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Cat Health & Behaviour => Health & Behaviour General => Topic started by: JackSpratt on January 16, 2010, 10:59:17 AM
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Darwin has become the self taught master of "bed mice." (Catching moving feet under a duvet.) This would be fine were it when we were conscious and expecting it, but he's taken to ambushing my partners feet at five in the morning, sending the poor bloke flying from the shock of tiny claws embedding in his feet....
Any ideas on how to train the Little Man out of it?
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At least he doesn't hunt bed snakes ... :rofl:
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no sorry, have spent a lot of time training mine to play bedmice lol
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Mosi think bedmice is the best game ever ;D Fortunately he had grown out of it to the point that he only plays it in the mornings when I wiggle hands and feet around under the duvet. Mostly. Sometimes he does catch me unawares, esp as he knows to dive under the duvet if he really wants to catch them mice.
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The only thing is age Im afraid (you could also tie OH's feet together so they dont move! :sneaky: :evillaugh: ) :hug:
All of mine who Ive had from young have done it..... Its a kitten thing! ;)
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Not sure how to stop "Bed mouse" hunting ... but I would suggest claw cliping will at least make the game less painful for OH ;)
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You've met Darwin, Sam....fancy coming round and attempting to clip the wriggle bums claws? ;)
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no sorry, have spent a lot of time training mine to play bedmice lol
:rofl:
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Through the duvet is one thing. Through thin sheets is quite another! Smidgen limits his bed-mouse activities to summer when all that is covering me is sheet. Now *that* is painful!!!
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My partner is 6'2" and his toes are regularly peeping out of the end of the duvet...hence the extreme reaction to the early morning ambushes. :evillaugh: And yes, Firefox I suppose we have to be grateful for that. ;)
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You've met Darwin, Sam....fancy coming round and attempting to clip the wriggle bums claws? ;)
No problem .... the trick is to catch them when they are sleepy!
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At least he doesn't hunt bed snakes ... :rofl:
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
My Hubby had his snake scratched once.....to SCREAMED
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No help here either I'm afraid as we play bed mice, even Jess plays bed mice and doesn't play much else :evillaugh:
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There's something wrong with this plan.... The words 'training' and 'cat' don't belong in the same sentence unless it refers to the cat training its humans. :tired:
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Darwin has become the self taught master of "bed mice." (Catching moving feet under a duvet.) This would be fine were it when we were conscious and expecting it, but he's taken to ambushing my partners feet at five in the morning, sending the poor bloke flying from the shock of tiny claws embedding in his feet....
Any ideas on how to train the Little Man out of it?
Its very hard to train partners I'm afraid and it can be difficult to make them stay still while in bed. I suggest you put a sleeping draft in his Horlicks at night - it also means you may get more sleep as well.
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No idea how to stop it, but Poot has been learning how to play it recently, he was diving on my knees at 4am today :innocent:
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My two just grew out of it but I do remember well the ambushes!
Actually, Chilli still does it occasionally but what she likes is to pounce under any slightly lifted pieces of quilt or escaped toes at the end of the bed and you never expect it as she just does it randomly and is completely silent when she moves about :evillaugh: She also used to attack eyelashes so toes were always far more preferable!
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I think I've figured out a solution....to buy a new bed frame with an end to it. ;) (I've been looking for one anyway because ours is about nine years old and a bit rickety - it was a cheap one from Ikea!)
Quite like this one - but will have to save my pennies. ;)
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/S29849771 (http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/S29849771)
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Good plan but may I suggest you also save for an Ikea mattress as theirs are ever so slightly larger than normal ones and thus there is a gap between the end of the bed and the mattress, this is where I ahve ambushed from under the bed, they see a toe hanging over and attack through the gap!
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I think I've figured out a solution....to buy a new bed frame with an end to it. ;) (I've been looking for one anyway because ours is about nine years old and a bit rickety - it was a cheap one from Ikea!)
Quite like this one - but will have to save my pennies. ;)
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/S29849771 (http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/S29849771)
That's why we've never had the 'bed mice' problem our bed has an end to it :evillaugh:
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Good plan but may I suggest you also save for an Ikea mattress as theirs are ever so slightly larger than normal ones and thus there is a gap between the end of the bed and the mattress, this is where I ahve ambushed from under the bed, they see a toe hanging over and attack through the gap!
Ahh, that is true. We currently have an Argos mattress on an Ikea base and I stuff my hot water bottle down the side for storage. :shy:
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:evillaugh: :evillaugh: Oh, am sorry JS - I shouldn't but I can't help it..... :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :evillaugh:
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It's OK....I thought it was pretty funny until I realised it was really hurting his toes! (Although, it is his own fault as I've never encouraged this game but he has. That'll teach him! :evillaugh:)
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It will indeed... :evillaugh: