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Cat Forum / General Topics / January 2004Why do cats drag towels and sheets?
My wife and I find it amusing to come home and find a bed sheet or a cats favorite blanket dragged into the bathroom or down the hall. Why do cats do this? Is it that they want to make a nest from objects they are familiar with? Are they trying to prove ownership? I dunno . If you have the answer please let me know...... >My wife and I find it amusing to come home and find a bed sheet or a cats >favorite blanket dragged into the bathroom or down the hall. Why do cats do >this? Is it that they want to make a nest from objects they are familiar >with? Are they trying to prove ownership? I dunno . If you have the answer >please let me know...... They do it for the same reason men climb mountains, because it is there. -------------------------------------------- "It took us 15 years to McGyver this thing." -------------------------Carter on Stargate To send me e-mail exorcise NO Spam from my e-mail address. DOnt have an answer...but I do have a cat that open my bottom dresser drawer and pulls out ALL of my socks.... :-/ > My wife and I find it amusing to come home and find a bed sheet or a cats > favorite blanket dragged into the bathroom or down the hall. Why do cats do > this? Is it that they want to make a nest from objects they are familiar > with? Are they trying to prove ownership? I dunno . If you have the answer > please let me know...... >DOnt have an answer...but I do have a cat that open my bottom dresser >drawer and pulls out ALL of my socks.... :-/ Of course the cat is looking for the red ones to cheer for it's favorite baseball team. -------------------------------------------- "It took us 15 years to McGyver this thing." -------------------------Carter on Stargate To send me e-mail exorcise NO Spam from my e-mail address. 2004: > My wife and I find it amusing to come home and find a bed sheet or a > cats favorite blanket dragged into the bathroom or down the hall. Why > do cats do this? Is it that they want to make a nest from objects they > are familiar with? Are they trying to prove ownership? I dunno . If > you have the answer please let me know...... No cat of mine nor any that I've ever had have done this, though a couple will carry their own toys around even up and down stairs. One of my cats loves to roll around in my bra if I leave it where he can get to it but I suspect he smells me on it. He's never moved it into another room, though I've read stories about cats dragging their humans bra into the living area of the home even if there was company visiting. lol  SignatureCheryl I shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine. And he shall be my Squishy. Come here Squishy. Ow. Bad Squishy. - Dori > My wife and I find it amusing to come home and find a bed sheet or a cats > favorite blanket dragged into the bathroom or down the hall. Why do cats do > this? Is it that they want to make a nest from objects they are familiar > with? <snipped> although our cat does not drag blankets off the bed...he sure likes to get in the bed and make a nest. he tunnels under the blankets like a mole... then circles around and nests himself in! WOW..... I am amazed to hear that someone else has this same problem. I live in a pretty large house and we have a large upstairs loft where I do my computer work and watch TV. At least twice a week I will wake up to one of my white deaf cats hauling something downstairs and dragging it down a 65 foot hallway, to my bedroom. Last week he somehow managed to drag a comforter down the flight of stairs and about 15 feet down the hallway. We are thinking of installing a video cam at the foot of the stairs to watch him "in action". He always does this right before dawn. It used to be that he would bring me small objects and place them in bed with me. More than once, I have woken up with a Bic razor in bed with me. lol It was explained to me that the cat is attempting to bring "sacrifices" to his beloved owner, seeing that he can't bring outside kill to me. I would take a razor any day, over a friend of mine waking up with a dismembered squirrel that her cat brought her.. > > My wife and I find it amusing to come home and find a bed sheet or a cats > > favorite blanket dragged into the bathroom or down the hall. Why do cats [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > in the bed and make a nest. he tunnels under the blankets like a mole... > then circles around and nests himself in! > My wife and I find it amusing to come home and find a bed sheet or a cats > favorite blanket dragged into the bathroom or down the hall. Why do cats do > this? Is it that they want to make a nest from objects they are familiar > with? Are they trying to prove ownership? I dunno . If you have the answer > please let me know...... For the past few weeks I kept noticing that my bath towel which usually hangs on the door, is now on the floor in front of the same door. At first I just assumed it fell off. Then I cought my Tigger coming to bathroom, jumping untill he'd catch the towell, then hang on it and tag on it untill it falls down. Then he happily climbs on it, curls up and sleep there. The only reason I can think of him suddenly starting to do this is becuase we currently have a "guest" cat over, whom he is not impressed with, so he may have been trying to avoid him or something. Perhaps the smell of my towell is like your bed sheet or a blanket - a comfort zone or comfort smell more like it, as it smells on you. So more like nesting in some comforting smell, but perhaps placing it ina location of their choice. Gee Now that is just about as compy-cozy as cozy goes :-D TOOOO CUTE! Then I cought my Tigger coming to bathroom, > jumping untill he'd catch the towell, then hang on it and tag on it untill > it falls down. Then he happily climbs on it, curls up and sleep there. > Gee > My wife and I find it amusing to come home and find a bed sheet or a cats > favorite blanket dragged into the bathroom or down the hall. Why do cats do > this? Is it that they want to make a nest from objects they are familiar > with? Are they trying to prove ownership? I dunno . If you have the answer > please let me know...... there are a few answers to this.1 is that cats (specialy kittens) somtimes get in playful moods,so they like to drag and roll stuff around.and cats also like to curl up with their owner write?well they also like to curl or sleep with their owners belongings.like my cat likes to drag out my clothes and play with them,sleep with `em too. One of my cats does this only not with towels or anything quite so.. 'neat'. She loves to roll around in my husbands dirty underwear. She is in heaven!! A close second are his dirty socks and work shirts.. Ugh.. Of course, this is the same cat that started the others on their foot-fetish.. :) Mar ------------------------------------------------ "I meant," said Ipslore, bitterly,"what is there in this world that makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. "Cats," he said eventually, "Cats are nice." -Terry Pratchett, 'Sourcery' > My wife and I find it amusing to come home and find a bed sheet or a cats > favorite blanket dragged into the bathroom or down the hall. Why do cats do > this? Is it that they want to make a nest from objects they are familiar > with? Are they trying to prove ownership? I dunno . If you have the answer > please let me know...... |
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