The mad half hour

[PussGirl]

it's a thing, isn't it?

All calm till sometime between nine & half ten & then rampaging up & down the stairs, creeping up & goosing each other, squawking & clouting each other round the chops.

Very entertaining, but I could do without the mad leaps onto furniture & clawing at the curtains.

My cats are nearly 9 FFS - I thought they might have calmed down a bit by now

Have had this with moggies in the past, but current ones not so much. One of mine gets a bullet up her backside type of reaction following on from her daily poo, when she tears down the garden at lightening speed! Tis a sight to behold.

Nine & half ten? - some people just don't know they're born - try between 3.30am - 4am (and also 5am, 6am...).
We've tried shutting them out, but now have serious claw-marks in various doors as a result - but given one's nearly 17 and deaf as a post and the other one's only about nine months, we keep forgiving them for various reasons.
Now, why do I feel like an extra in the

Should have added their favourite 'high-energy' spaces are our bed and the stairs.

I loved it when my dear departed cat did this. Nothing was safe.

Mine are like this, Woody kitten tears up the house whilst Grumpy cat glares and huffs... she's never 'approved' of fun

m.youtube.com/watch?v=BkIuZVGTkM0

Ours has a mad half hour just as we're getting ready for bed then zonks. However 6am is a lie in for him and the mornings are getting lighter along with more bird noise he'll soon be up at 4.30 to nibble my hair/toes/legs/bum, shout at us for food and purr at full volume.
Our old girl woke up with the birds, few minutes of fuss and all back to sleep but I don't see that happening with him.

Mine are having one right now, up and down the stairs and squawking at each other - this is 15 minutes after breakfast. They also often do one early evening, and their other favorite time is 15 minutes after my bedroom light goes out.

Gawd help me! Ours is just having one of his he has been charging around like mad and jumped on top of my head scaring the life out of me!

Our two are just the same, PussGirl, between about 9 am - 10.30 am . Otherwise they usually ignore, or agree to tolerate, each other!

For background, we adopted them about 3 years ago. We think one is about 8 or 9 years old and the other must be about 11, 12, 13 ish(?) Even more complicated is that they haven't spent all their lives together, but rumour had it that the older one is the father of the younger one. But when we adopted them they had been living in the same house for a while, but not for long. They're both neutered Toms.

Anyway! We were all getting a bit worried about the 'mad half hour', so, at the beginning of this year, I finally bought a Feliway Friends starter kit www.amazon.co.uk/FELIWAY-FRIENDS-Day-Starter-Kit/dp/B01ETO3PFE/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=feliway+friends&tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1520612952&sr=8-4 to see what would happen. It did seem to calm them both down originally, so I subsequently bought refills.

Irritatingly, they haven't been so great over the last week'ish, but I think it's more to do with the fact that they've had a bit of cabin fever during the snowy/cold weather.

But right now they're snuggled up on our bed - together and quite happily!

Here they are being nice and friendly - well friendly enough!

I've just realised that I've said something a bit stupid .

To clarify, the older cat hadn't been neutered when we adopted him, so we had him neutered - so it is possible that he might have fathered the younger one some years previously.

They're gorgeous Pan. Is one a tuxedo? I had a lovely, if slightly bonkers, tuxedo. I miss him dreadfully.

Thanks for the Simon's Cat vid goforkyourself. I hadn't seen that one and now can't stop watching it

I'd never heard of a tuxedo cat before, but, yes, Cat2 is like that - I've got some nice photos of him on my iPad (using laptop at the moment) which I'll post at some point. He's gorgeous and has a twin brother who lives with some neighbours down the road. They're virtually identical except Cat2 has a black nose and his brother has a white nose.

Some years ago another neighbour thought there was only one of them and she thought he was some kind of magical cat because she'd see him in the back garden and 30 seconds later see him outside the front door and couldn't work out how he'd got there so quickly. It was only when we told her they were twins that she finally worked out that she hadn't lost her marbles

We think Cat1, the tabby, might be part Norwegian Forest Cat!

I think it may be because spring is coming, but the last couple of days mine have been having mad hours or even longer, more frequently and mare frantically than usual. I DO hope it's spring coming anyway...

Pin maybe the twins planned it all along, to confuse your neighbour

My cat used to sleep on our bed at night, until we got a kitten. They've had playfights since day one. They race up and down the house and sound like a herd of elephants.
There isn't a set time for this pandemonium, it's at completely random times. Usually when I'm trying to sleep.

I bet they did, Want2

Pic 1 - our Cat2, with black nose. I haven't got some great standing up pics unfortunately.

Pic 2 - Cat2's twin, with white nose.

Pic 3 - our Cat1, we think half Wegie!

My almost 15 year old cat still has a mad ten minutes which is usually about 8pm. Normally the kids are in their rooms by this point - she flies down the stairs, onto the chair and skids onto the windowsill. Unfortunately ds was still u sitting in the chair the other day and she skidded across the top of his head!

I might add that Cat2's twin comes in for a visit about once every 4-8 weeks, as he only lives down the road and probably wants to visit his brother, so if, during the good weather when I have the back door open, I have no idea who's snaffling the food until they look up from the bowl and I can see their noses!!