I don't know if I should take that as a compliment or a complaint... ah well, I can't resist anyway, I am such a cat Mom.
Our cats must be related, so many of the things you mention, I'm sitting here going yeah, Lily does that, yeah, that too... The KKK sound you mention is pretty common. It has something to do with the hunting instinct, officially I believe it's called chattering. The cat I had before Lily, Midnight used to do the same thing. When Lily does it, I ask her if she is talking to Mr. Squirrel because it is usually at the squirrels outside. Keisha occasionally does it too at the birds, but she is such a wuss, she is terrified of the outside and looking out the window is rare for her. She has gotten better about it since we've had Lily, but...
Lily does the rope game too, she drags it around the house like Linus and his security blanket. We wake up in the morning and there are a dozen toys at the foot of the bed and a few in the bed as well. She brings them up to us in the middle of the night wanting to play. Sometimes she chirrups (she doesn't have a meow, just a little chirp) and wakes me up. Her favorite toy is the mouse on a string, I think I mentioned it before, she carries the mouse around dragging the elastic string and plastic rod behind her. It's really hilarious when she gets the rod stuck under the bathroom door and she grabs the mouse and tries to drag it away and it pulls back, she lets it go and it goes THWAP against the door. She keeps trying and it keeps going thwap. The first time she did this in the middle of the night woke us up and we couldn't figure out what the loud noise was. THWAP... THWAP... until we saw her doing it. Lily has never used her paws to drink, but Midnight used to. Lily has tried with her paw to get something (imaginary, there was nothing there but water)out of the bottom of a water glass knocking the glass over and spilling the contents. But usually she is very good with her paws.
About scratching inappropriate things... Life is too short to worry about a few claw marks. I am a cat person, I have always had cats, I know that anything I own might get claw marks and cat hair on it. Although we do stop her from clawing things that could hurt her, (fall over on her, make her sick (plants)) Most things we don't care enough about to bother. She is really good about the word "NO". And she understands the phrases, "Not Kitty Place" or "Not kitty toy". And she really does like her cat tree/scratching post, it's one of the floor to ceiling ones, she likes getting all the way up the top and doing the vulture thing looking down at the world. (In fact one of my user pics is her on the top shelf of the scratching post, I set up my tripod on a table and shot the picture at mostly her level.) None of our other cats have used it nearly as much as she has. It's possible that the post you have isn't tall enough or stable enough for Perrine to use it comfortably.
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ah well, I can't resist anyway, I am such a cat Mom.
Our cats must be related, so many of the things you mention, I'm sitting here going yeah, Lily does that, yeah, that too...
The KKK sound you mention is pretty common. It has something to do with the hunting instinct, officially I believe it's called chattering. The cat I had before Lily, Midnight used to do the same thing. When Lily does it, I ask her if she is talking to Mr. Squirrel because it is usually at the squirrels outside. Keisha occasionally does it too at the birds, but she is such a wuss, she is terrified of the outside and looking out the window is rare for her. She has gotten better about it since we've had Lily, but...
Lily does the rope game too, she drags it around the house like Linus and his security blanket. We wake up in the morning and there are a dozen toys at the foot of the bed and a few in the bed as well. She brings them up to us in the middle of the night wanting to play. Sometimes she chirrups (she doesn't have a meow, just a little chirp) and wakes me up. Her favorite toy is the mouse on a string, I think I mentioned it before, she carries the mouse around dragging the elastic string and plastic rod behind her. It's really hilarious when she gets the rod stuck under the bathroom door and she grabs the mouse and tries to drag it away and it pulls back, she lets it go and it goes THWAP against the door. She keeps trying and it keeps going thwap. The first time she did this in the middle of the night woke us up and we couldn't figure out what the loud noise was. THWAP... THWAP... until we saw her doing it.
Lily has never used her paws to drink, but Midnight used to. Lily has tried with her paw to get something (imaginary, there was nothing there but water)out of the bottom of a water glass knocking the glass over and spilling the contents. But usually she is very good with her paws.
About scratching inappropriate things... Life is too short to worry about a few claw marks. I am a cat person, I have always had cats, I know that anything I own might get claw marks and cat hair on it. Although we do stop her from clawing things that could hurt her, (fall over on her, make her sick (plants)) Most things we don't care enough about to bother. She is really good about the word "NO". And she understands the phrases, "Not Kitty Place" or "Not kitty toy". And she really does like her cat tree/scratching post, it's one of the floor to ceiling ones, she likes getting all the way up the top and doing the vulture thing looking down at the world. (In fact one of my user pics is her on the top shelf of the scratching post, I set up my tripod on a table and shot the picture at mostly her level.) None of our other cats have used it nearly as much as she has. It's possible that the post you have isn't tall enough or stable enough for Perrine to use it comfortably.
Anyway, enough rambling about my cat...
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The word "nifty" was not sarcastic, don't worry. Not a complaint.