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Cat Forum / General Topics / January 2005Stange habit??
One of my cats has taken to getting at the hamper and taking soiled clothes from it and making a bed for herself in the hallway. Yuk! seems the smellier the better. Tried moving the hamper into the laundry room (well, nook), but then she goes into the bathroom and jumps up and gets the towels. This usually happens when I go to the store for a few hours or am out blowing snow, which can also take a couple of hours. Should I even attempt to break this habit or just chalk it up to her being into B.O.? Stone > One of my cats has taken to getting at the hamper and taking soiled clothes > from it and making a bed for herself in the hallway. Yuk! seems the smellier [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Stone Since it's a cat, almost any theory could be correct, so here goes: She likes your smell and she's trying to to permanently etch it into her memory in case she dies and is reincarnated as a woman. Or, is it possible she's pregnant and getting ready to deliver a litter in these nests she's making? Or....maybe she just wants a resting place of her own creation. How about hanging some towels that you're prepared to let her have, and just....let her have them? My cat is odd like that too, the second I take off my socks, kitty insists on taking a nap on them. :One of my cats has taken to getting at the hamper and taking soiled clothes :from it and making a bed for herself in the hallway. Yuk! seems the smellier [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] : :Stone > My cat is odd like that too, the second I take off my socks, kitty insists > on taking a nap on them. Yeah My Tigger has a smelly sock fetish as well :) And towel fetish.That's OK with me, cos its just probably mean that the smell is comforting to him. Yeah Gary Disgusting, but they love anything smelly,so long as it's not their own smells. My cats adore sleeping with their face, feet & anything else they can fit into my sneakers, wools slippers & have even on occasions chewed my leather walking shoes, they are not young so cannot excuse them for kittenish behaviour. When they were REALLY small I would wake up in the morning & there would be one in each wool slipper. They also like my not clean towels, but will also sometimes just sleep on the clean washing that I have just got in but not put away. Cats actually will move their sleeping positions every 2-3 weeks, something to do with when they were wild & wanted a new place that didn't have their odour, or so I'm told. Happy new year& good luck with those moggies! P > One of my cats has taken to getting at the hamper and taking soiled clothes > from it and making a bed for herself in the hallway. Yuk! seems the smellier [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Stone > Yeah Gary > Disgusting, but they love anything smelly,so long as it's not their own [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Happy new year& good luck with those moggies! > P Even though I wear a size 13 shoe, my cats were 1 and 3 years old when I got them. They were too big to fit into them. That would be a good picture though, having a kitten sleeping in a slipper. I wash an old towel with every load of laundry and place that on top of the basket after taking them out of the dryer. Last night the cat that never comes into my bedroom was curled up next to my head and the other cat under the covers near my knees. Don't know how they breath under there. Usually they like to sleep downstairs next to the wood burner. Getting warmer going to get all the way up to the freezing mark today. That's unheard of here this time of year. Stone > "PatC" <patc@comcen.com.au> wrote in message news:41d1221b$0$3605$61c65585@un-2park-reader-02.sydney.pipenetworks.com.au. .. > > Yeah Gary > > Disgusting, but they love anything smelly,so long as it's not their own [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > Stone Hi what a good idea about putting the old towel on top, you may be new but smart, I never thought of that move! I've had cats most of my life & have never worked out why they don't suffocate whilst sleeping under the bedclothes! Mine do that even though it only gets a bit cold for about 6 weeks a year & certainly doesn't get to less than 3 degrees (centigrade that is). Wish you & moggies well up there! P Yeah, you would think they would suffer oxygen depletion or something. I sleep with two blankets with a heavy corduroy quilt not to mention the flannel sheets. The fire burns out at about 3 am and the propane furnace is set to 58 then I kick it up in the morning and start the fire again. The furnace only goes on maybe once between 3 and 7 am though so a tank of propane last all winter. They do it for the warmth but I am worried about any possible risk to them. Stone >> "PatC" <patc@comcen.com.au> wrote in message Snip > Hi > what a good idea about putting the old towel on top, you may be new but [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Wish you & moggies well up there! > P Cats like the smell of their people. If you ever have to leave your cat at the doctor of some other strange place, bring some of your worn clothes to keep with them. The familiar smell will make them more content. > One of my cats has taken to getting at the hamper and taking soiled clothes > from it and making a bed for herself in the hallway. Yuk! seems the smellier [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Stone |
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