Cats’ brains - so weird

[Snooks1971]

I love them so much but why are they so strange?
I’m 55 and had cats all my life but they never cease to amaze me with their habits.
This is a photo of one of our rescue twins going underneath the folded over bath mat before I go in…
Whyyyyyyy???

OP, your cat either doesn't want to see you naked and fur-less, so she's covering her eyes, or she's waiting to pounce on an unsuspecting bare foot!

My mother has sibling boy/girl cats. They are now almost 17, and still bomb noisily around the house after each other, or one gets in a box and the other sits on top, swatting them from above so that they can't escape. Sometimes they try to kill each other off the top of the fish tank, having traded in 'catching' fish through the glass for attacking their sibling. The girl cat has recently abandoned rushing to hide under the covers of someone's bed upstairs whenever visitors threatened to visit, so they are astonished to see that there is a second cat around after all this time. She likes to hide under bedsheets over the banister, ready to attack anyone who goes up the stairs. It's impossible to wear socks with coloured ends, because they must be killed. She's also suddenly found her voice, and has resigned herself to being a house-cat after previous attempts of decimating the countryside (her best ones included a pigeon bigger than her, and a wild baby rabbit to replace our occasionally vicious one). The other cat LOVES having visitors. He cheerfully escorted an estate agent around the house, and posed magnificently for every photo... to the point that the estate agent had to ask for him to be physically removed, otherwise he was in every shot of the house! He can't meow, is enormous and dopey, could only ever catch dead/injured things, and has a foot fetish for bare feet.

When I had towards the bathroom mine races to join me. Apparently sitting on the edge of the bath watching me use the loo is a huge treat.

This is an amazing thread. Our girl yells at the toilet door if any of us dare to close it for privacy. Then when we open it she comes in, walks around the back of the toilet, bites you if you try to pat her and walks back out. Every single time.

My two girls try to kill the bath mat everyday. I dont know what their beef with it is.

One of mine sulks if you don’t wait for him to put his paws on the loo seat to watch the toilet flush….

His brother now insists on the same but forgets he’s terrified of water multiple times a day so puts his paws up and the flees…. And repeat ad infinitum!

Why? Just why?

@Snooks1971 nope definitely my mad moggie!!! Had a cat years ago that used to insist on sharing the toilet with us. Would sit on our lapd laps or in side the bunched up trousers 🤣🤣

We used to have a boy who thought nobody could see him if he got under something even though he would leave his tail hanging out.

Currently got a one who, when the mood takes him and he wants attention, will yawn while stretching his paws up in the air. But he’s a ginger so he’s a bit of a fruit loop 😊

Because they can and will do whatever they want!

Mine judges me on a day off or weekend lie in if I’m not up by 8am feeding him. Sits on my bed and stares until I have to get up.

Also hides or burrows randomly under things.

Also as Pp said, will try different doors and windows in the hope that it’s not raining out of one of them!

Also tries to follow me anywhere when I leave my house if he happens to see me. Embarrassing walking him back home.

I cannot do my toilet business alone, haven't in about 8 years since getting my cat 🤣 i learned early on im not allowed to shut the toilet door, I MUST have a chaperone. She loves playing with cotton ear buds, and also attacking the bath mat... but if I turn the shower on I dont see her for dust!

Mine is still basking in self-satisfaction from his victory over the wicker laundry basket.

Now that is impressive! I bet it was bigger than a house and yet he brought it down 😬

We used to have a tiled bath, with screws in one tile for possible access by the plumber . Our cat could take that screw out, again and again, and he did.

Making a lil’ hideout for itself there!

My gorgeous girl hides in the right box on my wardrobe.. I think it’s just when she needs proper alone time, almost like I’m the one that constantly follows her around the house all day meowing my head off 😆

It frightens me to death if I don’t know she’s in there and then she decides to throw herself off the wardrobe onto the bed, when I’m in bed!