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Got up this morning, went into my living room, and found this ...
Um, no, it's not normally crooked! What else did I find?
Yep, Moggie's up there again! I think she just comes down to eat and use the litter box. Silly Moggie!
I have to say after reading some of these replies that I am VERY happy that my kitties have never chewed on wires (actually, no kitty I've ever had has ever done that). I think I just got lucky in that respect!
I have had a couple jump on my keyboard and type unmentionable things.
Speaking of odd perches, Cookie likes to sit on top of the ductwork in the basement that's coming out of the furnace. She jumps onto a cabinet, then onto the windowsill, steps on a couple of water pipes, and up on the duct. In the winter it's warm, and in the summer it's cool. She has full view of the bird feeder outside, and Checkers won't bother her up there.
Checkers burrows between the top sheet and the comforter on my bed. He'll stay under there for hours; I'm amazed he can breathe. He gets sat on occasionally ...
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Originally Posted by karen_in_nh_2012
Thanks for posting in my thread. I was posting in a different Cats thread that made me pretty sad so it was nice to come over here and read the fun and funny replies!
No doubt all our cats' mischief and mayhem could keep this thread going for years.
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Originally Posted by LoriNJ
We had a dedicated fax machine. One of our cats slept in that room (fortunately, she wasn't a wire-chewer). She loved to send faxes in the middle of the night. There was a button where the fax machine would automatically resend the last fax. She loved to step on that button. So at 1, 2, 3 AM we would hear that familiar fax sound. No one ever said anything about getting a repeat fax in the middle of the night!
I'm also fortunate in never having a cord-chewer. With my old house with few receptacles, and all my electronic gadgets, that would really have been a problem.
But my 'no off-limits' rule hasn't been without incident. I have a medium size air compressor on a work bench in the back utility room that I use for my hobbies. The bedroom is also in the rear part of the house, separated by the bathroom. The off-on switch of the compressor is on the top casing of the motor (you can see where this is going, I'm sure). One night my wife & I had just gone to bed and were almost asleep, when that compressor suddenly kicked on. Ordinarily it's noise isn't all that bad, but late at night when it's quiet is a whole other matter. It scared the pee out of both of us, not to mention the cat that did it, who was scrambling out of the back room & through the kitchen like the devil was after her. It took me minute to figure out what it was and get back there to turn it off. Took a lot longer to calm down and get back to sleep.
It was obvious what had happened. One of the cats had been snooping around on the work bench, and had climbed up on the compressor.... stepping on the switch in the process. The very next day I bought a power strip with a switch and mounted on the wall, and plugged the compressor into that. Made me have to turn on 2 switches to use it, but that's a lot better than being woke up by a Mack truck going through the bedroom.
We never did know for sure which cat did it, but after that Angel wouldn't go near that compressor, and still won't. So......
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My three girls are allowed anywhere, but Bella is constantly cruising behind the entertainment center where there are UPSs and switches and stuff. I know who the culprit is when I hear the beeping.
This morning at 5:04AM the whole house generator came on. In my sleepy haze I yelled out "Bella, stop it" not realizing what that actually was.
A long time ago when I had my Bear, one day I found him on top of the fridge. He jumped on the counter (which was next to the fridge) and then on the fridge. For one thing he wasn't even supposed to be in the kitchen, not to mention the counter & fridge. When I found him, he gave me such a look that I had to take a pic of him. (Don't know where the pic is at the moment.) The look basically said, "HOW DARE YOU catch me doing something I'm not supposed to be doing."
the doorbell rang and my mother had been loading the dryer and went to answer it
came back, finished loading, switched the dryer on and walked away
One very unhappy set of yowls later she found the cat
As a kid, we had a kitten that died in the dryer because she thought that was a good place to sleep and my sister didn't look when she throw her clothes in.
Years ago, we had a home-based business. We had a dedicated fax machine. One of our cats slept in that room (fortunately, she wasn't a wire-chewer). She loved to send faxes in the middle of the night. There was a button where the fax machine would automatically resend the last fax. She loved to step on that button. So at 1, 2, 3 AM we would hear that familiar fax sound. No one ever said anything about getting a repeat fax in the middle of the night!
Extra treats for the office staff please.
TwoStep helped me to place an international call using prefix 011 and ended up calling 911. Two dashing young cops in pulled in the driveway, sirens going. What did the hussy do? Scooted out and and figure eights around their legs. See what I brought home? Sure beats a dead mouse!
No wonder non-cat people cannot understand cat people!
TwoStep helped me to place an international call using prefix 011 and ended up calling 911. Two dashing young cops in pulled in the driveway, sirens going. What did the hussy do? Scooted out and and figure eights around their legs. See what I brought home? Sure beats a dead mouse!
No wonder non-cat people cannot understand cat people!
I have to ask- did they give Two Step a ticket for misusing the 911 system?
Maybe you got lucky & one of the cops was cat person.
On the other hand, maybe Two Step thought Mom needed help (or arrested ) and called 911 on purpose.
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What else did I find?
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Extra treats for the office staff please.
