Buddy is a TROUBLEMAKER!

[vanillasugar]

So a little back story: my cats don't jump. They never have. I've never had to worry about things on the counters, etc. because they've never tried to get them. Buddy has bad hips, and pretty much will take tiny little jumps (like from one piece of furniture to another) but nothing more.

This week I bought an emergency 3.5lb bag of kibble for Sierra (I've had a couple instances where I forgot to have her raw food thawed, so wanted to have kibble around just incase). I had it sitting out on the kitchen counter.

I come home from work tonight, and the bag has been torn open with a perfect Buddy-head sized hole! I was SHOCKED! So I left it there, sat back and watched. A few minutes in, Buddy climbs on one piece of furniture, then hops onto another, and bam, he's made it onto the counter and waltzes straight to the bag of kibble!!! The little MONSTER!

I pulled out my kitchen scale to see how much he had managed to eat out of the bag, as it seemed significantly lighter: over 1lb!! That's insane!! He's only an 11lb cat! LOL I can't believe he managed to eat a pound of kibble over the course of the day. Just goes to show I could NEVER free feed him!!

I'm going to have to re-evaluate our furniture set up... we're in a tiny apartment so our options are limited, but I think I'll have to find something that cuts out his options for getting onto the counter!

 

[Barb04]

My cats can jump right from the floor onto the counter. I'd make sure anything that you have in bags is either stored away or put into plastic containers.

 

[sisco16]

thats to funny but cats are really good jumpers caint he still jump to the counter without the couch. my siters cats are pretty good at this.

 

[Dakotah]

haha thats funny.
Peanut is the mountain goat of kitty climbers. He runs, then jumps, then jumps somemore. Crazy animals they be.
Peanut has never *knock on wood* jumped on the kitchen counters becase I taught him not to when he was a weey baby. Now the furniture in the living room, my room, and dad's room are fair game. LOL

 

[noludoru]

LMAO.

Try living in my house. The DOG will leave a bag of food alone, unsupervised (not my doing), but if you leave it within reach (anything lower than the fridge or easier to access than a closed door) it will be ripped open immediately. I can't tell you how many dog food bags we've duct taped. Once we left the closet door open all day.. where we keep the kitty food.. we came back to bags/plastic containers of it all over the floor and ripped open, and three cats fast asleep with big prego-looking bellies. They were practically comatose.