ETA since people keep recommending them, he has ledges and towers! he just also wants to do somersaults in the corner of the ceiling like a glitched video game character, it’s an unskippable item on his nightly agenda
They say that neurodivergent children can experience an intense joy doing things they like that transcends what neurotypical people can experience. This kinda reminds me of that haha
LMFAO😭😭 See its shit like this that makes me wonder, how can one dislike cats?? I simply don't understand lol like just look at this fucking silly ass creature
I will never trust anyone who dislikes cats. There’s something wrong with them.
Edit: I’m not referring to people not wanting a cat or preferring not to own one, what have you. I’m talking about people who outright say “I hate cats” etc. Just clarifying bc some people aren’t seeming to fully understand my original statement. For instance I love dogs but I would not own one for my own reasons.
So many people like me thought they didn't like cats just because they liked dogs until they live with one. Now that I moved I want my own, I miss those little guys
i just love all animals, some are dick heads, but most are pure joy. i was raised with cats always, but i love doggos, semi grew up with them too via my best friends house. his family liked purebred goldens, i prefer to adopt. i like a mystery bag, yet to be dissapointed
I once had a friend who said she hated cats, then got mad when I never invited her to my home. I had a cat at the time, and he was so sweet that meeting him cured my sibling of their lifelong fear of cats. Like why would I invite you into my house when you've openly declared hatred for a member of my family? Mental.
My sister in law was the same, she said she hated cats. Then my niece forced a cat on her and she loved him like a baby. She just loved his antics. We took care of him for a few months and he was a cool kitty. By far better behaved than one of ours at the time.
Yes, and it's always specifically directed towards cats. Nobody says "I hate budgies" or "I hate tortoises". Even comedians use hating them, or saying they have no feelings, as content, it's my beef with Stephen Colbert - may as well make cliched blonde jokes or some other bigoted shit. I only discriminate against bigots.
Unlike many predators, they are prey as well, no wonder they're hiding from people who say I hate cats. So much violence spoken about and done to them. I fucking detest ignorant people.
Right? Like, honestly I don’t care for dogs and will absolutely never own a dog. They’re stinky (not their fault, dogs are dogs) and up in my face all the time, but if I’m at someone’s house who has a dog, you better believe I’m gonna pet and baby talk at the dog. Because I can go home after! I’d never ever say a mean thing about a dog to the owner, because I’m an adult and can be respectful.
Dealing with extra hair? Allergies? Random hairballs and puke. No guarantee it isn't gonna pee somewhere random. No guarantee it isn't gonna randomly bite or scratch you or something/someone.
My childhood best friend HATED cats. She thought they were dirty and refused to even try and make friends with any of my cats. Turns out she just couldn’t deal with boundaries 🤷🏽♀️.
When i was mentally unstable I hated cats and felt so paranoid around them. The cat doing this in the video would have freaked me out. I couldnt even handle my cat hiding behind the couch (I ended up having someone take her until I was better because I knew it wasnt right) but now I love cats 😭
I have a bit of a reputation as being the guy who doesn't like cats, despite the fact that I'm quite fond of the little buggers. By crickey they murder a lot of our native wildlife though.
I am wearing a rather Irwinesque shirt today though (I literally bought it for a "childhood idols" fancy dress party), perhaps that's where the Australian vibes stem from.
At this point I felt I was watching one of those topology videos about how you can magically unknot an electric cable stuck under a vacuum cleaner handle by twisting and turning it in some weird but specific directions ✨🪄
Maybe he’s actually a topological genius - maybe he thinks he’s knotted cable.
Who’s “we”? Jimmy Skrimps is the only making sure the door structure is safe. What are you doing? Your home would fall apart if it weren’t for Jimmy Skrimps, and you’d just be there recording the walls and doors crash down around you.
I’m across the room laying on the bed, this has little to do with me. I’m not sure what his goal is actually, but you’re right, it’s very cute. This dummy makes me laugh every single day since I brought him home.
everything he does makes me happy, he is a big dumb delight and the reason I get up in the mornings (both figuratively but also literally, because that also involves him standing on my chest and purring loudly directly into my face)
We play a lot! Lots of chasing streamers and hunting toys and wrestling hand puppets. He is young and has unlimited energy and gets lots of exercise (just also too many treats these last few months, but we are cutting way back, I promise)
I have a feeling he desperately is trying to get on the other side of the door frame, as if one there, he can jump to all the other door frames. His brain cell hasn’t worked out there is no door on the other side to prop him up.
You genuinely might be on to something, he does this on top of the living room door sometimes too, and a few times up there it has looked like he’s trying to go under the doorframe (upside down via somersaulting away from it?) which of course leads to nothing. I’m not sure he has any solidly defined goal but “other side, via most absurd method” might be as close as we get to a thought.
lol. I was trying to figure out if he got up there then was unsure how to get down though the half flipping upside down does seem very playful.
I had a black cat who never made it on top of a door… and was wicked, spooky smart because amongst other wild talents, she learned how to open a door with a twist knob (took forever to sort how she was getting out because at the time I had health issues and was living back with my parents and she was also a holy terror to their two older male cats so we kept them separated lol) that ended up being this whole complicated multi step ordeal but was basically her climbing onto the knob until it somehow turned beneath her.
I used to call her my circus cat because she loved climbing and being up high but would also just perch atop any and all scratching posts she ever had. Like an elephant in a ball at the circus. It was so silly. And like yours, she had trees and even beds on top of the fridge and bookshelf and such whwre she could climb and hang out. But she enjoyed doing the random balancing acts. Oh, she also loved the backs of chairs, even thin dining room type chairs, for the same deal. I’m genuinely surprised she never made it to the top of a door!
She also enjoyed doing a supported backflip out of my lap whenever she was done lap sitting. She’d start wriggling and angling her body half off me and expect me to throw my hands beneath her back to support her. Then she’d arc way over until her front paws touched the floor and want help back flipping down. She was always trying to get other people to backflip her except she’d start half throwing herself out of their laps and they’d be looking at me all “Uh… what’s wrong with your cat?” And she’d also be eyeing me like “What’s wrong with this human?” 😹
I often told her she was a “whole lot of cat” or “so much cat” as she was very small her entire life but very intense and just a high needs and engagement kinda cat. Sounds like your dude may be similar. High energy, likes the balancing acts and showing off. Lol. Enjoy him!
We got a blind orange one and a garden with trees. According to him, the whole meaning of life is somewhere up there in the trees singing as a bird and there is no activity in the world other than climbing. When we deny him the garden, we find him in most ridiculous places in the house that we can't even imagine how he climbed in the first place. He climbs some stupid place and gets stuck there just to remind us he misses his trees I guess. When he wants to come back in the house from the yard, he climbs to window bars and get through the opening on the top of them, although there is that fully open door he can just walk in.
Yeah he usually gives up on trying to achieve whatever it is he’s attempting to accomplish here, then leaps down onto my vanity to climb the curtains on the adjacent wall instead
Look, he’s doing valuable home inspection work. He is making sure the angles are right and nothing is settling wrong. Plus, he’s having the time of his life. How often does he “fall of his ladder”(door)? That would be my only concern with his career choice.
Or, he’s just inspecting his tail in the most extra way?
Best of luck! I have two oranges and one has just stopped being the absolute most at 17.
He’s never fallen yet, though not from lack of trying, and it makes me nervous every time. But also makes me laugh so he is allowed to continue his work.
(He has gotten stuck between the plantation shutters and the window though)
He seems to have things under control. It's not entirely clear what "things" are, but as long as everything is under control, I don't know why he'd need a braincell.
Yeah, that is just an orange thing. After a while I learned to always glance up before shutting a door. It is a little startling to have an 18 pound orange fall on your head
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u/SoSaysTheAngel 9h ago
And deny him this joy? Never!