Funniest Mid-Zoomies Moments: When Cats Have Unexpected Bursts Of Energy

Cats' reputation precedes them. They are known for being lazy, for sleeping 80% of the day, eating for another 10%, using their toilet for another 5%, and licking their booties for the last 5%. Lazy. That's what they are, and we love them for it. As cat owners, we love their independence, we love their calmness. But… this reputation is not always true. In fact, 1% of a cat's time is spent on unexpected moments of madness. 

In the cat world, these moments are called 'zoomies'. We don't know why they happen, we don't know what causes our cats to randomly lose their minds. All we do know is that some of the funniest things cats do happen mid-zoomies. It happens so quickly, so unexpectedly - your cat runs into the room out of nowhere, sprinting into walls, backflipping off of coffee tables, Tokyo-drifting right around you. It's purefect, it's hissterical, and we have a bunch of these moments right here for you guys. 

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    Font - Stephanie Rosa My first cat zoomed around the den, wiped out, and got an individual yogurt container that my husband had just finished and set down stuck on his head. He stumbled all around the room like a cartoon drunk with a lampshade on his head. "Uh oh who turned out the lights.." We laughed so hard it took us 5 minutes to get it off his head. 45 Like Reply Hide Send Message 8h
    via Stephanie Rosa

    Oh my goodness, we have had this happen with our cats before - both mid-zoomies and during regular non-crazy moments. They just love sticking their heads in things that are far too small for them and then trying and failing to get out of them. We understand why it took you so long to help, we would have been laughing too. 

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    Font - Bruce Derouen I had one of my cats who has since crossed the rainbow bridge, run and hop over his sister, thinking he was going outside on our patio. Little did he realize the sliding glass door was closed. He flew straight into that glass door and hit it kind of hard. But he's hard-headed enough, he just stepped back, shook his head and walked off! After I had a very good, very long laugh,I went and loved up on him a bit so he wouldn't get too mad at me for laughing Like Reply Hide Send
    via Bruce Derouen

    Oh, the number of times out cat has straight-up launched herself into glass windows and doors in our house is mildly concerning but also… hilarious. You would think she would know at this point to pause and check if the door is closed, but she's too busy trying to do a summersault off the couch and into the sun to realize.

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    Font - Kim Phipps Mine was zooming thru the house, ran into my bathroom intending to do the Halloween hopping sideways cat but the lid was up...if only I would have had a camera, poor babies face was priceless.ended her zoomies for that moment as she had to clean her back paws and behind... 21 Like Reply Hide Send Message 7h
    via Kim Phipps
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    Font - Karin Glassford One time my girl was zooming down the long hallway and typically she would take a hard left at the oven to carry on. She took the corner too early and ran herself into the side of the stove! Thankfully there is a little give but not much and the loud noise was equally terrible. Still makes me laugh. 6. Like Reply Hide Send Message 8h LO
    via Karin Glassford
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    Font - Betsy Floyd When i was younger much younger i had a cat that would get the zoomies everynite down the basemen stairs grabbing laundry hanging up to dry which would then hit the pipes in tthe basement up the stairs thru the kichen over the chair where my dad would be sitting back down the basement repeat a few times 2 Like Reply Hide Send Message 7h
    via Betsy Floyd
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    Rectangle - Hillary A Brunet Mine ran across the living room, stopped, smacked the dog, kept running back and forth between the living room and the dining room, lost traction and slid into a reusable grocery bag by the front door. 25 Like Reply Hide Send Message 8h
    via Hillary Brunet
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    Font - Beth Herren We had a home with 2 doorways between the kitchen & living room, so kind of a racetrack. We had a Siamese cat who had a daily regimen of running around & around it, with a few sidetrack either to the back door or our bedroom door. One day she got going so fast that she ran smack into our bedroom door, and kept right on! Like Reply Hide Send Message 7h
    via Beth Herren
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    Font - Gabrielle Letendre I had a cat that loved plastic grocery bags. I would empty them and she would sit in them. I watched her playing in a bag one day and the handle slowly lowered around her neck. The dog walked by and scared the crap out of her and she took off like a rocket. The bag was attached to her and she was running away from it around the apartment and it took me 10 mins to save her because I couldnt stop laughing. 25 Like Reply Hide Send Message 8h Edited
    via Gabrielle Letendre
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    Font - Donna Campion I had a foster kitten getting a walkabout for the first time out of the pen, zooming from place to place while his siblings waited their turn in the pen. He came to a halt near his siblings in the pen & when he took off again only to fall flat on his face as a nail got hung up in the carpet. He jumps up, arches his back & struts up to his siblings daring them to laugh at him. And then off he zoomed. His name was Bear & he'll always be one of my favorite foster kitties. OD 5
    via Donna Campion
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    Rectangle - Ashley Drahn When I was a kid, my mom's cat jumped on top of the cable box and started changing the channels. We just sat there laughing, and when she jumped off, she left it on the channel we'd been watching! Smart cat. Like Reply Hide Send Message 6h
    via Ashley Drahn
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    Font - Sheri Hobbs Westerhof I had a cat we called Mr Man. One Christmas he got curious and got into a plastic grocery bag. It got caught on his back leg and he went zooming around frantically trying to escape the evil bag..right up the Christmas tree..which began to fall! I caught the tree but not before I broke out in hysterical laughter. That cat was so much fun.. Bless his heart!!! I miss him. ..... 3 Like Reply Hide Send Message 7h
    via Sheri Hobbs Westerhof
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    Font - Tricia Jo Charlie zoomed out of the bedroom, around the corner toward the living room, hard right into the dining room and the same into the kitchen, facing the mirrored closet door. He caught sight of the black kitty charging toward him, applied the brakes, slid across the floor and crashed into the closet door. Got up, shook himself off-and repeated the process. 10 Like Reply Hide Send Message 8h
    via Tricia Jo

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