Head first!
By ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (64169)
United States
August 15, 2011 6:53pm CST
So, Mo has decided the best bed in the house is on the metal trash can we put the dog food in.
Okay, except he really won't get off, you have to haul his hairy butt off the lid to get dog food out.
Tonight, the roommate scooped him off the can, opened it and put the lid on top of the real trash can next to it (the one the cats dumped the cat food in last week.) She took a scoop of food out to feed the dog, and Mo jumped back up.
Well, the lid was off, so he kind of had his back legs on the edge and front legs on the counter top. Then he tried to move over to the lid on the trash can.
The lid, however, doesn't fit on that can, it is a round metal lid and the can is an oval plastic can.
And it flipped him, head first into the trash!
I went over to try and get him out and he scrambled around so he was heads up. I picked him up to comfort him and he started sneezing. He must've sneezed 20 times, I don't know why, but I held him until they stopped. I pet him and comforted him until he started relaxing, then he wanted over on top of the cat food bin.
Last seen he was laying on the cat food - at least that lid doesn't come off!
So, have you ever had a cat try and throw HIMSELF away?
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17 responses
@GreenMoo (11833)
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16 Aug 11
One of my new kittens enjoys sitting on top of the kitchen bin. Pretty annoying as you have to move him every time you want to use it as he just doesn't move. Anyway, I had the lid propped open the other day as I was using it, and up he comes, jumps, and straight inside 
. I had to rescue him as there wasn't enough room for him to turn around & escape.
. I had to rescue him as there wasn't enough room for him to turn around & escape.2 people like this
@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
16 Aug 11
That would have been a funny sight! I have caught one of my babies inside the trash can while he was scavenging for food; the poor dear, you would think he never gets fed! I have never had one go in head first though, that would be worth a camera shot!
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@moondancer (7431)
• United States
16 Aug 11
LOL, this is too funny. You would have won the money for a video of that.
No, none of mine ever threw them self away. Punkin sure got herself in many many jams
She did things without thinking all the time and had to be rescued. lol
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@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
16 Aug 11
Weee-eeelll...Austin Community College offers pretty cheap video-making classes...
Maggiepie
"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences." ~ Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer, orator 1833-1899
Maggiepie
"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences." ~ Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer, orator 1833-18991 person likes this
@BarBaraPrz (51811)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
16 Aug 11
I'm tellin' ya... you just have to set up a 24-hr kitty cam.
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@BarBaraPrz (51811)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
16 Aug 11
You could have your own show...
Instead of Keeping Up With the Kardashians you could be Keeping Up With the Kitties...
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
22 Aug 11
yup.my oldest tux,the usual troublemaker fell into the garbage twice this week.
he really needs to be more careful where he chooses to nap lol
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@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
22 Aug 11
oh my!
Actually, our oldest, Sassy is falling off things all the time these days, how much longer we are going to have her is up in the air - but we'll love her all the time we have...
Mo isn't too old, 6ish now, but what he lacks in smarts he more than makes up in sweets.
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
22 Aug 11
in his case,he's just a klutz.he kind of always has been.
has to go everywhere at full speed too LOL
has delusions of cheetahness i think
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@allyoftherain (7208)
• United States
16 Aug 11
That's so funny! My kitty has an odd fascination with trash cans. Not the big huge bins, but the little trash cans that are in the bedrooms. She's always crawling into them. My sister even found her sleeping in her trash can. And neither of us get it. They don't smell bad, but they're not really all that comfy. It might be the plastic, but she doesn't play with it... she just kind of crawls in and sits.
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@allyoftherain (7208)
• United States
16 Aug 11
I never thought of it like that. So if I put a box out... will my cat crawl in it instead of the trash can or is the trash can always more interesting?
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
16 Aug 11
I have had cats dump the trash, but not try to throw themselves away. My first real life encounter with a possum was in the bottom of a trash can, though. He was just a baby, it was before we had company supplied trash receptacles and before my days of composting. I had put watermelon rinds in a trash can and the baby possum had gotten in and could not get back out, so he just sat there eating watermelon rinds.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
16 Aug 11
That could have been so unpleasant for him. Glad you helped Mo back out.
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@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
16 Aug 11
Cats can be so funny. I bet Mo did not like to be in that trash at all, poor thing.
I can just see him looking at you with that "mommy get me out and comfort me!" look.
I had a cat that LIKED the water.
hmm there was a cat that would do a victory lap around the house after a poo. We think it may have been because he was sick.
One cat would get kicked out of a room and come right back.. but what cat doesn't? after all it's their world we're just living in it!
How does that quote go? Dogs come when they're called, cats take a message and get back to you?
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@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
16 Aug 11
Not yet! Although, in my place, I'm the klutziest thing around!
Maggiepie
"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences." ~ Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer & orator 1833-1899@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
16 Aug 11
Just you wait...
Maggiepie
"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences." ~ Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer, orator 1833-1899
Maggiepie
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@bunnybon7 (50970)
• Holiday, Florida
16 Aug 11
to funny. pets are hilarious at times. coco has become more of a show off these days since so many of my kids are here with me. 
i have no idea why they do these things. but they do make us laugh. we have had cats lay in dirty clothes and stuff where we have to be careful what we throw in. 
@forester1985 (999)
• Indonesia
16 Aug 11
I have a cat, but not a race cat. he is a "semi-wild" cat. why I call him "semi-wild" cat? because sometimes he wild, and sometimes he not, and so quiet and nice. he can sleep everywhere, on the floor, sofa, my bed, even on outside. when he meet human, he no run like the wild cat.
he eat fish,fish bone, rice, wild-reptile, mouse, even bird and squirrel. most of them just for playing by him .
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@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
16 Aug 11
race cat? do you mean a particular breed of cat? because none of mine are any particular breed, tho I do have 3 with Siamese markings, they aren't pure Siamese.
I have 3 feral cats, can't get near them, and 3 semi-feral cats, can pet them, sometimes, on their terms... and the rest are tame loving pets, some more tame and loving than others..
I feed mine hairball formula food to keep the hairballs down, and a few cats also get wet food.
@forester1985 (999)
• Indonesia
17 Aug 11
yeah, may be the semi-feral cats like you said. they not a cat that lazy, like breeding cats, they very active. I see the feral cats acn not get near them, because when they see us, they run away or hide, until we go.
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@cerebellum (3863)
• United States
16 Aug 11
Your cats are always doing something amusing! I wonder why he was soo attached to that lid. My cats never tried to throw themselves away, but I am feeding a cat for my vacationing friend. He likes to go to the bathroom with me for some reason. When he sees me, he goes to the bottom of the stairs leading to the bath and cries. One of my cats would go in the bathroom and get on the vanity when I first came home. Is that normal or is there something about me and bathrooms?
@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
16 Aug 11
some of mine like to have the sink tap turned on so they can drink from the "thread" of water coming out - maybe that's what your friend's cat wants - maybe that's also what your cat wants, my water lovers will stand in front of the bathroom when I come home since I normally need to go right after I get home, for some reason...
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@cerebellum (3863)
• United States
16 Aug 11
That could be what my cat wanted. When he would hear me coming home he would go in the bath to wait for me. That is the first place I go also and he knew that. He would get on the vanity, but my friend's cat doesn't. I pick them up and pet them after I am sitting. It's not like they don't get attention any other time, but somehow it seems they think that is special!
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@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
25 Aug 11
I was laughing hard at that story Elic...what a character.
Banjo simply has to get into any box or plastic bag that is lying around. Lot's of times, the carton or bag an item came in becomes a rubbish bag or box for all the bits and pieces of packing that came too. He will often be asleep in there when I pick up the "rubbish" to dispose of it.
Banjo simply has to get into any box or plastic bag that is lying around. Lot's of times, the carton or bag an item came in becomes a rubbish bag or box for all the bits and pieces of packing that came too. He will often be asleep in there when I pick up the "rubbish" to dispose of it.
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
16 Aug 11
Hi Elic! Awwww! How cute! I don't know why some cats do the things that
they do, but they sure are good for making us laugh sometimes! My 2 boys
get themselves into things that I just don't understand. My cat Luna got
spooked Saturday because my upstairs neighbor was moving in another new
roomate (again?) and he ended up in one of the kitchen cabinets. I had
just gotten out of the shower and asked the bf what was all the noise
and commotion. He said Luna was in the cabinet. I was confused because
he had never done that before! I went to check it out and there
he was way in the back of the cabinet and he growled at me! (Apparently
he is part dog). He finally came out and I still don't know what that
was about.
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@blue65packer (11826)
• United States
16 Aug 11
I knew a cat how didn't know I had opened up the feed box. Jane jumped up and fell right into the bin where the gain was! Well Jane got scared jumped right out and I didn't see her for a while! She must of been al little freaked out!
Last summer I left one of the goats,Claude,who is a Nigerian Dawf,follow me around. He likes to follow people around. He was floowing me around and as you probaly know goats like to jump on things. Once again I was feeding horses and the the feed box was open. Claude had no idea it was open and he jumped up thinking the lid was down! Claude ended up in the grain in the feed box! I was like should I laugh or be scared? Luckly Claude is not to heavy and I was able to lift him out! Claude was fine and walked away like nothing happened! Those are my two stories!
