BigCharles
12-05-2001, 03:16 PM
A few weeks ago we put down new sheet vinyl flooring in the kitchen. Now Fifi plays with the floor. :confused:
She thinks that she has spotted something in the middle of the floor and pounces on it. There is nothing there! Sometimes she will get close to a spot and listen to the spot.
If she pounces from a distance and then discover that there is nothing there, she vibrates on the floor. Let me describe this. She has her two front paws on the floor side by side and an inch apart. Her front legs are down against the floor, back legs tucked under, tail straight out. Her front legs vibrate up and down aganst the floor causing the paws to beat the floor. Her body rotates around the spot on the floor while this is happening. She'll go a turn or so in one direction and then reverse. Her paws always surround the same spot on the floor. She has even looked up at me durning this with a confused look. "Daddy, it not me! The floor monster has me!"
One possible explanation is the technique that they used to install the floor. They only glued it down around the edges of the floor an not in the center. They say that this prevents the floor cracking with age.
Then one day I saw Lamoni do something along the same line. He pounced at a pot on the floor. Then he danced around the spot hopping like mad. He started yowling like he was hurt. He stopped hopping and swatted the floor. "Bad floor! Mustn't tease."
{This is where Daddy goes into the bathroom and shuts the door so that the cats can't hear me laughing at them.}
She thinks that she has spotted something in the middle of the floor and pounces on it. There is nothing there! Sometimes she will get close to a spot and listen to the spot.
If she pounces from a distance and then discover that there is nothing there, she vibrates on the floor. Let me describe this. She has her two front paws on the floor side by side and an inch apart. Her front legs are down against the floor, back legs tucked under, tail straight out. Her front legs vibrate up and down aganst the floor causing the paws to beat the floor. Her body rotates around the spot on the floor while this is happening. She'll go a turn or so in one direction and then reverse. Her paws always surround the same spot on the floor. She has even looked up at me durning this with a confused look. "Daddy, it not me! The floor monster has me!"
One possible explanation is the technique that they used to install the floor. They only glued it down around the edges of the floor an not in the center. They say that this prevents the floor cracking with age.
Then one day I saw Lamoni do something along the same line. He pounced at a pot on the floor. Then he danced around the spot hopping like mad. He started yowling like he was hurt. He stopped hopping and swatted the floor. "Bad floor! Mustn't tease."
{This is where Daddy goes into the bathroom and shuts the door so that the cats can't hear me laughing at them.}