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What do your cats do to annoy you ? Do they do it on purpose ?

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TheTecknician · 02/12/2023 21:02

I haven't been a cat serf for many years but I can remember irritations like demanding to be let back in the house ages after everyone has gone to bed and the doors are all locked. Said cat would already have been given adequate opportunity to come back inside. Also, turning nose up at whatever variety or brand of food was on offer. Most annoyingly of all, sitting or lying on the newspaper or magazine you had on the kitchen table (it was always the kitchen table), thus preventing you from reading it.

Deliberately being annoying or just normal cat behaviour ? Who knows!

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Elfontheshmelf · 02/12/2023 21:08

Mine waits until I've gone to bed to scratch the carpets. She knows she's not allowed and I hear her sometimes as soon as I've got into bed and turned the light off.

Alphabet1spaghetti2 · 02/12/2023 21:12

Zoomies the minute the lights go out or when I’m walking down the stairs.
Purposefully walking slowly in front of me when I’m in a hurry to go to the loo or get to work.
I swear they have an insurance policy on my life.

DontWannaBeObamasElf · 02/12/2023 21:12

If I'm not awake when she's hungry she crawls under the covers and gently bites whichever exposed piece of flesh she finds first.

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Digestivechocolate · 02/12/2023 21:14

As frustrating as your cat's behavior might be, it may help to know that they are not trying to annoy you. Your cat is communicating with you and most likely trying to get your attention because they have a strong bond with you.

UtterlyUnimaginativeUsername · 02/12/2023 21:16

Sitting in my spot on the couch so I can't. Both of them (not simultaneously). Yes, I think it's deliberate. But I still don't disturb them.

sparkedsparkle · 02/12/2023 21:24

They open the cupboards, turn on the taps and open doors. So much we've child locked the cupboards and the taps and changed door handles to door knobs so now they will knock over the kitchen bin

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TheTecknician · 02/12/2023 21:28

Repeatedly sticking his front claws into my knees, having invited himself to jump on to my lap. I never realised how sharp a cat's claws were until this time.

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Lenax · 02/12/2023 21:29

Licking boxes and making a scratchy noisewhile doing so at 3am

marthalovescheese · 02/12/2023 21:41

Sits outside the lounge door howling. Very loudly. I open the door, he runs off. Repeat throughout the day and evening.
Sits in front of the tv to get maximum attention.
Sits in the dog crate and then howls when puppy jumps on him.

Beachwaves127 · 02/12/2023 21:59

Snoozing all morning then coming barging in baby’s nursery miaowing loudly with a toy (“gift”) two minutes after I’ve spent twenty minutes getting babe to sleep for nap…. Thus waking babe up

love these threads I love cats ❤️

ThePlantKiller · 02/12/2023 22:17

Pawing (clawing) at my leg when he wants food. He doesn't do this to anyone else in the house, just me, despite the fact that three out of the four of us give him his food

therealcookiemonster · 02/12/2023 22:23

of course it's deliberate. that's why I love them. evil geniuses every single one. except the ginger ones, they share one brain cell.

Uurrjb · 02/12/2023 22:23

My cat won’t go out cat flap, only in so will yowel at the door

will demand to be let out front door and then jump on window sill demanding to be let back in

will hide behind doors to ambush the dog who is a nervous wreck

will try to find anyone sleeping at night and sink her teeth into their ankle for absolutely no reason

will eat dreamies but not fresh meat

OceanicBoundlessness · 02/12/2023 22:26

If we don't let him out, our cat sinks his claws into our bum while we're sat at the bar stools in the kitchen.

LittleBearPad · 02/12/2023 22:27

In / out / in / out / in / out. We have no cat flap.

Hungry! No not for that food! No adding biscuits won’t help. Hungry! Hungry

thisisasurvivor · 02/12/2023 22:27

Bringing in multiple mice

Putting a bat on my bedside locker few weeks ago

Still not the better of it

Most of today spent trying to get a huge fast mouse out of my bedroom

MmedeGouge · 02/12/2023 22:31

One of ours cries to come in at the back door, then runs away when we open the door. Then cries to come in again when we close the door on him. Finally after repeating several times he deigns to come in.
Its so frustrating, especially at the moment when the cold air rushes in but the cat doesn’t.

Pascha · 02/12/2023 22:36

Using the click of the catflap as a doorbell rather than go to the effort of pushing through themselves. They come running through it when the rain starts though...

Beachwaves127 · 02/12/2023 22:42

Pascha · 02/12/2023 22:36

Using the click of the catflap as a doorbell rather than go to the effort of pushing through themselves. They come running through it when the rain starts though...

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

SausageShop · 02/12/2023 22:49

Sits on my back or bum whenever I'm lying down. Refuses to get off even when I do a complete turn over, like I'm a bloody bucking bronco!

Her brother used to push things off the dresser in the middle of the night, because he'd decided it was time to be fed. He knew exactly what he was doing!

GeneandFred · 02/12/2023 23:42

I bloody love cats

SlippinJanie · 02/12/2023 23:57

Pascha · 02/12/2023 22:36

Using the click of the catflap as a doorbell rather than go to the effort of pushing through themselves. They come running through it when the rain starts though...

Oh ours does that! She uses the flap as a door knocker. I once stopped my husband opening the door (he's her Head Butler) to see how many knocks she would do. Not all at once you understand. Knock, little wait, knock knock, longer wait, knock, wait, knock.... She did it 12 times and we were just helpless laughing and had to give in & open the door.

HamsterBanana · 02/12/2023 23:58

Waits till I'm asleep and then comes sits on top of me. Fattest one out of the 3 as well. AngryGrin

HamsterBanana · 02/12/2023 23:59

One of my others hides under my DCs bed and makes knocking noises all night. Got to the point where he refuses to sleep with the door open. Grin

Icequeen01 · 03/12/2023 00:09

Well I bloody hate my cats at the moment.

We live quite rurally and this morning we woke up to find our dining room covered in huge mouse poos and mouse wee all over the windowsill. We then found that the mouse had gone up the curtains and eaten through the lining of the curtains and was still inside the curtains! Eventually after shaking the curtain and opening the window the mouse - which turned out to be a small rat - jumped out the window.

Now I hate them even more - they have bloody well brought in another baby rat and we have just had to go through all this again.

My curtains are ruined (bespoke John Lewis ones 😢) and now I'm going to have to either lock them out all night (but it's too cold) or lock them in (and they will run around all night and howl).

I'm going to post them back to the rescue centre in the morning!