To think the kitchen fruit bowl is not the place for the cat to snooze in!

[KinderEgg23]

Close family member has a gorgeous British blue cat (indoors only). The cat has free reign of the house downstairs and is allowed on kitchen surfaces such as the counter and table. Each to their own I guess, but I think this next bit is pushing it. I was invited for coffee today and was sitting chatting at the breakfast bar when all of a sudden I saw something move out of the corner of my eye and then I realized it was the cat snuggled up in the fruit bowl on the counter and he was yawning and adjusting his head. To say I was shocked was an understatement as I could just about see some apples underneath him. Relative could see I was taken aback and said that cat usually snuggles in the bowl when the fruit in about to run out as there's more room in it and that there were only a few apples in it anyway! I said you're not going to eat them surely and she said of course they will as the cat has no germs as he's an indoor cat! I don't care how clean and cute he is but he's still an animal at the end of the day. I hope she at least will wash them! We have pets who are a big part of our family so it's not that I'm not used to cats and dogs etc AIBU?

I remember visiting my grandmother as a child, walking into the kitchen to see cat curled up.in frying pan on the hob. I don't THINK the stove was on :)

Yes very good, I need more photos of these cats though.

1.in fruit bowls

1. in small places they are too big for.
2. places they are allowed
3. not allowed
4. on beds - this is the control group

Here you go then Siamese in a woodbox

And one in its hammock

Cats are not allowed in the guest room. Nope, none in here.

I am also a cat lover but am currently without one...mine used to curl up in bed with me....i couldnt give a stuff about germs...she used to get in with the children too...they adored her.

YABU the cat is a God.

This thread is the best! Germ phobe tries to have a moan about hygiene and the cat ladies completely ignore and post amazing cats in fruit bowl pics 😊 love it!!

My cat hasn't tried to sleep in a fruit bowl. I'm feeling a bit left out.
She is 16 though and a cantankerous old bat. She's also the softest, loveliest, purriest cat in existence.
I know upon which side my bread is buttered. It's the side the cat licked.

I don't remember my cats climbing in the fruit bowl, sadly. One of them took to sleeping on the kitchen table after we got the dog. We gave up trying to tell him off - he just ignored us anyway. Then he and his brother decamped to sleeping on the closed lid of the stove. We got a blanket for them. Then we finally found baskets they would use, although the table-sleeping cat always wanted the basket his brother was in...

One of my cats used to climb into tissue boxes when he was a kitten. He also adored water, so would race you to the toilet so he could jump into the sink. We just used to put the tap on for him and wash our hands over him. He refused to drink from a bowl of water (unless it was outside and stagnant of course) and only drank from the tap. XH didn't want him sleeping in the bed, but that didn't last long. Cat would sleep on XH's side of the bed when he was away and on my pillow, with suitable dirty looks, when XH was at home.

I do miss having a cat.

Who asked for photos?

And more

Cats sleep where they want to sleep, mine insist on trying to get into the duplo box, even though they are far to fat to get in
I’m pregnant at the moment and they are constantly sitting on me or around me or at my feet.

If my cat knew the fruit bowl was an option she'd take it.

I’m just hear to look at pictures of cats in bowls. If I fits, I sits!

Cats are sneaky bastards anyway. When I lived with DM and her cats, she bought a new sofa which the cats were not allowed on. They duly sat in boxes, beds etc - until she went upstairs for the night, at which point every one of the little sods got up, stretched and sauntered over to the sofa to make themselves comfortable.

Point is, there is no such thing as "not allowed" where cats are concerned.

Cats do odd things to you anyway. I'm the proud servant to multiple cats, and despite being a complete germ phobe will happily kiss creatures who lick their own arse.
I blame the toxoplasmosis - I'm convinced it brainwashes rational humans and turns them into mad cat people.

Rule with cats - if they fits, they sits. And quite often even if they don't quite fit, they have a go anyway! Surely you'd wash your fruit anyway - it's come from the outdoors with goodness knows what other wildlife having access to it after all.

For control group - our 14 year old who barely moves from the bed unless there's tuna with spring water left in or lavender bath foam in the bath:

Unfortunately my parents don't have a fruit bowl and previously had a fruit plate. I did used to like to climb door frames and swing from the top and curtains and love cardboard boxes. I do like dipping my tail in the bath.

I have a cat. I love her, but she knows where she is allowed, and that is NOT on the worktops, table, fruit bowls, my new sofa, or the bed. She does, however, have her own armchair and complete use of my husband's lap.
Cats are not clean because they are indoor cats...they lick their bottoms....

I have to admit though my cat is a disappointment...she won't ride around on my Roomba...

81byerley how did you get your cats to listen to you? My cats aren’t allowed in worktops either but I know they get on there 🤦🏻‍♀️ It’s why I’m disinfecting non stop.
My cats won’t go in fruit bowl, but one of them does try to nibble on the grapes 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

81B

I've had cats since I was a child, I also fostered cats for 10 years. All cats were trained to not go on the work tops or tables. Until the fuzzy one in the pics arrived.

Is that a Maine Coon Moose?

No, its a Maine Coon cat.

My British Blue used to sleep in the fruit bowl as a kitten.

But we didn’t allow it, if we saw him doing it he got lifted out and we moved the fruit bowl. Because obviously it’s disgusting!