Did you know this about cats?

[griz]

Did you know that if you drop a sock across a cats back, it will walk away getting lower and lower until its belly drags the ground? If the sock is short enough and the cat is wide enough, the sock will still be there, and the cat will start spinning around on the carpet like they used to do on the three stooges. At that point the cat will give you a why are you laughing at me look of contempt.

Rambling disclaimer: No cats were harmed in the making of this thread. Sample size was one (1) cat and accuracy is plus or minus 100 percent. Your cat and your results may vary.

[Ukraine Train]

*goes to look for strays with sock in hand*

[TarpleyG]

Put the sock opening over his/her head and run!!!  My cat's favorite game.

Greg

[Jamisjockey]

I prefer to let my kid do the cat tormenting.

[Harold Tuttle]

This trick will work once
and will earn you  lots of bad Kat-ma

1) Find a small crisp grocery paper sack

2) Sit in a chair with the bottom of the bag in your hand
with the opening facing down

3) Entice the kitty to come visit your realm

4) as the cat approaches, make small tapping, rustling sounds on the bags bottom.
A naive cat will sit right under the bag and look up inside the bag

5) when the animal is fully enthralled with the sounds,
plunge the bag right over its head and enshrowd the entire pussycat

Properly executed, only the cats tail will stick out
and the victim will be completely stymied, frozen like a paper wrapped cat-cicle

Sometimes the tail will flick about like a pendulum,
counting out the ways feline revenge will be deposited in your shoes

Eventually puss will make the most uncatlike crash and fall over sideways like a pole axed heifer

[Brrlgrrl]

Harold Tuttle, my felines adore paper bags!  
I will generally give them each a bag, but if there is only one they will fight over it.  They play to coax the other out, and then stake their claim only to be coaxed out and the process starts all over again!
My girls are a little spoiled, and have toys all over the house.  Our home is generally tidy save for the mice, paper sacks and feathers!  I consider it hunting practice for the younger one.  It generally looks like a slaughter of pink, purple and green birds and mice.

[Harold Tuttle]

my old cats used to love pouncing inside a full side grocery bag
for more fun i would poke a hole in the end and run a feather on a string through the bag

i could entice them to make a running leap into the bag and they would skate down the slate hallway
eventually they would get a claw in the little hole and start shredding the bag

[griz]

My "sock cat" (the sock trick was an unplanned accident by the way) like bags, but not paper. She is facinated by plastic bags. I guess it's the noise. She drags them up to the bed so I can step on them in the morning. Last night she pulled in a bag that had a 1.5 X 5 scope in it. She has to walk with her legs splayed so she doesn't step on the bag.

[griz]

The string through the bag trick sounds great. I'll try that, but not try bagging a cat. I once tried to put another cat into one of those cardboard cat carriers. She sliced through a seam and launched out of there like an ICBM, shredding skin and cardboard on the way. I've bleed enough and I'm worried about Kat-ma. (Thanks for the term BTW )

[InfidelSerf]

My brother and I used to "torment" my moms cat by taking the outer plastic from a pack of cigarettes and slipping it over one of its back paws.. hold it on with a rubber band (lightly)  He would shake that back paw like crazy and never walk on it.. it was hilarious.
I don't torment my kitties anymore.  
But both of mine have a licking fetish, primarly antistatic bags.. but plastic grocery bags are another favorite.. it drives me crazy because they will just sit there and lick lick lick making crackling noises. :p

[garyk/nm]

We have a runner-type rug on the (tile) kitchen floor. Our felines love to take a running start from the living room, pounce mid-rug, and slide across the kitchen.  Cat surfing!

[Standing Wolf]

Few things in life are half so exciting as crumpled, tossed cough drop wrappers.

[Werewolf]

Tried it on each of my three cats.

1) Un-Nuetered Male about 2 years old. Hesitated almost started going down but then did his cat thing and reached around behind his back and took it off.

2) 3 year old neutered male - ignored it completely - went on about his business.

3) 15 year old neutered male - just stood there giving me the evil eye - really if he could talk I could have imagined him asking what the hell my main malfunction was. Stood there eyeballing me until I reached down and took the sock off his back at which point he strolled off like nothing untoward at all had occured.

I think your cat must have imbibed too much catnip and other cat mind altering substances based on his totally strange reaction to a sock tossed onto his back.

[Felonious Monk/Fignozzle]

"I think your cat must have imbibed too much catnip and other cat mind altering substances big_smile based on his totally strange reaction to a sock tossed onto his back."
LOL!!

I am NOT making this up.
1982 and I'm a Sophomore at a small Southern Baptist college.  5 other guys and myself are sharing an apartment that had formerly been the upstairs office and family viewing room of a funeral home.  My fiance decides to give me this calico kitten for a birthday present, despite the fact that NOBODY in the apartment particularly likes cats, and one guy is very ALLERGIC to cat hair.  Oh, boy!!!  But life goes on, and we reluctantly welcomed our new roommate.

A few weeks go by, and me and one of the guys start talking about our 'formative years', and he mentioned someone he knew who actually took a cat, put it in a shoe box, poked a 1/4" hole in the side, and as a group of several folks did bong hits (smoked marijuana through a waterpipe), they would pass the box around right behind the bong and exhale into the hole in the box.  

We laughed, and after a long silence, I stopped smiling, looked over and said "I know where I can get some".
My buddy was TOTALLY jazzed, and led me down a sinful path, encouraging me to score, which I did in like, 15 minutes.
So Lance, Scoobie and I went for a little ride in my truck, down to the back side of the lake.  
A couple of guys who had grown out of the stupidity of dope smoking years before got the poor cat higher than a kite, and the cat sort of hid under a bed for about 3 days.  Not sure that cat was ever quite the same.

[Sindawe]

One of my tom cats (Kahless) does this as well when I lay something across his back.  He looks quite amusing walking about with is belly scraping the floor.  Of course, he does that when I pet/touch him and he does not want to be touched.  The other tom cat (Uther Pendragon) has no issue with the sock on the back, but gets upset if he does not get beaten daily with sock or two.  The female cats Bastet and Morgana le Fay just glower at  me when I do put the socks on them.  Females....

Geezzz FF, cats DO NOT like Cannabis sp, or any sort of smoke for that matter.  I don't know if they even have receptors in the brain.  Hmmmm....My bad, looks like they do.  http://ajpheart.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/276/6/H2085

[Felonious Monk/Fignozzle]

Ummm...yeah...that's it!  We were doing...ummm...research...
for a, umm....TERM PAPER! Yeah...that's the ticket! LOL

[Azrael256]

plunge the bag right over its head and enshrowd the entire pussycat

Actually, I like to then flip her over like I'm sacking at the grocery store.  Mom's cat loves it.  I can't quite figure out why.  She sits in the middle of the living room with her "unsuspecting" back to me when we come home from the grocery store just waiting for me to sack her.  I'll carry her around the house for a few minutes, and then deposit her on the bed.  She's an odd little creature.

[Guest]

I remember when i was a kid i used to take empty soft-drink cups and place yummy cat-morsels at the bottom. A biff fluffy persian walking around with its head stuck in a white paper cup is pretty funny. My mother did not agree though.

[Brad Johnson]

My two goofballs have more personality than I do.

The big one is a lounge lizard. Pretty much any flat surface that holds or radiates heat is his friend. There is one dark-colored tile in the kitchen floor where the sun shines through the window. I guess that tile absorbs more heat because Boomer will spend hours on that tile, and that tile only. When he's not there, he insists on sitting at my feet while I am in my easy chair. If I don't constantly pat him with my foot he will turn around, grab my foot with both paws and give me a little love-bite as a "reminder" that he is there. It's kinda hard to miss him - he's a BIG boy. 21" body length, a foot high at the shoulder, and just over 20 lbs. His fangs measure just over a half inch so love bites from him take on a whole new meaning!

My little one, on the other hand, is Little Miss Prissy Pants. She is also my shadow. I don't go anywhere in the house that she's not right next to me. When I sit in my easy chair she curls up in my lap and doesn't move until I get up. She also insists on sleeping next to my pillow, and nowhere else. The funniest thing about here is watching her move through the house. Apparently, her little cat brain has resolved that the floor is made out of cat solvent. She will go from one end of the house to the other and never touch the floor! She gets her little routine down on how to get from one place to the other. Moving the furniture just absolutely blows her mind! One time I move the piano and it was too far from it to the couch for her to jump. She sat there for over an hour screaming at me until I went over and picked her up. Spoiled rotten little brat!

If you like cats you might want to take a look at the Bad Kitty Page. Lots of fun!
http://www.badpets.net/BadPets/BadKitty.html

Brad

[atek3]

My favorite cat joke.

So everyone knows buttered toast falling on the ground will always land butter side down...  And everyone knows a cat always lands right side up...

Perpetual motion in one easy step... tape a piece of buttered bread to the back of a cat and drop the cat... the cat will begin to hover and spin just off the ground, due to the attraction-repulsion of the buttered bread-cat system.  Placing magnets on the cats feet and placing the buttered bread-cat-magnets device within coiled wire provides essentially limitless AC power.

atek3

[Guest]

My favorite cat joke.

So everyone knows buttered toast falling on the ground will always land butter side down...  And everyone knows a cat always lands right side up...

Perpetual motion in one easy step... tape a piece of buttered bread to the back of a cat and drop the cat... the cat will begin to hover and spin just off the ground, due to the attraction-repulsion of the buttered bread-cat system.  Placing magnets on the cats feet and placing the buttered bread-cat-magnets device within coiled wire provides essentially limitless AC power.

atek3

I know someone who actually tried this (no, sobriety played no part in it). The end result was a *kind* of perpetual motion. If you could figure out how to run a turbine off of a pissed off grease covered cat intent on doing as much property damage as possible we wouldnt need oil anymore.

[Gewehr98]

Carrying the sock trick further...

Get a long enough tube sock and tie it around the cat's midsection.  I tried it and the furball promptly laid down and refused to move until the sock was removed.  Interesting!

[BryanP]

Perpetual motion in one easy step... tape a piece of buttered bread to the back of a cat and drop the cat... the cat will begin to hover and spin just off the ground, due to the attraction-repulsion of the buttered bread-cat system.  Placing magnets on the cats feet and placing the buttered bread-cat-magnets device within coiled wire provides essentially limitless AC power.

This is the principle on which UFO's get their power.  That weird humming noise from flying saucers?  Hundreds of purring cats.

[J.J.]

Carrying the sock trick further...

Get a long enough tube sock and tie it around the cat's midsection.  I tried it and the furball promptly laid down and refused to move until the sock was removed.  Interesting!

You beat me to it.  I was going to post that.  But I use 2 or 3 (depends on the cat) paper towels.  Because then you know you can't hurt them.. too tight and it breaks so no danger to the cat.

[thorn]

i dunno, just tried it- she did l;ower the back legs a little, but she basically wlaked away with it on her back, paid it no attention- HA! i had to chase her down to get my sock back befroe she took it to the neighbors yard!

>>Get a long enough tube sock and tie it around the cat's midsection.  I tried it and the furball promptly laid down and refused to move until the sock was removed.  Interesting!<<<

i will try that as soon as sdhe comes back, usually a few minutes is all she goes outside for