Comments on: What scares cats

By: Frighten cat | 557w12th

Frighten cat | 557w12th — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:08:04 +0000

[...] Cats can be just as afraid of an imaginary threat as a real one …Feb 4, 2010 … We understand when thunder, fireworks, or masses of snow rumbling off the roof frightens our cats. Heck, those can frighten me, … [...]

By: Kidspeak

Kidspeak — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:32:14 +0000

Somehow, I’ve managed to teach my cats a “safety signal”, by telling them they are “OK, Safe, You’re Safe”, while also waving my left hand side-to-side, windshield wiper style. They calm down immediately in the face of the scary noisy thing, be it the sudden appearance of the dreaded trip-to-the-vet carrier (the cat who’s going to the vet does NOT get the safety signal), the vacuum, or my husband’s clomping shoes running down the stairs. It really works, and the oldest cat pretty much taught it to the youngest one by her example, so we didn’t have to.

By: Max Kaehn

Max Kaehn — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:33:46 +0000

I have taken up calling out “warning” in a particular sing-song way when I’m about to do something noisy and cat-irritating (usually vacuuming). “Warning! Warning! All feline personnel to noise shelters! Warning!” Even though I do it well before the horrible noise, they still take off at high speed.