I'm INNOCENT I tell ya!
By Loverbear
@Loverbear (4918)
United States
January 11, 2013 2:46pm CST
Ever notice how innocent a cat can look, even if they are guilty and have the evidence hanging from their lips? Khuay has that look down pat! Back up to this morning...
I heard a strange thump thump when I woke up, and didn't think too much of it. The cats always do morning catistenics...and they are noisy about their exercising. I struggled out of bed to head to the bathroom...my legs have been hurting terribly the past few weeks, with the weather changes that we've been having and the changes in barometric pressure along with the extreme cold my knees have been complaining a LOT! Plus I am cleaning up the work room and sorting even more to dispose of unwanted and unused stuff. My legs aren't happy about being used so much, but then too they do have a right to complain as Bill and I are cutting up more wood that has been given to me by neighbors for my fireplace. So I am on them extra long and extra heavily.
Back to this morning...I worked my way to the bathroom, struggling to put one foot in front of the other and to focus my eyes to what was on the floor. I don't much like stepping on catnip mice...they hurt! I got to the bathroom and was shocked into TOTAL awareness! On the floor was Khuay, sitting in the middle of, of all things, 300 Q-tips! He had found the box and managed to get it open!!! He had to work hard to not only get the box open but to get it off the shelf in the first place!! Needless to say there were Q-tips everywhere! In the bath tub, on the sink counter, in the sink, even floating in the water bowl in the tub, and several were floating in the toilet (that's a mystery as the lid was closed. Either he lifted the lid or slipped them through the crack), in the heater vent, and of course on the floor. In the middle of the mess sat Khuay, looking as innocent as a new born babe...with a Q-Tip hanging from his lips! I couldn't help myself, I laughed like a maniac! He had done the innocent stunt on me yesterday morning. I heard a rattle and a scrunching noise coming from the work room and when I looked there was Khuay, claws in the side of a large box, positioned like a criminal being searched by the police. He heard me and promptly turned his head to see who was there. When he saw me he removed his claws from the side of the box and raced down the hallway and skidded to a sitting halt in front of me with that classic "I'm innocent" look on his sweet little fiendish kitty face!
It's so hard to chew out someone who is so comical and such a sweet loving friend! Do you have that kind of problem with your furry friends that you share your life with?
7 people like this
8 responses
@GardenGerty (160952)
• United States
11 Jan 13
Yep, mine do lots of peeing and pooping. Not nearly so funny. Of course I just heard the trash can go "thump" as in, I bought meat in bulk and repackaged it for the freezer.
1 person likes this
@enchantedleppard (1541)
• United States
11 Jan 13
I have a cat who has done the same thing- and with q-tips! Here is the gross part.. he prefers dirty used q-tips. When he was a kitten, he would tip over both trash cans in the bathroom and search for used q-tips, then chew on them and drag the rest of the trash through the bathroom, very similar to a dog. We have changed our trash cans to lidded ones to avoid the mess, and in fear that he would actually consume one. Oh cats are such strange creatures.
@Loverbear (4918)
• United States
13 Jan 13
Ya gotta love the little fiends! Khuay is such an operator and can wrap me around his paw in a heartbeat. I do have to say that he is great at staying out of the trash...come to think of it all four cats are super at not getting into the garbage. But Khuay makes up for it with his antics, like his love of tearing up paper.
I wonder what goes on in your cat's mind when he is searching for the used Q-tips. I know that they choose items that have their owners scent on them, especially their preferred person's scent. They go for things that have the strongest body odor on them, like Q-tips, shirts (BO) and especially underwear. Fortunately none of my four go for clothing, socks, shoes etc.
Thankfully your guy didn't eat a q-tip...although they aren't prone to eating such things...but it's better to be safe than sorry.
@GardenGerty (160952)
• United States
11 Jan 13
This is such a great post. I can see it as you speak. My cats all have loved to find "artificial" birds on things and catch them. I never knew how they got more than six feet in the air to remove one from the wreath on the front door, but they certainly did.
1 person likes this
@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
11 Jan 13
I love it, another funny Khuay story!!!
So no idea how they got into the toilet? I really would like to know how he managed that..
As for my girls, Penny no, even if I ask, "Who did this?" in a calm tone, Penny hangs her head while Ciara will look me in the eye as if to say, "I don't know what you are talking about." 
2 people like this
@wilsongoddard (7291)
• United States
11 Jan 13
My kids have never discovered the joy of getting into a box of cotton swabs. They've played with stray ones that have been within paw's reach, but that is generally when I have a few piled and am trying to clean dirty cat ears--not that their ears are ever dirty. 
All three do know how to strike the "innocent" pose. Middle cat is very good at doing a little trill that can be translated to mean, "Who? Me?" or "Huh? What?" and batting her little kitty eyelashes.
My eldest cat knows how to strike the innocent pose, but he sometimes opts for the dirty kitty mouth instead when he is caught red-pawed. I think that he learned to talk back to me due to the influence of his late canine brother who was quite the dog...
The youngest has learned to do some of the "Who? Me?" innocent trill that middle cat does. Although, she still has a ways to go with her innocent pose. She's only three, so her "innocent" routine isn't quite as polished as that of the other two.2 people like this
@allyoftherain (7208)
• United States
12 Jan 13
That made me laugh so hard. I would have loved to see Khuay in the middle of all those q-tips!
My Nenya plays innocent all the time. Sometimes I'll catch her doing something, and then she'll trot away really fast and start washing herself. I always glare and say, "Don't just sit there washing yourself like you didn't do anything!"
The other innocent thing she does is plop down on the floor when I'm yelling at her and twist over so that her head is upside down. She looks super cute when she does it. I think she's realized that if she does this, I'll stop yelling and commence to cat-cooing immediately.
I often wonder out loud if my difficultly disciplining my cat when she acts cute will one day translate into difficulty disciplining children when I have them. 
@Suzieqmom (2755)
• United States
11 Jan 13
Oh yes, we have this look a LOT in our house....one of my cats, Sookie, LOVES Q-tips and pulled all 300 out of a box one time..they were all over the bathroom and our bedroom, but none in the toilet. We got quite the innocent look that time....
another event--my two male cats, Muffin and Loki, pulled down the entire (new) roll of paper towels and dragged them all over the house like a trail...two completely innocent, cute faces looking at me that time.
But the best is our older cat, Cleo, who will sit up on the counter, looking straight at you, while purposely knocking something off the counter...she will keep doing this, one item at a time, until everything is knocked off the counter--all the while, looking at you as innocently as a newborn lamb...!
another event--my two male cats, Muffin and Loki, pulled down the entire (new) roll of paper towels and dragged them all over the house like a trail...two completely innocent, cute faces looking at me that time.
But the best is our older cat, Cleo, who will sit up on the counter, looking straight at you, while purposely knocking something off the counter...she will keep doing this, one item at a time, until everything is knocked off the counter--all the while, looking at you as innocently as a newborn lamb...!
@41CombedaleRoad (5954)
• Greece
12 Jan 13
The worst things my cat gets hold of are bird. I know she is not being naughty she is just behaving like a cat, but I hate to see her with a bird in her mouth. I know what she has done before I see the bird because she has a special noise that she makes which is neither a purr nor a meow.
Occasionally the bird is still alive and she is bringing it home to show me how clever she is. I have to gently remove it from her mouth and she looks very upset about that, confused is probably the best word.
I cannot put a collar with a bell around her neck because we live in a wild area with lots of bushes and trees and she is a cat that climbs. I am afraid she might strangle herself if the collar gets stuck.
