Hey! Give me back my socks.

[Crackle]

Is the usual cry of a morning in our house. It's the dog you see. Same routine every morning, I go upstairs to get dressed and he follows me. As I sit down on the bed to get changed, he makes his move and lurches for the socks or my undies. He knows I can't protect both and a double paw on the chest soon deals with extra resistance. There then follows a brief struggle as I retrieve each item and get it on. His favourite is the sock half-on tug of war.

I've tried sneaking up, he soon twigs. I've tried locking the door but he batters it with his paw, so now I surrender to his game and we play it every morning.

So what mischief do your pets get up to?

 

[John the Monkey]

In no particular order;

• Barking at light aircraft if they stray into the airspace above our garden
• Compulsive digging, to the point that he'll try to get through the tiles in the kitchen
• Barking at motorcycles
• Sock Stealing
• Stealing Mrs. Monkey's wool whilst she is knitting with it (he runs off with the ball while we try to catch him without snapping the yarn and/or unravelling the knitting)
• Ice Cream Lolly stealing (it was a Thorntons Toffee one too, I was not pleased)
• Accompanying me to the garage for the sole purpose of squirming under the bike with the oiliest chainset - the chainring marks on his white fur then being my fault
• slug eating
• fly chasing

 

[tdr1nka]

Waking me @ 4:30 meowing, biting me and demanding to be fed because it's light outside.

Bless the cat.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I've banished our cats to the kitchen at night now as one of them developed a habit of bringing a mouse in almost every night and torturing it on the landing and when the poor thing had finally perished she'd fling it against our bedroom door repeatedly!!

 

[Maizie]

Our cat likes killing things...but only large inanimate objects. The sofa is her favourite victim, we try to encourage her to use the old battered sofa but the new one gets some violence too. Stairs are good for attacking, as is the shed.

Ping-pong balls are the favouritest toy in the world ever, they are ideal for batting around the place, then batting under furniture (and then looking folorn until a human retrieves them) or leaving in a place where the humans will stumble on them. When in the mood, patting the ball to a human who will pat it back, and so on, is a very good game.

With a fluffy ball or pompom, the best game in the world is running up and down the stairs. Human stands at bottom of stairs, chucks ball upstairs...as it starts to fall back down, cat runs up and intercepts and fights it all the way down to the ground. Human picks ball up and off we go again. It's possible to do this for half an hour or so.

If humans are wandering around the garden, it is essential that they are shouted at constantly to be reminded of the feline presence. Similarly humans must not be allowed to forget the cat at mealtimes, or during preparation of food [particularly anything meat-based].

Finally, if the door to the cloakroom or the cupboard under the stairs is open, sneak in while the human isn't looking. Then a while later try to batter out of the now-closed door, a human will not only come to the rescue but will make much fuss over the poor little thing that got trapped in the cupboard/room...

 

[magnatom]

Waking me @ 4:30 meowing, biting me and demanding to be fed because it's light outside.

Bless the cat.

Be thankful you don't live in the Arctic Circle at this time of year then!

 

[gbb]

My late lab used to sit at the bottom of the stairs and look up at you...
One day, i threw a rolled up pair of socks at him...smack, straight between the eyes.
He never flinched as they hurtled toward him...which made me think...
dumb assed dog...he'd be in trouble if it that'd been a brick

 

[Crackle]

My late lab used to sit at the bottom of the stairs and look up at you...
One day, i threw a rolled up pair of socks at him...smack, straight between the eyes.
He never flinched as they hurtled toward him...which made me think...
dumb assed dog...he'd be in trouble if it that'd been a brick

Mine'll do that. He knows it's not a brick, bet yours did too.

I'm just recovering from a two paw lunge. I was absent mindedly scrunching up some paper for the bin which is often chucked to him for a game of catch first. I didn't see him come in and was sudenly hit by 35Kg of dog wanting the paper.

 

[yorkshiregoth]

My cat likes to play fetch with a bit of rolled up paper.

 

[longers]

My cat likes to play fetch with a bit of rolled up paper.

I had one that would do that but it was rolled up tin foil.
I used to be able to sit in the lounge, ping it off the landing and down a flight of stairs and he'd bring it back

 

[Crackle]

I had one that would do that but it was rolled up tin foil.
I used to be able to sit in the lounge, ping it off the landing and down a flight of stairs and he'd bring it back

Bring it back. That's cool for a cat

 

[Crackle]

In no particular order;

• Barking at light aircraft if they stray into the airspace above our garden
• Compulsive digging, to the point that he'll try to get through the tiles in the kitchen
• Barking at motorcycles
• Sock Stealing
• Stealing Mrs. Monkey's wool whilst she is knitting with it (he runs off with the ball while we try to catch him without snapping the yarn and/or unravelling the knitting)
• Ice Cream Lolly stealing (it was a Thorntons Toffee one too, I was not pleased)
• Accompanying me to the garage for the sole purpose of squirming under the bike with the oiliest chainset - the chainring marks on his white fur then being my fault
• slug eating
• fly chasing

Actually, that's quite a litany of mischief. Reads like a case for the prosecution

 

[Crackle]

.

Bless thethis cat.

......for all he is about to recieve

 

[Crackle]

I get that from the wife.

Are you Batman and she's Catwoman?

 

[Crackle]

I've banished our cats to the kitchen at night now as one of them developed a habit of bringing a mouse in almost every night and torturing it on the landing and when the poor thing had finally perished she'd fling it against our bedroom door repeatedly!!

Why do cats do that...

Our cat likes killing things...but only large inanimate objects. The sofa is her favourite victim, we try to encourage her to use the old battered sofa but the new one gets some violence too. Stairs are good for attacking, as is the shed.

Ping-pong balls are the favouritest toy in the world ever, they are ideal for batting around the place, then batting under furniture (and then looking folorn until a human retrieves them) or leaving in a place where the humans will stumble on them. When in the mood, patting the ball to a human who will pat it back, and so on, is a very good game.

With a fluffy ball or pompom, the best game in the world is running up and down the stairs. Human stands at bottom of stairs, chucks ball upstairs...as it starts to fall back down, cat runs up and intercepts and fights it all the way down to the ground. Human picks ball up and off we go again. It's possible to do this for half an hour or so.

If humans are wandering around the garden, it is essential that they are shouted at constantly to be reminded of the feline presence. Similarly humans must not be allowed to forget the cat at mealtimes, or during preparation of food [particularly anything meat-based].

Finally, if the door to the cloakroom or the cupboard under the stairs is open, sneak in while the human isn't looking. Then a while later try to batter out of the now-closed door, a human will not only come to the rescue but will make much fuss over the poor little thing that got trapped in the cupboard/room...

Yep. Your cat owns two humans