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".’

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Ayala Sorotsky • Writer and Editor
Apr 19, 2026 7:00 AM EDT

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.

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    100 What's the worst or most destructive thing your cat has ever done? CANHAS CHEEZ BURGER
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    Jess Bialy Licked the frosting off 24 cupcakes I had on the counter for the school bake sale 160
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    David Carey Grabbed a bag of rice off the top of the fridge. It was everywhere! Including in the shower stall 5
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    Cheryl Thompson David Carey He's not sorry. 36 David Carey Cheryl Thompson not a bit! 29
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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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    Meaghan Evans She brought a live pigeon into the house, where it proceeded to shed feathers everywhere, get itself tangled in the sheer curtains and panic pop all over the blinds. We came home and found the mess, eventually finding the pigeon flapping and stuck in the curtains | carried that poor stressed bird outside and let it go, all the while Hunter stared at me like 'l regret nothing'.
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    Christina Sampson One almost knocked over a new TV but I intervened just in time. Another was new and having trouble adjusting. Got into my closet and poped (runny stuff) all over my shoes and everything else that wasn't hung up. It all had to go. The kitten stayed. She's a happy and well adjusted 5 year old now. And I don't have nice shoes anymore. 21
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    Erin Harris One of my cats, years ago, got diarrhea really bad. She effectively coated and destroyed a bathroom by the power of runny bot alone
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    Dawn Spitzer Chanchampa Ate the bullseye center of a freshly baked cheesecake. 1 ED
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    Cat tearing up a roll of toilet paper, making a mess on the bathroom floor.
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    Cat tearing up a roll of toilet paper, making a mess on the bathroom floor.

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    Chad A Bradley My youngest kitty (now 11mos old), Scarlet, destroyed wiring to my old computer system and speakers...cost me $900 to replace, but I at least got YEARS of use out of them before she wreaked havoc! → lol I reinforced the wires with protective coverings and electrical tape...it's worked WELL. 200
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    Simon Annmo Toss up between breaking a computer screen and a 4 Tb external harddrive. (One cat for each thing.) 1889
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    Angie B Hunt I had a couple of cats once who destroyed an entire sofa. It was just an ancient couch from a thrift store so it wasn't that big of a deal. By the time they put a hole in it big enough for them to fit through, I gave up and let them have it as a scratching post. ED 12
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    Top fan Kyla Town It's a toss up between stealing a t- bone steak off a plate (Sox), breaking into the catnip tin and spreading cat wed everywhere (Munchkin and Diamond), and squeezing his fat bot under the covering on the herb garden and going Godzilla on everything (Jojo Two-toes Don of the Kitty Mafia). 20
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    Top fan Lauri Pace When Tilly was a kitten, she was trying to be cute and knocked over my tablet and it cracked bad!! I could help but to tell her "you cute Lil sh" 1 ED
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    Betsy Johnson Langley Got on my meditation altar and tore up two feathers, chewed off a vine growing in a vase and pulled off two dried bouquets 10
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    Top fan Alison Bowers The time she built a water park in my living room. That project even came with a slip n slide. She had fun. I did not. 1 ED
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    Jessica Lemmon Fetzner Flipped an entire flat of tomato seedlings. Was able to save most of them but all the ID tags were gone so it was tomato roulette. 20
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    Cindy Hill OConnell My kids got in the shower with the kittens to bathe them. They shredded my shower curtain trying to get out. 1
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    Top fan Mary Harmon Decided that the best way to get his toy that had gotten knocked under my new couch was to dig through the couch. 10
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    Nancy Ruiz Tore the curtain rod out of the wall and snapped it in half! 200
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    Al Craig My two cats, Oscar Mayer and Samson combined wits I got into our refrigerator and finished off a 2 lb pot roast that we had cooked the night before. And it's not like we didn't give them any after we cooked it → ED
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    Rhys Alexander I have a plastic lobster hanging up on my wall. And when she's mad at me she runs up the steps (which puts her right above the lobster) makes eye contact with me so she knows I'm watching.... Then she sticks her paw down and knocks the lobster off the wall. She's gotten so quick at it too that she'll do it in a flash. Lol. It's not the worst thing. But it's one of the brattiest. The worst thing was probably when she tore open her bags of litter and got it all over the kitchen and
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    Holly Nettles My current kitty, Pepper, hasn't done anything destructive in thirteen years. She's the most chill cat I've ever known. In the past, previous kitties have scratched the h I out of furniture, but that's the worst. 1
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    Alan D. Murdock Played hockey at 2am with my mother's falling monitor necklace. 20
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    Joyce Johns-Santaguida Fisher has torn up the bottoms of 2 box springs, fixed that problem! OB Purchased a queen size piece of the thinnest plywood and put it down first over the slats of my bed and then the boxspring, he is still wondering what the heck happened to his hiding place! And it has been weeks! Sorry, Fisher, box springs aren't cheap! OBJ: He is still my angel otherwise and I love him, will be 9 years old this year, adopted him when he was 6 from the Humane Society B 6
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    Kathy Davison Peed in my purse. 300
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