This Cat Needs a Hobby SO BADLY
Dec. 8th, 2024 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lb_leeMade it through MICE. Had two episodes while tabling, but wearing a plague mask means nobody can see you cry as you pitch your wares! I was never so fucking glad to come home...
...whereupon we discovered that Murdercat has figured out how to steal our wool socks. From a shut solid steel drafting table.
...whereupon we discovered that Murdercat has figured out how to steal our wool socks. From a shut solid steel drafting table.
For those of you new here, Murdercat is our roommate's cat. He is made of endless prey drive, and in our previous household (infested as it was with rats, mice, squirrels, and moths) he would've been in hog heaven, but alas for him, this house has no pests (except sometimes tiny harmless ants), so instead he hunts everyone here. This cat is a shounen protagonist desperate for an adventure that will never come; we have never met a being who so badly wants to be an outdoor cat. He is extremely energetic, extremely understimulated, and we are often the only human home and (I suspect) the only one who regularly plays with him. This cat is BORED. He is trying to figure out how to operate doorknobs and I dearly hope he never figures it out because if he does, he will become unstoppable.
Desperate for SOMETHING to hunt, Murdercat discovered wool. He developed the very annoying habit of ransacking our clothes rack, throwing our clothes everywhere, and stealing our socks. (If the wool ones were gone, he would steal the others, but they were clearly inferior grade prey.) This meant that whenever we left the house, we'd have to shut the door, which made him even MORE understimulated but also we just couldn't stand putting our clothes back (and finding destroyed wall hangings) every time we came home.
Finally, we took to stashing our wool socks in the drawer of our drafting table to keep them out of his reach. The drafting table is solid steel, and it's HEAVY; it takes us a strong yank to get the sticky drawer open. But hey, that meant Murdercat couldn't get it, right?
Wrong. Murdercat in the past couple days has figured out how to jump onto our boom box, slither up into the guts of our drafting table from below, squeeze his long skinny ass up into the drawer from below and to the side, and then steal the socks. This cat is a fucking contortionist. It's bonkers.
So now we have had to hide the socks in a DIFFERENT drawer of our computer desk. The drawer is much lighter, less sticky, and made of wood, so not sure how much defense it'll be, but it's that or lock our own socks in a damn trunk, which will be MUCH harder for us to get to.
It's probably just as well this cat is moving out in a couple weeks. I feel like a grandparent trying to keep up with a toddler.
Desperate for SOMETHING to hunt, Murdercat discovered wool. He developed the very annoying habit of ransacking our clothes rack, throwing our clothes everywhere, and stealing our socks. (If the wool ones were gone, he would steal the others, but they were clearly inferior grade prey.) This meant that whenever we left the house, we'd have to shut the door, which made him even MORE understimulated but also we just couldn't stand putting our clothes back (and finding destroyed wall hangings) every time we came home.
Finally, we took to stashing our wool socks in the drawer of our drafting table to keep them out of his reach. The drafting table is solid steel, and it's HEAVY; it takes us a strong yank to get the sticky drawer open. But hey, that meant Murdercat couldn't get it, right?
Wrong. Murdercat in the past couple days has figured out how to jump onto our boom box, slither up into the guts of our drafting table from below, squeeze his long skinny ass up into the drawer from below and to the side, and then steal the socks. This cat is a fucking contortionist. It's bonkers.
So now we have had to hide the socks in a DIFFERENT drawer of our computer desk. The drawer is much lighter, less sticky, and made of wood, so not sure how much defense it'll be, but it's that or lock our own socks in a damn trunk, which will be MUCH harder for us to get to.
It's probably just as well this cat is moving out in a couple weeks. I feel like a grandparent trying to keep up with a toddler.
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Date: 2024-12-09 03:04 am (UTC)*pets him, if he's amenable*
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Date: 2024-12-09 03:27 am (UTC)Also I got my cat one of those rechargeable robot balls that rolls around the house unpredictably to keep her stimulated when I was a way. She loved it, and I think Murdercat would enjoy it.
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Date: 2024-12-09 06:19 am (UTC)Iknow in canon, Tammy’s a dog, but the one we knew is a long, lamky, feral goblin of a cat who only likes Eden and not the rest of us.
If you ever have to deal with a cat like that again, it might help to invest in one of those telescoping cat toys with a feather and bell on the end.
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Date: 2024-12-09 03:02 pm (UTC)ah kitties. Cheers for you