Basically, my cat is scared of the carpet. He'll pelt it across the floor till he's on a different surface, or a table etc.
It's really bizarre and getting worse. At first it was cute, but now he won't come into rooms, and it's very sad.
I'll take him to the vet, but otherwise, has anyone else encountered this problem?
We've had him for AGES, a good 6 or 7 years, but was from a home - so he may have had some sort of problems before?
This has only come on within the last year or so?
Luce xxxx
Answers:
I would imagine that the carpet is causing him to get static shocks so the answer is to mist the carpet with water. No need to soak it though. Just get a misting bottle from garden centres, DIY stores etc. Very cheap. About £1. Cheaper than going to the vets and worth a try!
I hope this helps.
try to get him on kitty prozac
no i hate cats lol
awwwwwwwwwwwww lol maybe the carpet is producing static electricity? hope the cats ok soon! ;O)
Very strange. Maybe the vet will know.
time for the carpet to go
The family was arrested during the Russian Revolution of 1917 and was imprisoned first at their home in Tsarskoye Selo and later at private residences in Tobolsk and Yekaterinburg, Siberia. "Darling, you must know how awful it all is," Olga wrote in a letter to a friend from Tobolsk.[63]
Olga tried to draw comfort from her faith and her proximity to her family. To her "beloved mama", with whom she had sometimes had a difficult relationship, she wrote a poem in April 1917, while the family was still imprisoned at Tsarskoye Selo: "You are filled with anguish for the sufferings of others. And no one's grief has ever passed you by. You are relentless, only towards yourself, forever cold and pitiless. But if only you could look upon your own sadness from a distance, just once with a loving soul -- Oh, how you would pity yourself, how sadly you would weep."[64] In another letter from Tobolsk, Olga wrote: "Father asks to ... remember that the evil which is now in the world will become yet more powerful, and that it is not evil which conquers evil, but only love ..."[65]
A poem copied into one of her notebooks prays for patience and the ability to forgive her enemies:
"Send us, Lord, the patience, in this year of stormy, gloom-filled days, to suffer popular oppression, and the tortures of our hangmen. Give us strength, oh Lord of justice, Our neighbor's evil to forgive, And the Cross so heavy and bloody, with Your humility to meet, In days when enemies rob us, To bear the shame and humiliation, Christ our Savior, help us. Ruler of the world, God of the universe, Bless us with prayer and give our humble soul rest in this unbearable, dreadful hour. At the threshold of the grave, breathe into the lips of Your slaves inhuman strength -- to pray meekly for our enemies."[66]
Also found with Olga's effects, reflecting her own determination to remain faithful to the father she adored, was Edmond Rostand's L'Aiglon, the story of Napoleon Bonaparte's son, who remained loyal to his deposed father until the end of his life.[67]
There was one report that her father gave Olga a small revolver, which she concealed in a boot while in captivity at Tsarskoe Selo and at Tobolsk. Colonel Eugene Kobylynsky, their sympathetic jailer, pleaded with the grand duchess to surrender her revolver before she, her sisters, and brother were transferred to Yekaterinburg. Olga reluctantly gave up her gun and was left unarmed.[68]
The family had been briefly separated in April 1918 when the Bolsheviks moved Nicholas, Alexandra, and Maria to Yekaterinburg. Alexei and the three other young women remained behind because Alexei had suffered another attack of haemophilia. The Empress chose Maria to accompany her because "Olga's spirits were too low" and level-headed Tatiana was needed to take care of Alexei.[69] In May 1918 the remaining children and servants boarded the ship Rus that ferried them from Tobolsk to Yekaterinburg. Aboard ship, Olga was distressed when she saw one of the guards slip from a ladder and injure his foot. She ran to the man and explained that she had been a nurse during the war and wanted to look at his foot. He refused her offer of treatment. All through the afternoon, Olga fretted over the guard, whom she called "her poor fellow."[70] At Tobolsk Olga and her sisters had sewed jewels into their clothing in hopes of hiding them from the Bolsheviks. That night the guards forbade the young women to lock their bedroom doors. Olga, Tatiana, and Anastasia remained fully clothed. Guards looking for the hidden jewels harassed them, having been tipped off by one or more servants in the group. Olga's English tutor, Sydney Gibbes, was haunted to the end of his life by the memory of the grand duchesses' screams and his inability to protect them.[71]
From left to right, Grand Duchesses Maria, Olga, Anastasia and Tatiana Nikolaevna in captivity at Tsarskoe Selo in the spring of 1917.Pierre Gilliard later recalled his last sight of the imperial children at Yekaterinburg:
“ "The sailor Nagorny, who attended to Alexei Nikolaevitch, passed my window carrying the sick boy in his arms, behind him came the Grand Duchesses loaded with valises and small personal belongings. I tried to get out, but was roughly pushed back into the carriage by the sentry. I came back to the window. Tatiana Nikolayevna came last carrying her little dog and struggling to drag a heavy brown valise. It was raining and I saw her feet sink into the mud at every step. Nagorny tried to come to her assistance; he was roughly pushed back by one of the commisars ..."[72] ”
Olga was reportedly deeply depressed and lost a great deal of weight during her final months. "She was thin, pale, and looked very sick," recalled one of the guards, Alexander Strekotin, in his memoirs. "She took few walks in the garden, and spent most of her time with her brother." Another guard recalled that the few times she did walk outside, she stood there "gazing sadly into the distance, making it easy to read her emotions."[73] Later, Olga appeared angry with her younger sister Maria for being too friendly to the guards, reported Strekotin.[74]
Tsarevich Alexei, left, and Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna in May 1918 aboard the Russia, the ship that ferried them to their deaths at Yekaterinburg. This is the last known photo of Olga and Alexei.On July 14, 1918, local priests at Yekaterinburg conducted a private church service for the family and reported that Olga and her family, contrary to custom, fell on their knees during the prayer for the dead.[75] Olga was twenty-two when she was killed with her family at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg on July 17, 1918. The killings were performed by forces of the Bolshevik secret police under Yakov Yurovsky. According to one account, Olga watched her sister Tatiana die before being killed.[76]
Several people claimed to be surviving members of the Romanov family following the assassinations. A woman named Marga Boodts claimed to be Grand Duchess Olga. Boodts lived in a villa on Lake Como in Italy and was said to be supported by the former kaiser, Wilhelm II and by the Pope. However, most historians discount her claim and believe Olga died with her family.[77]
2 ideas
he got a bad electrical shock from the carpet in the last year or so
or
he has problems getting his claws out of the carpet when he walks on it.
i am placing my bet on the shock.
His claws may be getting caught in the carpet and hurting his toes. Could be static electricity--one too many jolts.
MINE use to get his claws caught in the carpet.
why don't u try to put some food on the carpet.maybe ur cat will love it...
How strange...well, until you get to the bottom of it I would suggest, for the sake of kitty being sane and comfortable, just buy some of that clear plastic floor-runner off the roll from the hardware store and lay it down where he makes a thoroughfare.
maybe hes trying to tell you to modernise and get some wood flooring
maybe ocd cat!
what's more important? the cat or the carpet?
he is trying to be polite sense you cleaned the carpet, but you dont understand :)
Put cushions under its knees, it will be fine.
I think your problem is probably due to fleas in the carpet.
There could be a ton of reasons... ...other animals in the house who have scent-marked the carpet, claws (as mentioned by others), odors (formaldehyde is used in making carpets for example, so if it's new...), textures that are new, declawing, etc.
So without knowing more about your carpet and cat, it's very hard to say.
I do have a suggestion, however, for helping him get over it... If your cat likes catnip (many don't), then buy some loose-leaf catnip, and sprinkle it over the carpet, one room at a time over a period of several days or longer. He'll likely roll on the carpet and come to like it rather than avoid it. You'll need to avoid vacuuming for awhile, but the catnip flakes are small and you won't likely notice them too much.
Good luck!
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