foot of the bed like other cats.
Am I on candid camera? I swear I just yelled at my cat for the billionth time.
Every time I come upstairs to my office, he sits at the bottom of the stairs and howls like I’ve abandoned him. Most of the time, if I whistle for him - like a dog - he’ll come trotting upstairs. It’s like he forgets there’s an upstairs. It drives me crazy.
My cats scratch the rug instead of the scratching post sometimes. That annoys me.
Also, when I’m trying to go somewhere, sometimes they go right in front of my feet. I’ve never actually been tripped by them, but I read that there are many people who get injured from tripping over their dog or cat, so you have to be careful.
I’ve never owned one, but I like cats in general. I also like reptiles and birds…a bit of a conflict of interest. I know cats are predatory by nature but it annoys me when I see them pawing at an alligator lizard or climbing a tree to check out a nest.
I had a cat who annoyed the hell out of me because every time I went in the kitchen he wanted* fresh* food. He would jump up on the windowsill and howl for food. It didn’t matter that I just gave him fresh food, new food would be 10 seconds fresher than the old food and fresher was better.
Meow at the bedroom door at 5 a.m. (We used to leave the bedroom door open at night, until one time I was dreaming that my legs were tied together and woke up to find my feet being humped by our neutered, male cat. He lost himself and all future cats the pleasure of sleeping in my bed.)
Our current cat likes to rub her stupid wet nose on the backs of my legs in the morning when I’m in the bathroom getting ready for work.
Hide in stupid places and get locked in there.
Get underfoot while I’m walking, particularly down the steps.
1.) Twirling around my legs/generally getting in my path and then having the stones to swipe at ME as if I’m the one getting in their way.
2.) Rubbing up against me during the few times I do not want them to (light colored kitties + black clothing, we’ve all been there.)
3.) My sister’s cat has more of a whiney yeowl more than a meow. It’s very annoying since it is also a very vocal cat.
4.) Trying to figure out what part of a cats are and are not pettable. It’s like playing minesweeper with Hellen Keller.
5.) Cats meowing every five seconds to either be fed, let out, let in, or “Hey, come downstairs! This is really urgent! I need you to watch me eat!”
6.) Cat gorging on dry food inside and then immediately meowing to be let outside so it can go eat the better wet food that the crazy lady sets outside for the neighborhood cats.
6b.) Cat barfing from crazy lady’s wet cat food that has sat out in the warm summer day for too long.
7.) Cat chewing on random cardboard boxes, plastic, and cords when it gets too excited/happy/attention whorey.
8.) Cat likes to eat cobwebs, plastic, and paintchips. I don’t feel like this is the breakfast of champions.
