The vandalism continues

[Siwsan]

This time the victims are a lamp and a wood carving done by my Dad. The lamp survived. The wood carving? Well, it's going to need some glue. He carved a mother duck and three ducklings, all with open beaks. There's a plaque naming this carving 'Quacking Lessons'. It is one of my most prized possessions.

Fortunately it's just the 3 ducklings that were knocked off of the platform. None are broken so they can be re-attached.

Not sure WHO is doing this but the focus is now on Gryff. I found him on top of the dining room hutch, right next to a Waterford Crystal bowl. He managed to knock down a break half of a set of miniature porcelain salt and pepper shakers that I THOUGHT would be safe. Now I'm rethinking where to put that bowl. I keep the rest of the Waterford pieces in a glass door curio cabinet but this bowl is too wide. I don't think they make this piece, any longer, so I have NO idea of the value.

The distance he had to leap is pretty amazing, but then I once found Sophie Stinky Toes sitting on TOP of the front door.

I wonder if anyone makes 'kitty calm' treats.

[Polly Hennessey]

1. Welcome to Crazy Kitty World.

Wonder why they love to knock things off? All of my Waterford pieces are safely behind glass doors.

[Siwsan]

2. I think some of this is the result of rough housing

Arthur went on a crazy spree, yesterday. Leaping on his brothers and Carys, racing around like a crazy kitty and leaping high in the air, trying to catch something invisible to my eyes.

Gryff keeps jumping up where he doesn't belong. This is a while new behavior. I now suspect he's the one who knocked the cable box and DVR player off of the mantel.

As far as I know, Madoc is limiting his mischief to knocking things off of tables, but only when I'm looking.

Fortunately, Carys is being a perfect angel. My fear is, she's taking notes.

[lark]

3. There is cbd for pets.

I've seen it, but wasn't wanting it so don't remember the name. Good luck!

When we brought in our most recent rescue 2 years ago, I had to go through the house and move a lot of things because anything lightweight on a counter or table would go flying. I put out some small fabric catnip fish in a few rooms and those were so fascinating, he left the other things alone. I still can't leave small things around, but I'm getting better trained with that.

[2naSalit]

4. Ouch!

Those little varmints!

Maybe add some hemp oil/CBD or something to their food, just a little. Maybe find a recipe for kitty treats and add some hemp to those. Maybe there are some on the market?

I know it calms them down, I was using oil on Mikey when he got overly aggressive about going outside. It made him go to bed and sleep for a while.

[Siwsan]

6. There is a good, locally owned pet supply store very close to where I live

It has an amazing staff. I'll probably stop by there, tomorrow.

[2naSalit]

10. You'll probably find what you need there.

[niyad]

5. Petco has "Calming Moments", which contains melatonin. soft little treat-sized

pieces that I crumble into my guy's wet food when I know there will be too much noise and upheaval next door.

[wnylib]

7. Nothing is safe around cats. Some cats

deliberately knock things down. Others do it accidentally while climbing and leaping around.

Ember is the only cat that I've had who deliberately knocks things to the floor. She has broken drinking glasses, stoneware cups and bowls, and a glass salt shaker. None of them were valuable pieces. She also used to knock down containers of soft margarine which caused the lid to pop off, leaving her free to snack on the margarine. She has spilled tea and water by knocking over cups and water bottles. If I put a vase of flowers on a table in the living room, they go to the floor, too, but for reasons known only to her, she does not knock over flowers in the dining table.

She now leaves cups, glasses, and margarine containers alone and instead focuses on books and papers on my desk or the hand sanitizer bottle on the counter just inside the door. She no longer knocks things down randomly, without purpose. She does it 1) when she wants attention while I am watching a movie or reading a book, and 2) when it's close to feeding time and she wants to remind me of it.

I did have one cat several years ago who was fixated on vases of flowers on the dining table. He did not knock them to the floor, just knocked them over, spilling water and flower petals all over. He never touched anything else.

[Siwsan]

8. I'm thinking I should get a bigger curio cabinet

I'll put that on my list of things to look for at Habitat for Humanity.

[wnylib]

9. Meantime, that bowl needs a safer place.

I'm surprised that Gryff is the suspect. I thought it would have been Madoc.

[SheltieLover]

11. I'm so glad your dad's carving can be fixed!

Please move that bowl before it meets with disaster!

The joys of living with cats.

[wendyb-NC]

12. Kitties are experts at crashing stuff

I lost quite a few coffee cups due to them. I have little specks of coffee on the baseboards that survived my frantic clean up jobs after the little monsters stunts, to get my attention.

[piddyprints]

13. Didn't get that museum putty yet?

Nothing in my house would survive without it. I collect hand blown paperweights and they safely sit on the coffee table because of that wonderful miracle putty.

Putting your crystal in a glass door curio cabinet reminded me of an adventure we had with one of our kitties. We have a curio cabinet with a curved glass door. The shelves are straight across. It stands against the wall where a clever kitty can get to it from the stairs if he jumps just right. Well, he jumped just right. We heard something strange in the middle of the night, got up, but couldn't find anything amiss.

In the daylight, we found that kitty had wobbled the cabinet enough to that my very first Lladró figurine, a standing girl cuddling a puppy over her shoulder, had been knocked head first between the top shelf and the door. If we opened the door, she would crash to the floor. The only way to get to it was to remove the light assembly from the top, reach in, and set her upright. I could reach in as far as my elbow, but my arm wasn't long enough. My husband's arm was long enough but he couldn't even get his hand in. I'm not sure how we ended up doing it, but somehow we rescued the figurine.

After that, I stuck down anything that was in danger of falling over if it got wobbled in the slightest (usually standing figures). And we put a fake plant on top of the cabinet to discourage adventurous jumpers. Phew!

They keep us on our toes, for sure.