• ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      My cat actually saved me from a break in by straight up attacking the dude.

      I was sleeping on the couch in my trailer and suddenly woke up to my cat yowling and some dude screaming and by the time I realized what was going on the guy had already run out the door with my cat right behind him.

      Kitty cut deep too cause there was blood spatter on the door frame where dude grabbed it while running away.

      • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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        22 days ago

        Good for you. My cats would be cowering in the basement under the bed. They are scared of people. My dog on the other hand would alert the entire neighborhood to the existence of the break-in. But she’s a 17 lbs dog, and would be scared of the thief, so she’d then just let them steal whatever they want.

      • Coggsie@lemmy.caEnglish
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        22 days ago

        Good kitty!! My girls have saved me more than once, people underestimate how much they love and protect us💝

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOPM
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      23 days ago

      I sometimes wonder if attributing every weird noise to the cat is dangerous. I’ll hear something and think “ah, it’s just the cat” and go back to sleep without checking.

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      My house is almost 100 years old, and so I hear my cat when he’s coming up the stairs, and I get robbed of the extra 60s before he just starts meowing. He’s an old man now, 15 or so, and so he spends the nights inside now, and he’s not a fan. He will come upstairs anytime between 1145 and 230 in the morning and just start meowing, loudly, and I have a wife and two kids and I need them all to stay asleep, so poor Bruce Willis gets locked in the basement.

      Sometimes it’s right as I turn my light off when I’m done reading, and I lay my head on my pillow, he just rolls in. Sometimes I’m fast asleep and he does it. But five nights a week, at least, he needs to wake me up, and he goes to the backdoor, so the farthest place from my spot in bed, because he thinks he’s going outside, and then I pick him up and put him in the basement. He will never learn.

      • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        23 days ago

        Have you tried setting up a little cat bed near your own bed? In the basement, he’s probably lonely. Getting older, he might be feeling lonely down there at night, and wanting to seek out company.

        • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
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          22 days ago

          He just wants to go outside. He’s a lone wolf type cat. I may try the bed thing, but sometimes he’ll hang on my bed or my daughter’s for a bit, before ultimately deciding to wake everyone up so he can go outside.

          • edible_funk@lemmy.world
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            22 days ago

            I’m sure you’ve heard it but in most areas it’s strongly recommended to always keep your cats indoors or otherwise leashed or restrained when outside, as they can be devastating to local wildlife and being outdoors can shave years off a cat’s lifespan.

            • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
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              22 days ago

              Yeah, I know, but he was a steet cat until my wife scooped him up, he was about three then, and it was very hard to take the street cat out of the street cat. The alternative, as you can tell, becomes locking him in a basement, which isn’t a great alternative to me.

              • edible_funk@lemmy.world
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                22 days ago

                I wasn’t trying to be judgey, a lot of people think it’s better for the cat to let them have freedom to roam, but indoor cats have nearly double the lifespan.

                • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
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                  22 days ago

                  No, it’s cool, I didn’t interpret it that way. I get it and I understand it, but I wrestle with having had this cat since 2014 at this point, knowing what he’s like and where he came from, and it definitely conflicts with guidance I’ve read, but he’s healthy and great weight and active when he goes out, and so here we are.

  • Feathercrown@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    The other night I heard a weird explosion sound and eventually classified it into the firework category and moved on. It was a meteor. Always investigate the weird sound at 5am, who needs sleep?

  • laranis@lemmy.zip
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    23 days ago

    Home maintenance is 98% keeping the water where it belongs and out of where it doesn’t.

    After decades of it, any deviation, whether sound or creak or mark or moisture, gets my immediate attention like a frugal, OCD prairie dog intent on minimizing the cost of whatever impending home disaster is about to cost it thousands of dollars.

    • dakelite@piefed.zipEnglish
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      23 days ago

      One morning I had a sleep paralysis while heat radiator was audibly leaking water. Woken up by sound of slowly unfolding emergency, but unable to do anything about it, even take a look, what a timing.

      Anyway, when I finally was finally able to look, nothing was out of ordinary. It was just a sleep paralysis hallucination, either fully fabricated or creatively reinterpreting sounds of water in pipes from some works

  • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.org
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    22 days ago

    I have a cat who likes to hunt insects, dust mites, shoe laces, and charging cables at night.
    And she’s pretty clumsy.
    My list of approved house sounds is very long.

    • ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org
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      21 days ago

      What, exactly, am I seeing?

      Not really sure if you made a joke and this is a screenshot from some weird horror movie or you took your phone out to snap a picture of your actual girlfriend sleepwalking instead of helping or it’s just AI.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      Wife coming to bed? Nope. Clearly must be another break in. Obvious wind? Grab the pepper spray you keep under the bed and scan the room as your heart pounds. Literally nothing? Let’s wake up in a start and double check that the doors are double locked and barred.

      Yeah, I wouldn’t wish it on anyone

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      23 days ago

      My problem is that my landlord would make random unscheduled visits with his dogs. I assumed it was him or his dog. It was a home invader, who found the front door unlocked. My landlord left it unlocked. I know it was him, because I parked in the back and never used the front door.

      • wurstgulasch3000@feddit.org
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        23 days ago

        You probably know by now but the landlord just entering your rented space is illegal in many countries. In many parts of the world you can change the lock even so only you have access.

      • _stranger_@lemmy.world
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        23 days ago

        My cat once deterred a home intruder back when I lived in a very shitty first floor apartment across the street from several very cheap bars. I had a rack of DVD’s by the front door next to a small table like area where I’d put my keys. My cat would be sitting there when I got home, or when outside sounds got interesting, and occasionally he would knock over that DVD rack when he’d leap away, especially if a loud sound scared him.

        then one time I got home to a busted lock and a slightly open door. I tried to run in, but that dvd rack had fallen forward from him kicking off of it, bounced off the wall, and landed between the door and the wall, essentially wedging it closed. I had to hulk it open, crushing the dvd rack, but that had kept the intruder from actually getting in. My cat was panting in panic, so it probably happened only minutes before I got there. I made sure that cat lived like a king for 15 more years.

  • potoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 days ago

    Exploding head syndrome sufferers REPRESEEEENT!!!

    I CAN’T HEEEAR YOOOOU!

    Thankfully it doesn’t happen to me very often.

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      I one hundred percent have it. Like you, infrequent, but it’s either a bang or a crack, and sometimes a horn. Was so glad to learn they’ve got a name for it, because now I just chalk my waking up to a noise to it.