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csziggy

(34,136 posts)
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 02:53 AM Feb 2017

I wish I'd had a camera handy earlier tonight!

But it wouldn't have done much good, I was laughing so hard.

My cat had made a racket in another room, but I recognized the noises. Yesterday he got into a paper bag that was filled with other bags too "good" to just throw out. I'd chased him off, but cats & bags...

Anyway, a while later I was walking through the kitchen and he came out of the shadows making an odd noise. It took me a minute to realize why he looked funny - he had a paper bag skirt on! The bag he'd been playing him had handles and he'd managed to get his body through one handle and catch it around his waist, then tear off a piece of the bag that was just the right size to be a cat skirt.

He was rather distressed about the situation, then indignant that I was laughing at him - so indignant that he attacked my ankle. The attack and the laughter made it take that much longer to get the bag handle off him.

No physical damage was done to the cat - the handle wasn't even tight around his waist, just snug enough he couldn't get it off on his own. The bag of course was destroyed as was my cat's dignity. He has been snubbing me since.

Oh, I wish I had gotten out the camera!

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I wish I'd had a camera handy earlier tonight! (Original Post) csziggy Feb 2017 OP
Cats... The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2017 #1
I suppose I could try to put it back on him csziggy Feb 2017 #2
LOL! My cat is obsessed with bags, too! Rhiannon12866 Feb 2017 #3
We need to take advantage of all silly and humorous happenings these days, and cats do seem to Fla Dem Feb 2017 #4
Many years ago I captured our caped crusader, Simba, wearing plastic! mnhtnbb Feb 2017 #5
Oh, that is cute! csziggy Feb 2017 #6
No problem picturing that! Sunriser13 Feb 2017 #7
Put all your shoes where he can't get to them sarge43 Feb 2017 #8
Good idea - but he's particular about where he goes csziggy Feb 2017 #9
Better safe than sorry sarge43 Feb 2017 #10

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
2. I suppose I could try to put it back on him
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 03:06 AM
Feb 2017

But I don't want to go to the hospital for stitches.

This cat has never worn a collar. My husband and I working together almost got one on him once. We both ended up with major scratches but we couldn't get the collar fastened ever. We tried a harness once with no better success.

So we tried the harness on our other, more docile cat. No problem getting it on that one, but he collapsed as though we'd attached a ten ton weight around his body. He laid there looking hopeless until we removed it, then he jumped up on the counter and asked for food. I think we gave the collar and harness to the Animal Shelter when we moved into the new house.

Rhiannon12866

(205,320 posts)
3. LOL! My cat is obsessed with bags, too!
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 03:30 AM
Feb 2017

Leaving any kind of bag - or wrapper - where he can get to it is just a huge mistake. Earlier, I had to get up to investigate a strange racket - turns out somebody had left a bag with cat treat packages in it where he could get to it - a double whammy! I found the bag already with holes in it... I wish you had managed a photo, but I can picture it. I have a cat, too!

Fla Dem

(23,657 posts)
4. We need to take advantage of all silly and humorous happenings these days, and cats do seem to
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 11:23 AM
Feb 2017

provide many funny moments whether they mean to or not. I tend to think they do things on purpose just to make their human family happy.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
6. Oh, that is cute!
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 11:53 AM
Feb 2017

Tashi, my cat, had managed to get the handle around his middle. He's very talented that way.

Sunriser13

(612 posts)
7. No problem picturing that!
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 07:46 PM
Feb 2017

I've been owned (possessed?) by cats nearly all my life, and the number of "Kodak moments" missed have got to be in the thousands...

Thanks for the giggle!

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
9. Good idea - but he's particular about where he goes
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 09:04 PM
Feb 2017

My shoes don't smell good enough for him to poop in.

sarge43

(28,941 posts)
10. Better safe than sorry
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 09:09 PM
Feb 2017

The need for revenge is strong in cats. Humiliation can not be ignored nor endured.

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