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...to think my cat is gifted and talented?

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IvantaOuiOui · 19/12/2010 16:45

Most of the time he just lies in front of the fire, licks his arse and dribbles, but when he wants to to wake up in the morning and feed him, he will repeatedly tap my arm with his paw. And if I doze off he will tap me even harder.

Anyone else got a feline genius?

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theevildead2 · 20/12/2010 09:15

My cat used to Matrix himself on top of cabinets. He wouldn't hunch down to jump. Just litterally appear on top of cabinets next to you. He also used to stand all the time like a meercat and he was quite long so it was a bit unsettling., He also bit the postman and the census woman.... in his defence I was holding him so when they came to the door he wouldn't attack and neither listened when I said don't touch...

piratecatClaus · 20/12/2010 09:25

cats are ace. love them.

i have two.

dcat1 is thick as. just lies on the radiator flapping her tail to try and cool down. Even miaows in complaint that she's burning, and leaves it till the very last minute to jump off and almost collapse on the cold floor.

dcat2 is not thick. Waits at the bottom of the stairs for me to come up for a cuddle on my bed. Never goes ahead of me on the stairs!!

Fetches paper balls if you throw them, generally bright. Yet naughty if being ignored. For instance, removing things form my chest of drawers, batting things down, thieving in general.

rocketleaf · 20/12/2010 09:28

More cunning and devious than g&t but our cat will ring his collar bell at 5 am to wake us up. He is perfectly capable of scratching himself without ringing it at any other time of the day. He also tries to get water out of completely empty cups next to the bed and 'accidentally' knocks then off to wake us up.

He also has a special meow that he only makes when he's caught something, it roughly translates as 'look, look at this lovely gift of a decapitated mouse i have brought you!!" Bless. Hmm

CeliaChristmasFate · 20/12/2010 09:43

Let's ask MNHQ for a cat emoticon! They've done it for Pom Bears...

bramblebooks · 20/12/2010 09:52

Would it represent evil genius, like a bond villain? It would be the embodiment of muah ha ha ha!

CeliaChristmasFate · 20/12/2010 10:21

Yes! An excellent suggestion!

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IvantaOuiOui · 20/12/2010 10:28

I am so impressed at the amount of speshul, possibly indigo cats appearing in this thread. If they got together and shared knowledge, they could eradicate humans in no time.

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sharbie · 20/12/2010 10:33

oh yes the evildead2 i forgot about the matrixing - the way they fly in slow motion

ImeldaM · 20/12/2010 10:36

Longtinsellyjosie, thats fantastic! Made me LOL and really reminded me of my old puss (pts couple of months ago), must dig out some video footage of her, she was smart, I do have another cat but she is more S&A (stupid & annoying) than G&T Xmas Grin

OTheHugeManatee · 20/12/2010 10:36

My old cat used to crack his knuckles outside my door when he wanted to be let in. At least that's what it sounded like. It was intimidating.

MrsChemistrySetInMyStocking · 20/12/2010 10:39

My old cat would stroke my face when she wanted me to get up. If I didn't get up the claws would sloooooowly come out, until she was just scratching my face instead of stroking it.

BlingLoving · 20/12/2010 10:40

Our cat wakes me up every week day morning at exactly the earlier of my two get up times - 6:27 on the dot every morning. But on weekends, he lets us sleep until about 7 on Saturdays and 7:30 on Sundays. However, on Sundays, the miaou is extra loud as if to say, "right, you had your lie in now get up RIGHT NOW. NO MESSING AROUND!!!"

He's also the most weirdly sociable cat. If DH and I are upstairs, he appears within 20 seconds of us having a cuddle, even it's just a quick hug while hanging out the washing or something! And he follows any small children around the house, while maintaining a safe distance in case they leap over and grab his ears.

OTheHugeManatee · 20/12/2010 10:42

DP's old cat used to put one paw over its bell to muffle it when it was hunting, and sort of hop after birds on the remaining three legs.

OTheHugeManatee · 20/12/2010 10:43

She would also come and sit on you to wake you up for breakfast, and if walking up and down you didn't work she'd carefully extend a claw and peel back one of your eyelids. Then you were DEFINITELY awake.

purpleduck · 20/12/2010 10:49

"Well MY cat knows to vomit in his litter tray "

Someone remind me why I am a dog person....? My dog runs to one of the only bits of carpet in the house when he needs to throw up. Its not fun trying to get chunks out of long shag pile ..... :(

Ivegotmrbitey · 20/12/2010 10:51

My kitten is G&T, the Christmas tree offended his aesthetic sense so he has removed half the baubles and stripped the the lower branches of pine needles. It looks so much better!

mollymole · 20/12/2010 10:57

my old darling girl (now sadly passed away)
used to wake me up by first tapping on my face and if i ignored this she would gently press her claw into my face, if i ignored this she would press her claw hard into my face and then if i ignored this she would lick my eyelids !!!!!
my new darling girl - in the recent bad weather - decided that she could wee indoors if she squatted over the bath drain area

my big gentle boy cat thinks he can count - if you pat the ground once he will too, if you pat it twice he pats it twice - but he can't count any higher!!!!

cazzybabs · 20/12/2010 11:03

I think my cat has SEN - he even lets the neighbours cat come and eat his food

GlitteryBalls · 20/12/2010 11:03

My mum's cat said "salad bowl" once. Not sure why but she definitely said it. Everyone who winessed it agreed. She was put to sleep recently, poor sausage. Sad

JellyBelly10 · 20/12/2010 11:05

Well my cat is talented in that he can use his tongue and teeth with great dexterity to sift through food leaving behind the tiny pieces he doesn't like. We buy Gourmet A la Carte food at huge expense Hmm which for some strange reason has additions such as tender cooked carrots and pasta 'pearls'....my cat eats the entire plateful but manages to pick out every pasta pearl/tiny carrot cube and leave them tidily on a totally clean plate.
He can also shred my carpets so they look like cotton-wool and throw up bubbly spit pools on the kitchen table Angry

rocketleaf · 20/12/2010 11:47

Oh i forgot about our cats fastidious habit of weeing in the storm drain in the road.

He also chases his tail but only in the bath where he can use the curve of the bath to push his arse round so the tail is actually within reach. We have tried to capture this on camera many times but unfortunately he is also clever enough to know when a/ we are mocking him and b/ we are planning on posting his shame on the internet.

AbsofCroissant · 20/12/2010 11:57

My cats from childhood were defo G+T (or very stupid).
Cat1 was trained by my mother to sit like a penguin and beg. It only took her a short while 2 years to teach him! The other cat was more border line - we don't know whether he was a genius or an idiot. He would meow until someone opened the correct door (when there was an alternative available), so either manipulative genius or muppet.

Cat-in-law is also obviously G+T. He knows how to eat bamboo, trick me into letting him into the house and DP swears he's on the board of his own "genius trust" AND is some kind of mafia boss Hmm

sharbie · 20/12/2010 12:02

mine can also walk backwards on his hind legs

SummerRain · 20/12/2010 12:10

cat 1: tamed feral who's an absolute dope of a cat but very loving. Brings me presents, after the first live mouse she learned that dead and outside was preferable so now my garden is littered with deceased wildlife. She also used to run the foxes out f the garden... she's a tiny cat but had no fear of them.

cat 2: stupid and stinky but incredibly cuddly and 'talks'

cat 3: daft and falls off things a lot... bites us on the face for attention but a sweetie really, as he jumps in the window he goes up on his back legs to give you a kiss and miow to thank you for opeing it for him. He also knocks on the window to be let in... he's going to dig his way though it one day!

cat 4: the most antisocial cat on the planet considering she's been handled since the moment she was born. She was due to be rehomed but developed an attachment to ds2 so i didn't have the heart to seperate them but she's still acts as if we're going to attack her at any moment, yet will let the kids haul her around the house

cat 5: found at the side of the road as a kitten and purrs if you so much as look at him, friendliest cat i've ever come across but has claws like a sabre tooth tiger. He can open the cupboard doors and open the bags of cat food which is annoying.

My old cat used to play fetch and collected coins he found on the floor and hid them in the spare room.

Two cats we had when i was a child used to sit on my dad's shoulders constantly, he even brought them into the vets surgery on his shoulders and they never budged.

StayingFatherChristmasGirl · 20/12/2010 13:16

When I was pregnant and on maternity leave with ds1, our two cats used to follow me round the house, especially if I went upstairs - it was like they knew I was pregnant and had decided I needed an Eye keeping on me.

They would follow me upstairs to the bathroom and sit on the edge of the bath opposite me when I went to the loo - I wasn't allowed to go to the loo on my own for months!

It stopped as soon as I had had ds1, and they never did it again.