Cats and kilts

[freddie]

Have any of you tried to put on Highland Dress with a cat around ? Trying to tie gillie brogues is a nightmare as our Main Coon cat "Eve' is fascinated by the laces and toggles and leaps at my legs at every opportunity. Our old Main Coon 'Sam' used to be mesmarised by the tassles on my sporran and attacked them as soon as they moved (it was my own fault really as I once provoked him by swinging them in front of him, he just couldn't resist batting these furry things and even attacked the sporran when it was lying on the bed). Now when I get dressed I have to shut the cat out of the bedroom, but she's always lying in wait for me the minute I open the door !

[auld argonian]

Maine Coon Cat, eh? Maybe you just ought to buy a horsehair sporran and give it to her, she'll think that it's a companion and leave your stuff alone.

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[ozmeath]

Freddie I've had cats for years and dang they chase anything that moves, but I'm a fan of disiplining the little lovely beasties if needed. My cat knows to settle down real quick if she on my lap when I've got a kilt on. They're (usually) very smart animals if not moody, and they learn fast. The flick in the ear seems to work well. After a few times just the sound of it in their general direction should settle them down.
There's always the old trick of pepper or chilli powder on anywhere you don't want a cat to be. Just remember to wash your hands after tying the laces.

[Southern Breeze]

Been there, done that, got the cat hair on my kilt to prove it. My cat will seize any opertunity to lie on an unattended kilt.

[Tattoo Bradley]

The wife hate's cats. I love them. The compromise is "no cats."

Ah well.

[auld argonian]

"It won't work, Katz...the judge and I are on to your little game!"

...you see...this old lady left all of her money to CATS and this guy KATZ went into court and claimed that she had meant to leave it all to him...old Tony Randall TV show...never mind...

I washed my Stillwater Standard Hunting McLeod the other day and laid it out on some towels on a table so it would dry neatly and square...and came back to find my boy cat, Chili Palmer, laying in the middle of it...nice going, cat...away wi' ye, ye wee beastie!

This comedian also has the annoying habit of dragging socks around...but only the wool ones...which means ALL of my socks including kilt hose. You wake up in the morning and find socks all over the house. At least he's not a "wool chewer" as I have heard of some cats being...he doesn't chew on them, he just plants them all over the house.

The girl cat, Casseopia, and there's a long story behind THAT name, is just simply a total princess-cat and demands worship...so as long as you can handle that, everything is fine. She is, however, a Dreadnought Class Cat...I don't even want to weigh her at this point...and she has inspired our new family motto: "No more long haired cats...ever!"

And Oz...don't believe for a minute that you have ever trained a cat...they're just laying low and lulling you into a sense of false security so they can deliver the coup de gras someday! Sleep with one eye open...

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[Wompet]

I'm a fan of disiplining the little lovely beasties if needed. My cat knows to settle down real quick if she on my lap when I've got a kilt on. ... The flick in the ear seems to work well. After a few times just the sound of it in their general direction should settle them down.

Even with discipline, I still have to remind mine every two to three months not to get up on the kitchen cupboards.

She does know to settle down on my kilted lap, though. It may more to do with my occasional bonking her on the head with a knuckle than any good behavior on her part.
Flicking in the ear - I still have the clicker I used for dog training somewhere - I may have to try that. Would work better at a distance.

Sometimes it seems the only answer would be a cat colored tartan.

I've thought about that, and I have enough hair bagged already for a fly plaid.
And yes - I know of some weavers who've done this sort of thing before.

[starbkjrus]

We are cat sitting for a friend for about 6 weeks so this week we have been getting our cat and the visiting cat acclimated to each other. Last night I was reading through the "instruction book" that the visiting cat's staff sent with her and ran across this line:

"India is not one to scratch people or furniture and as a general rule only uses her scratching post. However, be warned that she loves to "knead" worsted wool."

I immediately ran upstairs and took my brand new XMarks kilt off the doorknob where I was hanging it to relax the wrinkles from shipping. Whew. Glad I read the "manual" on this one. :rolleyes:

[auld argonian]

The kneading behavior (or "making muffins" as I have heard it called) is interesting...some of our old cats used to just knead us...on the lap, on the belly...if you were laying in bed on your stomach you would suddently find a cat kneading your butt at three in the morning.

I've always wanted to find out what the real motivation for the kneading and the wool chewing behaviors is...I've heard a lot of speculation and most of it sounds improbable. The possibility always remains that the only motivation that a cat has for any one of these behaviors is that he just enjoys being a pain in the ***...for a cat, that's enough.

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[Gary Krueger]

Even with discipline, I still have to remind mine every two to three months not to get up on the kitchen cupboards.

She does know to settle down on my kilted lap, though. It may more to do with my occasional bonking her on the head with a knuckle than any good behavior on her part.
Flicking in the ear - I still have the clicker I used for dog training somewhere - I may have to try that. Would work better at a distance.


I've thought about that, and I have enough hair bagged already for a fly plaid.
And yes - I know of some weavers who've done this sort of thing before.

We used to use a squirt bottle of water to zap our two retrobates, but they respond much quicker to air. What we do is use a can of compressed air, the stuff you use to poof dust from your computer keyboard etc. YOU DON'T AIM IT AT THEM...IT COULD HURT THEIR EYES. Just do quick "Hisss" of air in any direction...it is the sound not the blast of air that works, and they jump and run away. It must sound like a warning hiss of another cat. They can't figure out where that cat is so they assume it is you.