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Our cat loves feet, and will attack peopleâs toes, especially under the bed covers.
Our previous cat would âroarâ at her toys at 3 AM. She was a tiny cat, with a voice like an air raid siren.
Both kitties are/were completely fascinated by men. Everyone she usually interacts with are women, and men smell interestingly different.
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We used to have a cat called Tygrysica. Whenever my mother was making crepes, she was waiting in the kitchen right by my motherâs legs, all because she HAD TO be given the first crepe that was made. She always took it and ate the whole thing, then left. Wouldnât leave without being given an offering.
I currently have a deaf cat (her name is Gwiazda, if you need that info) and her big hobby is meowing at people whenever they come into the room. I keep joking that she could be an alarm - as long as sheâs awake and sees someone come into the room, sheâll meow. She also loves sitting by the window with one of her front paws curled up in the air. Thereâs nothing wrong with this paw - no pain or whatever - she just likes to sit with it up in the air when sheâs watching the outside world.
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Dawww! I wonder if the psychology is because cats are naturally very conscious of their own stealth state and I wonder if they have a natural response for other cats 'I know you are sneaking up on me, stahp it!"
Iggyâs other weird tendency is she really enjoys relaxing in the fetal position. Iâve had her climb into my lap and roll herself so sheâs upside-down with her face in my palm. She also exhibits this by preferring boxes that are one size too-small for her.
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I have several photos of James in what I suspect is the exact same cat food box! He also likes a space that is one size too small. Heâs cozy and I think itâs hysterical so itâs a win win!
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Warning: not for the faint of heart or stomach. I used to have a friend whose cat went crazy over spermicide on condoms. The cat once bit our friendâs boyfriendâs penis.
I warned you.
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I had two cats who liked each other. They had two boxes up high they slept in., Sometimes both in one, especially in winter, sometimes in the other.
Theyâd often switch boxes, too. I was curious why. Until I saw the bossy guy bite the non-bossy one on the neck. Then the non-bossy one moved to the other box.
This maybe happened once a day. The grass is always greener, I guess.
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I was watching a funny cat compilation video once which contained a clip of a cat doing that specific âdanger warningâ meowl when theyâre distressed. Both of my cats rushed into the room to see what was wrong with me. I wish I knew how to vocalize that sound.
From that I started googling âvideos for catsâ on YouTube which are usually long camera-locked shots of birds and small animals in a birdbath or taking seeds from a pile. Occasionally Iâll find one with the right sounds that attract my older cat and he will sit on the desk in front of the monitor enraptured, occasionally touching the screen gently wondering what sorcery this is - at some point he will check behind the screen looking for the birds on the other side which is adorable and hilarious. One day I turned it on while I was doing other things and he sat watching it for 20 minutes.
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I remember seeing one of my cats watching the TV screen, transfixed. But I wasnât in position to see the screen. I remembered I had a DVD of a cartoon in the player. I figured the start menu was playing.
He was actually staring at the blue âno DVD playingâ screen. Actual programs held no interest for him.
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I think this phenomenon has something to do with the temporal processing of different animals?
Dogs experience a higher time density than humans, so the frames of a movie seem to be more like a disconnected slideshow. It probably looks like we sit in front of a box of silly bright shapes and trip out for a while.
Meanwhile, cats experience a lower time density than humans, which I remember someone saying could be for tracking their prey, which can try to move slowly enough to remain undetected. Experiencing a lower time density allows a cat to see this movement like a time lapse video, andâas a side effectâthe continuity we experience from a series of images on a screen is also experienced by cats, too.
Actually, I wouldnât be surprised if a low framerate mess would be just as clear to a cat as a 24 fps video is for us.
NOTE: Iâm not a biologist. This is just what Iâve heard.
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Just thought Iâd share an honest litter box solution that I wished I had known about before. I have 4 cats, theyâve used this for 2 years now, so itâs âwell testedâ.
I watched YouTube videos that suggested using wood pellets in place of regular sand/clay. They drilled holes into the top pan of nested pans and declared how awesome it was. I did the same as their solutions⌠and they all sucked. The sifting through holes drilled in pans was so stupid. Total click bait bullshit.
However, the wood pellets do work for urine better than I could ever imagine. The urine absorbs into the pellets, turning them into a clumpy dust. Very, very little smell. So I have two big boxes with regular clay litter in the garage (a little dog door letâs them in and out). They shit in those. I have 2 regular boxes with pellets in the house. They only pee in the pellets. (Even they donât like the smell of shit in the pellets; itâs so much worse than clay.)
The small wood pellets are what youâd buy for stoves. Theyâre cheap and safe for the environment when it comes to disposal. You just need two 5 gallon plastic pails and a 1/4" sifter pan that fits in the top of a pail (standard gold panning hobby equipment, green plastic rim with a wire mesh). Just dump a bit of the pellets into the sifter (inserted in the pail). Shake side to side (in a tipping motion) and let it all fall into the pail. Dump the full sized pellets (that donât fit through the screen) into the other pail. Rinse and repeat. Dump the pellets back into the pan. Use the empty pail as a lid to the pail that holds the âpee dustâ. A big bag of pellets lasts a long time.
It smells like spruce wood in the box. Iâve heard pine is even better, but the point is the house doesnât smell like a shit box.
Now a keen reader may think, âWhy didnât that jerk just keep all the litter boxes in the garage?â Itâs because the little feline overlords donât like -40 degrees celsius in the winter so they grudgingly use the garage litter box, but prefer a nice warm place to grab a newspaper and read the sports section for five minutes while they take a piss. They also take their coffee black.
They just give me a look⌠and I know my place in the pecking order. 
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My little gray cat, Laurel, did the weirdest thing.
At some point last night, she swapped herself out for my pillow. As far as I can tell she sat next to my head and as soon as I turned over on my side she was like âLetâs gooooooooo!â and then I woke up with my head resting on her. Like, arenât heads heavy? Why would a cat want to be a pillow?
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Not gonna lie, weirdness aside, that looks like a very comfy pillow.
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I love both of my cats. Theyâre both full of personality (I really want to make a cat game one of these days)
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A couple of my cats use each other as pillows. They sleep together all the time, which I didnât expect. All my cats are rescues, but one of these was at least 3 years old when we took him in off the street last year. He was big and kind of aggressive and had to stay in a cage most of the day for a couple months until he and the other cats acclimated to each other. There was a lot of hissing back and forth from opposites sides of the bars and I worried how well he would fit in. Now he plays and takes naps with them and has revealed himself as a big cat with a kitten personality. He loves to play and tries to get people to chase him around the house. When we adopted him, he was starving. Now heâs on a diet because he eats way too much. I think he developed a food insecurity thing, so he will eat whenever he can.
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My boy Rootbeer has the food insecurity. I have a timer feeder for him and a locked feeder that only Laurelâs chip can open. I actually recently discovered Rootbeer found a way to steal her food while sheâs eating by going around to the side of her feeder, little stinker. He canât do that now because itâs flush against a bookshelf and the wall, though lol. I think some âfeed meâ meowing is going to be in my future.
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My memory is fuzzy, but I used to have a cat that either liked perching on the head readrest of the recliner I had at the time, or in the gap between my head and said head rest when I wasnât reclining.
Also, maybe the scales are out of whack, but maybe being used as a pillow is like a human using a weighted blanket.
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Dawww! Zoeâs cat wanted to cradle her head as a pillow!!
IMHO cats are gymnastic yoga gurus so maybe the pressure of your head was comforting the same way a heavy blanket is.
Not my cats, but
Sometimes Iggy wonât get out of the chair I need to sit in so Iâll âshareâ and sit forward on the front part of the chair. Sheâll remain there even if I relax so part of my weight is on her - usually itâs just her paw or tail wedged between the chair and my butt like youâd put your arm between couch cushions. Eventually sheâll feel constricted and need to move.
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Oh yeah, they love the squish (reminds me I should really get a weighted blanket or three).
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You are so lucky to have Louie and Iggy.
My days of having pet companions are behind me. My xyl has laid down the law. 
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