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Sorry, I don't have a link.

On breakfast this morning, they highlighted a story in a newspaper.

A woman woke up to bangs and crashes coming from downstairs, and woke her husband up to go and deal with it. Apparantly it was a cat going daft and it caused £1000 of damage, including knocking a vase over and the water went over the tv.

Am I the only cynical person that thinks the couple had a fight and want to claim damages off the insurance?

This is news?

It was one of those 'a guest was on highlighting stories from the dailies' things that they do.

I don't think they would have covered it otherwise... Well I hope not!

I didn't put that apostrophe there I promise! Autocorrect strikes again.

Hmmm, my cat used to have what I called the 10 o'clock terrors where he would just go wild, running around as though being chased by a pack of dogs. Anything in his way would have been smashed to smithereens.

thirty years ago i worked with someone whose cat, unexpectedly, went quite mad, started to run around the room crashing into things, flew at his mum and tried to bite and claw her throat...he was the only one who could catch it...
the vet who put it to sleep said that cats sometimes have massive brain events that cause that kind of behaviour.

Oh wow, hadn't heard of that kind of thing.

My cat sleeps. Eats. Sleeps. Sheds hair. Sleeps.

I stand corrected and I apologise for doubting them!

if a cat feels trapped they go bonkers so it is possible. Wouldn't the insurance cover if someone fell and broke something anyway?

That depends on what insurance cover you have.

Mine runs round the furniture and up over the curtain rail, jumps on shelves and pushes things off, she's broken two computers before (not at the same time)

It's not impossible. A couple of the cats we had growing up used to have what we called their "funny half hour" where for no apparent reason, they would start to run round the room, leaping from furniture to furniture. The game appeared to be to go right round the room as fast as possible, as many times as possible, without touching the floor.

They knocked over everything in their path

And they weren't trying to get outside, because my mum would often try to shoo them out to save the living room! door open, window open. They weren't trapped in any way or afraid in any way. They weren't interested in going outside.

Funnily enough, we began to notice that it was followed by bad weather, normally a thunder storm. I wonder if they could sense it.

DMILs cats when bonkers, climbing the book cases and running along the mantle piece.

She worked out they could hear mice in the old stone wall.

Mice, killed - cats returned to destroying the backs of chairs.

HarshPants.It's not impossible. A couple of the cats we had growing up used to have what we called their "funny half hour" where for no apparent reason, they would start to run round the room, leaping from furniture to furniture. The game appeared to be to go right round the room as fast as possible, as many times as possible, without touching the floor.
Are you my sister Our cats used to do that too, it was crazy half hour time, they'd run across the mantle, TV and furniture. and not touch the floor

Some friends of ours woke one night to dreadful noise in their kitchen, he ran downstairs naked, brandishing a cricket bat while she rang police.

They found their cat and another they'd never seen before chasing each other and fighting in the kitchen. Strange cat had followed theirs through the catflap then didn't know how to get out and panicked.

Luckily they had more mess than real damage (lots of amusement from police though!)

It's mad minutes. It's what cats get for winning cat chess (being able to see lots of cats but not letting the other cats see you).

One of the pairs I fostered used to have them at about 6 am. One of my friends used to stay over on the sofa bed, their mad minutes included bouncing off his chest.

The cat we had growing up used to run the legnth of the living room and climb the curtains, get to the top, look around, climb down and then run in the opposite direction and climb the curtains at the other end.

My old cat used to have mad half hours - where she'd run round the house non-stop, crashing into things and skidding across the kitchen floor.

Sometimes another cat would get in through the cat flap - huge fights would follow.

Then when she was very elderly she became senile, and freaked out, breaking things and attacking my mum. :(

Anyone ever seen a cat grapple and fight, seemingly with an invisble cat?

I don't believe in much supernatural stuff, but cats are definitely aware of things we aren't IMO.

I'd never leave the living room door open at night as I'd be too concerned as to what my cats would do in there. We have three floors and they sometimes go nuts running up and down all the stairs in the early hours. There is nothing delicate on their crazy route!

Dp'sfamily cat used to sit at the top of the stairs banging her tail on the floor like a drumroll then charge down the stairs, up the Christmas tree, stripping it of decorations, back down the tree, up the stairs ad infinitum. Apparently it was the only cat known to man that when it fell, could never land on its feet :)