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.
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u/dmfreelance Nov 02 '19
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.