Bizarre yet impressive things your cat has done

[LeslieKnopescat]

We have a maine coon and he is always 'into things'. He cannot be trusted around meats (runs away with said meat in his mouth) or small boppable objects (that he can also run away with in his mouth).

I left my washing up gloves to dry last night and I woke up this morning to find the 'end' (the sleeve bit) of one glove in the hallway. Went into the kitchen and glove was hanging up with the end of it missing. Just why?

He never fails to surprise me and he tickles me. What was going on in that furry brain of his?

What odd things has your cat done that tickles you?

Then there was the time he brought a poor pigeon home, sneaked it upstairs to our bedroom and beat the proverbial out of it. It was carnage that I only discovered at bedtime.

We had a molecatcher, and a field garden full of them.

Came into the kitchen one day to find DD, then about 14 months old sitting on the floor playing nicely with the cat, how sweet I thought - they were passing a dead mole back and forwards to each other in complete harmony.

My boy likes to sit and watch the kettle boiling, as soon as he hears the switch he appears and sits nose to the spout until it boils or I chase him away!
When I've been to the hairdressers and arrived back home he is straight over and licks, sniffs and nibbles my hair. Wee weirdo.

One of my old cats used to collect snail shells. We found a load of them all in a pile under one of the sofas.

We moved them but she kept moving them back and adding more.

I know they say cats don't communicate with each other by meowing but one of my girls will call and call for her sister if she can't find her, the same way our old dcat would call for me if she couldn't find me. They are both very vocal and chatty tbf but one of them chirps rhythmically when she purrs 🥰

They also wait for the alarm to go off before they jump onto the bed (mostly) for an early biscuit making session (old dcat used to sleep on our bed and also would immediately be on my chest giving me morning face rubs at the sound of the alarm, I miss her so much 😔)

YABU! In his opinion it is nothing short of a symphony!

@Dutch1e

I couldn't admit to my doctor that my cat sent me! But a scan showed several large cysts, one of which was close to bursting and was big enough to threaten a twisted ovary.

Doctor would have been even more puzzled if you'd said you'd already had a cat scan! Very glad you're okay.

@Dutch1e

Alfie knew that I had breast cancer before I did.
In December 2021 he took to nibbling the top of my head but only on the left side and would do it every night at bedtime and every morning when I woke up. I assumed that it was because my smell had changed after having covid that November but no , I found out in February 2022 that I had a fast growing, aggressive tumour in my left breast. He continued to nibble my head but then started pacing up and down the bed until I had emergency surgery later that month. When I returned home and went to bed he came up to me, sniffed my head and then giving a satisfied meow settled down beside me quite contentedly. I'm fine now and we've had no repeat of the intense head nibbling since.

Alfie's other amazing ability is that he is the fastest running cat that I have ever seen. He's like a thoroughbred of the cat world!

I love hearing about cats who are so attuned to their humans they sense diseases. I doubt my two would, although Daisy is an expurrt pawdiologist who is fascinated when I change the batteries in Mum's hearing aids.

I used to own a very aloof cat. She would always be near us but never sit on us. Then when I was pregnant she didn’t leave me alone, sat on me at every opportunity. Once ds was born she went back to keeping her distance, weird little bugger.

I did have one cat that used to lift the letter box flap up with her nose and let it fall so it made a clank noise. She would keep doing this until we let her in. Like a low level door knocker

My boy wouldn’t survive a night in the wild. He’s an excellent marshmallow hunter but has never caught a single creature.

My Hadji was like that. We had him from four weeks old (abandoned feral) and he never hunted anything. Birds would stroll around in front of him and he wouldn't twitch a whisker.

I had a cat that did this too!

Sparked a few arguments about people forgetting to empty the potty until we realized it was the cat.

GirlCat opens doors. I miss going to the loo alone.

Both GirlCat and BoyCat come inside when they are called (not only at dinner time). Better recall than some dogs.

I used to have a baby bath for mine, a big plastic thing my mum bought for them in the '70s. Only using a smaller litter tray (the high-sided sort made for pine pellets) now because my current bathroom is so small and has to accommodate Mum's shower stool as well.

Like someone above, when I was a teenager one of ours brought us a live koi carp. My parents asked around all the neighbours but we never found out where it had come from. It was still living happily in our pond when we moved years later.

Recently one of ours found a live bird in our log burner. We probably wouldn't have noticed in time if he hadn't been staring at it, so he probably saved the poor little thing.

Our sweet-natured neutered female cat still had strong mothering instincts. She would steal my husband's drying socks from the airer, take them off to a quiet corner, cuddle up to them and lick them to death. From time to time, we had to steal them back so he had something to wear. We always felt mean.

My cat turned up one Sunday with a whole freshly roasted leg of lamb that she'd dragged from goodness knows where.

Never did find out where it came from.

It was impressive though as it was nearly as big as she was. 😬

Correctly predicted all of my pregnancies 😳

@Firefly2009 reminds me of my first cat, she carted my poor teddy everywhere when she was a kitten. Teddy suffered a lot from that, she basically denuded him. He's still around, though, whereas she passed away in old age many decades ago.

@MothralovesGojira oh that hit me right in the heart!

I never talk about my little 'diagnostician' in real life as it sounds a bit loopy. To hear your story makes me feel a bit more confident that I'm not imagining things. I'm so happy that you are well recovered, give Alfie an ear scratch for me please.

I reckon cats can definitely sense pregnancy! Mine did the opposite- he's not a lap cat but he likes to sit on the arm of the sofa leaning against me heavily. When I was pregnant he completely went off me and would bite me for no reason or run away when I entered the room.

Back to normal when I gave birth. Having a baby in the house changed his personality, he was terribly unfriendly to anyone except me before the baby came. Now he's really quite sociable and friendly, even towards people he doesn't know.

My mum's girl cats were like that. They'd make gnashing noises if they saw a bird through the window but never do anything about it. We once came into the kitchen and they were lounging on the kitchen table with a RAT () in the fruit bowl next to them.

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