Fig

[james_davis_nicoll]

I still wonder if he was raised by a dog but his propensity for running into uprights of my bed and other objects (like my carefully arranged stacks of to-read books) make me wonder if perhaps he was also raised by a rhino.

It's not an eye sight thing I don't think; he can catch treats out of the air.

Comments

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

Being able to see where you are going is not the same as paying attention to where you are going.

Go Fig!

[sillymagpie.livejournal.com]

I had a cat who like to bang her head loudly on the underside of furniture. I could never figure that out. Maybe Fig likes to run headfirst into things.

Raised by rhinos...snort!

[editrx.livejournal.com]

You mean I'm not the only one with a cat who does that?

Josh the rescued Aby gets under our bed and whacks his head joyfully on the wooden under slats when he's happy.

[readsalot.livejournal.com]

I had a housemate whose cat would joyfully run down the stairs and bump her head into all of the posts, in order to greet him at the door when he came home from work.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Bean was convinced that to get food into his dish he'd need to slam his head into one particular riser on the way down the stairs. Cats have associational memory....

[t--m--i.livejournal.com]

I have greyhounds - sighthounds for heaven's sake - and they are *very* big on nutting themselves on furniture (home *or* street). I think it's just a general dreaminess...

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Our St Bernard knew the electric fence was hurty and that he could crawl under the lowest strand safely. Sadly, he always stood up too soon.

He also couldn't understand "water deeper than him" but in his defense he was a huge dog. Or immovable objects but then he never encountered one. This is a dog who when he was hit by a truck walked away unharmed; the truck's radiator was destroyed....

[laetitia-apis.livejournal.com]

I once ran into a St. Bernard on my bicycle. Poor beast, he ran into the road to get some attention from the passing human, and she not only thumps him in the ribs with a sharp tire, she swears at him.

I'd started braking as soon as I saw that there was a dog near the road, so I don't think he suffered permanent harm. I fell over sideways, rather than flying over the bars, and suffered only road rash.

My spouse came home in terrible condition after striking a smaller dog, and we're pretty sure the dog died of its injuries.

[agent-mimi.livejournal.com]

My cat Reggie used to deliberately run into things with his butt, especially hallway walls. That way he could run at top speed, slide with the side of his butt toward the wall, then ricochet off at about 90 degrees and keep running at high speed. He lost a tooth one day when he mistook his face for his butt and ran face first into the wall. It was one of those "laugh but feel really badly for the poor guy" moments every cat owner has experienced.