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My cat is an immoral, thieving slut, stealing money and running around naked!

I found a dollar under the couch the other day*, and at some point last night she managed to pop her collar off and is currently running around without it. I haven't put it back on yet because it needs to be washed.

Not sure how it came off. I have an empty fold-up hamper over in the art storage area of the living room - you can fold it and twist it down somehow so that it collapses to a flat thing to store. I haven't figured out what I'm going to put in it yet, so it's mostly been serving as an ineffective hiding place for the cat - ineffective because she creeps into it and lurks there like I can't see her, and yet it's made of mesh. My cat, she is not so hot with the logic. Anyway, it's now a few feet over, partially collapsed, and trapped between the chair and the bike, and ehr collar was on the floor a couple of feet away. Obviously, some sort of drama happened after I went to bed last night but before I went to sleep - she jumped on the bed and I remember noticing that her collar was missing.

* It probably says something about my family that I assumed the cat stole it, but that Mom assumed, when I told her, that she'd gotten some sort of part-time job.

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Now I've got the Lords of Acid song "I Wanna See Your Pussy" stuck in my head. XD

I think my cats have secret part-time jobs and that they are saving up a little nest-egg.

While we toil and pay all the rent and buy them fancy food!

Jerks.

I just phoned Mom, who suggested that my cat had a part-time job as a stripper and the dollar was obviously one of her tips. Well, I ahve it now, muahahahahaa!

What is it with cats who pick the stupidest places to deem their 'safe spot'? One of my cats will run away from me as fast as she can, avoiding me at all costs by racing up and down stairs, behind sofas and such, then race to my bedroom, jump on my bed and lay down. Yes. Because I just can't get her there...

All manner of drama seems to happen with cats at night. Losing collars one of the big ones, it seems.

I read in a book that dogs, like humans, figure out spatial relationships by referring to the positions of other objects, while cats figure them out according to the *cat's* position. What they did was train dog and cats to respond to a ball. Then, the experiment consisted of showing a dog or a cat the ball, and placing it behind a screen. The animal was then led out of the room, and the screen moved over by a few feet, then the animal was let back into the room. The dogs looked for the ball behind the screen. The cats looked for the ball where the screen and ball had originally been set up.

That explained a weird behavior of my mom's cat. When Mom was trying to grab her to put her in the carrier and take her to the vet, she'd escape under the sofa, where Mom couldn't get here. Then Mom rearranged the room and moved the sofa to the other side. For something like two years, every time Mom went to grab the cat to take her to the vet, she'd run and crouch down underneath a side table where the sofa used to be, but where Mom could easily grab her. She eventually figured it out, though. XD

But that also means, in a very real sense, that each cat behaves as though it is the center of the universe. Not that we had any doubts about that to begin with.

I have no idea why your cat thinks the bed is safe, unless once she was able to hide there from something-or-other. XD

That's really interesting! I should try something like that sometime with my two cats.

I don't really think she's ever been able to hide from anything by being on the bed. My cat just has a lot of issues XD

You probably figured it out from my account, but I forgot to explain that the researchers concluded the dogs, obviously, associated the ball with the screen, while the cats had remembered that the ball was X number of feet away from them in that direction, and so they looked for it there.

My cat has issues, too, but I think a lot of them stem from beign shoved in a cage at the shelter and observed for a number of days for signs of rabies. She hates being confined with no obvious escape, to the point where I can't pick her up without her struggling. If I lean over and hug her, she gets a bit freaked out, and she won't crawl under the blankets, no matter how cold it is. Remarkably, though, she's easy to stuff into the cat carrier and I've got that down to a science. XD

* She's also confined at the vet's, because she struggles like mad, so they ahve to zip her into a cat restraining bag which has a hole for ehr head and zippers to take various limbs out as the vet needs to access them. XD She despises that.

Kitty straitjacket! *giggles*

Bad kitty! Next thing you know, you'll be finding cigarettes and porn under the couch.

I did actually find this little figurine of an ice-cream cone smoking a cigarette under there the other day. XD

Not so mysterius though - a friend of mine sent me a care package of weird things, including a plastic pickle and that little weird Japanese ice-cream cone figurine*, and they both vanished shortly after I unpacked it. The pickle has yet to be found.

* Japan is ON CRACK.

I found a tiny bare leg in the middle of my living room floor today. Would you like it?

The cat would love it, but then she'd leave it somewhere and I'd step on it and injure myself and then I'd shout at her. XD

Cats are like kids.

Awesome kids.

With fur.

yet it's made of mesh

I forget if cats are nearsighted or farsighted. Anyway, maybe to her eyes, it really does hide things on the other side. You should try taking off your glasses and seeing how well the mesh works for you :)

Your cat does not have a...*looks down nose*...JOB *ugh*. "Work" is for the "common folk" (you know, the two-legged ones).

Nor did she "steal". That would imply that there is something in the house that she does not already own. She simply took possession of something which she'd temporarily left in your care.

(Ye gawds, it's SO unattractive when the hired help forgets their right-and-proper place in the social order!)