Comments on: Kitten Teleportation

By: Kim

Kim — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 05:07:33 +0000

Yes, kitten teleportation. Exactly. My 8 week old has started doing this. The other night I saw her brother jump out at her in the living room and then a few milliseconds later a food bowl was knocked over in the kitchen and I couldn’t figure out how she managed to cross that much distance that fast.

She’s taken to leaping at my feet from cover when I walk, and tends to get unintentionally kicked. I wear crocs to try to protect her and me, but when she jumps out right in front of my leg, and then my leg contacts her side mid-jump, I don’t feel I can be blamed. I’m just glad she’s a manx and therefore I don’t have to worry about stepping on her tail.

By: catlindy

catlindy — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:53:04 +0000

Monkey McUnderfoot can go from nap to beating you up the stairs…..and he just turned 3..
…its fun to play ‘i can get there first’….just start walking and then change direction…whoosh…and he is left wondering where you are
here is a toy idea that my cats love…bend in the edges of a pipe cleaner [because of sharp edges], coil it around your finger, throw it…Monkey and Vidalia will fetch, Pickle will just bat it around …great fun for all

By: WereBear

WereBear — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:31:09 +0000

I love Killsy stories. She’s one smart kitty.

By: Bill the Splut

Bill the Splut — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:50:35 +0000

I’m on my third kitten experience with this. First kitty’s Kill Kill’s second nickname (after Killsy) was Underfootnik, as she always was!

That horrible cry when a cat gets a tail stepped on is no fun for anyone. I learned to shuffle my feet, but after a while, she’d sometimes emit a short yell like I’d stepped on her, but when I looked down from the bags of groceries, she seemed fine. Huh, that’s odd.

Then one day she did it when I was looking at her. I hadn’t stepped on her at all. She was lying in between my feet, and went back to purring. I realized that she wasn’t saying “OW! You stepped on me!” she was warning me “Hey, be careful, you’re close enough that you could step on me!”

I’d always heard that “animals have no sense of time; they live in an eternal Now.” But here she was, demonstrating a knowledge she’d learned that “what happened in the past could happen again now, and affect my future.” She understood Cause and Effect. I realized then that the Common Wisdom was completely wrong, and that “dumb animals” are far smarter than what we “higher animals” suspect.

She was only 10 weeks old. And her new nickname became “The Einstein Cat.”

By: Margaret Elmendorf

Margaret Elmendorf — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:50:38 +0000

Oh this is so true. Try having four kittens to get around. I have learned that walk with the feet close to the ground very well. Great information. .-= Margaret Elmendorf´s last blog ..Does your Puppy or Dog chew?? =-.