kittens, vacuums and kookie behavior

Hello All! My new kitten tigger is first of all adorable, but second of
all even more adorable because he thinks he can fight and win against my
vacuum cleaner. He gets all puffy and waggles his paws, spitting and
hissing. I know he's probably frightened but it's the cutest darn thing
on the planet - or at least in my life at the moment. Should I just keep
vacuuming until he realizes the noisy monster is harmless or should I
put him in a different room when I vacuum? Don't want to traumatize him,
but don't want to spoil him either.

CK wrote:

Hello All! My new kitten tigger is first of all adorable, but second of
all even more adorable because he thinks he can fight and win against my
vacuum cleaner. He gets all puffy and waggles his paws, spitting and
hissing. I know he's probably frightened but it's the cutest darn thing
on the planet - or at least in my life at the moment.

Ah, wait until he gets bigger... it will stop being cute.

Should I just keep
vacuuming until he realizes the noisy monster is harmless or should I
put him in a different room when I vacuum? Don't want to traumatize him,
but don't want to spoil him either.

Hey, he is mobile on four paws. If he doesn't like the vacuum he can
move himself.

"Hodge" wrote in message
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CK wrote:

Hello All! My new kitten tigger is first of all adorable, but second of
all even more adorable because he thinks he can fight and win against my
vacuum cleaner. He gets all puffy and waggles his paws, spitting and
hissing. I know he's probably frightened but it's the cutest darn thing
on the planet - or at least in my life at the moment. Should I just keep
vacuuming until he realizes the noisy monster is harmless or should I
put him in a different room when I vacuum? Don't want to traumatize him,
but don't want to spoil him either.

Initially, Hodge was so petrified of the vacuum that he flipped out. I,
stupidly, picked him up and tried to comfort him, which got me a
six-inch gash from his back claws.

Now he mounts the hose and tries to kill it, like he would large prey.
It's hilarious.
--

We need a video of this.

in article , CK at
wrote on 2/7/05 6:51 PM:

Hello All! My new kitten tigger is first of all adorable, but second of
all even more adorable because he thinks he can fight and win against my
vacuum cleaner. He gets all puffy and waggles his paws, spitting and
hissing. I know he's probably frightened but it's the cutest darn thing
on the planet - or at least in my life at the moment. Should I just keep
vacuuming until he realizes the noisy monster is harmless or should I
put him in a different room when I vacuum? Don't want to traumatize him,
but don't want to spoil him either.

I don't think I'd be too concerned. If he was really terrified, I think he'd
run. That's what mine do. Heh.

in article , Meghan Noecker at
wrote on 2/8/05 3:35AM:

On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 00:51:35 GMT, CK wrote:

Hello All! My new kitten tigger is first of all adorable, but second of
all even more adorable because he thinks he can fight and win against my
vacuum cleaner. He gets all puffy and waggles his paws, spitting and
hissing. I know he's probably frightened but it's the cutest darn thing
on the planet - or at least in my life at the moment. Should I just keep
vacuuming until he realizes the noisy monster is harmless or should I
put him in a different room when I vacuum? Don't want to traumatize him,
but don't want to spoil him either.


I always tell teh cats before I start it up. Maynard doesn't care, but
Chase and Kira clear the room. I just call their name and wiggle the
handle. They get the hint and leave. Much better than surprising them.

Actually, Grant and Sugar have figured out that when I begin straightening
things up and picking toys off the floor it's time to head for the hills

I do not have carpet so I don't know how mine would react to the
vaccum. But when I start to sweep the girls get up on the bed to watch
or so I think then as soon as I turn my back you hear them pounce and
its in to the dirt pile they go, once its all back to were it should be
they will just sit and look at me.

For some reason, Pearl is only afraid of the broom not the vacuum. She is
pretty intrepid, but brooms are Bad Things. If something happened with a
broom it was in the first 6 months of her life.

"Holly" wrote in message
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I do not have carpet so I don't know how mine would react to the
vaccum. But when I start to sweep the girls get up on the bed to watch
or so I think then as soon as I turn my back you hear them pounce and
its in to the dirt pile they go, once its all back to were it should be
they will just sit and look at me.

(Meghan Noecker) wrote in news:cua14b$aa1$3
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should I
put him in a different room when I vacuum? Don't want to traumatize him,
but don't want to spoil him either.


I always tell teh cats before I start it up.

I used to tell Meem before I ran the coffee grinder -- I would take it out
and show it to her and then she would bark/chatter at me and go under the
sofa. It was very funny, she would really seem to be fussing at me "mreh
mreh mreh mreh mreh."

--Catherine
& Rosalie the calico

My late cat Hobbes used to walk past the vacuum cleaner--while it was
off--and stop, look, hiss at it....and move on, lol.
Stephanie

"ceb" wrote in message
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(Meghan Noecker) wrote in news:cua14b$aa1$3
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should I
put him in a different room when I vacuum? Don't want to traumatize him,
but don't want to spoil him either.


I always tell teh cats before I start it up.

I used to tell Meem before I ran the coffee grinder -- I would take it out
and show it to her and then she would bark/chatter at me and go under the
sofa. It was very funny, she would really seem to be fussing at me "mreh
mreh mreh mreh mreh."


I love when they do this. I bring out the vacuum and take it to
Cheeks and say, "Watch out, honey, the vacuum monster is
coming out."