New lows in feline stupidity

[muckefuck]

I'm trying to pack for the trip to STL tomorrow while the cat is on his usual late-night. I'm folding shorts (yay!) and he's attacking the trim just around the corner. Of course, we've bought him any number of balls, mice, and other toys and he's managed to lose all but ones he never plays with. So, in desperation, I turn the scratching post from bunj and e. on its side. There's a ball attached to it by a springy filament that I start tossing around to get his attention. It works. Bonus! I think while walking away. Let's see him try to lose this one.

So I head to other side of the lower level to get something from the back bedroom and I hear a sound resembling a caterwaul. I think What has he done to himself? It gets louder as I approach the den and finally I see him there on the lower landing and, yes, his claw is somehow caught in the filament. Drawing nearer, I can tell that he's managed to wrap it around itself so that it's squeezing his paw. I reach forward to try to loosen it and what does he do? He attacks me. I try to hold him still, he keeps trying to bite me. In all the fuss, his paw works itself free and he runs off.

Stupid, thy name is cat.

Comments

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

I have only met ONE cat who didn't go completely zaradann when I tried to unhook his/her claws from whatever they were stuck in, and he's the floofster in the icon. He's not the smartest cat I've known, just one of the most mellow.

[innerdoggie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, one of my cats gets a claw stuck in things. You generally have to lift the cat up to keep the weight off the claw, and then unhook the claw. Best done with leather gloves.