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Original poster

Is my cat being unreasonable?

60 replies

hobbgoblin · 18/05/2009 00:31

In acting all peeved with me for twatting him with the upstairs window sending him flying down the conservatory roof and onto the garden below?

He was miaowing to come in about 5am yesterday morning, so obligingly I hauled pregnant self to the window where he was sat on the ledge waiting to come in. Except, I was a bit bleary eyed and didn't notice he was sat right behind the actual window opening so that when I opened it it knocked him off and he landed on the conservatory roof, slid all down the roof panels and spun off the edge of the guttering.

He landed on all 4 paws and is uninjured, so is there really any need for being all aloof now?

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OrmIrian · 18/05/2009 10:04

He is not being unreasonable.
He is being a cat.

Tis the nature of the beast. You don't buy a lawnmower and expect it to dry your hair do you?

artifarti · 18/05/2009 10:05

Hmmm, maybe sheepish is too strong - it's that slinking thing they do when they've done something bad. It usually involves the expulsion of bodily fluids somewhere inappropriate. Or do I have the only slinky cat?

thumbwitch · 18/05/2009 10:07

arti, I've never known one do that - most of them have an air of studied nonchalance when they have inappropriately "messed" anywhere - you know, the "Me? What do you mean? As if I would do anything like that!" look.

smee · 18/05/2009 10:10

Mine's biffing the computer screen with his paw, so most definitely thinks YABU. But then he is a cat...

muffle · 18/05/2009 10:15

I love that embarrassed look! Our cat is getting fat and now finds it hard to leap up the 7ft garden wall, which she used to do with ease (to get to the back door after being thrown out the front). The other day I was in the garden and saw someone through the slats in the garden door - wondered if they were going to knock, who they were etc. Then saw two hands lifting our fat cat up onto the wall because she was obviously trying and failing to do it. The poor love. She looked sooo embarrassed. She is such a "I hate all humans, I am an eeeevil witch" type of cat, it must have been so humiliating.

TrillianAstra · 18/05/2009 10:16

Ah yes, the slinking. Like if they move carefully you won't notice them so they won't have to deal with your being annoyed at them. It's nto that they feel bad about what they've done, they just can't be bothered to deal with the consequences right now

Jux · 18/05/2009 10:19

It was undignified, and it was your fault. There's nothing a cat hates worse than being caught whilst being undignified.

You are being totally unreasonable and your cat has every right to ring Catline. Give him the phone.

Stayingsunnygirl · 18/05/2009 10:21

Thumbwitch - all our cats have perfected the look of studied nonchalance too - "A big cat did it and ran away" just about sums it up!!

But we are also well acquainted with that huffy look when we have done something unacceptable, like wanting some space at the bottom of the bed for our feet or (me) using lavendar handcream - our current cat hates the smell.

When I was a teenager, we lived down a short, gated track, in a house with no catflap - so if we were going to be out all day, the cats had to be outside, and we'd come home to find a small sit-in being held on the drive, so that whoever had opened the gate for the car, had to go and pick the cats up and carry them back to the house so that Dad could drive down to the garage!

I think cats' attitude is summed up in the saying, 'Dogs have masters, cats have staff.'

minesacheeseandpicklesandwich · 18/05/2009 11:10

Bless the little buggers, they sure do brighten up the day...

FabulousBakerGirl · 18/05/2009 11:12

I have just asked my cat and she said YABU and the cat needs a new toy, bed and some expensive salmon and then he will consider looking at you nicely again.

Sheeta · 18/05/2009 11:14

Oh good, another post that's made me spit coffee all over the screen.

pmsl

YANBU. obviously

MmeLindt · 18/05/2009 11:19

YANBU, your cat is.

In fact, I think that you should read the book "Toxic Cats" to better understand the passive-aggressive behaviour that your cat is displaying.

Have you tried counselling?

minesacheeseandpicklesandwich · 18/05/2009 11:24

If that isn't a real book, then someone needs to write it right now!!

muffle · 18/05/2009 11:26

I'll ask my cat to do it. She is the world expert.

LadyGlencoraPalliser · 18/05/2009 12:34

There's a lot of them about.

Boys2mam · 18/05/2009 16:05

OMG, spider-cat PMSL

My cat had been MIA since yesterday morning, which is extremely unusual. I'd been round all his normal haunts and no sign. Hollering of him produced nothing either (he normally he comes running when I shout of him, pity my 5 year old isn't the same )

My mam (who also happens to be my nxt door neighbour) went to put something in her shed about an hr ago and lo-and-behold finds my sleeping moggy!!

Bloody cats, being all cute and loveable.

OldLadyKnowsNothing · 18/05/2009 16:10

Glad you got him back.

Boys2mam · 18/05/2009 16:15

Thank you OldLady, I am too

OrmIrian · 18/05/2009 16:34

My cat is now being unreasonable and has huffed off into the garden and is sitting sulking in the playhouse. And just because I was dancing round the kitchen to Green Day whilst holding her. Not a fan I think

Grumpyoldcaaaaaaaa · 18/05/2009 16:56

YABVVVVU - you are here to serve the cat, whatever his bidding. The Egyptians understood.

Subjecting him to humiliation will earn you a place in the 7th Level of Cat Hell for eternity.

I trust he licked himself loudly in intimate areas for a substantial length of time to cover up his humiliation.

Original poster
hobbgoblin · 18/05/2009 19:48

OrmIrian, were you dancing with the cat?

Am pmsl at all your accounts of cat arseyness.

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misspollysdolly · 18/05/2009 20:36

You should all look up 'Simon's Cat' on You Tube...it's very funny. I too am pmsl at this thread!

AnarchyAunt · 18/05/2009 20:46

pmsl @ 'dogs have masters, cats have staff'

My friends' cat once did a shit on her DH's takeaway pizza

Then watched in horror as the DH threw the turdy bit away and fed the rest to the dogs in front of the cat [boak]

whiskersonkittens · 18/05/2009 20:57

My old cat perfected the 'nonchalent washing' whenever we caught her playing with anything (she was far to grown up to play) and would instantly lick a paw as if she had been doing that all the time.

I also remember the time she hurt her paw when dh was away - she was fine for a week, then as soon as he came home she was back to limping and holding up the injured paw pitifully - she was so much Daddy's girl

OrmIrian · 18/05/2009 20:59

Yes hobb I was. Well I think she was 'being' danced rather than dancing herself.