What is your cats weird quirks?

Meeca and Nemo - A picture of my 2 oldest cats a couple years ago.
United States
March 6, 2008 5:55pm CST
What makes your cats stand out from other cats, what do you feel makes your cats so unique? Nemo has an affair with the dusters if they are left out after cleaning. He awkwardly pulls them around the house, yeowling loudly to announce his "catch". He also loves microwaves and gets very excited when he smells chocolate milk. Don't know what it is about it, but he likes it so much-- even though its really bad and he never gets any. Meeca comes when she is called and runs to the door to greet me when I come home. She gets aggravated if we aren't sleeping together, making noise and carrying her toys all about until someone wakes up and comes to bed. Itty Bitty doesnt like to be petted. Well she does, and she purrs while you're doing it but cleans every spot you touch when you're done. Dory loves to sit above the washer when we're doing laundry, as you put your head down to pull clothes out or put clothes in, she butts your head with her head and meows. She loves to have her head rubbed and flops over for a scratch whenever someone walks by her. I always thought ours were special because of the silly little things they have done, but upon reading, discussing and chatting with fellow cat owners I feel like my cats are really just like everyone elses. I want my kitties to be the little individuals they are!! So in an attempt to keep it that way, please tell me what makes your little feline friends (or fur babies as a friend affectionately calls it) so special to you?
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@cortjo73 (6498)
• United States
7 Mar 08
All of your cats are special! They sound so cute. And, since you asked, here are some of my ladies' quirks. Purr will head butt you too. She just likes to hit the top of her head to any surface on your head...your chin, your nose, your forehead, whatever. She also does what the hubby and I have named the Hustler (magazine) pose. She will lay on her back on the floor with her legs spread apart for God and everyone else to see her lady bits. She also chases her tail around and around in a circle now and then. Martini is a guys' kind of girl. She doesn't really seem to like women. She likes her big brother (a 120 pound black lab - dog) whom she throws herself at, every chance she gets. She will just cuddle up with him whether it is at his side or across his front paws while he lays his head down on top of her like a pillow. She is obstinate. And, her meow, which she rarely does as she hardly ever has anything to say, is the highest, tiniest, quietist, most dainty meow I have ever heard. Actually, it is much like a kitten even though she is a full grown cat. She greets me at the door almost every day when I get home but, that is mostly because she knows she is about to get a treat. And, don't tick her off by taking her to the vet. She is a sweet girl who becomes the cutest little heckling you have ever seen. She hates the vet with the white hot passion of our very own earth warming sun. Sydney is a sweetheart with one bad quirk and the rest are so perfect. Her one bad quirk is that her litter box can't be forgotten for even one day or she will leave her snickerdoodles and rivers somewhere in the house. Her good quirks are that she knows how to play fetch and no one actually even taught her how. She just came assembled that way. There is one toy that she carries around the house caterwalling (sp) about whenever she wants to play. It is like one of those koosh balls from the 80's or 90's. It has a little face on it and a stretchy yellow string like thing that hangs off of it. That toy travels around the house so much that the hubby and I have named it passport because it has been to countries like Kitchenland, Bathroomville, Laundry Roomnox, Hallwayistan and Bedroomico, and, would you believe it has been to Dining Room Table Island? It has been all over the place and has logged more frequent flier miles than the richest, most well traveled people in the world. And, she has two separate sounds that she makes when she is addressing my husband and I, almost like her vocabulary has a sound for Mommy and a different sound for Daddy. One of her weirdest quirks is that she gets amorous when either of us uses the bathroom or sits at the kitchen table. She will stand on the floor next to the table and reach a paw up and tap our elbows. Or, she will beg to come into the bathroom with us. And, another thing she does as far as vocally is this sort of burpy growl type noise. One guest once told me that Sydney either burped or growled at her and she didn't know which so, the next time she made that noise around our guest when I was there to hear it, I identified it as just her being friendly. It isn't either a growl or a burp. Just a very throaty sort of raspy noise she makes. I have no idea what it is or what it means. She just does it a lot. And, I have never heard another cat do it before. It is just her own little Sydney language. Those are my ladies' quirks. I hope you enjoy reading about them as much as I enjoyed sharing them with you!
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• United States
7 Mar 08
Nemo's Playgirl Pose - 23 pounds of fat and fluff, showing it all off.
Thank you for your wonderful response. I did enjoy reading about your cats and look forward to learning more about them in the future. My Nemo does the Hustler pose.. Well maybe the Playgirl pose since he's a boy. I'll attach a picture. He's 23 pounds of fat and fluff.
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• United States
7 Mar 08
That picture is SO CUTE!!! She's like ahhhh yeah this is the way I like it. And his face says.. she made me do this!
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@cortjo73 (6498)
• United States
7 Mar 08
LOL! I know! She tends to have the boys in the house wrapped around her little pinky...or whatever a cat has that gets men wrapped around it. And, we are always catching them in scenes like that! A very unnatural love!
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@bronie123 (4587)
• United States
7 Mar 08
Isnt it funny how cats have there own personalities My baby Coda (she is a pretty siamese) She love to play fetch with paper balls.... I ball up some paper and where ever she is in the house she comes flying out ready to play fetch and she really runs a gets the paper and brings it back to me to throw again its so funny When im in the kitchen and she hears me opening a can she start going crazy meowing and all she thinks in opening up her can of food :)
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• United States
7 Mar 08
Our youngest cat likes to play with paper balls too. My oldest is learning to fetch when she wants to play with us. She will drag something in, and wait for us to toss it so she can go get it again.
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@bronie123 (4587)
• United States
7 Mar 08
LOL weird.... i bought my coda a few toys but she wont play with any only paper balls isnt she a cheap kitty :)
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• United States
7 Mar 08
You are so lucky she doesnt require diamonds and gold!! LOL.
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@applefreak (3130)
• Singapore
7 Mar 08
your cats are so quirky! they are like little children that never does grow up. itty bitty sounds exactly like my kitty. she loves to be petted but cleans every spot after she has enough. kitty also loves the washer, well at least when the dryer is running. we put the air-outlet pipe into the washer to dry it faster and she loves to sleep in the washer to enjoy the hot air. my baobei hates closed doors. every time we close a door he will sit at the door and meow loudly. it doesn't matter if he is inside or outside the room. as long as we close the door, he'll meow to be let out then meow to be let in again. now really contemplating to get pet doors for all our room doors to resolve this. as for my terror, he is absolutely terrified by strangers and hides the moment he hears someone at the door. but he is also the terror amongst my cats. he is the 'leader' and doesn't allow any one else onto the dining table coz that's his territory. he also loves prawns and will meow till we give in and cook some for him. all three of them are the children i'll never hand. well i'm not really into children as they are not my favourite people in the world. but whenever someone asks, i'll say i have a daughter and two sons. :p
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• United States
7 Mar 08
My Meeca doesn't like closed doors eiher. My cats are my kids, I'm not having children, so the cats are called my fur babies. They certainly are the same as children!
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• Singapore
8 Mar 08
guess i'd go as far as saying that cats are one up from children. they'll never make demands like holiday trips to europe or disneyland. they'd never say things like 'why are you not earning more money' or 'why can't you be as pretty as xxx's mum'. totally unconditional love are given to me by my cats. i am trying very hard to do the same. but sometimes i still get angry at them for doing certain things. looks like my cats are one up from me too. :)
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• United States
25 Apr 08
Awww! I love how kitties are really cheap entertainment! One of ours, Lucy, "fetches" crumpled up sticky notes. I also like to play a game with her where I open and close the DVD tray with the remote control. The sound piques her curiosity. My other cat, Andy, is deaf (common for his white, long-haired, blue eyed, male breed). The funniest thing about him is that since he can't hear, and Lucy can, is he gets left at the scene of the crime when they get caught doing something naughty, and she takes off running!
@tjades (3590)
• Jamaica
2 May 08
We have no cats now but there was this one we had that somehow we just called Kitty. Now Kitty could stay a mile away and hear us when we start screaming because a rat or lizard got into the house. We would go mad hopping around on funiture or where ever trying to get the pest and hollering Kitty, Kitty, Kitty, and believe me when the screams pause you can sometimes hear him answering from afar and coming as fast as he could. When he got there he became the next man backing up the lizard or the mice until it was caught and then we'd send him outside with it and leave him to finish the job. Boy was he a big help then. You know what I find funny. Our male cats never die at home. They always go away and for days they'll be missing and just never come back home. Our father told us that's how male cats are. I wonder why?
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• United States
26 Apr 08
My cat will sit there oh-so pleasently and let you pet her; all the while furring her little head off. Very randomly, however, she may decide that she needs to fufill the sudden urge to bite you, and she will. She also chases anything. ANYTHING. She once got her head stuck through an arm openeing on a plastic bag and when tearing around the house as if wearing a cape. It was actually quite funny.
@scribe1 (1203)
• United States
7 Mar 08
My Mimi likes to sleep on the radiator. Sometimes, she'll jump on my lap and purr for perhaps a minute while I pet her. Then those purrs turn to growls and she jumps off and races to the sunporch. She's a calico cat who for now is very finicky and somewhat unfriendly.
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@tamzcat (67)
• United States
8 Mar 08
My cat Jack has tons of weird quirks. He gets a mouthful of dry cat food and takes it somewhere else, drops it all out of his mouth and then eats it but he always leaves a few pieces. Then I come along barefooted on the carpet and step on it. He also butts his head on the window alot. When it rains he tries the wipe the water of the window.
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
3 May 08
this was a long time ago but my sister had brought home a burmese cat that would go to sleep at night in the wash basin ith our tempe ariz home. she never failed to do that. she would sleep no place else. I even filled it half way with water.I will be darned that cat woke me up in the middle of a hot july night splashing in the bathroom sunk.she had got up there and tried to sleep there water and all. lol
@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
8 Jul 08
Zoe wants to get right up in your face when you are trying to do something. Snoops and knocks things off shelves, etc. Chumley meows all the time when she is excited to see you. She also wants to be in on whatever you are doing. She climbs on your shoulders and will try to climb up your legs. Midnight is the alfa male. He picks on the others alot. chases them through the house. Smokey is very anti-social and reserved. He wants to be left alone for the most part and if you pick him up he just ignores you.