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Cats being helpful (Original Post) wnylib 19 hrs ago OP
I'm never sure anymore what's real and what AI, but all of these... 3catwoman3 18 hrs ago #1
I wonder about that sometimes, too. wnylib 17 hrs ago #2
I agree. 3catwoman3 17 hrs ago #3
I added an edit to my post describing similar things that wnylib 17 hrs ago #4
I have often wished designers of cat toys would make them big enough so... 3catwoman3 16 hrs ago #5
I agree that cats knock things under couches and other furniture wnylib 3 hrs ago #7
The whole world speaks cat LearnedHand 4 hrs ago #6

3catwoman3

(29,400 posts)
1. I'm never sure anymore what's real and what AI, but all of these...
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 09:33 PM
18 hrs ago

...are certainly very possible.

wnylib

(26,005 posts)
2. I wonder about that sometimes, too.
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 10:01 PM
17 hrs ago

But most of these looked genuine to me., although I wasn't sure about some.

ETA: I had an orange kitten who accidentally rolled a toy under the couch. I slid a coat hanger under it to pull the toy out. He loved that retrieval and got next to me, like one of the video cats, to make it a team effort, mimicking my moves. I noticed that he started deliberately rolling things under the couch, just so we could work together on getting them out.

My current cat learned from watching me that touching my keyboard made a video stop or start. She loved watching with me. When I put a video on pause while I went to the kitchen, I heard the video playing again. The cat had tapped the right key and was sitting in front of the screen absorbed in the scene. I never knew if she hit the right key by accident or if she had learned from watching which specific key to touch.

She also used to turn off my phone alarm because she did not like the sound. Then she hid the phone under the couch.


wnylib

(26,005 posts)
4. I added an edit to my post describing similar things that
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 10:21 PM
17 hrs ago

my current and previous cat have done.

3catwoman3

(29,400 posts)
5. I have often wished designers of cat toys would make them big enough so...
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 11:07 PM
16 hrs ago

...they did not immediately go under the furniture. We periodically retrieve a treasure trove of various toys from under our family room chairs and couch, and out of the entry way coat closet.

I do think the cats knock them under there on purpose.

wnylib

(26,005 posts)
7. I agree that cats knock things under couches and other furniture
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 12:15 PM
3 hrs ago

deliberately. Ember does not do that as much now that she's older, but she used to hide her favorite toys, as if she needed to protect them.

I have pulled out the couch to find a row of toys where she had pushed them.

She loves the laser light, knows that I operate it, and looks around the floor to see where the light will appear when she sees me pick it up. But soon after I bought it, it disappeared. I looked in her favorite hiding places. Finally found it when I pulled back a corner of a throw rug while vacuuming. It was under the fluffy fringe of the rug. I guess a special toy needed a special hiding place.


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