Crazy Kitty!

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Reply #15 – January 30, 2007, 08:03:58 PM

get a pepsi box the 24 can case.. put a toy in it.. and tear one of the top portions of a flap off.. its fun when all you see is the kitty's head pokin out of the box

"Wait, this isnt what I paid for.."

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Reply #16 – January 30, 2007, 09:40:12 PM

Get one of those laser pointers if you really want to see some action. Olive would just about come out of her skin to get that red dot, especially if it was on the ceiling...

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Reply #17 – January 30, 2007, 11:13:26 PM

Quote from: Thunder Chicken;126786

Get one of those laser pointers if you really want to see some action.

I second that.

Karen, as everyone has already said, that's normal. I've never done any of the nose taps or water for kittens using claws and teeth when playing. I've had cats my whole life and just take that as "normal." It's fun to get a hand in there to rough them up a bit but if they have sharp claws, gardening gloves would help.

My Icelandic cat used to jump off of the walls - literally.

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Reply #18 – January 31, 2007, 07:27:34 AM

A good way to keep them from clawing the furniture is rubbing the area they pick to claw with a citronella candle. The citronella gets in their claws and burns. They hate that. About the second time they try it, lesson learned and they leave it alone.

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Reply #19 – January 31, 2007, 11:49:23 AM

Cool, I never knew about citronella...thanks.

She's calmed down today, I just want to know who put the crack in her kitty food yesterday!

She curled up and slept with me all night last night, and was really good. However I did get her playing before bed...had her going for about an hour and a half.

I don't want to play rough with her, since Keely is so little. I don't want her to get all scratched up and then not want anything to do with the kitten. She's been wanting one for several years, and now that we have one, I want her to be able to pick her up and not get hurt.
But, I do let her attack the stuffed cat we gave her, she claws at it and bites it....I just teach her not to bite or scratch us when we are handling her. She's picked up on that pretty fast.

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Reply #20 – February 01, 2007, 06:22:59 PM

Quote from: Thunder Chicken;126786

Get one of those laser pointers if you really want to see some action....

I've got a 10 year old cat that will still chase that thing. It layed in the junk drawer for years with dead batteries until we got the latest kitten and now the old girl is chasing it too (still).

Quote from: EricCoolCats;126622

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But Chuck is right. Kittens are just little tornados. That's their job. :)

We had crazy kitty hour every night at my old house. These two arrived in a pair as was suggested earlier and every night they'd chase each other up and down the hallway and wrestle/play. I wish I could tell you it stopped after a year or so but it went on many years and I enjoyed watching them every time. They do calm down some after about 6 months but that could've just been their personalities... until then there's nothing with as much energy and mischief as that kitten. The more she/he gets used to the environment the more you'll see the "out of control" stuff but it's usually not harmful except for the scratching. Get gloves if you're going to play with them using your hands.

Quote from: EricCoolCats;126622

My friend flicks his kitty's nose and says it works. I have yet to see it work for me. What does work is a spray bottle with water. Oh man, do they ever hate that. Once they associate getting sprayed with whatever they're doing, they will learn to fear the sight of the spray bottle.

Spray bottle definitely works. I make a hissing noise every time I squirt them and after a while you don't need the bottle just the noise is enough to get them to "change direction." Seems to work on older cats too judging by how often my fiance's cat doesn't get on the dining room table now. :D

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Reply #21 – February 03, 2007, 09:51:07 AM

...Or you could give her a few minutes in this thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15bwhVxw-Bg

That'll straighten out ANY cat

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Reply #22 – February 03, 2007, 10:50:19 AM

that was funny to watch.. the cat was like get me the fu@k out of here!

but i have to ask everyone here if they ever had a cat that did'nt hate water? i did .. these days he's not much into water but he's much older now allmost twelve

i miss my cat.. i did'nt want to put him threw a 1400 mile trip at his age in the car down to florida.. so Steve "CougarKing" has him at his house in Rhode island and the last time i talked to Steve he said my cat was doing great and seem to become very atached to his dad..

anyway i used to take him in the shower with me and give him a bath and back in the day he use to love taking cruses in mustang and my cougar. everytime he would hear me coming down the block he would greet me in the drive way. and i'd open the door and he would hop in and hang out till i got out everytime i work on or in the car he would be there too.. and of corse some i would take him for a cruse around town and he would either lie down in the pasenger set or lie next to me on my leg and across the center console..

he used to lie all over my car and would never lay a claw on it well lol of corse a paw or four but no claws..

one if the things that made people laugh was when i did work under the hood of my car he was lie across the plenum and watch me work ..

those were the days ..

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Reply #23 – February 03, 2007, 04:12:38 PM

Cigarette, the grey stray cat I adopted last year, likes water. If you're in the tub she'll sit right on your chest, in the water. She sleeps in the bathroom sink, and does not like to be disturbed, so any time I have to run water in the sink, such as to wash my hands, I run it right over her. She just lays there in the sink, with her body plugging the drain as it fills up with water. Once it gets deep enough she'll start drinking it, but stays right in it. She also likes to "help" when I work on the car (and loves to leave muddy footprints all over it), but I try to keep her out of the garage for fear of locking her inside by mistake.