The reason I'm asking is because my cat, Wills, is quite clumsy, very noisy and barges her way everywhere. I've also got wooden floors, and when she jumps onto them, from the windowsill, she sounds like she's wearing hobnail boots!
Is your cat graceful?
Mine is a bit of a lump. She can jump off the bed upstairs and I can hear her from downstairs over the television, and when she runs downstairs the whole house shakes a bit.
Originally Posted by gazelle:
“The reason I'm asking is because my cat, Wills, is quite clumsy, very noisy and barges her way everywhere. I've also got wooden floors, and when she jumps onto them, from the windowsill, she sounds like she's wearing hobnail boots!”
“The reason I'm asking is because my cat, Wills, is quite clumsy, very noisy and barges her way everywhere. I've also got wooden floors, and when she jumps onto them, from the windowsill, she sounds like she's wearing hobnail boots!”
Yeah, mine is too
she lives on her own planet.
My tiniest girl is a bit clumsy, but then she is not quite "all there" bless her. 15 years old, and she looks like a kitten still - not much bigger, either. 
One of my boys is virtually blind, so he is also quite clumsy. He has very poor depth perception, and often misses when he tries to jump onto the sofa, or windowsill. Funnily enough though, he never misses when he leaps onto me in the middle of the night!
(He has all the grace of a baby elephant - and the weight to go with it!) He is also 15 now, and manages well. He has been like this from birth, so adapted his ways to suit. He is a beautiful cat.
One of my boys is virtually blind, so he is also quite clumsy. He has very poor depth perception, and often misses when he tries to jump onto the sofa, or windowsill. Funnily enough though, he never misses when he leaps onto me in the middle of the night!
(He has all the grace of a baby elephant - and the weight to go with it!) He is also 15 now, and manages well. He has been like this from birth, so adapted his ways to suit. He is a beautiful cat.
Mine is quite graceful.
She just lazily wanders around the house, coming for a cuddle every so often. I never hear her running about or jumping off things.
She just lazily wanders around the house, coming for a cuddle every so often.
I never hear her running about or jumping off things.
Mine is graceful most of the time. Very rarely she'll misjudge the distance when she's trying to jump between things. But if she falls, I'm not allowed to look and laugh otherwise I get the evil eye!
One of mine, Mouse, is quite graceful in almost everything she does.
Her brother Milo, however, hurls himself onto my bed with his legs stuck out like a starfish, and his feet turned up like he's wearing little wellington boots.
Her brother Milo, however, hurls himself onto my bed with his legs stuck out like a starfish, and his feet turned up like he's wearing little wellington boots.
I think my cat's very graceful, she's got a slight limp from having to have the upper bone removed from her hip on her back right leg, she was struck by a car when she was 10 months old, breaking her leg and pelvis. She recovered very well and now walks with a sort of wiggle and can jump as well as any cat, in fact, she's adorable.
I have one of each.
One lithe, poised and graceful ..... like a cat should be.
The other is a clumsy oaf with little sense of balance and the grace of a hippo ..... just like a cat shouldn't be?
One lithe, poised and graceful ..... like a cat should be.
The other is a clumsy oaf with little sense of balance and the grace of a hippo ..... just like a cat shouldn't be?
I have laminate floorng and one pads across them like he is an elephant wheras the other (his mother) I never hear
My little one is 5 months so she is a mixture of grace and clumsiness at the moment.
When she is learning to do new things it takes her a while to get the hang of it (IE climb up the window frame / climb up the washing rack), but in general she pads about like a little princess with her little tail sticking in the air and its super cute
She is actually such a pretty little thing (even if I do say so myself) but its amazing how ungraceful she can be when she is lumbering over me in bed, looking for my hands for a stroke
When she is learning to do new things it takes her a while to get the hang of it (IE climb up the window frame / climb up the washing rack), but in general she pads about like a little princess with her little tail sticking in the air and its super cute
She is actually such a pretty little thing (even if I do say so myself) but its amazing how ungraceful she can be when she is lumbering over me in bed, looking for my hands for a stroke
Originally Posted by Elanor:
“Mine is a bit of a lump. She can jump off the bed upstairs and I can hear her from downstairs over the television, and when she runs downstairs the whole house shakes a bit.”
“Mine is a bit of a lump. She can jump off the bed upstairs and I can hear her from downstairs over the television, and when she runs downstairs the whole house shakes a bit.”
Similar to mine.
Of course, when they want to, they can be completely silent - when stalking things or creeping up on me.
I think their noisy landings are them being too lazy to use their 'cat skills'.
My female cat is very graceful, even though she's about 18 now, she springs and bounces everywhere with little effort and almost silently. My 2 boy cats have no grace whatsoever, they lollop and bang around, struggle to get through the window and it often sounds like a have a pair of teenagers upstairs more than two cats!
My four year old boy's a real lolloper! He's far from light on his feet, and makes a right old racket when trying to open the back door!
I had a couple of cats several years ago.One was very graceful,she was like royalty the way she carried herself! I remember when she would jump up on the sideboard,which was always full of small ornaments and knick knacks,but she would never knock anything over.My other cat however,would come in through windows or crawl into really awkward places,with as much grace as a JCB digger!
