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How have you devastated your cat today?

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Mabelface · 29/03/2021 09:40

I've put privacy film on the front room windows and he can't watch the world go by any more. He's sulking.

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Toilenstripes · 15/04/2021 07:51

Oh wow, that’s bad. Showing the tin and letting them hear it open is all part of the ritual.

MillyMoo1113 · 15/04/2021 07:58

I offended the white princess by refusing to let her show her arse to the camera during a meeting.

I offended the ginger ninja by removing a dead baby bird from him to place in the bin along with the other two that he had left me within the space of an hour.

toffeebutterpopcorn · 15/04/2021 08:37

All these fussy eaters! I saw a ‘thing’ on social media yesterday where a worried cat owner took their cat to the vets because they had lost a lot of weight.

After various tests the vet concluded that the cat was on hinger strike - because they didn’t like the cat food they were being fed.

And for once (being social media) I actually believed it!

toffeebutterpopcorn · 15/04/2021 08:37

@Toilenstripes

Oh wow, that’s bad. Showing the tin and letting them hear it open is all part of the ritual.
Like wine in a fancy restaurant?
ILikeTheWineNotTheLabel · 15/04/2021 09:18

Gave the OG a bowl of water whilst he was eating his chicken breakfast instead of an additional bowl of chicken.

Andithoughtiwasspecial · 15/04/2021 20:44

Shut the blinds so he could not see the birds ( in the dark) whilst he wasn't even in the room. Left the toilet seats down when he was thirsty and there were only two large bowls of fresh water available. 💧 had jam on my toast rather than marmite at breakfast so he didn't want to smell it and made a vegetarian dinner for the humans/ slaves. Today has been profoundly unacceptable and he is showing his displeasure by sitting in a tree in the garden facing away from the house and refusing to move.

nearlynermal · 15/04/2021 21:06

Big Nermalcat is satisfied with me at the moment. He couldn't reach a fat bluebottle on the curtain and I moved it within reach so he could do a workmanlike swat and snack.

FurForksSake · 15/04/2021 21:15

Not me, but my DH. He washed my darling boy's bed. He has had it for 9 years and loves his bed. Unfortunately for caticusmaxipuss it is hairball season and he got some sick on his bed so my husband washed it while I was at work yesterday.

Cat watched his bed going round in the machine a little forlornly. Sadly the bed was pronounced dead a little while later and my husband disposed of it without it being seen by Cat.

Husband rushed out last night as soon as he could to buy a replacement. Cat is not accepting this new bed at all, husband is distressed at this.

So much devastation in the FFS household tonight. Cat is lying next to me on the sofa letting out the odd sigh.

TheLongRider · 15/04/2021 23:36

Has DH got a suitable cashmere jumper to donate as a bed for his furry Lordship? Only the best will do.

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HebeMumsnet · 16/04/2021 09:15

Morning, Cat Devastaters,

We've had a few requests for this thread to go into classics so we're going to move it there now.

Tilly20 · 16/04/2021 09:35

Hi cat devastated! Can I join in? My cats have stopped talking to me the past 2 days. They are 8 years old and although one is active,one has turned herself into a house cat. She's getting a bit chunky 🙈so I took the vets advice and have switched them on to food that is 3 times the price and better nutritionally and they won't eat it. A few little nibbles and then they're begging for their usual food. Anyone would think I was trying to poison them🙄

Fluffycloudland77 · 16/04/2021 09:49

@FurForksSake They do a good line in sighs don’t they?. I hope your dh has purchased a suitable bed.

ChequerBoard · 16/04/2021 10:02

Cat devastation has reached new levels in our house today. We have committed the ultimate crime and had the (completely knackered and scratched bare in places) stair carpet removed.

This is just unacceptable. The pathetic sight of His Lorship gingerly hoping down stair by stair as he suffers the hard wood beneath his paws is hilarious heartbreaking.

Where are they supposed to manicure their nails now? Clearly none of the three scratching posts they have are in any way as good as the beloved stair carpet!

I dare not tell them that there will be no nice new carpet for them to ruin - the stairs are being clad in oak flooring in a couple of weeks.

Notsoaccidentproneanymore · 16/04/2021 10:06

I told him to stop licking the plastic bag. I mean........ why do cats do that?

NatMoz · 16/04/2021 10:09

It's my birthday and i didn't appreciate my cat's dead mouse gift while I was on the phone. He even showed me how much fun it was by flicking it in the air, rugby tackling it, rolling around the carpet with it only for when it was time to give me the gift he wanted it for himself and ran around the house with it.

ILikeTheWineNotTheLabel · 16/04/2021 12:26

Zero paw prints on meow.com for me today. Don’t know why.

nearlynermal · 16/04/2021 13:30

@HebeMumsnet

Morning, Cat Devastaters,

We've had a few requests for this thread to go into classics so we're going to move it there now.

Nice! This is the 'cutted up pear' thread of the cat world.
FurForksSake · 16/04/2021 14:03

Cat is refusing the new bed, may search DH's drawers for the cashmere stash... he has a very nice scarf that might be acceptable? DH has moved the bed around, placed biscuits in it and generally tried to express his sorry. Licky treats and new Stinkies are coming tomorrow in the hope that a peace may be brokered.

Sidge · 16/04/2021 14:36

My cat has a lovely Resting Bitch Face. She practices perfecting it whilst watching me do yoga. It’s very off putting.

Mind you I had to just give her some ham in repentance as I managed to throw water over her. I threw some dead flowers away and chucked the vase water in the bush. In my defence I didn’t know she was in that bush. No doubt she will now kill me in my sleep tonight.

Mybestestfriend · 16/04/2021 14:39

I took away the ketchup bottle to show her there was no mouse behind it. She had been standing on her hind legs studying it for some time. The mouse is behind the back of the shelf so not actually in it.

Her mind is blown and she is Disappointed.

Pudmyboy · 16/04/2021 21:09

My beloved moggie was woken up abruptly by me snorting with laughter at this thread. If looks could kill.....

Saisong · 16/04/2021 21:41

This cat servant was not sufficiently appreciative of the live mouse brought to the back yard. It was therefore my fault that the mouse escaped into the undergrowth while Dear Cat tried to gain my attention. After a period of serious side-eye she huffed off. Vengeance was wreaked about an hour later when she reappeared with (presumably) the same poor mouse, and it was ostentatiously munched up on the back doorstep - she maintained serious eye contact during the last slurp of the skinny tail. Just look what you made me do was the clear message!

IJustLovePirates · 17/04/2021 13:17

I talked to the dog

FatCatThinCat · 17/04/2021 18:14

Double devastation today. Not only did I dispose of the massive headless hare, which he was saving for later, I also wouldn't let him have first dibs on the sushi we had for lunch.

Howtomakeevery1 · 17/04/2021 22:24

I have dared to sleep in my own bed, this is apparently unacceptable and am currently being hit in the face with the tail of a displeased cat

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