BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...

Subject: BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...
From: Bobert
Date: 18 Mar 07 - 06:06 PM

No, not cats *in* vacuum cleaner, danged it, but cats *and* vacuum cleaners...

What's with cats anyway with these things??? I mean, every danged stupid and not-so-stupid cat I've ever had din't like vacuum cleaners... What's the big deal???

Okay, I hate 'um too, but Geeze Louise, a don't run from them sceamin' my head off either...

Nevermind....

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...
From: Amergin
Date: 18 Mar 07 - 06:22 PM

Not just cats....dogs too....my dogs try to hide when the vacuum is ran....never did chase them with it.

Subject: RE: BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Mar 07 - 06:36 PM

Every cat I ever had hated and feared vacuum cleaners, except for one. He like being vacuumed with the suction hose. He would lie there and purr as I vacuumed up the loose hair and dandruff...which was a rather lengthy process. He enjoyed it to the max. He was very unusual.

Our dogs have all hated the vacuum too, and some would rush around it, darting in and out, growling and snapping. Very amusing to watch. They clearly regarded it as an intolerable intruder of some sort, kind of like the postman or the delivery guy.

Subject: RE: BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Mar 07 - 07:20 PM

...and I'd bet there are sounds in it WE can't hear, but which upset the animals even more.

Subject: RE: BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Mar 07 - 09:48 PM

Little Hawk, I also had a cat like that. I could give him a bath and dry him with the hair dryer and he LOVED it! Thought the vacuum was a great hoot and sat watching, and liked having the wand run over him. He also sat up and begged and fetched like a dog.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...
From: Peace
Date: 18 Mar 07 - 09:54 PM

Keep the vacuum cleaner away from the cats. If they get sucked up there, they make a helluva mess in the mchinery. You'll be hours pulling tufts of hair and stuff out of the vacuum's interior. Budgies are much the same. FYI.

Subject: RE: BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 12:39 AM

Cats like that are worth their weight in gold, Stilly. ;-)

As for budgies...Yes, for God's sake, keep the hose vacuum well away from the bird. It's a bad, bad way for a budgie to go. It's even worse when you have a central vacuuming system with wall outlets. Recovering the remains from the basement container can be a grisly affair.

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From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 03:43 AM

mine shoot off at first sight of one - even before it's turned on!

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From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 07:59 AM

Being a batchelor, my cats aren't afraid of Vacuum Cleaners - what's a Vacuum Cleaner?

Subject: RE: BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 08:36 AM

It's funny that most cats hate vacuum cleaners but they send babies off to sleep!

Subject: RE: BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...
From: jacqui.c
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 08:39 AM

I think that Bill is right - most animals have more acute hearing than we do - the sound of the vacuum cleaner must be frightening, particularly coming from a moving machine.

Subject: RE: BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 09:49 AM

When i go on vacation my housekeeper feeds my cat,but when she uses the vacuum the cat hides from her.I would love to know how my cat can tell when she will be fed or the vacuum comes out.


Scooby

Subject: RE: BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 09:57 AM

Carrying in the device or picking up the can opener may give the cat a clue. One seldom uses a can opener at the same time one is using a vacuum.

One of my cats used to come running when she heard the can opener cranking on a can. Then she got smart and started running when she heard me handle the can opener, and finally, would run in when she heard me open that particular drawer that the can opener is kept in. I'm sure she'll reach a point where she runs in when I think about walking over to that drawer. So the act of getting the vacuum has long-since been broadcast to the typical observant cat.

LH, that cat was a character but is long-gone. I had three and I gave two away to a friend, because those two were ours before I had babies, and of those two, one didn't like kids, and the other, the one mentioned above, was just way too rough with them. I had to choose which to keep and decided to keep the children. I think the cats lived long happy lives, but on a farm in another county.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 10:00 AM

Thanks for the advice SRS.



Scooby

Subject: RE: BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...
From: Snoozer
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 10:04 AM

My cat ran from the vacuum cleaner until she became deaf.
Then she would wander away only if I vacummed too close to her.
So it must have been the noise, not the machine, that bothered her.

Subject: RE: BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 10:08 AM

I have had 2 pairs of cats.

In each case, one always goes to where the food is put out, the other always hangs around me.

Not sure which is the smarter... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...
From: iancarterb
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 10:09 AM

I had one cat like those oddities reported by Little Hawk and Stilly River Sage, fifty-five years ago or so. He would lie flat on one side and turn over to expose the other periodically, which would continue until I got tired of it. He was a piece of work, like all cats. Carter B

Subject: RE: BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...
From: gnomad
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 10:12 AM

Hang it, I don't like vacuum cleaners. Cats are right almost every time.

Subject: RE: BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...
From: Metchosin
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 10:32 AM

My brother and I, when we were young, sucked our budgie up the vacuum cleaner once. The bird liked to talk into the wand because of the echo, but the temptation proved too much for us and one day while he was chattering into it, we turned the machine on. Fortunately he survived and we were able to pull him out of the hose by his tail feathers.

Our dogs attack both vacuums and didgeridoos.

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From: Donuel
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 10:54 AM

Our colic baby would be quiet only when the vacuum ran or if we sang the Canadian national anthem.

Subject: RE: BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...
From: Bee
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 12:37 PM

My young cat thinks the vacuum is some kind of Very Large Mouse - he stalks it, although he doesn't get too near while it's turned on.

Said cat is at the vet's this very moment, recovering from his detomification procedure. I expect a very put-out kitty home around five-ish.

Subject: RE: BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...
From: Peace
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 01:39 PM

He will at last understand the meaning of vacuum.

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From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 01:41 PM

My God, Metchosin...that poor bird probably needed some extensive avian counselling after that traumatic experience. Did he lose his taste for chattering into the wand?

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From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 02:08 PM

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Oops...

Subject: RE: BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...
From: GUEST,Seiri Omaar
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 02:23 PM

I don't think any of our animals will go near a vacuum cleaner.
Talking about freaking out animals, quite amusingly, one of our dogs got totally freaked out when my Dad started talking into the bottom of a djembe....
Cheers, Seiri.

Subject: RE: BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...
From: Wesley S
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 02:56 PM

I knew a guy that moved into a house about the Ft Worth Zoo. Their cat was just coming out from the cat carrier to explore the new surroundings when one of the big cats at the bottom of the hill started roaring. It was close to two days later before the house cat came out from under the couch. I can only imagine what the cat was thinking.

Subject: RE: BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...
From: Becca72
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 03:34 PM

Eanjay, my cats have never been good at putting babies to sleep... :-)

As for the vacuum, all 3 of mine will walk waaaaay around it, even when it's turned off and unplugged. They are not fans at all.

I once had a Siberian Husky who absolutely loved to be vacuumed, especially when she was losing her winter coat.

Subject: RE: BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 04:38 PM

Max, our black and white mog loved being vacuumed until we got the Dyson. He wasn't so keen on that one, guess the suck was just too much.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 04:41 PM

Wesley,

I've heard those big cats--the sound really does travel.

I've always wondered the the juxtaposition of those older, high dollar homes in neighborhoods perched around the edge of that basin where the zoo sits. It can get pretty stinky, especially in the summer.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...
From: Metchosin
Date: 20 Mar 07 - 01:34 AM

No...no counselling, Little Hawk, avian counsellors were very scarce in those days, besides I think my brother and I were probably the ones in need of counselling.

The budgie had a penchant for dangerous pursuits.....like running up and down the ironing board and talking to his reflection in the steam iron, when the iron was in use. He was also entralled with the belt on the sewing machine, which if I recall, hurled him around a few times and his fascination with the old wringer washer landed him in the suds a few times.

But probably his most terrifying experience was due to his obsession with Cheeze Whiz jars. One morning he was madly chattering away at one and to tease him, I put it away in the fridge and he followed, so I shut the door. I think it was my intention to let him out after a few minutes, but I somehow got distracted and went off to school.

About an hour into the morning, I suddenly and sickeningly remembered what I had done and emphatically shot up my hand and asked my Grade 5 teacher if I could please go home and let the budgie out of the refridgerator......and my teacher, bless her, never raised an eyebrow or even questioned my request. Maybe kids don't make stuff up like that. The budgie survived his cold, dark ordeal as well and continued with his unrequited love for Cheeze Whiz.

Subject: RE: BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Mar 07 - 01:42 AM

Good lord. That budgie must have been a very confident, lively, and adventurous bird to get in so much trouble. How long did it live?

Subject: RE: BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...
From: Metchosin
Date: 20 Mar 07 - 01:48 AM

He was. I think he was about 6 or 7 when he contracted pneumonia and I was appointed to end his wee life in a small box attached to the exhaust pipe of my mother's car.

Subject: RE: BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...
From: Metchosin
Date: 20 Mar 07 - 01:51 AM

You don't easily forget such hard stuff........and I have only listed a few of the adventures of his short life.

Subject: RE: BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Mar 07 - 02:02 AM

Well, it may have been short, but he obviously lived life to the fullest.

Subject: RE: BS: Cats 'n Vacuum Cleaners...
From: Metchosin
Date: 20 Mar 07 - 10:49 AM

One rarely ever sought veterinary treatment for a dog or cat....a bird? unheard of......even a round of antibiotics for people was considered a big deal then. When whiskey in his drinking water and a warm covered cage didn't work for his second bought, we figured it was kinder to put him out of his misery. I didn't feel too kind at the time, I always felt I'd cooked him rather than gassed him. LOL