i want to send my cats to obedience school

i once tried to keep my cats off the table by shaking a pop can at them with coins inside. it worked a little, but unfortunately i got sick of hearing the loud noise before they did.

I was gone for two weeks and when I got home on Friday they immediately harwked up hairballs on the bed. Just a little welcome back gesture. Incestuous gay bastards, both of them.

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"I'm a-gonna mess you up."

"Can I watch huh huh can I?"

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my cats are pretty nice. except when they wake me up - one meows while the other finds something (plastic bag, box end, door) to claw/bat for as long as it takes. fuckers.

Other cats sleep in shoeboxes, briefcases, pot plants, drawers, the washing machine (!!!), and of course the laundry which always has to be exactly the opposite colour of their fur.

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What do my cats NOT do? I have seriously reached my wits end. Before I begin this tirade, let me iterate that I fucking LOVE these chumbles. They are beautiful, wonderful...my babies. Here they are:

Bernard, 1

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Pagoda, 4

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Wonderful. Love them. Cute, fuzzy bumpkins.

HOWEVER

They are fucking MALICIOUS. They do this shit ON PURPOSE. For example: Pagoda, while I am sleeping, or doing anything besides showering him with affection 24 fucking hours a day, will perch on a stupid shelf and PURPOSEFULLY knock everything off of it with a sweep of his paw, then affect a very proud stance, head in the air. RUDE!!!

He also has this terrible habit of kicking the litter around UNTIL THERE IS NONE LEFT IN THE LITTER PAN. WTF LITTLE MAN

And everything he does goes double for Bernard, because he trains him to be exactly like him.

I heard my cat, Ava playing on the bathroom counter this morning when I was in the shower and I peeked my head out just in time to see her send my glasses flying. Then she gave me a look that bespoke annoyance at being interrupted in the midst of such fun.

Surriously Roxy, have you tried the squirt bottle?

my other meowser, sindy, is a perfect angel though.

Leftmost cat in photo (Morrie) is a litter-kicker, but also prefers to do his business on smooth cool porcelan and/or tiled surfaces (bathtub and laundry room floor are current favorites). We excuse this behavior and count ourselves lucky because we have friends with a cat who USES THEIR POTS/PANS/CASSEROLE DISHES!!!! (We have issues eating at their house now that we know this...)

Same friends also have a beverage-tipping cat.

The biggest issue with Morrie and litter box is Drac (cat #2) attacks Morrie at random while he's taking care of business in there. We have two of the extra-deep Rubbermaid litter boxes in an attempt to cure this, but Drac enjoys pouncing on Morrie when he is most defenseless. So, Morrie associates the boxes with being attacked, though he is a cat of little brain, he does remember this. Keeping an inch of water in the bathtub is effective, but impractical for the laundry room.

Everything is complicated by the fact that Pagoda knows English, though.

Drac also absolutely can not be in the bedroom at night because he LICKS PEOPLE. He will lick your skin until it is raw! He loves eyebrows. And that is a HORRIBLE way to wake up.

Jaq OTM. <3 <3

Retardo cat does not lick, but pokes you in the head with his paw until you pet him, or possibly tries to eat your hair.

!!

A frightening thought.

Ok, maybe not such a good idea. Maybe they need more to do to keep them occupied. I got my bozos (both indoor cats) a window seat and they're smitten with it. There's a lot less of Bif standing in the bathroom screaming at me in the morning than there had been.

Bif (once a street cat, now a spoiled brat):

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Gertrude (a little tubby -- she yells "ouf!" when she jumps off of things):

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My cat does this! He's also named Calvin as a Back to the Future reference. ("That's your name isn't it? Calvin Klein? It's written all over your underwear.")

-- Marmot

I didn't read the whole thread, so forgive me if this is repeated advice.
Lemon juice is a great cat-deterrent. Used to use it to keep my cat from attacking the Xmas tree. My friend has a cat who demonstrates the exact same behavior as yours. I found that putting a hand inches from his face, moving it so it's always just in front of his eyes even as he tries to move away from it, bugs the living shit out of him. Apart from physically lifting him off the table, it's the only way to get him off.

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Milo: Hee!

You put lemon juice in the squirtgun, or on the tree?

xpost just in a dish near the base of the tree.

Well, maybe not when you are looking :)

This is the other thing - they are smart and wily enough to not do the bad behaviour when you are watching, but leave the room for 1/2 a second and they forget you exist and are swinging from the valances and pissing in the ficus. They never get on the counters that we have seen, yet there are pawprints up there and on TOP of the fridge!

M. White gets extra-double-bonus points for "pullulating".

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We don't even have to use it now, if our kitten's being a nuisance I just get the can out and point it at him.

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Skittles, however, is a hellion:

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My dad's nickname for him is "Shithead". You cannot leave any food or cups unattended, or he will jump on the table for it or knock it down.

(that said, my dad and Skittles are actually really close.)

Cats like to be up high. If you install one of those cat trees that goes all the way to the ceiling, they won't bother with the table anymore, because the tree will be higher up, and more comfy for lying on.

Bernard: Pardon me? You dare snorgle I?
You: Yes I do!

OTFM :)

We just leave the ironing board out and cover it with a towel (in a futile attempt to stop getting fur all over our clothes, hah right), they sit on that rather than the table. Although doesn't stop them from knocking everything off table with their tails...

This makes me sad, because I now know that they were very sick during this time.

This whole thread has me in hyterics. My cat does most of these "bad" things too except get up on counters and certain tables. Taught her by making very loud noise clapping near her and yelling NO!

I have no doubt she tries it when I am not at home, but NEVER in front of me.

She will pat me on the head while I am sleeping to wake me up and allow her under the covers when she is cold.

And when she wants attention she will sit on the nightstand and push things off quite deliberately waiting to see my reaction as each item falls. Eyeglasses, hairclip, pen, cell phone if I ignore her she continues until there is nothing left to push on the floor. Then she begins to wail.

If I give her "attention" just by giving her the "evil eye" she acts as if she doesn't see me and begins to bathe or something then casually gets off the table.

I'd like to apologize for my heartlessness on this thread, but re-reading it just makes me more determined never to live with cats again.

(Sorry, rox, though. :( )

It's ok, they are better now.

And back up to most of this shit, actually!

I miss my Skittles, so much. RIP :-(

Skittles left this Earth a very loved little champion.

AS a very loved, etc

A year later and now in the new place there seems to be NO WAY to keep them out of the bedroom (loft, climbable record shelves, etc etc etc) They are slowing down some, esp. Morrie, but that bastard Drac still licks my eyebrows in the middle of the night. He also decided the (1) bathroom is his and loudly protests if anyone goes in there and dares to close the door in his face.

ever since i rearranged my room so that my dresser is next to the closet, my cat has become obsessed with getting to the top shelf of the closet. it seemed like an impossible dream, but after about a week of just staring at the top shelf of the closet and meowing constantly (from 4 am to 7am usually) she finally attempted the jump last night and MADE IT. and then knocked everything off the top shelf of the closet. at 3 am last night.

Cosmo and Bob are motherfuckers.

I have been teaching one of my cats to walk on a leash and harness outside. Behold:

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Except now that he's done it, he's obsessed, so from the moment we get up in the morning, it's a constant chorus of meowing OUTSIDE OUTSIDE OUTSIDE NOW NOW NOW PLEASE OUTSIDE PLEASE NOW. If he hears us open a door he bolts down and begins with the meowing. One day we were out doing yardwork, and heard him meow and meow and suddenly stop, and walked over to see that he'd climbed all the way to the top of the screen door.

He's also capable, when he gets determined, of simply rolling into his back, pulling in his little cat elbows, and sweeping the whole leash-and-harness assembly off over his head.

AWESOME

We have a harness for Bob but whenever we've tried it he's just gone a bit schizo. I daren't contemplate putting Cosmo in one, he's fucking insane at the best of times.

i used to take my cat on walks but the last time i tried it, she wriggled out of the collar when the neighbor's dog started barking at her and ran and hid in the undercarriage of a car. i guess i should get one of the full harness things.

there are soon going to be 2 cats in my household.
i am hoping this will be a good thing.

Two? Amateur!

Pictured above: Rusty

Marble (17 years old, has hyperthyroid): http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3222/2783317153_6b29ffc62e.jpg?v=0

Chestnut (15 years old): http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2374/2406884690_e569105396.jpg?v=0

Scooter (9 years old, former feral): http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3232/2406884022_c61b7c144f.jpg?v=0

my first cat got lost when we were driving to florida, tried to take it out at a truck stop to walk it on a harness, and it freaked out and slipped out of the harness and ran into the woods, never to be found again. so i don't trust those things.

Bell-labs, your cat isn't siamese, is she? They love to get high up, for some reason.

she's not siamese, but she is really neurotic about perching in the highest place. she would definitely be getting stuck in all kinds of trees if she were an outdoor cat.

is there any way to make cats stop attacking your feet when you sleep?

Missy has us trained rather than the other way around. every time we do something "wrong" she shits in the corner of the living room for a couple of days until we realise and rectify our errors.

cover your feet in dogs

xp

oh god. i can't even imagine the fit there would be if i tried to have a DOG in the bed.

i am thinking about getting a queen size bed though because a full is kind of small for 2 cats.

Leroy and Lamar are about the same age, not brothers. Leroy is still pretty wee, almost kitten-like. Lamar is basically full-grown, starting to develop a gut. Lamar torments Leroy. Not as constantly as when I first got them (4 months ago), but often. Leroy used to fight back, and still will occasionally, but mostly he's resigned himself to "defeat" and just wants to live in peace. I've got Leroy on special "sensitive stomach" diet, which he needs most likely because Lamar has him on edge all the time. Leroy is the most awesome cat in the world. (He plays fetch!) Lamar is a whiny, moody lil beeyotch. I'm hoping he mellows out with age.

bell labs, rub lemon juice on your feet!

if you don't have a vindictive shitter the squirt bottle of water desists most unwanted cat behavior

poor leroy :( he sounds like a bro.

does the lemon juice thing work? how could it work?

cats don't like lemons?

my cat likes every kind of food there is!

One of our cats Pogo will eat almost anything, but does not like lemon. It's the only way we could stop them drinking out of our glasses of water, we just drink lemon squash now and they leave them alone.

We were carving pumpkins last halloween and Pogo went crazy trying to eat the pulp we were dumping out. He also goes mental if we get McDonalds. He really does love cheezburger.

Morrie, yesterday:
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You can't see the ocean of boxes he climbed across to get up there.

"still life with still life and cat"

Yeah Lamar has become totally immune to even a thorough water-gun spraying.
As a kid, my cat Pepper would attack the Xmas tree, and we read that if you put a dish of lemon juice near it, your cat will live it alone. He did, and the year after that he'd stay away even without putting the juice there.

Does anyone cat(s) have an affinity for beer? Leroy and my friend's cat Watson (who are pretty similar overall) go NUTS for beer. I think it's mostly the condensation on a glass bottle that they like, though Leroy took a sip of my roommate's whisky!

The only things my cat will eat are 1) Cat food, 2) Milk and 3) Fish (especially tuna!). Turns his nose up at chicken, beef, pork or any vegetable.

Rice Krispies and tuna seem to be current faves.

I think they like tuna because it comes out of a tin (like normal catfood but BETTER)

like, rice krispies mixed in with tuna? or you talking bout two seperate things?

fact: cats are one of the few creatures who will starve themselves to death if they don't like their food options.

friend has taken to putting his cat's food up on top of the cabinets because he thinks it's funny to watch the cat eat way up on top of the cabinets

two separate things, although I suspect she'd be more than happy with the combination.

(xp)

all of these are making me laugh, oh cats

cat leashes/harnesses are super lol - all cats can escape (unless i guess if they are super fat?)

my new cat (i still call her new even though i've had her for months) is such a messy eater! it's like she chews some of the food, swallows some of it whole, and leaves crumbs of varying sizes in a wide arch around the food dish. i have to sweep in the morning and at night!
she is slowly becoming more affectionate. by which i mean she curls up on me more often and has learned to tolerate my squeezing her.

today as i was leaving the house i looked back at the cats, sitting in the living room, backlit - one was sitting slightly ahead of the other, but they sat in the same way, their eyes wide and on me. i said "goodbye cats!" and they continued their staring. as i backed my bike out the door i said "OK bye" and they still didn't move. eerie fucking cats.

friend has taken to putting his cat's food up on top of the cabinets because he thinks it's funny to watch the cat eat way up on top of the cabinets

-- gbx, Tuesday, August 26, 2008 5:22 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

lol I used to do that!

Just a few years ago I had a studio apt with ceilings that I swear were 20+ feet high. Anyway they had I-beams going across and I got the idea I'd put my cat up on the beam, thinking it might like it. It jumped right off and hurt its leg and limped for a couple of days. :/

awww!

Much tuna was served. And milk.

Ok - my neighbor, across the street, feeds all of the animals every day. Huge bowls of dry food (crunchies). And he feeds canned food to the kitties as well.
I have just recently kidnapped my cat from his yard. He's miserable.
he knows how to open the screen door - so I locked it. I can HEAR him going crazy, trying to get the handle to release...but it's not going to happen.
We live on the third floor of an apartment building. Monster (the kitty) has actually climbed DOWN the building, just to escape.

I just want to keep him in for a few days so he realizes that he lives here.
He is extremely pissed off.

rrrobyn, Leroy is a super messy eater, too. He likes to pick out each morsel with his paw, and then usually eats it just off of the placemat thingee. Their dishes are on carpet, so it's kind of a bitch having to always vaccuum up the multitude of crumbs. He'll sometime do the same thing with water, put his paw in there rather than sipping, until he releases water don't work like that.

airmuchie, you shouldn't have given him that taste of freedom! Give him a lil while, he'll eventually forget about the supreme awesomeness of your neighbor's yard.

Morrie does the paw-scoop with the dry food, only he sweeps out a pile instead of just one or two. I keep their bowl in a low cardboard box to try to contain the crumbs. Which sort of works.

i hung out with a 28-toed cat this weekend. :D

buncha' http://scienceblogs.com/zooillogix/simpsons_CrazyCatLady.gif's in this thread

Drac's favorite thing ever is to drag dirty laundry all over the house, once the lights are out at night, meowing loudly as best he can through a mouthful of fabric. One time he dragged a damp bath sheet up from the basement to the second floor.

Rusty the harness cat above also has a stuffed white seal that is his, um, very good friend. He mounts it, grabs it by the neck with his teeth and goes to work, meowing loudly the whole time. Keep in mind he was fixed before we ever got him and has never ever expressed interest in any of our females.

I try to get different kinds of dry food for them frequently for variety, and his habit is to run to the bowl every time I open a new bag, happily devour the first serving, then never want the rest of the bag. Little bastard.

haha one day I came home and my bathrug was in the living room. I couldn't believe that Lamar was strong enough or had the dexterity to do it, but I staked him out and saw him do it. With such purpose! Cats are fucking nuts.
Last week Lamar somehow got into the linen closet and ate/scratched EVERY SINGLE roll of spare toilet paper, about 8. None were salvageable.
my roommate has taken to barricading his bedroom door at night because, like clockwork, at about 5am Lamar will make a racket trying to crawl underneath the door. Nuts, I tell you.

xpost maybe your guy has an iron stomach and it doesn't matter, but I was told to not switch foods on them. Which is hard when 3 times in a row every store decided to stop selling the kind I'd bought the time before.

Hmmm, maybe I'll just stick w/Science Diet Sensitive Stomach. Which actually seems to work pretty well!

yeah so crazy that people who have cats care about their cats and talk abt them :/
i'm currently trying to be a better cat owner b/c i realized that i wasn't home very often and was kinda ignoring my cats outside of feeding them & cleaning litter. which is just not good.

i have a friend who seriously cannot understand why people have pets at all, so i get where the 'cat lady' criticism comes from, but whatever
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omg, WHY do they hate toilet paper/rolls of paper towels so much? Or maybe it's just too fun to stop ripping them up. I have to rep for the scatmat for stopping them from pounding on doors in the middle of the night. Possibly evil of me to enjoy knowing they are getting their little paws shocked, but it works so well!

yo I got 2 kittens

TP:cats::bubble wrap:ppl

Ooh never heard about scatmat but that looks like a good solution.
I think he liked biting on the huge cushy tp rolls, liked how they felt in his mouth? Initially he'd go in there every time I opened the door and start biting on the plastic wrap (apparently there's some chemical in it that cats love) the tp rolls come in, and I assume finding out that the things inside were totally biteable was a happy surprise.
Last week he unwound the active roll of tp, but he hasn't done that since so I'm hoping it was anti-climactic for him. I've heard of other cats that do that habitually.

some chemical in it that cats love

This explains Morrie's complete obsession w/ licking all the plastic he can get to, in that eyes-half-closed blissed out way.

my cat used to love tearing up records, when i had records. now my boyfriend is moving in with thousands of records. but at least he keeps them in mylar sleeves. hopefully this will deter her or i think i will not have a boyfriend for very long.

uh but maybe she will chew on the sleeves because they are plastic.

uhoh

Indeed. that habit is not going away.

goodbye charalambides rarities

maybe there is something i can spray on them?

lemon juice

apparently

you could try giving the cats a good shellac'ing

i have friends that solved this problem by getting glass-doored shelves but i dont think we can afford 5 new shelves

this is a classic ilx conundrum

but the cat will have eaten all the Shellac

lol

lolx2

Morrie the cat up there looks like s/he is wearing a little pink hat! Too cute.

ha laugh all you want people but i am actually nervous about this!

Chestnut looks like an adorable, non-grouchy feline Oscar the Grouch.

When the Lamar vs Leroy War was at its height, I contemplated trading in Lamar for Leroy's sister. Of course, once I finally reached the breaking point and was ready to go through with it, she'd already been adopted. SHOCKING REVELATION: While they were still on the streets, Leroy got his sis pregnant. She had a litter of stillborns in the shelter.

you spray water on the cats

does he know you got a record-eating cat?

i've warned him.

he's seen the one crate of records i have that look like a scratching post.

awwww then you know it's luv

penelope, bell's cat, has stayed at my house before and not touched my records, so i am not soooooo worried.

still you may want to store those queensryche and foghat records on the bottom shelves initially

you must establish dominance over the cat

first, call her 'lopey'
then, when she is hungry, get a plate full of food. sit down in front of her & eat it all. then feed her.
next, when she wants to go out/leave a closed room, don't let her out until you want to go out. open the door, but make sure she FOLLOWS you.
finally, spray her with water.

that also works with women

good luck, ian!

internet advice lol

bottom shelf = sound effects & spoken word.

Here's an even better Chestnut pic:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2168/2406882968_4f0ce5a40b.jpg?v=0

ANd Rusty and Scooter from when Scooter was still feral and living outside:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2156/2406882582_ee5c548d45.jpg?v=0

what's Rusty doing there? trying to move the screen so he can get in? scratching his head on it?

I meant Scooter, I think.

This looks like a cool cat harness, its a little jacket!

http://www.catwalkingjacket.com/resource/catjacket_gallery1.jpg

From here:
http://www.catwalkingjacket.com/home.php?page_id=1

I've moved into a house with a small back courtyard. Its fenced in, and I thought my kitty would be fine pootling out there as she always hung out on my old balcony and knew not to climb up over the railing.

This place? No chance. The second time I let her out in the yard she'd sussed out all the fence exit points, I turned my back for maybe 30 seconds, andshe was up over the fence.

How to keep her from doing that? Grr. :/

I mean, some people would just let their cat go wander. Mine's been an indoor cat most her life. I'm concerned she'd get lost.

people who keep their cats indoors are not in tune with the cat spirit

Well, I get that; but my cat's never had fleas or any illness. So, yanno.

^^ Totally OTM.

I meant Scooter, I think.

Yeah, Scooter, she was the grey one outside. We discovered her as a kitten living in a sewer grate when we lived in a ground floor apartment. We started feeding her and eventually rescued her. She was very suspicious and would never let us approach her very closely, but LOVED Rusty. Every time we'd open the patio door she'd come over and rub all over it, then just sit there staring in at him. She still loves him -- follows him around the house like they're attached.

that is awesome. i regret now that i didn't get a guy and a girl rather than two dudes. i didn't plan on getting 2 in the first place, but I couldn't decide on Lamar or Leroy so I got both.

haha the cat isn't gonna get lost! my last cat got snapped up by a coyote most likely but he had a long free badass life wld raise again

a good friend of mine let his long-time indoor cat, Rizzo, experiment with outdoorness when (t)he(y) moved into a house.

within a few months his cat was road kill and we all learned our lesson the hard way.

yeah don't put an indoor-bred cat outside. even if you're no longer worried about the cat getting lost.

Our two have been indoor cats all their lives (due to the FeLV), but Drac escaped and disappeared during one of our many moves. No amount of calling/shaking the cat food bag turned him up. The next morning though, he was yowling pitifully under a bush in the corner of the back patio. When I opened the door, he made a mad dash for the litter box, because he'd held it all night.

that happened with pen once, she escaped through a faulty screen from a second story window of my parents' house. when i finally found her trotting back into the yard her eyes were like O_O and she was so mellow for about a month afterward.

I'd like for my cats to be indoor-outdoor cats, but I think they'd have trouble reaching the buzzer for my apartment.

Bell, that mellowness was totally masking severe Post-Traumatic Cat Disorder

Marmite should make a full recovery apparently

Marmite! Marmite will be staying indoors for awhile.

I might have to kill the neighbor who feeds the cats -raccoons -skunks etc. he's like 80 years old, so it's hard to argue with him about it - even mild conversations turn into long dialogues about his love for cats, all cats.
Seriously - he puts PANS of food out on his lawn - two bags of dry food a day - AND he feeds the cats wet food in PANS on his back porch. Around noon. Lunchtime.
Dr. fucking Doolittle. he's very sweet, but...it's a little weird. PLUS - nobody wants skunks traipsing around, waiting for their next meal to be served!
I have been taking pictures - I just have to figure out how to post them. And then you will all see how weird this is!

do you call racoons and skunks "cats" even though they're not felidae? is that common?

Did I write a bad sentence? The etc. wasn't proper, implying that all of the critters were from the same genus?

C'mon over, Thomas, and practice your skills at erudition whilst observing the skunks, squirrels, coons and cats et al. I'll pour you a cocktail and loan you a pen!

chill chill. I just wondered if it was a colloquialism to call all critters "cats" ...

cocktail would be lovely, but later... I have nits to pick and hairs to split.

Chill? I'm GLAD you pointed out bad writing on my part! I'm so overwraught because of this critter situation - plus "suddenly indoor" kitty is driving me crazy. So I sort of want to let him out, just to stop the yowling.
I think he's learned his lesson. Although I can't recall what lesson he was meant to learn - oh, yeah! That he lives with us and we provide him with his crunchies!
Except...he lives in crunchytown, where crunchies are available 24/7. AND wet food. I can't compete with Dr. Doolittle across the street!

This guy must be spending $200.00 a week on cat food.
So, in a way, I'm saving money!

We once had a cat who decided our house was a bit too quiet for her and moved in with the two GIANT! SCARY! Alsatians down the road.

it's sort of hilarious that indoorsy just cycles through yowling and then collapsing in a pissed off pile of fluff.
Now he's sleeping on top of every single piece of paper that's important.(Bills, contracts,etc.) Actually, not sleeping; scheming and stewing.

His evil yellow eyes are slightly open - and glaring.

There'd be catshit all over the record player by now if we'd tried that with Missy.

Monster can open the door - and I didn't lock it, so..he can let himself out at some point.
He has climbed, backwards, down the front of the building -three stories - to escape.

He's been in for six days - I think it's time to let him escape. he'll figure it out.

This cat needs to go to obedience school (after Cat Jail)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7776450.stm

Adopted an adult cat from a shelter last year. All we know about him is that he was in the shelter for 14 months and was taken in off the streets. He likes people and we are pretty sure he had a nice home sometime before we took him in.

A couple of days ago, he started using the toilet. And flushing. WHO TEACHES THIS TO CATS???

Charles Mingus.

http://www.mingusmingusmingus.com/Mingus/cat_training.html

couple of days ago, he started using the toilet. And flushing. WHO TEACHES THIS TO CATS???

I don't know, but I wish I had a cat like that instead of a cat that uses any place in the laundry room as his toilet.

Mingus seems destined to be more remembered for that than any of the brilliant music he made.

Still, that sounds like an awesome cat.

He is very awesome. He's required a lot of love and patience to get through a lot of psychological trauma, but a year later he's the best cat ever.

this was the closest search for 'i hate my cats'

they are too bratty for obedience school though, more like military school, for cats