Most annoying things your cat does

[CheshireChat]

I love my cat, but she can be SO annoying. She'll strech out on the stairs and refuse to move or turn belly up and the roll off, she follows me around meowing but doesn't want anything. She wants to come in the living room, nope she's changed her mind and then meows pitifully she's been shut out. She'll copy my toddler- she started climbing on chairs and the window sill after she watched him .

So I'd like to hear what other people put up with.

[Fluffycloudland77]

Sits staring at me waiting for food, silently.

Sniffs at offered food, fucks off out. It's not like he's ever gone hungry because I've refused to feed him when he comes home.

I call it banking.

[OTheHugeManatee]

Girl cat shits in the cellar if you leave the door ajar and she can hook it open.

The cellar walls are crumbly (old building) and she thinks the resulting deposits of loose render by the walls in places make a perfect, dry, convenient, private litter tray for her

She is a total princess and thinks she should not have to get her paws wet when relieving herself like any old cat. We have plenty of garden for her to do her business in but no, she prefers the cellar

[IamPoopyHead]

One of my boys will sit either on my pillow or bedside table early morning and pat my head and back with his paw until I wake up. I kind of love it 😄

[Oldraver]

He also goes mental if there is a fly in the room, even if it those really tiny things, more like midges. He will squawk at it for ages.

So we have to kill them for him and now have a dedicated swatter. He has just now had his first proper fly and he finished it off on the kitchen floor. He is going to go apoplectic in the summer

[officebairn]

BigBoyCat swishes his massive tail and smashes the bedside lamps on to the floor every so often.

OldBoyCat drinks from my glass of water on the bedside table or dips his paw in and knocks it over. Considering switching back to a bottle...

[possum18]

Every time I have a bath she sits on the toilet behind me and just cries the whole time, if I shut the door she scratches it and really bawls. Not so relaxing!

[ManorMouse]

BinCat curls up in the crook of my knees and will refuse to move until morning. I don't realise she has done this until I go to turn over and can't.

Mine does this as well. She lies between me and the right edge of the bed while I sleep on the left side, which is fine. Only when she doesn't want me to sleep anymore, she goes over to the other side of the bed so that I can't turn over properly so am awake. I pick her up and place her back on her side of the bed but, most times, she waits until I've fallen asleep again and repeats the manoeuvre.

Now that it's getting lighter in the mornings, it's approaching the time when it's brighter before my alarm goes off at 7 am which means that anytime before that is "Getting up time" according to her body clock.

She's a clever little minx though. I've noticed that she jumps off the bed as soon as "What it says in the papers" is over as she knows I'll switch off the radio and get up to sort out her breakfast - so she must have it timed exactly in her little head.

[WitchWay]

Oldraver one of mine growls over raw meat - the other one shakes it first to "kill" it

[Oldraver]

He 'plays' with any raw food (or any proper meat) he is given like he thinks it needs to be caught played with and killed. Maybe he will then eat it

This can be all over the downstairs. He had a prawn at the weekend and it ended up flicking it on the wall where it slid down then he flicked it on the skirting.

The worse though is when I find it squished between my toes or in the washing basket.

[Fluffycloudland77]

Yy to first breakfast. I lock mine in the utility overnight much to his nightly annoyance.

[Cirsium]

Cost us our entire rental deposit by scratching the sofas, one of the few pieces of furniture that weren't our own, to pieces.

In his younger years had a 3am routine that went . . . Walk up to bed meowing, jump on human, meow in face, pat face (no claws), pat face (with claws), bite head, get knocked onto floor, jump on bedside table and knock items off, get pushed onto floor, jump onto dressing table and meow mournfully at cat in the mirror, get told to shut the fuck up, jump down and scratch at radiator making a nails on blackboard sound. Eat first breakfast, go back to sleep. Repeat at 5am

He would scratch the carpet/walls/door of any room he was shut in, after over a year of barely sleeping I resorted to putting him in a large crate overnight. After a few months he was cured, although he is still very vocal.

[TooAswellAlso]

Climbs my bloody curtains. Drives me loopy, the holes in them now.

And the constant darting to get in the kitchen which is the one room they are NoT AlloweD. Trips me up.

The miaowing also pees me off. Boy cat did it the other day at 3am because someone had left the bathroom light on BEHiND THE CLOSED DOOR!!!!

[Goingtobeawesome]

Brings in mice. BoyCat just dropped one on my bedroom floor. Can't see it now. Think he might have eaten it. I'm more annoyed at me being a wuss than him though.

[goldenpineapple]

goldencat sometimes likes to get on top of the wardrobe and watch us until we go to sleep, and then when we're just drifting off, she launches herself onto us with a big miiiiaaaaooooww. She isn't a small cat so its quite an impact!

She also likes to get in bed with me at 4am for cuddles, then wake up at 5am for a very long, very loud bath. Does anyone else's cat lick themselves very very loudly?!

Another favourite is to sit up on the chest of drawers, slowly and deliberately picking up necklaces/bracelets/anything she can get her paws on and dropping them on the floor one by one.

If we shut her out of the bedroom she screams and scrabbles at the door, and if we shut her in the kitchen we can hear her shouting all night - plus she will trash the kitchen in complaint.

She is a complete and utter PITA but we love her so much and all is always forgiven in the morning.

[dreamiesrcatgak]

We have just got a new bed. With all new lovely bedding, it took us ages to put it all together, dispose of old bed into spare room, take old spare room bed to tip etc. So much ceremony was made of "Ooh we must have a shower each and fresh pjs before getting into gorgeous new bed/bedding" Go to get in. Little bastard has burrowed her way under the covers with muddy paws. New glorious bed de-flowered. Unforgivable.


She also thinks she's missing out on interesting conversation when we are in the living room and she's eating in the kitchen. So brings a big mouthful of food in and drops it on the carpet to enjoy a social meal with her humans. Little bastard.

She will only drink from a pint glass on the bedroom window sill. Obviously her little face can only fit halfway down so this must be kept topped up at all times or she will pointedly topple it over. Usually in the early hours.

She's ace though.

[lljkk]

Destroyed our new carpets. :( Scratching.

[Goingtobeawesome]

That's not that strange. It was once raining into my back garden but not my front. My house isn't that big..

[InTheTeapot]

Likes to claw the carpet randomly. She gets a favourite patch and sits clawing it repeatedly. I wouldn't mind too much but we're in rented and I've had to replace the carpet once already.
Decides she needs some lovin and nothing will stand in her way when she wants to butt your head and knead your shoulder.
Old boy used to miaow to be let out at back door, if it was raining he'd go and miaow at front door. Like it might not be raining there.

[Pipbin]

In winter mine wants the window open so she can sit with her nose in cold air and her bumb nice and warm inside.

Mine does that too.
Our house is a slightly odd layout and our living room window opens onto the conservatory roof. She loves to sit on the roof with a commanding view of the garden. However she doesn't like the rain. If she goes out there and it's raining she will demand that the rain is stopped.
If it isn't stopped then she will sit on the window sill with her nose out of the window.

[Pipbin]

I go to sleep in a foetal position.
BinCat curls up in the crook of my knees and will refuse to move until morning. I don't realise she has done this until I go to turn over and can't.

The only other annoying thing she does is demanding breakfast. This starts with running into the room making as much noise with her feet as possible. Followed by shouting. Then jumping on your head and making puddings. If this doesn't work then she will sit by the side of the bed and reach under the covers and tap you.
If all that fails then stomp about on the bedside table knocking stuff over.

[CheshireChat]

SpecialStains all of the cats I've had while I was still living with my mum stole hair ties, the dogs too! Specialcat is gorgeous btw, love white cats.

[CheshireChat]

I can add two more- playing with DS's animal puzzle and triggering the sounds (Melissa and Doug one, avoid). Got jealous of me drying DS and jumped on his lap, cue wet cat and DS covered in fur .

[sashh]

WitchWay

In winter mine wants the window open so she can sit with her nose in cold air and her bumb nice and warm inside.

[catsofa]

Walks up to the sleeping baby and shouts MAAAAOOOOOWWWWW! Shouts MAAAAOOOOOWWWWW when she doesn't know where I am, waking everyone in the house and probably everyone next door too. Walks right past me then immediately forgets where I am. Another deaf oldie here who is forgiven because she's such a sweet, affectionate soul and I luffs her very much.

[RedOnHerHedd]

RedCat refuses to drink water from a water bowl, he only drinks freshly running water straight from the tap.

He knocks things off tables whilst looking at you, quietly mocking you as you pick it up.

He's scared of the dark so if he needs the toilet in the night he wakes you up requiring you to escort him to the litter tray.

He won't stay in any room on his own and follows you everywhere. EVERYWHERE.

He still hasn't learned that the other cat in the high gloss wardrobe doors is in fact just a reflection of himself.