Why do cats bellow and run around like maniacs after using the litter tray?

Mine only did that during adolescence; (hormones).
He acted as tho someone were chasing him
and he literally climbed the walls; that was not related
to sanitary concerns.

Well, all mine have done it throughout their lives....males, even neutered, more so.

My cat doesn't behave as described... she just goes back to doing whatever she was doing before.

Is "chook" some kind of slang word? I presume it means a bird or a reptile, since egg laying is involved. (I'm only teasing, I know it's what Ozzies call chickens; I learned it from watching Paul Hogan TV shows.)

Must be somethin' about you. The cats I've lived with have usually been quite quite private about their litter tray activities (or is that something about me?).

On ya for knowing what chook is!!!

Are those the old shows, pre-Hollywood, when he was really clever?

Isn't I.

A bunch of we cat owners were discussing it at work the other day.

I am beginning to think you people on the wrong end have mutant cats!

Mine stopped, after being neutered; quite calm.

Dante cat (neutered) quite simply goes ape-**** after taking a dump, attacks Sally dog, bounces off every wall, knocks everything off the kitchen counter and then hides in the bath-tub; this running amok usually lasts about 10 minutes, he then takes a nap.

I don 't know if this incident can be successfully expressed in writing or not.
Maybe u kinda had to BE there.

I 'll try anyway:
in the 1970s or 1980s, I was told that there was a woman
out on Long Island who was a terrific psychic and that I shud try her.

Out of curiosity, I gave it a shot.
I drove out there, she opened the door
and I sat on her sofa, whereuon her pussycat approached me.
He sat down right in front of me, looked me very directly in the eye
and he said: "meeeooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwww".
(That 's a direct quote.)

I thawt it was freaky.
Cats more commonly hide under the furniture when a stranger arrives.


I think HE was the psychic.





David

But WHY????!!!!!

Prolly trying to tell you not to be so obsessed with guns.

well Dante is Siamese, is that a possible explanation?

Yes, the late 1970s early 1980s ones; I remember his police sergeant character discussing a raid on a "hot chook stand".

Me too. I never heard of such behavior. When I first read the post I thought maybe the cat has an infection down there (bowel or urinary infection and it hurt to relieve her or himself) ... but I guess it's more common so maybe that should be ruled out.

Its called "shaking the dag."

Too much spicy food?

you obviously have ill mannered cats...

Stinky would have none of that kind of behavior, thank you very much.

and both of my cat stations are on stone floors. were the little poopers to get very crazy, they would be on their arse rather quickly...

We, I should say my mom, has a cat that has done this. But it was only recently and only for about a week. He hid under the couch for about a month, and he has been in the house since he was a kitten about 3 or 4 years now. Every time he went to the bathroom he would run down the hall meowing all loud and stop in the living room look around and then go, quietly through the living room to the couch he was hiding under.

Never heard of such a thing.