All of the five cats at my house are neurotic. Wait a minute … if I say “cat” and “neurotic” in the same sentence, am I being redundant, and repeating myself, also, too, as well?
No matter.
The point is my cats are all crazy, but one in particular is driving me nuts! She loooooooves to chew on cords. She especially adores any cord connected to “Mommy’s” electronic devices.
After she chewed through the third computer power cord (at $80 a pop), I have finally realized it is time to take drastic measures. Duh. I can’t afford to buy new cords or to pull out my meticulously dyed red hair. And, it will throw me into quite a tizzy if I find this cat fried under my desk!
I have only two choices, as far as I can see:
I have chosen to cover the cords with corrugated split flex tubing. It was a pain in the patooty.
But, it’s an adorable cat …
[Go ahead, cat lovers. I know you have a story to share in the comments. You dog lover's can share your adorable/aggravating pet stories, too. But, don't anybody say, "I love cat's, too! Let's share recipes!" I don't want to be tempted.]
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- Random Ramblings
- The Party’s Not Over
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One of our three cats here (not counting the 9 kittens we now have as they can not look forward to having a permanent home here. At least I am not planning on that happening anyway!) is apparently bi-polar and I have decided that is the problem between her and our dog, sweet little Sammy. She never paid any attention, overall, to Sammy before she had her kittens a week ago Monday. She was pretty much aloof to him, would glare at him, stroll past him with nary a thought about him. But now -he never knows which side of her will present before him! One time, she waltzs out into the living room and goes right up to Sammy, even touching noses, as if to say, “How are you today, my canine friend.” And other times, she comes out here with a major case of attitude -none of which is the least bit polite much less friendly and launches a full-scale attack on the poor dog! Which just totally confuses the poor mutt, as you can imagine!
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Is it hormones? I can relate to that.
You tell me you have 9 kittens, and my first thought is, “Awwwwww! I want one!”
Fortunately, sanity prevails — and you live far away
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Our cats have some strange quirks…but I don’t think any of them count as neurotic. Well…except for Lucy and that’s not really her fault, she lived with a very strange family before we got her.
Then again, I could just be in denial!
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Bwahaha! You are in denial
Every cat that I have ever seen is neurotic … but then, maybe my definition of “neurotic” is equal to your definition of “quirky?”
I HEART you. That is all.
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Awww. You made my day.
Out of the four, Muffin is the neurotic one. We got her from the shelter and I think she was mistreated previously. She won’t let us pick her up, and has to come to us for patting which consists of her moving constantly. But with all of that, she is the queen of the bunch, cleans the two males and totally ignores Mini (just like the rest of the cats ignore Mini) As I type this, Mini is curled up next to my husband on the couch, at night she is curled up touching my legs. So glad the chewing is done, the boys did lose a video game cord or two for awhile, but that seems to have stopped.
How drastic for you though, that’s a lot of cords to wrap up!
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Yes, and I still have two to wrap! So far haven’t noticed lamp cords and things getting chomped.
Muffin sounds a bit like two of my cats. I brought them home together, and I guess they got excited about being held. Both will weave between your legs begging for attention … as long as you don’t pick them up!
Wasn’t it Mini that did the climbing?
Blackadder’s neurosis is a very strange one: he hates music. If we turn on the CD player, or if I start to sing, he demands to be let outside IMMEDIATELY. The only music he will be still for is the classical station on DirecTV.
And he bites us if he happens to be in reach when we (Mom or I) talk on the phone.
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Blackadder would lose his mind at our house! Mr. Tucker pulls out the electric guitar at night so that all the cats will clear the bed. They run to hide … guess they don’t like rock and roll.
Why, I wonder, does he bite when you talk on the phone? Is it one of those “love nips,” where he is trying to get attention?
Sounds like the price we pay for living in the Technological Age. Cat Lover but not a writer of Cat Stories (you have to be there). Not a cat story, or even a pet story, but an Animal with Flexible Tube story.
New washing machine still under warranty. One day, water everywhere. Repair Man showed me the flexible water tube connecting the washer to the waterline that had been chewed away. Devoured, more like it, fully 50% of the tube had disappeared. What the . . .? A rat, he said. They go after the water source, and he’d seen this kind of damage in city centers – home to lots of large, hungry vermin – but never in the suburbs. Replacement tube installed.
Called the Pest Control Man who confirmed Repair Man’s diagnosis. I gasped at the cost of his Rat Riddance Treatment. He suggested that I put down a pack of rat poison from the hardware store. Done. No further problem. Days later, the same Pest Control truck seen parked outside my neighbor’s house as pest sought new, more vermin-friendly residence. She wasn’t as smart, however. She paid Pest Control Man for the expensive Rat Riddance Treatment. Same result.
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Let’s hope my cats don’t decide to chew through the flexible tubing! Knock wood, we haven’t had a problem with mice or rats. We have feral cats in the neighborhood who dine on the rodents… and coyotes who dine on the rodents and feral cats. You would think that eating the tube would have killed that rat
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