Feline obsessions
Recently, our cat Cleo has developed a couple of obsessions:
Obsession 1 - the airing cupboard: We have an airing cupboard on the upstairs landing, housing the hot water tank, clean towels and a variety of cat-trapping voids and spaces. She has never shown a lot of interest in the cupboard until now, but suddenly it seems to have become her aim in life to get in there against all odds. As soon as you open the door, she appears from nowhere, desperately trying to get into the cupboard. Unfortunately we have to open the door a few times a day, because the only way to turn off the hot water coming out of the shower is to use the stopcock in the airing cupboard (it’s a long story). Since we don’t want Cleo in the cupboard because of the aforementioned clean towels and cat-trapping voids, we regularly have a fun few minutes wrestling with a squirming cat while soaking wet from the shower and trying to preserve our dignity with a towel.
Obsession 2 - Springwatch: Yes, that Springwatch. Again, she’s never shown much interest in the TV before, but as soon as the birds turned up on Springwatch last night, she was stalking the TV, ending up sitting on the bench a few centimetres away from the screen, batting at the giant coal tit chicks on the webcam, and even — in one highly inappropriate moment — Bill Oddie’s crotch. We saw most of the programme obscured by a furry, feline outline, then when it ended she gave a brief chirrup and wandered off to sleep.
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Every time you see her away from the airing cupboard pick her up and take her there, being a cat, she will resist and never want to go to the cupboard again.
Probably the best Bill Oddie is going to get at his age...............
by Jonathan Briggs @ 27/05/2008 8:31 pm • Permalink •
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If your house is old enough (or creakily enough constructed) to have a potential mouse problem, this may explain the airing cupboard thing.
If it has the boiler in it, it may also have floor/cavity spaces with warm pipes in, and those are the places mice love. It's where we tried laying traps in our house, but mice are clever beggars, and it didn't work.
If the cat is desperate to get in, it may be that she can smell a mouse that so far you cannot.
by Michael Houghton @ 27/05/2008 9:26 pm • Permalink •
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And have you recently changed televisions? I have heard that the persistent image in flat panel TVs is more visible as an image to a cat than older technologies.
by Michael Houghton @ 27/05/2008 9:29 pm • Permalink •
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ONJfp95yoE&eurl=http://go-blog-go.blogspot.com/
by Saltation @ 27/05/2008 9:29 pm • Permalink •
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