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Do your cats gallop around like horses?

32K views 26 replies 21 participants last post by  howsefrau32  
#1 ·
My 2 cats gallop around like horses chasing each other back and forth, it's like they are playing tag. It's the FUNNIEST thing. It's so loud though, it sounds like horses galloping through the house.

I've never seen this before with other cats because my family's cats were old and they never ran around, they were always lazy.
 
#4 ·
yeti travels the same distance vertically as horizontally... and half of that is sideways
 
#7 ·
OMG!! ROFL!! Yes! Mine get the evening Zoomies when I get home from work and they definitely sound like a stampede with all of their antics!
Also compared to the NASCAR races!!:p:D
 
#9 ·
our other cats would race around like ponys,, yeti is more along the lines of a clydesdale..
 
#12 ·
Mine chase each other around all the time! This is especially true when I've re-arranged the furniture because I'm cleaning, they find they 'new' layout fun and exciting. Combined with a slippery floor from mopping, both of my cats treat it like a playground, Newton, in particular. He employs guerrila-style hit and run tactics attacking the mop head. And he absolutely loves sliding around the floor, his favourite manoeuvre being the front half of his body coming to a screeching halt, while his back half is still skidding along the floor, kind of like when a rally car locks the front tires, while the rear is still drifting.

While this slows down my cleaning, it's absolutely worth seeing the cats have so much fun. Plus, they get a nice workout, and pretty much guarantees no evening zoomies at the end of that day.
 
#23 ·
Our oldest cat no longer goes in the box, so after she drops a couple of dingleberries she runs away from it like there's no tomorrow. (We call it the "drop and run"). She's 16 y/o, so it's the only time we see her run.

Our two boys not only romp through the house, they jump up in the air together when they are playing. It's all quite entertaining.
 
#24 ·
Jasper does, just this morning he was fetching his mouse up and down the stairs making way too much noise. Him and Coco usually run and chase around the house when I come home too. He also runs around the house dashing around and playing hide and seek chirping just before bed. Often I see him as a streak running by a doorway.
 
#25 ·
Hahahaha mine do this purr chirp thing.....it sounds sooOooo flippin cute :). Mine also jump in the air...gizmo jumps with wand toys. Last night. Marshall started to run then stopped short, jump high in the air, then continued to run hahahaha I couldn't stop chuckling at that. Have no idea what made him jump
 
#26 ·
My 2 cats gallop around like horses chasing each other back and forth, it's like they are playing tag. It's the FUNNIEST thing. It's so loud though, it sounds like horses galloping through the house.

I've never seen this before with other cats because my family's cats were old and they never ran around, they were always lazy.
Yep, my two youngest LOVE to chase each other and play chase or tag or whatever.
As long as they are making noise everything is fine. It's the quiet times that I worry about! lol
They tend to fight quietly (weird, I know) but then it will escalate and I'll hear someone yelp and then I have to try and break it up. OR they will be quiet and one will be watching the other doing something they KNOW they aren't suppose to be doing! lol lil buggers!