How do you react when your cat breaks something precious?

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Obviously I wouldn't scream or hurt any of beloved cats but OH GOD when they give you "fuck you" look and knock something precious to the floor where it shatters... My fault for having it here, just didn't know he would go for it. It was something made of glass and wood by my carpenter brother who I don't have a great relationship with, and I really appreciated. It wouldn't be fair to get mad at the poor cat as I've previously laughed at him knocking stuff to the floor. Rightly or wrongly I shut the offending cat upstairs on his own while I picked up the glass and had a bit of a cry. Fucks Sake

Poor thing! I'm sorry you lost something important to you.

I chase the offending creature from the room and then ignore it for a bit.

Yes, I might ignore. I fucking won't when I lie in bed face down and he lies flat out on my back but until then... AAAGH!!!!!!

I use a scoldy tone and remove them from the room for a while. I'm sorry this has happened, it must be very upsetting but I doubt the cat knew what it was doing, or at least the extent.

I did use a scoldy tone, massively! Won't have made a difference though and really what difference could it make? He's not going to "learn" because he doesn't know he's done wrong. Bleeeeurgh! Thanks for the comments, I appreciate them. Going to see if I can buy a replacement glass bit to the item.

I curse at myself for being so daft as not to put it out of reach. There are some things you can chastise a cat for but that's not usually one of them. (And I can swear at myself with impunity!)

Oh I know Cozie and believe me I'm kicking myself massively. In all honesty he was forgiven 3 minutes after it was done - I was just upset. I've put the broken item in a drawer and the area now looks very bare. Fucks sake!

It was bloody Jon Snow as well, on the off chance you remember him!!!

Annoying as all get out, I agree. (I'd actually dispose of the item now rather than keeping it.)

Swear at myself for leaving it somewhere it could be got at. They are worse than kids; and even having it at six feet above floor level is no barrier to a determined kitty! Hence all my breakables are currently away whilst rampaging teenage kitten/cat is on the loose!

Sorry you lost something precious to you :(

The offending creature. With lipstick on him after coming for a kiss. He's a sod but a happy little thing!

Sorry to say - but he looks smug !

Try taking the broken item into a picture framer's. See if they'll fix it for you.

Sorry, couldn't resist posting that poem.

Not taking the piss!

I cry but I don't tell them off unless they chase one another through the house and knock over their food dish, spilling their dry food everywhere

Haha thanks for that poem RubbishMantra! Very apt.
Annoyingly, it's not something I think I'll replace easily. It was a polished wooden sphere with a hollow section which contained a little glass pot with a wick to put oil in and burn. It's the glass oil pot that broke.
And yes Cozie he IS bloody smug!!!

Ah - that's a bit different. (I hate broken glass or china.) I'd dump the remains of the glass pot - which you might be able to replace some day - which is now completely non-functional but retain the woden sphere in its orginal place. With a nice soaky polish up as well.

I don't tell them off because when I do she really doesn't give a monkeys so no point really I just mutter under my breath about what a smug cow bitch she is! Mine likes to chuck my vase and candles off high spaces!

Little Monsieur likes to hurl loo rolls down the stairs. Forcefully. Fortunately they don't smash. Perspex vase gets the scratching demented treatment. Until it falls over. Then he's satisfied.

Females are sometimes a little more, ahem, temperamental.

But males can be penisey wankers.

There is no point in wasting your breath. It's all disposable to them.

Glass vase. Containing big blue and turquoise pebbles. On bathroom windowsill above sink. It was nowhere near the edge.
One cat later, there is no longer a vase. What there is, is a large triangular crack in the sink, which is fully tiled in. Same cat has taken to shredding random patches of wallpaper when he thinks no-one is looking. who am I trying to kid, he doesn't care if anyone's looking

If I tell him off he rolls onto his back for a belly rub.

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