There's Thunder Paws happening in my house tonight. Cats are racing all

[GreenPartyVoter]

up and down the place, which is pretty cool considering how old they are. :) They are pretty chirpy too.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. IT is very funny when they get into one of those insane running moods.

Mine chase each other up and down the stairs....
I am sure my landlady, who lives downstairs, just loves it. :D

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Yeah. They used to be able to do it for hours. Now it's usually a trip or two up and down the house.

LOL

[kedrys]

3. A couple of ours were doing donuts in the living room at 3 this morning

I'm sure our downstairs neighbors loved that. :eyes:

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. Heheh Kittehs doing donuts! I can hear almost hear the squeal of the brakes and see the smoke!

[kedrys]

39. One of 'em was Socrates, my 25 pounder

The kabonk factor was way up there. :rofl:

[TZ]

4. Mine knocked over the 6 foot tall cat tree yesterday!

That put a cap on the craziness for a few hours...

[Deep13]

5. Who knew cats grow on trees?

:shrug:

[TZ]

6. LOL!

Well, deer do right? Buckeyes....:P

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. They do! I saw it in the "Far Side." (Apparently dog farmers grow them)

[BrklynLiberal]

31. lol

[Liberal_in_LA]

36. +5

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. When I was a kid, our black tom took down a 7 foot tall Xmas tree. Broken ornaments, needles and

sugar water everywhere!

[WolverineDG]

7. Yup, thundering herd happening over here too

once the weather gets a little nippy, it's time to turn the house into the Indianapolis Speedway. :eyes:

My dad had a cat he named "Crazy Horse" because when he charged around the house, he sounded like a herd of horses. :rofl:

dg

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. Our black tom could have been called that too. He went nuts sometimes. LOL

[hippywife]

9. Thunder Paws!

That's pretty funny! I do know what you are saying. :rofl:

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. My dad called it that back when I was a kid and we got cats. It was a two-story house so

"thunder paws" consisted of two levels of noisy racing.

The house is one of those where there is no hallway upstairs, but rather the bedrooms are connected with each other. This cat would start out on my bed, have a little freak out, jump down, go tearing down the front stairs and into the living room where he went up the curtains on one side of the window and down the others, then back upstairs to my bed for another freak out. It was hysterical to watch, ears all flattened down and tail like a pitcher handle. :rofl:

[Roon]

21. and their eyes dialated! eom

[hippywife]

37. Sounds like utter pandamonium. LOL

and lots of fun.

Our house is a one and a half story with our bedroom in a loft. Thr living room and kitchen are all one room, and there are no doors except to the bathroom and a small guest room on the first floor. You can just imagine the circle they run around there. :rofl:

My only problem is these two we got just little over a year ago don't care if you are in the way. They run right over you and I have the scratches all over my body to prove it.

:hi:

[Arugula Latte]

10. The crazies!

I love it when they run up and down the hall and their flabbies under their bellies go flapping to and fro. :rofl:

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. Mine are too fast for me to see the swinging effect. LOL What I really miss, that I hardly

ever see anymore is the "wiggle butt" pounce. :( They used to do that all the time when they were younger.

[Arugula Latte]

16. I love the wiggle butt, too. Also the crabwalk sidle.

Also the "I'm so flat no creature can possibly see me as I stalk them" pose.

[TZ]

17. I love "kitty moon pie eyes" when they get ready to pounce

I've actually learned to avoid scratches by watching for the big black pupil thing...:)

[charlie and algernon]

22. haha, yes

If I'm playing with Esther and her eyes go all black, I know she's ended playtime and moved into attack/defense mode and so I need to be on alert, lol.

[Arugula Latte]

24. heh heh ... Yep -- those all-black crazy eyes

:hi:

[GreenPartyVoter]

25. Which are totally different from the almost all black "melty eyes." LOL

[charlie and algernon]

27. yeah, I can still see some of the blue around her pupils

the "I'm going to attack" black eyes are totally black

[TZ]

30. Its not a mean "attack" thing with my kitties...

Its a "I've lost what little sanity I have and will pounce on anything that moves" eyes...:rofl:

[WolverineDG]

32. One of my kittens has super powers

I swear. I will open the front door (screened thank God), making sure no cat is in sight & within a second of it opening, *BAM* there she is, spread-eagle HALF-WAY UP THE SCREEN DOOR!! She can run & launch herself at the door so fast I don't even know she's there until I hear the *BAM*. :eyes:

dg

[GreenPartyVoter]

33. LOL I got a grey squirrel to do that to me once. I was chittering and squeaking at it, and I guess

I said the wrong thing because he would have been all over me if the screen hadn't been between us. LOL

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

40. One of mine does that.

Just hangs there on the screen. I have to replace the screen every now and then on account of cats.

[charlie and algernon]

18. mine was real wound up over the weekend

more so than usual. Racing from the glass door she usually camps out at to the hallway, race back to the door, race back and forth along the door, etc etc.

it must be the weather... :crazy:

[GreenPartyVoter]

19. Definitely something going on to get all these DU kittehs wound up. LOL

[Roon]

20. We call that the "crazies"

they tend to do it during their Ancestors hunting time, early morning and early night..but I found it can happen anytime.

Daniel is too old to run (unless she is holding it and running to the litter box) but BARNEY does it 3-5 times a week..thundering through the house and knocking stuff over on the tight corners.

Enjoy it, they are doing one of the things cats do best.:-)

[arcadian]

23. I love it when my kitties do that.

Makes me feel like they are happy and they are getting exercises.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

26. Has the weather cooled where you are?

Felines tend to get more active once the weather starts to cool -- I learned this at a talk on Big Cats.Started to look at my own brood and noticed it was true. Everyone gets frisky comes fall here.

[GreenPartyVoter]

28. It's been getting down to the low 30s lately at night. Wish that was as far as it's gonna go. LOL

[latebloomer]

29. Makes me nervous when the demon takes over my kitty

late in the evening.

Means we're gonna be attacked as we try to sleep- or else she gets locked out of the bedroom, which I hate to do.

[Rosco T.]

34. ahh... qualifying laps for the Kittynapolis 500???? n/m

[Liberal_in_LA]

35. Happens in my place too. Suddenly for no reason, paws thundering up and down the stairs

[KatyaR]

38. When I had cats, I called that

"playing CowCats and Indians." I had 3 cats, and they would get on these insane tears where they would run though the house and bounce off the furniture and the walls--and sometimes me. I was reclining on the couch one night watching TV when one of them tried to sail from the floor to the coffee table and then over me to the back of the couch. She was a little low, and I ended up with a long thin scratch across my face. Ouch!

It's amazing how much noise little feet can make . . . .