Why does my cat always look uneasy in the kitchen?

Question

strange i know, but why? he always stands at the end of the kitchen with his tail up and it looks like a candy cane hook at the end of it. and he wont walk through he'll run, hes like 5 too.

Answer 1

I'm not sure if this applies equally to cats, but we have a dog who absolutely hates walking on slick surfaces like hard wood, linoleum, ceramic tile, etc (we have hard wood floors in the kitchen). Could that be it? We've had hard wood floors in the kitchen for three years now, and she still runs across it like it's No Mans Land during WWI...

Answer 2

How weird. Has he ever gone in the kitchen before? Did you guys tell him to get off counters in there or something similar where he was scolded in there....even though we are always trying to get ours out of the kitchen and he still goes back. Maybe he is smelling something in there.....like cleaning supplies with a strong odor?....hmmm

Answer 3

Well... maybe your kitty has suffered some sort of issue in the kitchen? if you have kids, maybe they did something to your cat in the kitchen... maybe a pot fell and scared the c**p outta your cat at one time. My mother in law has a dog, and the fire alarm went off once while the dog was in the kitchen, 5 years later that dog still wont go in to it.

animals are strange... but the remember traumatic times.