Do your cats flip on the sight of the vaccum cleaner

[Roon]

even before you turn it on? All three of mine do.

[idgiehkt]

1. yep

they do not like it. What is even funnier is seeing my rabbit with the broom. He hates the broom so much, it's like he wants to fight it or something.

[Roon]

4. Awww, my former foster daughter used to have a rabbit

A dog got in the hutch and killed it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Mine aren't bothered by it as long as it sits quietly and doesn't move.

I'm a slob, so the vacuum often sits sleeping in the middle of the living room because I'm too lazy to put it away. As a result the cats are used to seeing it. It's only when I switch it on and it wakes up that they freak out and run away.

[Roon]

3. I start rolling the unplugged vacuum across the floor

and my cats scatter.

[kedrys]

5. Neutrino hides in the fireplace

which is how she got the nickname "Sooty". She's white. :P

[Roon]

6. When I was a kid

there used to be this cat in the neighborhood that would go from roof to roof and climb down the chimneys. It was a calico and she was always filthy! We never found out whose cat it was because even though she had a collar with tags, she was always on the roofs. Out of reach....

[ashling]

7. OK, this thread is being locked!

A cat thread without pictures?! C'mon! that's just cruel.

Of course, I don't really have the power to lock . . . so carry on.

[AwakeAtLast]

8. No, but my 5 y/o does

She still has to close herself up in her room. When she was younger she couldn't be in the same room with it even if it was off!

She is very sensitive to loud noises.

[Heidi]

9. Nope, Ginger's used to it and can sleep right through it.

When he was little, he'd sometimes try to chase the vacuum cleaner or hitch a ride on it. :eyes:

[Fleshdancer]

10. my dog attacks my poor innocent vacuum cleaner

but then I got a roomba and he runs away from it because it scares him. I have no idea why since it's much smaller than the vacuum cleaner. :shrug:

It's pretty entertaining to watch him run away, jump on the couch and then bark when it gets near him.

[Bryn]

11. My cats do!

Except for Tinker. She's a very laid back cat. Other cats simply run to hide when I pull out my vac cleaner, not on! LOL

[Roon]

20. I used to have a cat named Tinker

He was a cross eyed Siamese.

[enigmatic]

12. oh yeah

The Vaccum Monster is the arch enemy of the Enigmatic Kitty; she literally freaks when it comes out of the closet...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. A song about cats and vacuum cleaners:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrB01AVlWEU

This is hilariously demented.

[Fire Walk With Me]

22. That is deranged

:)

[fizzgig]

14. the four of them at my dad's do

hell, you just have to open the closet where it's kept and all of them scatter

the funniest part is that the big male is terrified of the vaccuum but walks right up to the lawn mower :wtf:

[pokerfan]

15. Yeah

I thought leaving it sitting out would help condition them to it.

Instead they took turns peeing on it.

[Skittles]

16. I bumped my Clancy with the vacuum cleaner when he was a kitten

nine years later I still have to lock him up to vacuum; he goes nuts and attacks the damn thing non-stop :(

[SoCalDem]

17. My cats scare themselves at the slightest thing.. no need for a vacuum cleaner-scare

They all run in opposite directions and then stop and look around for what it was that scared them.. then they all go back to their naps :)

[MissMarple]

18. No, Katie can barely raise to the point of suggesting "go around".

She thinks the vacuum is rude to be intruding on her chosen piece of carpet. This is a true thing. :)

[Party Line]

19. The Feline Satan is...

a vacuum cleaner. Atleast that is how it is around here.

[redqueen]

21. no...

when i lived around cats, most of them didn't like it, but only seemed to notice it was even there after it was switched on

one, though, liked to ride it... funny thing :)

[MissMillie]

23. here are a couple that don't mind at all

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZC7a0YfHus&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvWGnXkcaKI&mode=related&search=

[Roon]

25. Omg!! How cute is that?!?!

There is a good chance that the white one is deaf, if she has blue eyes.

[MissMillie]

27. the description of the video states

that she is, in fact, deaf.

[Roon]

29. Oh, I didn't read that part

My parents used to have a deaf rabbit that used to run free in their backyard. He would lay down right in front of the riding mower and you had to be careful that you didn't run him over.

[applegrove]

24. Mine went nuts with the old vacuum cleaner. The new one is much

more quiet and though they move out of the way...they are not bat**** crazy with fear.

[CottonBear]

26. nope. My cat is totally deaf. The vacuum doesn't phase her. n/t

[underpants]

28. Yes our boy gay cat does

The first time he ever experienced it was when I broke a glass in the kitchen 5 years ago. He freaked out, as he is wont to do, and so my wife was sitting on the bed holding him when I cut on the vacuum. She describes what happened next as his "turning inside out and doing a 360 and a flip with a twist"

He scratched up her arms so bad that we had to got to a doc-in-a-box. Only problem was that they had to report this to the city so he went on a 10 day quarantine, I had to take time off work so they could come and see if he was dangerous, and THEN he had a years probation. Our gay cat has a record.

Upon telling this story to a co-worker who had been advisin me on the whole new-to-me cat owning process "Oh yeah don't do that. They HATE vacuum cleaners" :eyes:

[Roon]

30. I have two gay cats that are a couple

Barney is a chubby chaser!!! :o

[swimboy]

31. The vacuum cleaner makes ME nervous.

Ask the mr. He'll tell you he's never seen me go near it!

[Roon]

32. LOL!!

so cute....

[momophile]

33. yes and so does my two-year old

I think it's funny.