I need cat help.

[Renew Deal]

Can anyone explain this to me? My girlfriends cat goes nuts every time she sees my girlfriends swim cap. She carries it around in her mouth and cries. Here's what it looks like:



She cries looking at it and carries it around crying. Can anyone explain this?

[DS1]

1. reincarnated rubber bondage enthusiast?

:hide:

[Renew Deal]

2. Maybe

I can't imagine what she thinks it is.

[Neshanic]

3. I would pose a theory, but it would lock this up in a New York minute.

[Tallison]

4. Is it a distressed cry

or a happy cry?

[Renew Deal]

6. I'd say distressed.

It's scary and loud like something is wrong.

[Tallison]

11. I suppose the next question is

does he do that with other rubber items?

(Swear to God, I have a cat who I once caught playing w/a roommate's diaphragm - I offered to buy her a new one).

[Renew Deal]

15. hmmmm

I don't think so, though there's not much laying around.

[Spinzonner]

5. Placenta flashbacks ?

[crispini]

7. Generalized cat weirdness.

We had a siamese that, when you put down an album sleeve on the carpet, would stare and stare and stare into the hole in the middle of the album sleeve for hours and hours. We theorized she was looking into a porthole of another dimension. :P

[Spinzonner]

9. "The Door Into Summer"

by Robert A. Heinlein

[RevCheesehead]

8. My cat does that with her catnip socks.

Usually first thing in the morning, after I've gotten up. She carries it in her mouth, crying "aa-aaaH!"
She brings the sock to me, then drops it as she accepts praise for hunting and stalking that dangerous sock. (she's an indoor kitty).

[Spinzonner]

10. SOmetimes you have to go hunting with the prey you have

about the only thing Rumsfeld has 'said' that turned out to be true

[Neshanic]

12. I'm going in. Maybe it has the same texture in her mouth...

as her mother's nipple, and scale wise it's as big as the one she remembers that was connected to mom.

[caty]

13. I have three cats:

Miss Kitty loves plastic bags. She licks them--I think she gets high.
Miss Cuddles has a blanky that she keeps close. Sometimes she "needs" it and cries"
Bogie has a stuffed hammerhead shark that I paid $1 for at a dollar store. That shark is his best friend. He carries it to the food bowl most mornings and puts it so that it's face is on the rim of the bowl--like he's trying to feed it. Sometimes he "needs" it, too. I think all cats are a little weird in one way or another.

Re: Miss Kitty's love of plastic bags--

It was 6am on a wintry Friday morning in February, when I was awakened by a loud sliding sound from above, followed by a loud BOOM. I thought that a huge sheet of ice had slid off of our roof and crashed outside of our bedroom window. But then boom boom boom boom came from upstairs and my husband woke up. We jumped out of bed as we heard BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM. Then the sounds started coming from the upstairs room above us. It sounded as though the roof of the house was caving in. “What’s happening” I cried. “I think a plane has swiped our roof” my husband said. Then boom boom boom boom.

We ran into the hallway just in time to see our cat, Miss Kitty running from the stairway with a white plastic shopping bag attached to her hind legs with our other cat, Cuddles, running close behind her. My husband caught Miss Kitty to free her from the bag while I ran upstairs to see what had caved in. Nothing—everything looked fine. When I came downstairs I saw two empty boxes of shotgun shells lying at the foot of the stairway with shotgun shells scattered around.

Now, Miss Kitty loves those plastic shopping bags. The day before, my husband had bought those two boxes of shotgun shells to take up north for hunting season. He put the bag of shells in a basket in our bedroom. Miss Kitty must of gotten into the basket to play with the bag when her hind legs got tangled in the handles of the bag. She must have panicked and took off running. The sliding sound I heard was when she jumped out of the basket dragging the bag of shells behind her. The crashing sound was when the heavy bag hit the floor the first time. All the other “booms” were from the bag hitting the floor behind her as she ran up the stairs and all around the upstairs. Then back down the stairs where the bag broke open spilling those shot gun shells. Cuddles was probably trying to rescue Miss Kitty when she was running behind her. I can almost imagine Cuddles shouting to Miss Kitty, “stop and I’ll get it off of you!!!!”

And, I always thought that cats were the quiet pets.

[Donailin]

14. No, but maybe someone can explain to me why my cat freaks out and

hauls ass at the sound of plastic bags. Grocery store bags, garbage bags and saran wrap. Also, aluminum foil. Bob runs so fast (and this has been 8 years now)that sometimes his ass can't keep up with his head and shoulders.

I don't get it.

[xultar]

16. SHe's thinking of it as a baby. It may remind her of something from

kitty hood.

My cat does it too with various items.

It is normal.