Quote Originally Posted by GILL View Post
HAY welcome to my world, we have the Crazy psycho black cat, AKA "LUCKY". All you will see is a kind of gray blur ( he moves so fast he is not black any more) as he flys past. Full bore front to back up stairs, down the stairs front to rear 1st floor then back up. All you hear is the pounding of paws, a crash, and a hiss from someone he ran over.
This happens about 1 or 2 times a week.
A more experienced cat-owning friend of mine explained what that's all about. Your cat has the 'oh #@&!s'. As in 'oh #@&!s I have to run over here . . . oh #@&!s now I have to run over there . . . .' They all get moments of it. We had a little calico creature with long spindly black legs when I was a kid who did it up and down the hallway with our tabby, so loudly my mom started calling her Whompetty, after the noise that she made.

Limpet had a real thing for long skinny things. Zero interest in anything round, ball-shaped, three-dimensional, all stuff like that. We finally resigned ourselves to the fact we just weren't going to have the satisfaction of buying her new cool cat toys because she just didn't care. Pens and drinking straws for her. To get her attention a thing had to be longer than it was wide, and then it was a dead . . . thing.