My cat has taken an interest in my night sights :(

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I heard scratching a few days ago, and one of our cats who I have had for 2 years was scratching at my night sights on one of my carry/night table guns. This never happened before, but it makes me a little annoyed / nervous. I keep the gun holstered on the night stand because of the cats so that the trigger is never exposed (no kids). Good thing the cat didnt scratch the milt sparks holster or else we would have a serious issue :fire:

Anyway, not really asking for a solution to something that may not be a problem, Im just curious if anyone else has run accross this before as I know many of us are animal people.
 
One of my cats thinks one of my Garands is HIS. LOL

I can bring out any other rifle, or garand and he ignores it. Bring this particular garand out, and we be fighting. LOL!
 
Probably the cat has glommed onto some odor he finds interesting or disturbing. Cat's have a sense of smell much better than humans' and it is a more important factor in their lives than ours.
 
I don't know about night sights, but I could run our cat to death with the Crimson Trace on my CZ. :evil: She goes berserk trying to get that thing.
 
Some cats are just psycho. Take for instance my cat, Windy, thinking she owns my .270 case, and another of her daring me to get my Ruger case.
 

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I don't know about night sights, but I could run our cat to death with the Crimson Trace on my CZ. She goes berserk trying to get that thing.
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LOL I do the same thing with m TLR-2 laser. I usually keep it dismounted from gun and when I open the safe the cats sit at my feet and wait for me to take it out and play with them a bit.
 
My cat has a serious attraction to anything made out of that hard rubber that smells kind of like octane, or gives off octane fumes.

Like my tire guage.

are the night sights hard rubber or plastic.
 
Interesting. With my herd, when anything firearm like comes out, the cats hide. It is probably due to an association of anything dark and metallic with Mr. Scary Bottle (a black CO2 bottle for paintball) that I've used to POINTEDLY express my displeasure with something they've done by releasing a short, hissing burst of CO2.

Most of them will watch with mild interest the red dot from a laser sight, except Uther. He is OBSESSED with catching that red spot. Great for getting his portly self some exercise up and down the stairs.
 
get a squirt bottle and every time the cat gets on the nightstand/near something you don't want it near give it a couple squirts.

on the plus side....this will help you practice your point shooting :)
 
Ever since my dog started associating my rifle with a good time, he lays down near it. If I lean it in a corner, he goes and lays in the corner just to be sure I won't go anywhere with out him. He has also taken to laying under the driver side door on my truck.
 
Your cat is practicing getting a sight picture. Methinks the cat is at the wrong end of the sight picture :evil:

On your sig line--

Ted Kennedy and Laura Bush have killed more people with their cars than I have with my privately owned guns.
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I remember Fat Teddy and Chapaquidick. Whom has Laura Bush killed?
 
One of my cats thinks one of my Garands is HIS. LOL

I can bring out any other rifle, or garand and he ignores it. Bring this particular garand out, and we be fighting. LOL!
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It might have been his, have you ever heard of reincarnation:D

yup, the furballs love to chase the lazer, I ended up buying a cheap one that takes a AAA battery instead of the TLR, lithium batteries get expensive quick, but rechargeable AAA are practically free
 
One of our cats has figured out that my Glock has a lasermax. When I chamber or unchamber a round she comes running hoping I will turn on the laser to play. She has even learned to differentiate between the sound the Glock with the laser makes when the slide is racked versus the same sound from my Kimber Ultracarry. Cats are like women.....trying to figure out what makes em tick is pointless.
 
I've got a simple solution: get rid of the cat, get a dog instead.
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We will be getting a dog in the future, but I really would laugh a lot less without the cats. I used to hate cats, and grew up only with dogs, but once I stopped trying to compare a cat to a dog I realized that when you have two cats together...they can keep you and themselves entertained and laughing for hours. It certainly isnt a substitute for man's best friend...but I just want both...just wish they didnt like guns lol.
 
I think this is the very reason Massachusetts requires trigger locks. Never mind the children, the real problem is crazy cats. ;)
 
One Answer to the problem.. lol

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My office, and gun room are downstairs, guarded by our German Shepherd.

Kit-WA, lives upstairs, and guards the guest bedroom, along with her BIG CAT Brother, a stuffed Bengal Tiger, on the bed with her. She looks just like the Big CAT, color and striping wise, as she is a Calico.

He doesn't go upstairs, and she doesn't come downstairs.

Works well,


LS
 
Yeah, cats can just be wierd...Mine loves to rub her face on my bayonettes whenever I have one out for whatever reason.A couple othem are prett sharp too, and she rubs HARD.Guess that's why they are given 9 lives...they need 'em! :eek:
 
I have a laser pointer one of my cats loves to chase. He's a very muscular black-on-black tabby cat with the biggest fangs I've ever seen on a house cat. They actually hang down to the bottom of his jaw. If he wants you to pet him and you don't get around to it fast enough, he's liable to bite you. Great cat though.
 
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