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Comment on Discussion Thread 🫟 Thursday 9 April 2026

what do youse guys when cats get under your feet and you’re carrying something really hot , like a kettle or fry pan or are walking up/down stairs?

i firmly tell the guys to move and I feel guilty doing it

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Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Firmly/loudly tell off and foot shove. Never had an actual accident with hot things, but one with a can of beetroot demonstrated just how nasty that might be.

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MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I don’t think I have ever carried hot items on stairs…BUT if that happened, the cat would get pushed away with my foot (not a kick).

Love cats, but love not having burns even more.

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- Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I try to do the pushing with foot, sometimes they do not move. I just think it’s dangerous and I try to train them not to.
  
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  - MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    My experience with cats has always been that they have very little situational awareness unless it impacts them directly.
    
    Love them to bits, but at times they can be super frustrating.
    
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Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
“Movie it, furball”.

Punkin and Cerys started playing chicken with me when they were kittens. I stopped looking where I was stepping and started swinging my feet. They learned.

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melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I have my feet flat on the ground and shuffle to put it down, or stop in place until they move (I also tell them to move)

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Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I was lucky with my old cat. If in the kitchen she’d be on the kitchen bench just watching. She always wanted higher ground (as abbys do). Stairs she’d race to the top / bottom. Only issue were the ambushes around corners. Got a few accidental kicks there but she kept ambushing so obviously didn’t mind.

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