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AIBU?

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to think that my cat has ishoos?

43 replies

RagamuffinAndFidget · 29/12/2011 22:07

He has gone, quite literally, mad.

He seems to have regressed and thinks he's a ten week old kitten again. He's chasing shadows across the floor, attacking the lower branches of the Christmas tree, taking running jumps at the windowsill and skidding under the curtains.

Why? What is this madness?

AIBU to think that someone's been on the catnip?

OP posts:

MrsSnow · 30/12/2011 22:38

Mine goes bonkers when he has spent most of the day sleeping and not spent the day outside running off excessive energy.

Sparklingbrook · 30/12/2011 22:38

My cat will have ishoos tomorrow night-bloody fireworks.

Tonksforthememories · 30/12/2011 22:40

One of my cats decided to try and eat our artificial tree yesterday, after a half-hour fur-flying event with our other cat bacause he'd dared to walk past her. They are 7 & 8

RhondaGotStuckInTheChimneyRoo · 30/12/2011 22:41

yes - both Cat and Kitten enjoy a good munch on the artificial tree. Weridos.

crazynanna · 30/12/2011 23:01

I have like a see through plastic beach bag at the back of the lounge where I keep some paperwork,and my kitten has taken to sleeping in it...she practically is sitting up in it asleep! Anyone know why she has taken to doing this? She has a basket and her fave dressing gown on the sofa...but sleeps there

Also...can kittens have catnip? DD bought her a catnip hedgehog,but she is just 12 weeks so not sure whether to give it to her.

issey6cats · 30/12/2011 23:13

crazynana she will love the catnip hedgehog and is well old enough to play with him, one of mine this week seems to have been at the loopy juice she has spatted with her brother several times, poor jasper is walking round with fear in his eyes in case his sister bullies him again, she has flown for the older female cat risking her life in doing so, spent most of tonight flying up and down the stairs at 100 miles and hour and generally behaving like a lunatic, now fast asleep curled up with her brother

Fluffycloudland77 · 31/12/2011 01:15

They all have bloody issues, and we pander to them. We are enablers.

It's all very, very unhealthy you know.

FreudianSlipper · 31/12/2011 01:26

has he got thumbs? i would check.

my cat is just daft. he is being bullied by a little she cat half his size. i have only seen him hiss once and he looked so shocked i am not sure he realised he was doing the hissing. he is very handsome though and a real mummys boy

golemmings · 31/12/2011 11:44

I think its Christmas. The lemming cat is 14 and generally does nothing but eat, sleep and occasionally goes out for mouse take away. The day we put up the Christmas tree... He tried to climb it, he removed the strings of beads, he played with the baubles, he hunted the tinsel and then he stalked, hunted and killed half a dozen of dd's drawings...

SantasCave · 31/12/2011 12:00

My cat is currently sat in top the (7ft) bookcase watching me disdainfully.
She hates laptops and will sit next to you on the sofa whining pathetically at you until the offending item is removed from "her" lap

SnapesMistressofMerriment · 31/12/2011 12:08

Snapescat luurves laptops. Walking across the keyboard and doing incomprehensible things to the computor that I can't fix is her favourite game.

Sparklingbrook · 31/12/2011 12:09

Sparkling cat is over the road flirting with the much younger tabby male cat. I have taken the tree down while she's been out she'll be when she sees her plaything gone.

Anniegetyourgun · 31/12/2011 12:18

Aha, we have a Snapescat type. He loves to lie on the laptop, presumably because it's warm, though I suspect it's also because he has noticed that we pay a lot of attention to the computer, so if he sits on it the theory is we'll pay a lot of attention to him too.

Catnip doesn't do a whole lot for him; he just likes to eat it. Mini-cat prefers to roll on it.

stinkingbishop · 31/12/2011 12:25

Aw. Cats. Bless their little self-obsessed furrinesses.

Mine spent most of Xmas Eve exploring the chimney, having never shown any prior interest. We decided he was laying a Santa trap.

zukiecat · 31/12/2011 12:36

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bottleofbeer · 31/12/2011 12:41

I think mine is brain damaged. She lets you pick her up and cradle her like a baby. She bloody loves being taken for walks around the house in my daughter's doll's pram. She gets into bed with the kids, head on pillow, covered by duvet. Most cats I've known have hated being manhandled by children like they are teddy bears. Not ours, she positively loves it.

fortifiedwithtea · 31/12/2011 14:03

OP if your cat is still an overactive pain in the arse after the xmas decs have come and cat is an old puss, suggest take him to the vet to check his thyroid. Treatment is a daily tablet and cats do very well on them.

As a teenager I had a young cat that would never leave the tree alone. We had the tree on its side for years with no lights before he grew up and got bored with it. And he got drunk and did the wall of death the lounge wallpaper at my 18th Birthday party. One of the lads poured lager over him. Poor cat licked it off his fur got pissed and went like a lunatic. Never a cuddly cat but fond memories all the same :)

cardibach · 31/12/2011 15:17

StoopidCat is spending all day sleeping lately. Except when he is telling me off loudly about something, such as an empty water bowl. It's not always that he wants a drink, he just likes to know it is full. He periodically attacks the stairs, though. He is also very grumpy if the weather is bad - that's our fault, too, and we get a good telling off.

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