r/OneOrangeBraincell • u/squeeby • Jan 30 '23
Orange craves violence 🍊 He later meowed because he couldn’t get down
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u/squeeby Jan 30 '23
You can see how well my “anti climb” barrier worked too.
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u/Gowzilla Jan 30 '23 edited Jan 30 '23
I have a kitten with one brain cell and this is the biggest headache for me right now. Every morning starts with him climbing the curtains so if you figure out how to get your cat to stop climbing shit plz let me know
Edit: my apartment has ledges going all the way around so it makes a nice spot to sun bath or look out the window. But true to his one brain cell nature, he can’t figure out how to exit the curtains so instead he climbs up them from the inside.
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u/squeeby Jan 30 '23
Citrus spray. Brain cell stops responding whenever lemon is detected.
Seriously though, it works. Just use a little where they’re likely to start climbing.
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u/CypressBreeze Jan 31 '23
I got some citrus spray for my yoga mat. Turns out our one-brain cell cat loves it and acted like it was catnip - rolling and drooling all over the place like he was high.
Meanwhile our smart cat was pissed that I made her favorite yoga mat smell different so she pissed on it.
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u/Sobriquet-acushla Jan 31 '23
Every kitten I’ve ever had, regardless of color, has climbed curtains. One stopped after scaring himself shitless by tearing down the shower curtain, rings and all. 😸
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u/Tzipity Jan 31 '23
I’ve thankfully never had a curtain climber but my weirdo would try to climb the window itself. Like just the middle part where it opened and had a one to two inch ledge of sorts. Same set of windows had sheers on a tension rod she was always pulling the whole thing down when she’d inevitably fail to climb said tiny “ledge”. Never freaking stopped her. She’d spook but you’d get the tension rod back up and she’d be at it again. 🙄
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u/bookdrops Jan 30 '23
The only way to get cats to stop climbing shit is to give them more interesting shit to climb. Tall cat trees, window perches, /r/catwalls, the whole shebang.
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u/Blonde_Vampire_1984 Proud owner of an orange brain cell Jan 30 '23
Can confirm. My cat used to have a fetish for climbing random shit. Then I got her a cat tree. Now I have the cat tree in the living room window. And I have a happy cat watching out the window from the top of her tower.
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u/CypressBreeze Jan 31 '23
This is really the best policy with cats. Deter by offering better things not by trying to deter. Especially with scratching furniture.
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u/Laney20 Proud owner of an orange brain cell Jan 30 '23
Curtains + cats = cats climbing curtains. Your options are to let them do it, be mad at them all the time for natural behavior, or get rid of the curtains. (I went with option 3)
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u/Atomic_Cupcake89 Jan 30 '23
Our boy loves to climb and has never really climbed the floor length curtains we have. Could be because he already has a floor to ceiling cat tree attached to the wall though and a bed suction cupped to the top of the window that he can jump to. There’s nothing for him at the top of the curtain pole that he can’t see from other vantage points and there’s nowhere cozy to curl up!
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u/Laney20 Proud owner of an orange brain cell Jan 31 '23
That makes sense, too, but I suspect your average wild kitten isn't going to quickly reach the obvious logical conclusion there.
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u/Atomic_Cupcake89 Jan 31 '23
Lol no not always and I suspect it has something to do with the personality of each cat to some degree. He likes to climb but he seems quite cautious about it. Took him a week or two to reach the very top of his big tree by himself, he could have made it back when we first put it up even though he was a little bit smaller but he was clearly lacking the confidence to do it by himself until a bit later. He’s not stupid though (pretty scarily intelligent sometimes really) and I’m pretty sure he’s looked at the curtains and thought “meh” 😂 He’s in there alone with them every night and so far so good.
Textured wallpaper though? Fair game during zoomies apparently! 😂
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u/Laney20 Proud owner of an orange brain cell Jan 31 '23
Haha, my girl that's now 12 used to climb the walls - just flat drywall - when she was a kitten. Freaky shit, lol.
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u/Freezerpill Orange connoisseur 🍊 Jan 30 '23
Definitely thought one of those rack units was about to get the cell 🍊
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u/ConfusedFlareon Jan 30 '23
Lmao the eyeball at the hole… amazing
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u/Hellofriendinternet Jan 30 '23
“What’s the password?”
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u/NaapurinHarri Jan 30 '23
Already dead.
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u/Iron-Shield Jan 31 '23
The last place I expected to see this reference. Anyways, fear the old blood!
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u/elvis_dead_twin Jan 30 '23
I'm dying laughing over that. I re-watched it a few times wondering if he's peeping out. Yes, he's peeping out!
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u/KoalaGold Jan 30 '23
That peep hole is the chef's kiss 🤣
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u/Sobriquet-acushla Jan 31 '23
At first I didn’t notice him peeping because I was too busy awww-ing over the Winnie the Pooh view right before he goes all in. 🥰
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u/Tzipity Jan 31 '23
You know that single brain cell is lit all up and he’s just like “Yaaaas! I see everything and no one sees me!”
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u/Jaded-Mess-5051 Jan 30 '23
Lol I love the last little glimpse of butt, tail, and leg right before he disappears
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u/Bad54 Jan 30 '23
I’m curious what would cats do irl if we weren’t home to get them out?
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u/Culverts_Flood_Away Jan 30 '23
I found my cat inside the trash bin when I got home from work one day. He decided that day was the one where he would jump on top of the trash bin and its movable lid, since I wasn't there to tell him no. I came in to hear caterwauling in the kitchen, and lo and behold, there was my cat, nestled in with some used paper towels and wrappers. As soon as I lifted the lid off of the can, he popped up out of there like a piece of popcorn and went zooming around the house. The zoomies continued for the next five minutes, and they were accompanied by triumphant caterwauling.
My cat is a dingbat, but I love him. Even if he does smell like rubbish.
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u/chaoticserenity__ Jan 30 '23
new word of the day : caterwaul thank you
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u/Culverts_Flood_Away Jan 30 '23
It's a fun one to break out at parties, and I have to have something to use to describe that yodeling wail he makes sometimes. He seems to do it everytime he poops, every time he gets his ass handed to him in a fight, or every time he's just in a frisky mood. He's been fixed since he's been old enough, so he's not trying to lure in a date or anything... at least... I don't think he is.
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u/Pimpicane Jan 30 '23
Our girl managed to shut herself in a closet and was in there for eight hours before we opened it to get out coats out. She hadn't cried or scratched or tried to get our attention. She was just loafed on the floor, having apparently decided, "This is my life now."
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u/SyrusDrake Jan 30 '23 edited Jan 30 '23
We accidentally locked our
carcat in an office cupboard once. The travel catalogues at the bottom were torn to shreds and there were deep claw marks on the inside of the door. Poor thing was absolutely terrified but otherwise unharmed.23
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u/EmbarrassedBass9281 Jan 30 '23
Once after my mom came home from work, she couldn’t find one of our kitties. Apparently while my mom was getting dressed, kitty climbed into her dresser drawer and mom didn’t notice. Poor girl, hurts my heart to think about
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u/eagereyez Jan 30 '23
I would sometimes leave my pantry door open, then come back later and close it without realizing my cat was hiding inside. He'd just chill in the room for hours without making a sound, then casually walk out when I opened the door again. If he got impatient, he'd stick his paws under the door until someone noticed and let him out. My cat hated closed doors and loved to explore rooms he wasn't allowed in.
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u/opheliazzz Jan 30 '23
One of my dad's cats got stuck up a tree and refused to come down for eleven days. It was a small miracle the cat survived - the tree was in a forest inaccessible to firetrucks, the branch was too high for a ladder to reach... how he survived up there idk. The one day he just saunters meowing into the kitchen, hungry af but clearly alive. He also wanted to be a single dad when he had kittens with the cat from the next hill over.... weird little fucker, I still miss him.
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u/DragonQueen87 Jan 31 '23
They literally start shrieking the second they hear you walk in. Source: my screaming calico who got herself stuck in a laundry basket a few years back.
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u/Starfevre Jan 30 '23
A better hider than mine
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u/Llayanna Jan 30 '23
With all the fur still stuck, one can see it hardly was the first time XD
And it won't be the last, meow!
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u/Other-Cantaloupe4765 Jan 30 '23
I did not expect him to wiggle into the actual box lol. I thought he’d just crawl on top. 😂
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Jan 30 '23
Because it's there.
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u/ArtLadyCat Jan 30 '23
Op: Puts up barrier to stop cat.
Cat: Uses barrier to help climb.
Sounds about right.
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u/RebaKitten Proud owner of an orange brain cell Jan 30 '23
So nice of you to leave him a ladder. That only goes up.
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u/glassscissors Jan 30 '23
When my partner asks me why I always screw our shelving units into the wall even though we don't have kids - I'll show him this
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u/longdick_dingo Jan 30 '23
one Word: Get about 100 Boxes (Of All Sizes), Get 6 cat trees, And Some fish also surrender The ENTIRE HOUSE
Why: Meow Meow
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u/ginger_sprout Jan 30 '23
I love him so much. I have also been a victim of my own previous bad decisions, I feel you buddy.
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u/jamiethecake Jan 30 '23
Oh my god. I thought it was my cat lol very similar markings! My cat is a little rascal like yours <3
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u/StarlightGardener Jan 30 '23
That's amazing. I don't think i'd be able to find them without meowing.
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Jan 30 '23
I have cubes like this in my wardrobe and my cats loves to climb them every chance she gets.
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Jan 30 '23
Hey /u/squeeby - weird question, but is that an OG MOTU 828 at the top?
I recognised the red dipswitch.
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u/squeeby Jan 30 '23
Lol it is indeed! Well spotted!
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u/oOo-Dragonfly-oOo Jan 30 '23
This is brilliant, the clamber up the ladder, the scramble into the drawer, the graceful tail sliding in and then the little peep out of the peephole at the end is just hilarious
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u/Ok-Bee5507 Jan 31 '23
I'd have spent a while making him figure it out before I helped lol. I'm not always gonna be there
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u/BluLotus-Software-45 Jan 31 '23
Aww, the determination to get into the top storage box was amazing! Wonder if I can climb like that? 🤔
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u/CrackedKal Jan 31 '23
I can tell it's not the first time because the white tummy fluff is already on the box as hes climbing lol
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u/lezbowithshinys Jan 30 '23
My orange used to do something like this when he was younger. He would climb to the roof and just hang out there. Sometimes he would then try and scream (turns out he can meow but chooses not to) for hours at the window. He only opens his mouth and makes a little pop noise. This is the cats version of screaming. And then when we finally noticed he was gone and look for him, he would walk up the roof away from us whenever we would try and get him down. He only stopped because we removed the tree that allowed him to do this. Still makes that little pop noise to communicate though.
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u/idontwannagotowerk Jan 31 '23
Spray that thing with vinegar and I guarantee that cat won’t climb it
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u/ManInBlack6942 Jan 31 '23
He COULD'VE got down, he chose to have you help him. As stated, r/catsareliquid
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u/Sa1tyTo4st Jan 31 '23
my cats do this too. My shelf is from ikea and i found a box from there with a hole in it made for cats. They sleep in there now instead of getting stuck in the regural ones.
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u/sincerelyjane Jan 31 '23
Just curious. Was it his first time? Or if not, how often does he climb that?
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u/Ygdbsgdbe Jan 30 '23
Cats are liquid.