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Siwsan

(27,889 posts)
Wed Jan 19, 2022, 08:54 PM Jan 2022

One of my biggest challenges, right now, is trying to stay one step ahead of the boys.

For example, if I want to keep a glass of ice water bedside, at night, I have to use a drinking cup with a lid to keep Madoc from washing his paws in it, or fishing out the ice cubes so he can chase them around any flat surface.

Gryff's big thing, right now, is he will stretch out flat against the last step and wait for me to come along. He thinks he's invisible so I have to pretend I'm going to step on him and then let out a little cry of surprise. Weird, I know, but he gets up and scampers down the hallway. If he could giggle, I'm sure that's what he'd be doing.

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One of my biggest challenges, right now, is trying to stay one step ahead of the boys. (Original Post) Siwsan Jan 2022 OP
You can't. They have eight feet and you have only two. Ocelot II Jan 2022 #1
Lol SheltieLover Jan 2022 #2
Siwan Duncanpup Jan 2022 #3
+ a brazillion! tblue37 Jan 2022 #7
Goofy kittehs... 😁 dixiechiken1 Jan 2022 #4
GOOD LUCK!!! elleng Jan 2022 #5
You'll never be able to have a glass of water bamagal62 Jan 2022 #6
I have a Rebl2 Jan 2022 #8
My past cat Vinny I_UndergroundPanther Jan 2022 #9
Madoc is also a straw thief Siwsan Jan 2022 #10
M6y guy is also a straw thief. Anything that I bring home with a straw has to be niyad Jan 2022 #11

bamagal62

(4,556 posts)
6. You'll never be able to have a glass of water
Wed Jan 19, 2022, 09:36 PM
Jan 2022

Without a lid next to your bed ever again. I’m now on 18 years drinking out of a cup with a lid in my house. When they get older, it’s no longer a play toy, it’s their water bowl. They’ll stick their head down in there and drink!

Rebl2

(17,925 posts)
8. I have a
Wed Jan 19, 2022, 11:25 PM
Jan 2022

cat that does that to my husband if he sits at the table with a cup of water. She prefers a cup to a water bowl.

I_UndergroundPanther

(13,385 posts)
9. My past cat Vinny
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 02:39 AM
Jan 2022

Loved to steal straws.

He'd take that straw outof my drink,my iced coffee, and he did it so quietly and hed do it when the cup was right next to
you,I dunno how he did it,but he did.

One day I pulled out the fridge to clean behind it and there must have been 200 straws back there.

Siwsan

(27,889 posts)
10. Madoc is also a straw thief
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 08:04 AM
Jan 2022

It started when I still had all four kittens. One of them got ahold of a straw and all four loved playing with it. Madoc will just pluck them out of my glass and take off with it. Gryff loves to play with straws but he leaves it to Madoc to acquire them.

niyad

(134,016 posts)
11. M6y guy is also a straw thief. Anything that I bring home with a straw has to be
Fri Jan 21, 2022, 05:23 PM
Jan 2022

transferred to a screwtop cup.

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