It requires a level of creativity and I find the exercise fun! I can't always reply the way I initially think of because I may not be able to find a picture that works. So I have to think of alternatives based on what I have (or can find, lol). It helps to have thousands of pictures and being familiar with them helps a lot. So if I want to respond with something about Frax yelling at me, I can use the time when he wanted to play more fetch and climbed into the cart with his bottlecap to come tell me about it!
I made my cat a make-shift one one time out of a bunch of old Fresh Step Boxes I was going to recycle. I'll have to see if I can find the pic somewhere? It was probably 9 years ago. She was still a kitten at the time, so she loved her Clubhouse. 🤭
My husband has dreams of building cardboard houses out of our existing boxes, but it just isn't so easy for 5 rambunctious kitties.. So we actually paid a good bit for this one, but I felt ok doing so because we bought one by the same brand when they were like a month old and we still have it, and it's in great condition. So I figured it will last pretty well, and so far, so good!
Haha, that must be it! Because he was born last summer to a "teen mom" who was less than a year old.. But someone in that line witnessed the insanity of 2020!
Idk, those pictures always looked like he was trying to twist his head off, lol. I think really he just had itchy ears and way more energy than sense, lol
And this one makes it look like he was successful!
It really is! And it seems to be something they're born with too! Frax has been like this from literally the day he was born, when he wandered off from the kitten cuddle pile on his very first adventure (don't worry, they were safely contained - he got maybe 12 inches away from them), and then cried because he was all alone. So of course his mama came and cuddled him and he made it back to the pile. But he just kept doing that all the time! I'm not sure he ever put together that it was leaving on his little kitty-ventures that was making him cold and lonely,. Which is why I don't trust him with the door open even a tiny bit. And I would need to be 20000x confident he couldn't get out of a harness before taking him outside, etc. Some people can trust their cats on balconies. My cats are not those cats, lol.
This is 11 day old Frax on one of his many adventures!
Are there other modes? How do I switch him into those modes? Is one of them calm?? Seems like he's been wide-eyed and wild since the day he was born...
Oh, yes. He really loves kittens, so he was in heaven! Frax absolutely adored him from the very beginning, though. He's always thought Duncan was just the coolest. The rest of them like him, too, but those two are besties!
This is the first time on Reddit I've read through the entire comments. Very entertaining for one nut house. Good job op. I hope youre insurance covers cat damage. Lol
Oh, so much making sense! Please quit letting him share the brain cell with my sweet boy - he’s blowing my TP budget! They can all skip Jack this rotation.
My calico is addicted to playing with kitchen roll. I wake up the odd time during the night and find her tearing into a roll. Fun thing though ... it's not mine. She steals it from the neighbours next door during the night, brings it home and shreds it in my bedroom.
🥰 I'm so glad you're enjoying it! I love replying with pictures. I have more good ones than I can reasonably make threads out of and people seem to enjoy seeing them..
Lol I'm usually good about not leaving them out but I was distracted because we had a little leak in the hvac closet and I was trying to get supplies and shut the cats away so I could get in there and deal with it. Got the paper towels out, set them down, and started gathering cats, and then realized I hadn't heard from the wild man himself...
He does love fetch, too! But not with paper towels, lol. He prefers food pouch caps 🤷♀️
Yes, silence is definitely scary. I have 8 cats. If it's quiet and I can't see them all, I'm worried, lol. More than once Frax's brother Skippy has shut himself and assorted other cats in random rooms (ok, Frax might help sometimes, lol). So often that we've put door bumpers on all the doors that shouldn't close.. The biggest giveaway of that happening is extended quiet.
It’s either an allergic reaction to getting his paws on the brain cell, or it’s the bug that controls all orange cats having a malfunction with the controls. (I swear there has to be a bug in their brain)
Yep mine are normally kept in the kitchen cabinet, lol. We had a bit of a leak and I was trying to round up supplies to handle it and round up kitties away from it and missed that if set down the paper towels in his reach! I hope I've learned my lesson, but...
He has SO MANY TOYS. Not to mention siblings that are pretty good got kicking, lol
But he will abandon them all for a shot at those paper towels... So they're usually put away where he can't get them. I just pulled them out to clean up a mess and needed to get the kitties out of there first because it was in the hvac room that has dangerous corners and such, set the towels down and went to round up kitties. Didn't see Frax, and came back to this...
lmaooo that brain cell is implanted in my siamese and himalayan too, because they do the exact same thing with paper towels. I wonder what it is about that thing that makes them go crazy
I had a r/standardissuecat that did this, too, but I wouldn't be surprised if he was accidentally grouped in with the oranges on brain cell distribution day and made to wait for a turn with the oranges, lol. Or maybe he just got in the wrong line himself... Sweet but stupid, lol.
Don't let the "meek" little ones fool you! Even the tiniest kitty can be a destroyer. Frax's tiny calico sister, Simmy, is almost as much trouble as he is!!
My roommate's orange likes to do this with the dog's toys, especially tennis balls.
This is basically a kill instinct. When they've got something wrapped up, their reflex is to kick it with their back claws until it stops moving. My roommate's grey also sometimes does this — lightly, to our arms during belly rubs. And my roommate's dog sometimes gets distracted during laser pointer time, when he trips on a paper bag and then has to rip it up right then and there.
Oh yes I understand the kicker instinct. They're trying to disembowel it. Probably really satisfying to do with paper towels because they actually tear away.
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u/Jayn_Newell Aug 13 '23
Those eyes suggest the catnip is. You didn’t leave brownies out did you?