Cats, how do they manage to walk across a large rug, go up carpeted stairs, across a carpeted bedroom floor, and still have enough mud on their paws to make a muddy mess of the windowsill?
And, also how can a cat use a newly cleaned potty litter tray and scruffle up the cat litter and newspapers to the extent that it looks like someone has just lobbed a live hand grenade into it? 
phoenix you know cats are not concerned with being careful where they lay their muddy paws or if they mess up their nice clean tray they have servants owners for that.
Bless him! Perhaps he's mastered levitation
I don't know about "bless him" loopy , I had to go to Dunelm yesterday for a new net/voile curtain for the bedroom window as somehow the old one had a great big rip in it 
I eventually stopped having litter trays as the three 'Mouseketeers' would pop in just to use them !
Crafty lot, cats!
Oliver Sprout is, we have decided, just a HOOLIGAN! A very loving and affectionate chap, but a hooligan just the same. He doesn't actually climb the curtains as such, more that he has a bit of trouble navigating through them to carry out his early morning birdwatching. loopy we don't have pelmets over our windows, but however he does very much like having a bit of a snooze on top of the kitchen cupboards. The first time I became aware of this was when I was innocently chopping some meat on a board on the worktop when something akin to a tabby Ninja appeared to descend from nowhere! 
He also spends quite a bit of time out and about, and hardly (if ever) bothers with the litter tray. He leaves that to Digby, who seems to think he is far too delicate to venture forth in inclement weather. "Delicate" my arse derriere, he weighs over a stone!
, that's brilliant!
No longer have pelmets (they came with the house). The cats would launch themselves off at unsuspecting humans, I probably still have the scars on my back, so changed them to curtain poles but cats decided even more fun if took a running leap because the curtains would move along the poles....
I swear Mowgli would have collected ASBOs galore had he been human. His best trick was to get through the neighbours' upstairs toilet or bathroom windows, only when the rooms were occupied -he wasn't popular! If anyone left a window open he would just climb in and make himself at home.
One neighbour fed him for a month, bought him a posh collar, litter tray etc before discovering he also lived with us
As you so rightly said earlier, loopy they are indeed a crafty lot on the whole! But I do fear that our beloved Squeaky Fatarse Digby lacks the crafty gene. Please don't mention it in cat society, but he does seem to be a bit dim.
I'm also at a loss as to how Oliver Sprout gets such a grubby chin! It looks almost as if he has been using it for ploughing! I now keep an old toothbrush especially for chin scrubbing.
As he just come into the office to present himself, (he likes to let you know that he is gracing you with his presence) while he was sitting half on the desk and half on the keyboard, I decided to give him a scrub. There is now lots of dried mud etc on my notepad.
, he's got you so well trained
Our dimmest cerebrally-challenged cat was Tobias. I swear he'd been dropped on his head as a kitten, everything in life baffled him from seeing his own reflection in a mirror to deciding that he had to go through the cat flap backwards..... a cat of verylittle brain or hope really
He lost his 9 lives within his first 12 months which really says it all!
loopy I too have had cats that I can only describe as "special needs"!
Sadly the three cats we moved in with, Maurice (the only one we had from a kitten) Lily( definitely special needs ) and Clucky are now permanently residing in the garden. RIP my lovely's 
However the current residents are very much loved, despite their little foibles/peccadillos!
As most GN'ers know, I live alone during the week as Mr P is working in Hampshire, and odd though it may seem, the chaps are actually quite good company in their own way!
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