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.

[sugarplumfairy28]

We have 10 cats and all have slightly annoying habits, I think the most annoying at the moment, is one of my boys will chase and bite my toes first thing in the morning until he gets fed.

[BertPuttocks]

If I'm bending down to pick something up, he leaps on to my back and clings on with his claws like a giant furry backpack. (Known in our house as "The Catpack Manoeuvre"). He weighs 16lbs+ so it's not pleasant.

He has a craving for plastic bags and wrappers and will chew any that he can find. Carrier bags now have to be locked away.

He lies in wait by the stairs and randomly swipes at anyone who has the misfortune to get too close. It doesn't help that he's completely black and you can only see him in the dark if he has his eyes open. I tried one of those glow-in-the dark collars on him once to give us a tactical advantage. The bugger managed to bite it off.

[Sadik]

Oh yes, the 'why don't you turn off the rain' meow . . .

DCat meows louder and louder and louder by the catflap when it's raining and she needs to pee until someone eventually throws her out and she rushes off. She doesn't like an indoors litter tray - so we even provided her with an undercover outdoors litter tray in a little shed right next to the back door, but that's no good either!

[WitchWay]

Bert your cat is enormous!

One of mine asks to come in then faffs about half in & half out of the back door, wanting to be in but not to have the door closed even if it's bloody freezing

The other likes to hunt my feet if I have sandals on - she sort of dives in next to the foot as I try to snatch it out of the shoe to safety

[BertPuttocks]

Mine is a verrrrry long cat, so the weight is spread out a bit. He can open doors by standing on his back legs and swiping the handle down with his front paws. He doesn't even need to jump to reach.

(Another annoying habit!)

[Feeches]

Meows to get in back door, immediately wishes to be let out the front door. Or vice versa.

Eager to be let in on a freezing night only to hover just outside the open door for what seems like 10 minutes.

Gets under my feet when trying to feed the baby.

Other than that, all good!

[SpecialStains]

Specialcat is obsessed with stealing hair ties.

He has also been known to deliberately mix up straight edge and non straight edge pieces when you are trying to do a jigsaw!

He also steals post and hides it.

He also cheats on board games.

Photographic evidence provided.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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 .

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Goingtobeawesome]

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

[lljkk]

Destroyed our new carpets. :( Scratching.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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!!!!

[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.

[Fluffycloudland77]

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

[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.

[WitchWay]

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