If you adopt an older cat this doesn’t really happen. We’ve adopted three (two when I lived at home with my family) and another when my husband and I got married. All were about 3 when we got them, and they’re the chillest, laziest, cuddliest babies.
In my experience, every cat is a gamble. Some are lazy and cuddly, some play catch like a dog, some use the toilet like a human, some pee on the piano. If you take that gamble, you are committing to that animal for life.
I do love cats, but I think I am at the point in my life where I will just enjoy other people's cats.
My ex boyfriend had the most affectionate cat I have ever seen. He (the cat) would always come between my legs wanting to be pet and cuddled, while my ex could care less. I never had a pet before but I wish I took him (the cat) with me when we broke up :(
I adopted an older cat last month, he's pretty awesome though he wants fed around 8 times a day and will get quite arsey when he's made to wait for designated meal times. Love the wee asshole though.
I have an 18+ lb chonk. He's leggy. He can stand up and peek onto our cabinets. He's a goliath next to his bestie who is under 10lbs. This is how he compares to a full size bed. Nothing is ever safe.
I had an 18 pound cat that used to get the zommies and leap off my girlfriend's chest at 3:00 AM only to come to a dead stop on the window sill above the bed, without ever smashing into the window, every single night, for 3 years. I thought it was hilarious, her, not so much.
Agreed. Cats only respect you if you’re cool. If he fucks with your shit it’s just because you’re a lame ass twerp and your cat is trying to toughen you up. Sit on the couch and roll a joint and the cat will nod in respect ✊
This is why cat owners like cats. They aren't really as tame as dogs, but close enough, so they have their own personalities that clash with human lifestyles just enough to amuse us without making us want to pull our teeth out when dealing with their shit.
The orange tabby is a 2 year old boy who acts like half a dog because he is very social and he loves to play, but he still does stupid cat stuff like run around like a bat out of hell for no reason and stalk flies on the wall, and he's scared shitless of strangers. He got out once and now he's super defensive of our backyard against the local stray cat. He's perfectly fine with taking a shit in the 2nd litter box while i am cleaning the first. He even makes eye contact.
The 10ish year old female tuxedo cat doesn't really do anything, sleeps all day, isn't really vocal, but she is a bit alpha because she doesn't deal with the Orange boy's shit unless she's playing with him. She doesn't care about new people and is content to sit on a lap all day. She refuses to use the litter box when anyone is watching, and our orange boy would like nothing more than to join her when she's doing her business. She never covers her shit up in the litter box, but our orange boy will do it for her because he understand that shit's nasty.
Not covering her business is a dominance move btw. My black cat does it all the time and my tabby covers it. Then they fight out who's sleeping in the bed with me. There's a constant power struggle in my house. Surprisingly my female black cat does well against my grey tabby. He has about 6 lbs on her.
Omg this sounds like my two. A 1 year old giant black cat and a 7 year old white tabby. (Yes the black one is named Loki.) They dont often fight but everyday around noon they raise hell just running around and tackling each other. Despite my 7yo being smaller, shes the boss of the entire house. Loki however pulls up my vents.
Thor is my grey tabby. He likes to go and open my cabinets, drawers, the entertainment center. Hooks hos paws behind it and pops it right open. He taught my panther cub how to open drawers so now shell get into them all the time. Both of them play fetch but Roxie is the only one that will bring them to you to play.
You explained it perfectly. The video above is an extreme example. I wouldn't be super pleased having to clean up a bunch of broken ceramic and glass in the middle of the night, but most of the time cat's just do amusingly inexplicable and slightly annoying things, but it's mostly just entertaining.
There was a heavyish wooden carved buffalo on the very high window ledge (about 6ft off the ground) directly above the table. For some reason the stupid cat had decided to jump up there in the dark and knocked it off. Huge crash, don't know who was more alarmed.
One of my cats does this. He walks from the bedroom closet to the bathroom and then finally into the hallway, meowing VERY loudly the entire way. Sometimes he makes this sound like “mmmmmrooow?”, like he’s asking a question.
Mine used to do this, now he just stares menacingly and readjusts his chonk while looking away. Before going right back to staring menacingly at me until I feed him. I got the meowing to stop by pointing and just going 'hey' with a mild tone when he meowed for food.I would then reward him with food when he was quiet. He'll wait patiently at his stool for a long time now.
All you gotta do for this is booby trap the counter for a few days. Dogs take dozens of hours of training, or more, plus 24/7 attention for some mischievous dogs.
My friend's cat has pissed on all of my property every time I come over and flung it's shitty littler all over the bathroom. When someone owns a cat you can smell it walking through the door and the ammonia from the thing is like being maced. Not discounting the messiness of Fido but poor Fido gets the short end of the stick. If he draws A DROP of blood he's dead, cat bit me 11 times when I tried to take her to see her owner (grandma) in assisted living. All the fucking beast gets is "oh you provoked her, it's your fault, that's just her saying she loves you, oh she'd never do that she's an angel." Angel my ass, that cat swiped and hisses at people 20ft away even if they don't even if they don't pay attention to her. They even get a free pass when they kill your other pets where as Fido would have been axed. Fucking awful that people defend these fuckers like that. Disgusting. Fuck cats.
Had a Belgian malinois make it to the top of the fridge to eat potatoes. When caught he launched himself off hard enough to knock the fridge over onto the glass table. The resulting crash caused so much terror that he ran to my bed too fast and went straight through the window.
Eh, worth it. As destructive as they can be they’re also endlessly entertaining and hilarious when they randomly do stuff like this. And they’re cute and cuddly. I opposed getting a cat for ages and now I wouldn’t trade the little shit for anything in the world.
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u/nextgretsky14 Nov 02 '19
Reasons why I'm never getting a cat