Hello, I’m Christopher! Learn my introduction to study extra about me and my foolish Russian Blue cat, Olga.
Home cats are gifted climbers, leapers, and hunters, and though most like to view their environments from elevated positions, additionally they get pleasure from hiding in cramped areas. Squeezing their our bodies into small areas is a talent most canine most likely envy, however it comes naturally to felines. They’ve an anatomical benefit; in contrast to people, their shoulder blades and collarbones are linked to different physique components by muscle groups, not bones.
Fearful Hiding
When properties turn into too chaotic or noisy for cats, they often run and conceal. It doesn’t appear outstanding or out of the extraordinary, however I’m impressed by how rapidly Olga disappears when she’s scared or able to play. If somebody in my neighborhood units off a bottle rocket, Roman candle, or firecracker, Olga breaks the sound barrier when she runs for canopy.
Thunderstorms don’t faze her, however she’s depressing on the 4th of July. It’s the one time of 12 months she spends hours hiding underneath the sofa, and the terrified expression on her face makes me really feel sorry for her.
Hiding to Chill out and Annoy People
Nonetheless, she additionally hides each morning after consuming breakfast when she’s content material. Hiding due to concern isn’t uncommon for cats, however I believe additionally they get pleasure from it once they’re not confused or frightened. Cramming themselves into tiny areas might make them really feel safer, and a few cats perceive how onerous it’s for people to seek out them, and so they get pleasure from watching their homeowners making an attempt to find them.
Olga often runs as much as me if I name her title, but when she sees me packing my baggage for a visit or hauling the cat provider out of the closet, she finds an efficient hiding spot and gained’t reply to my calls. Her morning hiding spot is underneath the mattress, however when she doesn’t wish to be discovered, she hides within the rest room or behind a cupboard in the lounge.
Skillful Hiding
Generally, she hides within the bathtub, and as soon as, after looking out my home for half-hour, I discovered her behind the bathroom. Discovering her hiding spot hurts her satisfaction, and he or she lashes out when I attempt to choose her up. When she was a kitten, she was extra violent and infrequently used flatulence to persuade me to place her down. Fortunately, she not makes use of that protection mechanism.
It’s irritating when you’ll be able to’t discover a hidden cat, however Olga isn’t as troublesome to find as my final cat. My Siamese cat not often stored his mouth closed except he was consuming, sleeping, or hiding, and he was a gifted escape artist. He didn’t keep in a single place however moved round as I looked for him.
He escaped once I took him to the coast to go to my mates a number of years in the past. We looked for hours and even had the native Sheriff assist after he questioned us about why we had been creeping round a cemetery in the course of the evening.
In some unspecified time in the future through the search, he ran again into the home, and I discovered him within the kitchen cabinet behind the canned items. Olga isn’t as devious when she hides, and I’m fortunate that she’s by no means tried to run exterior.