kitty times!
My cat has this weird habit at night of carrying a (clean) ball of my husband's socks, or a favourite fluffy toy, in her mouth, walking the corridors and crying quite loud...such that the pathetic meowling even wake us. She's never vocal except for these nightly serenades... but it has such a pitiful quality to it.
Does anybody else's kitty do this? Or can you offer an explanation for this feline behaviour?

I sometimes thinks it's like she's carrying a dead kitten around and crying over it, but I guess that's really just anthropomorphising
( Tiffany Aching 's bowl of oatmeal tried to stare her down and won, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 7:24, 14 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

She thinks it's a kitten
I don't know what you'd do about that.
If you catch Beckyjsbx on, she'll know.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 7:40, Reply)

You need to impregnate her

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 8:03, Reply)

Awwww.....
I honestly don't really know, but the kitten hypothesis sounds plausible.

Being as I can't help you, let me share with you my slight fear over one of my cats: she hasn't been seen for almost two days. She has gone walkabout before now (she was adopted as a stray) but because there have been major gas works outside my flat and I saw them filling up the trench with cement yesterday, I'm worried that she might now be buried.....*sob*
(ConanTroutman thought we would free the vulture, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 8:32, Reply)

The last time you saw her
was she hurtling toward a window at great speed. Greater speed in fact than the two time before when she merely bounced back, this time was she travelling at a speed great enough to actually penetrate the glass and leave the cat outside?
(Bazongaloid, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 8:40, Reply)

..........................no.
She was sleeping.

Either you really don't like cats, or something's got your goat this morning.
(ConanTroutman thought we would free the vulture, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 8:45, Reply)

Or alternatively
you have missed a bit of a long running joke about Batshitmentalist and her propensity for feline abuse.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 8:46, Reply)

That would only work if currency was involved also.

(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Thu 11 Mar 2010, 9:00, Reply)

The presence of a least a penny or two within the gullet of the flying cat was implicit

(Bazongaloid, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 9:02, Reply)

Bullseye!

(ConanTroutman thought we would free the vulture, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 9:13, Reply)

It's probably emotionally stunted.
It's a common problem with cats and cat owners. The best thing to do is get a dog. Gonz will back me up on this.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 9:19, Reply)

Some animals go through
phantom pregnancies. My friend's spaniel used get broody about once a year and nick a soft toy to carry around and look after, etc. She used to pick those McDonald's toys that make a noise when you squeeze them, especially the one that was released with Disney's 101 Dalmations, it barked.

She also once loved my sister's hamster to death, that was less cute.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 9:21, Reply)

Loved it to death?
Rarrrr.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 9:25, Reply)

*Triggerpaws*

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 9:27, Reply)

Cute Mental Image of the Day

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 9:29, Reply)