From shredded furniture to indoor floods, owners share the moments their cats proved that rules are merely suggestions: ‘[He] stared at me like "I regret nothing".’

We love cats. Cats love us. But not as much as they love tearing down your new curtains, and taking the rest of the window frames down with them, apparently.

Some behaviors are just Very Cat™ - asking for the fourth snack in a row, napping for 16 hours straight, and taking vengeance on a lone sock they found under the couch (truly, unacceptable sock behavior). But one of the most iconic cat things out there is their absolute unhinged destruction urge they experience from time to time. And when that time comes, no couch is safe, no curtain can hide, and no toilet paper roll can defend itself.

But some of these destructive urges are more extreme - even if we can laugh about them with the rest of the worldwide cat parents community. And that's exactly why we asked our very own online cat community what the most destructive thing their cats have ever done. Your answers both surprised us and made us laugh out loud.

Do you want your cat's crazy story read by us, at the I Can Has Cheezburger HQ? Then don't hesitate to follow our Facebook page, where you can find many more pawsts like this one, and tell us all your cat's antics. We love them.

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It might look like cats aren’t sorry after a chaotic episode, but the real answer is: they’re not experiencing “guilt” in the human moral sense in the first place. We dug a little and found out that cats operate on a pretty different mental framework:
Cats don’t have an internal rulebook like “I shouldn’t knock this over”. They learn patterns, like an action that gets attention or doesn't, or what surface is stable to walk on. But “wrong” vs “right” as moral categories tied to responsibility? That’s very human.
When a cat knocks something off a table and you react, they’re thinking something more like: “Oh, human got loud / moved suddenly”. That’s why they may repeat the behavior: it’s informative, not moral. They don't make chaos on purpose, for chaos' sake.
Cats might not look sorry, because they’re not running a guilt-based operating system. They’re running a “curious physics engineer who occasionally knocks over expensive things” system.
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Cat tearing up a roll of toilet paper, making a mess on the bathroom floor.
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