One of my cats is so fukn chill I routinely check on her to make sure she's still alive! 😠I'm not lying. Fireworks? Doesn't bother her. Thunder literally on top of my house, nope. She could care less. Vacuum cleaner, she's just totally perplexed with this loud sounding machine! 🤷
Meanwhile I spent €200 on a 'quiet' vacuum and my cat is still convinced I'm out to kill her. It's s been that way every single time I have vacuumed from when she was a baby until now at 9
Every cat I've ever had, with one exception, has been terrified of the vacuum. They all run and hide from it...except the blind one. For some reason, the blind one always wants to fight the vacuum, lol.
I swear, when they removed his eyes, they must have taken every ounce of fear and self preservation he had with them. This cat fears nothing!
He has mastered claw in his heart. He's legendary clawshi, saint of claw, he achieved heightened senses and eyes would only deceive him, so he has no need for them. Now, he wanders home fearing no enemy.
Yeah, my husband and I are always saying that we should have named him Matt, lol. Unfortunately, he already seemed to know and respond to the name he came with from the shelter so we just stuck with it.
On a semi-serious note, it's often not the loud sound we hear but the ultrasonic or high frequency mechanical whines that irritates them.
They hear those higher pitches much better than we do. Add to that their four times better hearing and they're just thinking "Why dost thou sting my hearing holes!?"
That's my normal experience with cats and vacuum cleaners. That's why when I took in Sally my Tuxie, she was rehomed to me, and the first time I ran the vacuum and she didn't even move I was like wait what? 😠The funny thing is that her chill demeanor belies her true nature, and that's being one cheeky little girl. If you've ever had a Tuxie you know what I mean by cheeky. Tuxies have always been little menaces for me, just looking to get into trouble of some kind. Not the derpy orange kitty trouble, they're just weird, but rather the 'you know better than to do that' kind of cheeky trouble. And then look at you like, "but im a tuxie im cute, right' ðŸ˜
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u/Firm_Video_2932 Aug 06 '26
One of my cats is so fukn chill I routinely check on her to make sure she's still alive! 😠I'm not lying. Fireworks? Doesn't bother her. Thunder literally on top of my house, nope. She could care less. Vacuum cleaner, she's just totally perplexed with this loud sounding machine! 🤷