AIBU to kick the cat?

[PurplePidjin]

Not on purpose, and not if I see her in time!

But sometimes at least once a day eg when I'm putting dishes away, she puts herself right under my feet and ends up getting kicked.

She's nearly 6 and comes to me to play and get attention, meows from outside the door if i have a lie in, has been watching over me obsessively since i got pg etc. So I don't think she's plotting anything...

I have been known to stand on my own mostly small children. I am fat with huge norks, can't walk properly, and once something is directly in front of me within about a step of me, I can't see it. I can't look directly down at something, I have to step back from it iyswim, so I stand on things

Mine tries to send me flying down the stairs I honestly think they're trying to kill us

I sometimes accidentally kick my cats, and then I have to apologise to them profusely. I honestly don't think they care very much because they don't run off or appear nervous or upset.

Actually I wouldn't call it kicking, I'd call it tripping over. And I am clearly utterly pathetic when it comes to the cats

i stand on mine every day. Multiple times; she drives me batshit.....
she even sits on the bath mat and waits for me to get out of the shower so she can lick the water off my toes

I have to lock her in the kitchen at night so she doesnt disturb my sleep and i end up strangling her

I keep thinking she is a reincarnation of my grandma (she appeared on our doorstep, not long after grandma died) so i cant bring myself to be too mean. And I always apologise to her when i stand on her

maybe they ARE trying to kill us. So they can eat us.....

My mum is wheelchair dependent and is forever running over her cat as the cat likes to sit under the wheelchair

i often trip up over my cat although she doesn't seem to mind. cats are very strange/interesting creatures, they really are in their own little world, fascinating stuff. mine has moments of total madness, no idea what makes her tick. lately she seems to plonk herself on the laptop keypad whilst i am typing, i throw her off but back within about 4 minutes and does the same thing. i always feel guilty if i trip over her but she doesn't seem to care, i wouldn't worry about it, they are tough buggers

My mum is wheelchair dependent and is forever running over her cat as the cat likes to sit under the wheelchair

OOPs

I accidently kick my cats almost everyday.

They love to dart in front of me as I walk, and they don't learn...

bitofcheese mine both sit on the laptop as well. And any book or newspaper I read on the floor. I think it's a not so subtle message that they are much more important than our work and we should devote ourselves to rubbing their heads.

bejeezus one of my cats would definitely eat me if he was big enough. He often looks at me in that lazy if only I was tiger sized, you would be so tasty way.

I'm finding it hard to remember if she was always this daft or if I've given her brain damage over the years.

Her favourite sleeping place is the back of the rocking chair. Every time she jumps up, she does this surprised little Mew because it moves

Mine's 17 and gets kicked/trodden on/tail sucked up the hoover/tripped up over almost daily.He seems to like it, as he refuses to shift himself when i am busy doing stuff. Also he blends in with the rug!

It's because they can see you they automatically assume that you can see them - especially when they're lurking one step down from the top of a flight of stairs in the dark.

Of course, the opposite is also true - if they're "hiding" then you can't see them. Even if there's just one tree waving madly (because there's a cat in it) when there's no breeze or there's a bush in the garden with a tail sticking out of it.

Our old cat lived until he was 18.

Every morning without fail he would come down the stairs with me, I would turn left for the kitchen and he would turn right and walk right in front of me and get booted across the floor by accident.

Neither of us ever learned not to do it

I used to have a cat like that - always getting in the way. I think it was attention-seeking. I nearly dropped DS on his head once when he was a baby, because I tripped over her and he almost flew out of my hands!

Argh, vess, don't!! I'm 15 weeks pg with PFB and already convinced I'm going to get muddled up between which end you put the boob and which the nappy

For so called intelligent animals, they never seem to learn that it's not clever to weave around your legs/lie on the stair as you're about to tread on it/run out in front of the car etc. My kitten fell in the bath AGAIN last night exploring when I left it running for DS. You'd think he'd learn not to do that after the 3rd time, but no.

My cat did actually climb in the bath with me once.

yanbu of course. I threw myself heavily on MY bed earlier...and the bloody cat was having a nap under the duvet!

My cat once tripped me on the stairs (in the middle of the night) and I fell all the way down and landed on top of the poor bugger.

He then hid under the kicthen table and wailed everytime I tried to go near him to see if he was OK. I cried my eyes out thinking I'd really hurt him when he was the git who caused me a sore bum!

He was fine BTW but I was still crying about it at work the next day and persuaded a colleague to drive me home to check on him and he was happily sitting in the garden little sod

I once picked up a jacket that someone had left on the sofa and threw it into the hallway to hang up later. The cat was asleep inside the sleeve.

hopenglory ah he sounds like he was a little sweetie.