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Title: fireworks
Post by: snarf on November 04, 2009, 21:56:24 PM
you wont be expecting this...

i know alot of you have cats that hate fireworks and cats that get very scared but does anyone have cats that like them??  :shocked:

i only ask cos lucifer absoloutely loves them and chases them from window to window merowp-ing and all excited. basically how he reacts to laser pens but bigger  :evillaugh:

spare cat doesnt even flick an ear so i dont think its anything to do with me - it has been suggested that you could probably set one off under her and she wouldnt notice - this is only in jest before anyone worries, theyre both kept in during firework season ;)
Title: Re: fireworks
Post by: Tiggy's Mum on November 04, 2009, 22:04:15 PM
Hands up! Mine do too!  :wow: Riley cranes his neck so hard he looks like a giraffe and watches them out of the window. Lu, who is quite a sensitive/twitchy cat normally, lays there completely oblivious and doesn't even flinch  :shocked:
Title: Re: fireworks
Post by: Janeyk on November 05, 2009, 06:43:26 AM
Penny and Squeaky used to watch them, infact we've never had cats scared of fireworks thankfully.
Title: Re: fireworks
Post by: clarenmax on November 05, 2009, 09:18:48 AM
Max sometimes used to come upstairs and sit on the windowledge with us to watch the display in the park, which is just over the back from our house  :Luv:

I don't think Poot will like them quite so much as he's much jumpier than Maxy ever was, a huge one went off overhead the other night and his eyes were darting all over the ceiling to work out what the fizzing and bangs were  :-:

I've got to go out tonight, so I'm leavng all the lights and tv on for him, just so he doesn't get too spooked, but on Saturday we're staying in for the big display, as thats very noisy  :doh:
Title: Re: fireworks
Post by: Leanne on November 05, 2009, 09:31:01 AM
Jess the stress head adores them and sits in the window watching them  :wow:

Milo isn't too keen though.
Title: Re: fireworks
Post by: tab on November 05, 2009, 10:31:00 AM
Amber likes to sit on the window sill and watch them too. Last night there was a display with loud music as well and very loud bangs. I got disturbed because I couldnt hear the TV and Mogs slept through it  :evillaugh:
love
Tab
Title: Re: fireworks
Post by: Lottie (Team Svartalfheim's) on November 05, 2009, 12:10:37 PM
Mine love them too. We live out in the country now so they only hear the village display but at our old house they used to sit out in the cat run and watch the fireworks.
Title: Re: fireworks
Post by: Christine (Blip) on November 05, 2009, 12:21:36 PM
Blip takes very little notice of fireworks either way: if there is a particularly loud one, she'll look at me to see how I've reacted and as I'm not the jumpy type, she then just carries on with whatever she was doing.

Are the cats who like fireworks also interested in lightning at all?
Title: Re: fireworks
Post by: Gill (sneakiefeline) on November 05, 2009, 12:28:22 PM
kocka was only bothered by the hissing ones and they would scare her and once scared that made all the others worse.

we havent in last 4 years had any round here and carmathrn has a display so am hoping the new family next door but one go to a display! they have a dog.

i had forgitten it was 5th today until christine mentioned it on tinas thread and am so pleased we got her away before today
Title: Re: fireworks
Post by: Lottie (Team Svartalfheim's) on November 05, 2009, 12:48:01 PM
Mine love lightening too Christine. I sit and squeal at lightening and jump at fireworks and they just all calmly watch it  :tired:
Title: Re: fireworks
Post by: Sabrina (Auferstehen) on November 05, 2009, 12:59:48 PM
Our Burmese Lirael loves watching them.

The other 3 don't seem to care one way or another.
Title: Re: fireworks
Post by: Starpixie on November 05, 2009, 17:35:16 PM
Pixie loves them! She's sitting at the window right now.
Arty barely bothers to open his eyes if they interrupt his sleep!
Title: Re: fireworks
Post by: Millys Mum on November 05, 2009, 18:20:29 PM
Mine are quite calm when they are in but if a stray one goes off when its light and they are in the garden they run for their lives  :(
The rabbit loved them tho, would sit on his hind legs like a meerkat and watch  :Luv2:
Title: Re: fireworks
Post by: Den on November 05, 2009, 19:22:18 PM
Memphis doesn't take any notice .. At the moment he is glued to his kitty kopter flinging it all around the place. He will be like that until I take it away from him. Its an obsession with him.

Mig the bun doesn't mind them either, he was snoozing his ears off when I went to feed him a little earlier.
Title: Re: fireworks
Post by: Starpixie on November 05, 2009, 20:06:34 PM
This is how stressed out Arty is with all the loud bangs
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2510/4078719368_4b20e6a85e.jpg)
Title: Re: fireworks
Post by: AliCat on November 05, 2009, 21:00:30 PM
I love the cover that he is lying on! That is so cute!

My two aren't bothered at all by them. They totally take it in their stride!
Title: Re: fireworks
Post by: Kirst on November 05, 2009, 21:28:17 PM
Jerry saw his first display out of the window this year , and was completely mesmerized!
Title: Re: fireworks
Post by: Starpixie on November 05, 2009, 21:29:13 PM
Fireworks have stopped here now so normal sleeping has resumed  :)

I love the cover that he is lying on! That is so cute!

They're my Pyjamas  :shy:
Title: Re: fireworks
Post by: Bazsmum on November 05, 2009, 22:28:10 PM

I love the cover that he is lying on! That is so cute!

They're my Pyjamas  :shy:

I get it now, he is laid on you....wondered how he managed to get under the lappy!  :rofl: :Luv2: :hug:
Title: Re: fireworks
Post by: Susanne (urbantigers) on November 06, 2009, 12:40:21 PM
Blip takes very little notice of fireworks either way: if there is a particularly loud one, she'll look at me to see how I've reacted and as I'm not the jumpy type, she then just carries on with whatever she was doing.

Jaffa is very much like that most of the time.  He got a bit annoyed last night when he was trying to sleep and there was a bout of particularly noisy ones.  Mosi reacted more than usual and kept running to the windows - not sure whether he liked them or was just puzzled as to what was making the noise.
Title: Re: fireworks
Post by: Cat_Crazy on November 06, 2009, 15:52:18 PM
My 3 aren't phased by them at all. They just carry on with whatever they was doing!.  :evillaugh: