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I dont order things that come in boxes. I order boxes that inconveniently have things in the way of where the Mochi goes.

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

You'd need a bigger box, but what I used to do is wait until my cat was in a box, and then.....I'd close the box!!! Don't worry, these boxes aren't airtight. She can breathe just fine.

But then I'd go tell my girlfriend (who I lived with at the time) that (something she recently ordered) had arrived. That she should send it in for a return because something was wrong....

Inevitably she'd come in and open the top of the box (which was already visably open, so all she was doing was opening the flaps). And inside was our cat Karmalee.

Which, I'm sorry. I don't have pictures of Karmalee on my phone. It was 25 years ago.

But she'd switch from angry, to cute mode in an instant. Which is my kind of prank. Where they think something bad happened, but in reality nothing bad happened, and now heres a cute cat.

[–] TrapRag@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Oo thats a good one! After the holiday season when boxes are bigger and bountiful I often have to play Schrödingers boxes and try to guess if its safe to move and break a box down or if there's a cat in it.

My go to prank when people are around involves my big orange floof I call Ra. I carried him all around in the palm of my hand when he was kitten and well that didn't really change once he got bigger other than using 2 hands sometimes. He basically sits his front legs in one hand and rear in the other like a pampered loaf. He's got enough floof to hide my hands though so anytime I'd hear someone get home or approaching from around a corner I'd hide behind the corner and stick him out just far enough so it looks like he's floating in mid air. My sister started calling him hover cat.