Conference misery::feline_v1

    
    
    	Thats sooo funny!!
    
    	Usually cats take things OUT of the trashcan!  
    
    	Your decription of Elmo tearing around the house reminded me
    	of T.K.   He sometimes gets in these moods where he goes ripping
    	around the house, up the stairs, back down the stairs, over
    	one couch, over another couch, over a chair, the skidding
    	over the dining room table.  He continues his run through the
    	kitchen, usually on his side since the floor is smooth.  He
    	crashed into his water bowl, sometimes wipes the food dish
    	out, then flys back down the stairs.  AND HE GROWLS THE WHOLE
    	WAY!!!  
    
    	He truly seems like a hyperactive kitty and my first reaction
    	is to laugh but my next reaction is to tell him to calm down.
    	Usually, if I speak to him he stops!
    
    	I don't know what these bursts of energy mean.  Maybe he is
    	all wired and needs to get some energy burnt fast!  BUT I
    	NEVER see Bandit do this!  Then again, it is rare that Bandit
    	ever moves faster than a waddle.  Time for a diet.
    
    	Karen

    ...at least Elmo puts this stuff in the trash.
    
    I woke up this morning to find that during the night aja had brought
    all her toys (red things on milk jugs, tin foil balls, Senor Mouse,
    etc.) and put them on my bed.
    
    Not a pleasant thing to wake up to as Senor Mouse still has beer
    breath...
    
    Edd

    Heeheeeheeeheee!!!  I wish my two would put the stuff IN the trash...
    
    When my half-Siamese, Nebula, starts tearing around the house like
    crazy, it usually turns out to mean that her claws need to be clipped,
    like last night.  For some reason hers grow much faster than The
    Fickle's do (although I clip them both at the same time anyhow,
    so Neb doesn't think she is being singled out for this undiginified
    ttreatment by her pet human), and she doesn't seem to like to click
    when she walks on the uncarpeted floors.  I guess she tears around
    the house hoping to wear down her claws a bit (which might work
    if she went outside, but she doesn't anymore unless I'm outside),
    since the "cat panic" behavior usually stops right after I clip
    them.  Easier on the furniture, too, since sometimes she "forgets"
    to use the scratching tree.

    
    Little Whicket also brings all of her toys up to the pillow during
    the night.  (milk bottle plastic things, wine corks - yuck, foil 
    that wine comes wraped in, twisties for plastic bags, ect - every
    thing I put into the trash!)
    
      I guess she thinks my bed is a pretty trashy place...... ;^>  
    
    Katie
    

    At our recent Dec outing at Riverside Park, my sister-in-law won
    me a little stuffed mouse.  The very minute that I brought it
    into the house, it caught her eye.  Since that very day, the
    "mouse" has become her toy.  She will carry it around the house
    with her.  It's so funny to watch.
    
    Our other rascal, Mijo, loves jewelry.  Twice he has "stolen"
    my watch.  We have to be careful and lock up all our "precious"
    items or else we won't have them.  We recently had my sister-in-
    law stay with us this summer.  Her first instruction upon entering
    our house was this.... "lock up your jewelry".  Then I gave her
    a plastic little box to put them in.  Anyways, one day in August
    she forgot and Mijo got ahold of her diamond ring.  We looked and
    looked all over the house.  It was gone.  Mijo had taken it.  Needless
    to say as her last day of vacation was approaching, we were nervous
    about her leaving without her precious diamond ring. And we
    searched to no avail.  She went home to South America without her
    ring.  She's been gone now for about 2 weeks.
    
    Last night as my husband and I were watching the debate, Mijo came
    around the couch with something in his mouth.  Sure enough, he
    brought out the diamond ring to play with. He hid the ring until
    Terri was gone so that he could keep it!!!  That little rascal.
    Now we have to figure out how to get the ring back to its rightful
    owner.
    
    Cats, always pleasantly surprised...... that's for sure.
    
    
    
    Shelly, Selina, and Mijo (the jewelry lover)

    Your story about the jewlery reminds me of an acquaintance of mine
    who used to keep all his gold jewlery in the bottom of his pirranha
    tank.
    
    It kept more than just the cats from stealing it.
    
    

    There's lots of furry folk and not-furry folks you cannot trust.
    We hand a raccoon when growing up and my mother learned to put away
    jewelry after the second ring was removed.  Also had a pet crow
    that liked anything shiny - at least HIS *stash* was easy to find.  Now
    there is Smokey who loves my watch.  If I ever leave it out, I pay
    the penalty of search and retrieve.  I like the pirranha story though.

    
    
    	Yes, T.K. has been know to steal jewelry too.  What a creep!
    	He especially loves my earings and I can't take one off without
    	him coming after it!
    
    	Come to think of it, he just loves small objects.  He knocks
    	all my magnets off the refrigerator, plays with any available
    	pen or pencil, steels jewelry, makeup, if its small, he wants
    	it!
    
    	KaREN

    Hmm.  I have to hide my watch also.  I thought my guys were weird.
    I'd never heard of anyone else with a watch thief!!!
    I can't leave pens around either.  Lately, my Lara has started digging
    in my purse - do you think she wants her allowance and wants to
    go shopping for trick or treat candy?  sigh  I get tidier by the
    day!
    
    E.T.
    

    re: .9
    
    Isn't that the truth. I've also become tidier since the cats have
    taken over.  Sam also loves to steal pens, actually he prefers to
    swat them out of my hand when I'm using it!  The little devil!
    
    His favorite thing is to steal my husbands cigarets and lighter.
    Sam hates smoke and I think it's his way of telling John to quit.
    
    Jeanne, Cali and Sam
    

    ah yes I forgot lighters and also Pashenka is now into scooping
    butts out of the ash trays with his fingers (he has very long 
    toes - they are really cute toes !!).  For a long time I 
    thought KoKo was the culprit, but the day I saw Pashenka
    do it, I had to appologize to KoKo - she seems to be off
    ash trays these days.
    
    Lara steals dryer sheets and drags them around, then shreds them.
    Katenka like to shred & chew magazines & paper, but most of them
    are guilty of that!
    
    oh well,
    
    E.T.

    I guess Elmo was trying to tell me something by throwing away all
    the sponges.  I got home last night and one of the sponges was shredded
    into pieces on the bathroom floor.  I guess it's time to buy a new
    one!

    Bathroom! Did someone say bathroom?  That reminded me of Sam's
    discovery of toilette paper.  It was nothing to find the entire
    roll strewn around every room in the house.  Thank goodness he has
    outgrown that habit. As for Cali, she insists that all combs and
    brushes belong on the floor and not on the counter!
    
    Jeanne
    

    
    	I saw a clear-plastic toilet paper shield in a magazine (Miles
    	Kimball ?), that was specifically to keep your cat from unrolling
    	it all over the bathroom...What next?
    

    I have a Feline Foiler - only thing is that you have to still hang
    it high enough so the cat can't reach the whole thing.  My Lara
    still messed with the T.P - she is something else.  When God made
    my Lara, he BROKE the mold!
    
    E.T._mother_of_a_SUPER_SHREDDER !!