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

[TheTecknician]

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!

Mine climbs up scratching at the window lock trying to get out. Once I open it she sticks her head out to look around, then goes to the other side of the window ledge and lies down.
Once I shut the window because it's freezing outside, she starts again.
I sleep on my own in a king-size bed and she sleeps on me and licks my arms and face.

Oh... and one will not wat AT ALL, and will let the other one eat all her food... unless you follow her with her food bowl to the place she wishes to eat at that moment. The location changes daily.

One of mine likes trying to catch the cursor on my screen when I’m working. She’ll also nudge my mouse hand as a demand for head rubs.

My female cat likes to sit on DHs laptop - and managed to change the settings , he spent hours trying to decode her message 😆
my old tabby boy (RIP) used to bite
laptop by putting his jaw around the screen from
behind it .
they know how to get our attention 😆

So much.

Knocking over glasses, drinking from my cup of water, stealing food, headbutting my hand while I’m attempting to write.

We lost him yesterday, and it won’t ever quite be the same.

Im currently letting his brother do absolutely everything and anything that he wants to do.

This morning's addition

Pee in my bed

Sorry to hear that

At night mine sleeps on me or ona pillow next to me.

If I turn over in the night too many times she walks across my head.

When she sits next to me I play with her tail, she gets mad an bats my hand, but without claws.

When she wants the window open she walks on the window sill and meows. I have to ask her, "do you want to go out" if she walks up and down she wants to go out, if she just meows she wants the window open so she can sit in the warm with her nose in the fresh air.

So far I haven't read of any cats that sit in front of computer screens and/or on top of computer keyboards. There must be some out there!

Mine does - he decides I’m giving far too much attention to something that isn’t him. He’ll also sit on my desk and head butt me until I meet whatever need he might be trying to express.

Cat before him was a mouser, I was working away from home for a period of time and on arrival at the hotel found he had tucked a dead mouse in my boot 🤢 I couldn’t decide whether it was a gift or a warning.

He positions himself right in front of my laptop whenever I’m on it so that I can’t see the screen, or he walks on it altering whatever I’m doing! Of course he’s being very affectionate and so I don’t have the heart to move him.

Such selfish, demanding pests. Why do we (OK, not me) keep them ?

Because they are gorgeous and offer solace when the world around you is pants.
They teach you to live in the moment, because that’s all we have, and to realise whilst lessons can be learned from the past, the vast majority of what’s happened before doesn’t matter, so don’t waste emotion on useless feelings?

or as my tortie currently trying to tell me - we spend to much time navel gazing and looking at our phones. Fussing a cat is much more productive.

All of everything above. But right now being a hot water bottle, so I forgive him.

Shakes drool everywhere.
Vomits from a high place.
Poops in the house just occasionally to keep us on our toes.
Gets her tail wet in the washing up bowl.
Pats me on the face when I'm busy to ask for food/attention/who knows?

We love her very much 🤣

Sleeps on my pillow. I move further down the bed to make more room on the pillow for him. He pushes with legs to hog more of the pillow. Wouldn’t have it any other way ❤️🐈‍⬛

This makes me laugh a lot for some reason - it must be so annoying

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/s9JRF3MsLUY

Is determined to nurse anyone who is poorly. Lovely sometimes but heavy cat on the chest is not a great help for a chest infection.

In the last year of his life, our last one invented a fun game. He was a bit fragile for the catflap, so he’d stare at it until the back door was opened. He then immediately ran round to cry at the front door until that was open.

Our current one will separate herself by a room or two, then sing a very sad song about how alone in the world she is, how we never give her whatever it is she wants, and how she feels very dejected. If you want to have a dialogue with her she will oblige, but you’ll be none the wiser!

My cats just regularly go on strike and refuse
to eat their food, because they’d prefer dry food instead. No way. They drive me nuts when they do it. Obviously they’re always on the wrong side of the door too!

OP, my little girl cares nothing for the travails of a laptop. She’s walked across it several times and sent a nonsensical and rude reply to a no reply address (thankfully).

Knocking things off flat surfaces all night.

Prying open a particular kitchen cupboard door that shuts itself whenever she wanted me to feed her a second helping of her wet food. She used to let the door bang shut several times, and then come and stare at me, then return if I didn't jump and do her bidding. I ended up laying a kitchen cloth over the top of the door to stop the banging.

I have a Santa Claus decoration that she despises and attacks every year. He sits on the sideboard flaunting his red Santa outfit like a red rag to a bull.

I used to be a teaching assistant, and my school uses a reward and communication app called Class Dojo. I was uploading some pictures, and my cat kindly clicked on my laptop to give every child in the class a behaviour point! I/she was very popular with the class when they found out!

Mine waits until it's winter and then sits at the door to be let out but then doesn't actually go out. Just wants to sit there with the door wide open and sniff the air. This can take some time. Doesn't do it in summer. So annoying.

Currently the favourite activity is sitting behind the Christmas tree, drinking out of the reservoir in the stand.
She has also developed a thing about corralling me and my husband in a room together. If we’re in separate rooms she yells at us in turn until we turn up in the room of her choice. Once she’s got us together, she sits down perfectly happily and quietly. It’s fortunate that our relationship is good.

God love them, every one!

@WombatBombat sending hugs and sorry to hear about the loss of your boy.