Does your cat do this...?

[AlecBGreen]

mine licks the venetian blinds...constantly! It gets so bad we have to put them up even though our neighbor could reach through his window and poke us he's so close. What to do? I dont know why, its not like we live next to a Burger King.

Dicos, The Culprit (on the left):



How can we break this habit?

[huskerlaw]

1. Bitter Apple spray

I just bought some to combat a kitten who likes to chew on computer cords. So far, so good.

You can buy it at PetCo, or probably any similar pet store.

[stuntcat]

2. omg he's pretty

they both are :loveya:
Yah, wipe something nasty tasting on it, spray the blinds with cheap old perfume. Then he'll make the mad pissed-off cat face and leave them alone.

[Skittles]

3. my f***ing cat destroys them

here is what greets me each morning when I get home from work:

[huskerlaw]

4. My cat used to do that!

I finally resigned myself to leaving them up just high enough for him to look out.

[Skittles]

8. alas a couch is in front of them

plus, I live in Texas and that window faces west :o

[huskerlaw]

10. Oooh

Well, Texas + west-facing window = BAD.

I have no other suggestions! :shrug:

[TZ]

5. all my blinds look like that

I prefer my privacy so I leave them down. Besides when I pull them up the nutters just jump up and try to get the cord....One good thing they dont do..my younger sister had a cat that LOVED to play with them by banging them around in the middle of the night...I was living with them at the time. BANG BANG BANG...Oy.:eyes:

[AlecBGreen]

6. ROFLMAO

you should see my blinds. They've weakly resisted Dicos for a few weeks but recently they gave up all hope and look like yours. We should form a support group!

Quite a handsome cat there. Is it a guy? I always think of black cats as guy for some reason, but now that I look, the faceis mor pointy like my girls...

[Skittles]

9. that is Clancy, a male

he is nine now; got him at the pound when he was six weeks old :D

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. All of my blinds used to look like that. I finally had to switch to another,

less fragile type of window treatment.

[Skittles]

11. they need to make those blind-ends rotatable

ya know? More pet friendly. Yes INDEED!!!

[bridgit]

13. pft...

:rofl: :thumbsup:

[legally blonde]

14. LOL - my blinds look like that too

I can always tell who has a cat by the condition of the mini-blinds!

I finally ended up buying (fake) wood blinds--they are thicker and more durable. But, I still leave them up about six inches.

[DS1]

18. looks just like my window, only different color cat

:)

[davsand]

19. When were you at my house taking pictures?

That is MY window and MY cat, I swear to gawd! When did you stop off in Illinois to take pics?


He has a cat tree in a west facing window with the curtains pulled back, but still prefers to sit in a window where he can mangle the mini blinds. Ya gotta love cats!


Oh--and your kitty looks EXACTLY like my boy Chaucer!



Laura

[Skittles]

35. well I AM a native Illinoisan

perhaps you and I and our destructive kitties are kindred spirits! I had to move the cat tree a couple feet from my bedroom window to stop them pawing at the blinds :o

[Brigid]

20. That cat looks just like mine!

Her name is Brigid. She has been known to break Venetian blinds too. That's all right -- I hate those things anyway.

[Cabcere]

30. Yeah, my Phoenix paws at them like that all the time.

Silly cats. :eyes:

[Roon]

32. Awwww

So cute!!!

[alarimer]

33. Mine looke like that too

I have to leave them down or everybody can see in.

I live in an apartment too; I guess I will lose my deposit for it.

Worse I can't have the windows open because he tears the screens in an effort to get out.

[Skittles]

34. if you look very closely at that picture

you can vaguely see the destroyed screen :o

[bridgit]

12. Tim has a perch near some where he bends them so he can see out...

not convinced i can stop him :)

[Hardrada]

15. Our cat, Friedrich, used to chew on the blinds

when younger!

[sanguinivorous]

16. Our Siamese Emily does that all the time...

She likes to lick the pull cords, too. She doesn't hurt the blinds, though.

[carly denise pt deux]

17. I have given up, my blinds stay open most of the time

so mine can look out....are your windows open when they are licking the blinds? I noticed the past few mornings I had condensation on mine, I guess it's been really humid and it builds on the blinds....I remember a few years ago there was something about lead in mini-blinds, so be careful.
Carly

[madinmaryland]

21. Yes....

[kath]

22. Awww, that's NUTHIN'. Ya oughta see what the living room drapes look like around here.

Torn to smithereens. :cry:

[LynneSin]

23. Abbott licks plastic shopping bags

He was always a little addled in the brain

[SoxFan]

28. Brianna does that, too

She's sweet, but weird. I'm not sure why, but she appreciates the little plastic bags from Hannafords.

[Brigid]

31. My Ophelia does that too.

I never have figured out why. :shrug:

[Greyskye]

24. my cat does the "Lick & Flick"

She comes into the bathroom every morning after I turn off the shower. She then waits patiently until I open the shower door, at which point she delicately walks into the shower, flicking the water off of her paws with each step. Then she licks water from the drain.

At least she doesn't lick blankets compulsively anymore!

[electron_blue]

25. heck if I know. I have a cat who licks photographs. She is on them in an instant

if I walk away from them and has been that way her whole life (11 yrs). Things are easier now that I've gone mostly digital LOL but it makes you wonder.

I love that cat picture!

[MysticalChicken]

26. Not the blinds, but...

if I have the blinds pulled up, he'll take the pulling-cord in his paw and start licking it (the string part, not the little bell-looking things at the bottom). I have no idea why he does this.

[WolverineDG]

27. I have one that licks walls

don't ask me why. :eyes:

dg

[Javaman]

29. Put up curtains. nt

[Beaverhausen]

36. One of my cats licks all new bottled water jugs

:wtf:

[Critters2]

37. Mine licks anything made of velcro

That tongue on velcro makes the most irritating sound. He finds velcro I didn't even know I had...like around a new power cord I just bought. I have a pair of shoes with velcro closures that I try to keep out of his reach.

What goes on in those little heads?