(only kidding really)... because he is just nuts. And that's right, I'm not talking about sweet little Sonic.
Radar is currently charging around the flat at breakneck speed, leaping onto things, knocking things over, and being generally crazy. I walk out to the kitchen to make a cup of tea and he streaks past me in the opposite direction. I walk back to the sitting room and something goes thump into the backs of my legs and thunders off like a herd of elephants only to turn around, charge back, leap up, and try to grab the mug of steaming hot tea out of my hand (I have spilled hot tea on him before you would think he'd learn).
I sit at the computer and suddenly something black and white barrels out of nowhere and launches off the ground, grabs my arm in a flying leap, nips, runs across my lap and the coffee table and disappears under the sofa - then a few seconds later there is a scrabbling claws-on-fabric noise and he pops up over the back of the sofa from behind, squeezing through the gap between sofa and wall with his eyes bulging (I once made the mistake of looking over the back of the sofa while he was behind it and he scrabbled up at lightning speed and punched me in the eye before I could react!)
Every so often he jumps up from under the desk trying to grab my arm while I'm typing, and usually thumps his head on the underside of the desk in the process - I am beginning to wonder if he has given himself brain damage!!!
It's very entertaining to watch, but I have worked out that the safest thing for me to do when he's going nuts is to sit as still as possible, and definitely not to walk around with cups of hot tea as there's a likelihood that at least one of us may end up scalded.
I would love to hear descriptions of what other people's cats do in their moments of madness!
Radar is currently charging around the flat at breakneck speed, leaping onto things, knocking things over, and being generally crazy. I walk out to the kitchen to make a cup of tea and he streaks past me in the opposite direction. I walk back to the sitting room and something goes thump into the backs of my legs and thunders off like a herd of elephants only to turn around, charge back, leap up, and try to grab the mug of steaming hot tea out of my hand (I have spilled hot tea on him before you would think he'd learn).
I sit at the computer and suddenly something black and white barrels out of nowhere and launches off the ground, grabs my arm in a flying leap, nips, runs across my lap and the coffee table and disappears under the sofa - then a few seconds later there is a scrabbling claws-on-fabric noise and he pops up over the back of the sofa from behind, squeezing through the gap between sofa and wall with his eyes bulging (I once made the mistake of looking over the back of the sofa while he was behind it and he scrabbled up at lightning speed and punched me in the eye before I could react!)
Every so often he jumps up from under the desk trying to grab my arm while I'm typing, and usually thumps his head on the underside of the desk in the process - I am beginning to wonder if he has given himself brain damage!!!
It's very entertaining to watch, but I have worked out that the safest thing for me to do when he's going nuts is to sit as still as possible, and definitely not to walk around with cups of hot tea as there's a likelihood that at least one of us may end up scalded.
I would love to hear descriptions of what other people's cats do in their moments of madness!