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

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KinderEgg23 · 18/07/2019 17:36

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?

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SummerInTheVillage · 19/07/2019 08:59

This thread is why we never accept food in the homes of pet owners.

Gross.

Megan2018 · 19/07/2019 09:03

I’ve got 3, they aren’t allowed on the kitchen units but they take no notice. The baby of the trio likes to hide on top of kitchen cupboards then launch himself at your head.
God knows what the Heath Visitor will make if it when DC born, I’ve got overly free range hens too that like to perch on the dinng chairs Blush

I can’t get over excited about a fruit bowl although would donate sat on apples to my horse who mercifully lives down the road and not in the garden otherwise we would really have issues!

Poppins2016 · 19/07/2019 09:10

Ok... would it be easier to identify who owns both cats and a fruit bowl anddoesn'tever find the former sitting in the latter ( or a suspiciously large number of hairs?)

I own one fruit bowl and three cats. The cats have never curled up in the fruit bowl (possibly because it's kept on the kitchen counter and they know they're not allowed on there!).

TheJellyBabyMadeMeDoIt · 19/07/2019 09:24

My cats are allowed on one specific part of the kitchen counter. Their bowl is there. Food isn't prepped there, it's where the dirty dishes go before being washed.

I've lived with animals my entire life, never had any kind of illness related to them.

I've lived with humans all my life, caught many from them - flu, gastrointestinal bugs (love working in care!!), colds, chicken pox, kids have caught nits.

Humans are way more germy than animals ime

MyFuzzyBoy · 19/07/2019 09:30

Anywhere but the cat bed

To think the kitchen fruit bowl is not the place for the cat to snooze in!
To think the kitchen fruit bowl is not the place for the cat to snooze in!
To think the kitchen fruit bowl is not the place for the cat to snooze in!
ErrolTheDragon · 19/07/2019 09:30

Humans are way more germy than animals ime

They have more human diseases.

MyFuzzyBoy · 19/07/2019 09:31

Especially the sink

To think the kitchen fruit bowl is not the place for the cat to snooze in!
TheJellyBabyMadeMeDoIt · 19/07/2019 09:34

The photo I posted earlier in the thread, he's called Flynn and is obsessed with water. He's always "falling" in the bath and they can't leave the kitchen tap running unsupervised.

He's also got a penchant for destroying anything that's left on the work surfaces, cartons of milk for example. He'll knock it off and then attack it until it's dead. They're really tidy (no kids!) and were proper clean freaks until Flynn 🤣

ContinuityError · 19/07/2019 09:36

I’m lucky that mine used their cat beds. Well, one cat bed.

To think the kitchen fruit bowl is not the place for the cat to snooze in!
NoCauseRebel · 19/07/2019 09:38

I adore cats and would be immensely amused if I found one in my fruit bowl, but it wouldn’t be tolerated and the cat would then be unceremoniously removed.

For the people who say that cats are cleaner than humans, let’s not forget that cat pooh contains toxoplasmosis which is why pregnant women are told not to clean out the litter tray etc. And an indoor cat who uses only a litter tray is going to be walking those germs on to your worktops and into your fruit bowl if it is routinely allowed to sleep there.

I don’t have cats now but when mine were little I had a spray bottle which I used to spray them with if they went on my kitchen worktops. They soon learned.

FiveGoMadInDorset · 19/07/2019 09:39

Airing cupboard is another favourite

To think the kitchen fruit bowl is not the place for the cat to snooze in!
TheJellyBabyMadeMeDoIt · 19/07/2019 09:53

For clarification, I didn't say they were cleaner than humans and I didn't say they didn't carry germs.

I said having lived with both species my entire life, I've only ever contracted germs and illnesses from humans 😂

Cedar03 · 19/07/2019 10:20

My cat is not allowed in the fruit bowl. Not that she has ever tried to sit on it, it's probably not big enough for her to fit in comfortably. She prefers the top of the fridge in the winter presumably because it is warm. I tell her to get off - sometimes she obeys straight away, other times she thinks about it for quite a bit first. But I wouldn't tolerate her in the fruit bowl if she was trying to get in there.

Cedar03 · 19/07/2019 10:21

Beautiful cat pictures by the way.

luckylavender · 19/07/2019 10:43

YUCK!

Whoopstheregomyinsides · 19/07/2019 10:47

Horrible to have a cat near food but I fear they do what the chuff they want

LadyRoughDiamond · 19/07/2019 10:55

Mine sleeps on the car roof. Getting paw prints off the windscreen isn't as easy as you think.

threecatsownme · 19/07/2019 11:00

I am owned by 3 cats. This one is was feral. One of the others likes to sleep on the neighbours car bonnet or roof 🙈, my car is parked right next to hers but clearly isn't good enough!

To think the kitchen fruit bowl is not the place for the cat to snooze in!
Itstheprinciple · 19/07/2019 11:10

This is the mug I am currently having my coffee from. I think you might be talking to the wrong crowd!

To think the kitchen fruit bowl is not the place for the cat to snooze in!
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KinderEgg23 · 19/07/2019 11:34

Aw I loved looking at all the adorable cat pictures! That's true what a pp said about us not knowing what's been on our fruit before we buy it, so maybe I was being slightly unreasonable to be so aghast!

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SenecaFalls · 19/07/2019 11:47

I'm chuckling at all the posters saying "my cat is not allowed to do this or that." If they are indoors while you are not home, they are doing what they damn well please in your house. Because they are cats.

Spandang · 19/07/2019 11:55

When we brought the kitten home I had a double water bowl that I thought I’d also put kibble in but it was too impractical. So Moo cat eats her kibble from one of my beautiful Mallorcan dip bowls and her fish or chicken from a vintage cake plate Grin

Anyone who knows me knows this is pretty much par for the course Wink

thisnamechanger · 19/07/2019 11:57

Presumably they weren't trying to force you to eat a cat-apple? Who cares. It's their house. Cats try and sleep on your face - I think if they were that germy we'd all be dead by now. Rinse it or don't eat it, you'll be grand.

thisnamechanger · 19/07/2019 11:59

BillywilliamV

I don't even really like cats but my GOD that's a cute kitty.

furrybadger · 19/07/2019 12:02

My two sleep were ever they want, my littlest one likes to sleep in the bathroom sink and curled into my arms, they also wander around the kitchen work tops, doesn’t bother me but my mum hates it 😂

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