Anyways, C'llide saw something outside that got him agitated and he began barking and hopping around. As fate would have it, he knocked the umbrella over in just such a manner that the hook handle got caught under his collar. He made a little tug to get away from it, but the second he realized it was "following" him, he made a mad dash to get away from it.
Needless to say, the umbrella "chased" him under the dining room table, where it caught on a chair or table leg and opened the umbrella. Now, not only was C'llide being chased by a strange entity, it had grown in size and was getting closer, so he ran hell for leather through the house trying to get away from his pursuer, and in doing so, knocked over a fish bowl, several potted plants and their plant stands, and God only knows what else. Every time he speeded up, so did that damned umbrella!
Junior, the same Maine Coon cat who liked to pee in all the wrong places peed in a friends shoes. A friend was visiting us from Alberta Canada. I warned him not to leave his suitcase open on the floor because of what Junior would do.
On his flight back to Canada about half way the plane got kind of stuffy, not enough A/C. Our friends is a big guy and he started getting warm and he noticed a really bad smell.
When he went into the bathroom on the plane he realized the smell had come with him. After checking himself over he discovered that Junior had peed in his shoes, both of them.
Junior was like that, I guess he didn't like strangers in the house because on more than one occasion I caught him peeing in a tool box that a workman had brought into our house.