Contemplation.
Swish left. (Can you see Chaos minding his own business in the rest of the pictures?!)
Swish right.
Get the lay of the land.
Banzai!
“Mayhem!! Get off the table!!!” -me
Contemplation.
Swish left. (Can you see Chaos minding his own business in the rest of the pictures?!)
Swish right.
Get the lay of the land.
Banzai!
“Mayhem!! Get off the table!!!” -me
heh, the tail always gives ’em away….
“Hey, Mayhem, with age comes wisdom!” – Chaos
“Snicker, dumb kitten.” – C
Just what did YOU place on the table to tempt the poor little kitty? It’s always the humans fault my dear!!
OK. You have plants at kitty level AND stuff on your counter? You’re my hero. Gandalf and Mae are salivating at the thought…
Little May, like you aren’t up there ALL the time when your Mom’s not home.
Naughty May… she’s such a rebel.
May’s tale in that last shot TOTALLY tells me when she heard her name…
Chris- Chaos is doing his “invisible cat” impression.
Unfortunately, May has not learned this skill.
May needs to learn from Chaos. Love the pictures
Oooh, sneaky cat!
Wow, we witnessed the unfolding of Operation Knock Shit Over
Bad catstaff! Tempting the catchen!
“What?! I’m not doing anything wrong.”
Sigh. I am astounded that you have plants though. Mine would be eaten the moment they came through the door.
LOL! You realize they both probably get on the table when you’re gone. 😉
I’m pretty sure Chaos is not “minding his own business”, like you say. It appears to me that in reality he is hovering hopefully by his food dish.
Aw!! You know you need to set up a web cam to watch what they do while you are away!!
Just youthful exuberance and the need to conquer uncharted territory 🙂 Although I yell at my two for the same thing.
Naughtiness? We don’t see no naughtiness.
~Rufus, Ruby and Rosemary
Oh my… I can’t even count the number of times I’ve seen EXACTLY that sequence of events from my little mischief makers 🙂 Too cute that you were able to photograph it!
What a naughty kitty, May! I don’t think there is any way to call this a crime of passion, there is far too much photo-documented premeditation. Of course, it is your Mom’s fault for owning the table in the first place!
Love the poofed tail! I am glad that the worst JinBao does is put his paws and nose up on the table…which really is kind of funny looking from the other side of the table, although I’m sure if he could…he’d be up there in a heart beat.
This looks a lot like the stuff that goes on at my house only it involves countertops. GRRRR
Hopefully you’ll be able to convince Mayhem not to do it – I haven’t had any luck with the boys.
Ha! I don’t know, but I think that could be called entrapment!
May looks like she’s checking to make sure no one is looking before she gets up there. Not that it would matter if anyone was; she IS a cat, after all.
Naughty table kitty!
Hehe – Chaos obviously hasn’t taught her that the time to sit on the table is when you’re out 🙂 (and then jump down guiltily when you sound like you are approaching)!!
Won’t that be a hoot if you had one of those camera thingies where you can check on them while at work! But what will you do when they act up?
If you replace “Mayhem” with “Oliver” in both print and in picture, that’s a good glimpse into a day in my life, too.
“Oliver! Get off the table!”
Love the poofed tail as she realizes the gig is up ;o) Great photo essay!
Yeah, I gave up that fight long ago. My cats’ previous owners let them up on all the tables, and I didn’t have it in me to re-train them.
The real battleground is the kitchen counter.
Poor naughty girl!
Heh, funny montage! I for one think Chaos probably encouraged May to do it, by telling her that you weren’t looking?
I love the way black cats seem to think they’re somehow invisible on light coloured open surfaces!
oh, that May is SO like an Isis! the contemplation…the thoughtful swish-swish-swish…the naughtiness that ensues…
bad black kitties. my oh my.
my mother is somewhat horrified that i no longer make any effort whatsoever to keep cats off of kitchen counters, tabletops, and other places where human food, breakables, and non-cat-related items may reside. (cats are most definitely NOT allowed to do such things in her home.)
i simply hang my head in my hands and wail, “This is why we can’t have nice things!”
aHa!!! furiousBall has just enlighted me to a puzzling acronym–OKSO–the uber top-secret, super-classified, highly guarded Operation Knock Shit Over.
shhhh…i’m onto them now…
She’s gotten so big!
I’ve given up. The cats go wherever they want to. Yes, on the counters and the tables too. I just don’t have the will to fight them… My main focus is keeping Wilbur from scratching me (by accident) and eating my hair (on purpose).
hahahaha!!!
I love it. And then they give you that look like, “OMG how the hell did I end up on the table” or “Are you talking to me? I’m not doing anything other than standing on the table” and my favorite “la, la, la, la, laaaaa if I act like I don’t hear her then I won’t have to leave.”
I just spray down the table with antibacterial cleaner before eatting and the counters before preparing anything since I just know there have been little kitty feet there behind my back.
If I had a dollar for every time that scenario played itself out at my place….
Same thing at my house, too. And by the way, you have the same dinette set that I do! Ours sits in a little alcove with a banquette bench behind it, and Loki, the new kitten, is very fond of sitting attentively on the bench at dinnertime, like “Well, here all of us humans are for dinner! Hey, where’s MY plate?” The other two cats just hang out on the rest of the bench looking like they are starving…hard to do when your belly touches the ground as you walk. 😉
Heh, I think she was just protecting you from something. Or making sure that everything was in order. It IS her house, you know.
awww awwww awww Miss Mayhem!!! What a little weasel!
Mayhem * but mum you watched me AND took pictures, NOW you’re telling me to get off?????*
I love her tail! I didn’t realize how fuzzy it is!
just when you thought it was safe, the kitty’s RULE !
Looks alot like our house 🙂
If it were Terry up there, he would perch himself on the edge of the table and *watch me* until I noticed that he was there!!
Yes, my propecy is true. She is a little devil indeed, though v. cute too 😉
Isn’t it hilarious when you can totally see their wheels turning and know what they’re up to? Lucy and Petey think they’re being so sneaky and I just sit back and watch (and sometimes take pictures).
While the pix are cute, I thought your subject line was a bit more suggestive of something at least human related! LOL!