Question for cat owners..

cbrunelle783

Lizardjam wrote:

He's fixed but if we're gone for the day he will drag any blanket or stuffed animal(even the ones 3 times his size) and drag them to the front door or hide them in corners, under tables...we caught him doing it once. He humps some of them.

We have a cat that, Franklin. He's a sleek and lean male and a hell of a hunter. He's the only one we let outside. He'll drag his blanket all over the house, in fact he has two and just leaves them in the middle of the floor. He's fixed too but it depends if they're fixed late but every cat is different. We had another cat that would go out to find females every spring, he was also fixed. Anyway, Franklin adopted us. We weren't even feeding him or anything. He'd hang around by the back door wait for someone to come home and then proceed to weave himself through our legs. My dad said, "Don't touch that cat! We don't need anymore cats!" My response was, he's touching ME! He showed up one day and didn't leave until he got bold enough to just walk right in the door. I live at home and my parents weren't home and I called my mom and I said, umm the cat outside just walked through the door and won't leave. I kinda shooed him out the door and we adopted him shortly thereafter. We have other cats and didn't know if he had diseases and stuff it doesn't take much for a cat who is left without vaccination to get worms and parasites and all those fun things. He's the best cat though if he's really displeased with something he'll fight himself. He'll bite his tail. He has this awful lion hiss he does. It sounds like your cat may have never gotten over being feral.

Lizardjam

cbrunelle783 wrote:

Lizardjam wrote:

He's fixed but if we're gone for the day he will drag any blanket or stuffed animal(even the ones 3 times his size) and drag them to the front door or hide them in corners, under tables...we caught him doing it once. He humps some of them.

We have a cat that, Franklin. He's a sleek and lean male and a hell of a hunter. He's the only one we let outside. He'll drag his blanket all over the house, in fact he has two and just leaves them in the middle of the floor. He's fixed too but it depends if they're fixed late but every cat is different. We had another cat that would go out to find females every spring, he was also fixed. Anyway, Franklin adopted us. We weren't even feeding him or anything. He'd hang around by the back door wait for someone to come home and then proceed to weave himself through our legs. My dad said, "Don't touch that cat! We don't need anymore cats!" My response was, he's touching ME! He showed up one day and didn't leave until he got bold enough to just walk right in the door. I live at home and my parents weren't home and I called my mom and I said, umm the cat outside just walked through the door and won't leave. I kinda shooed him out the door and we adopted him shortly thereafter. We have other cats and didn't know if he had diseases and stuff it doesn't take much for a cat who is left without vaccination to get worms and parasites and all those fun things. He's the best cat though if he's really displeased with something he'll fight himself. He'll bite his tail. He has this awful lion hiss he does. It sounds like your cat may have never gotten over being feral.

Yeah, we got him on craigslist at 12 weeks old. He was all sweet and purring when we went to see him. And maybe for about a week after, then his true self came out. My daughter loves him and my husband may say he doesn't like him but he loves him and the bastard cat will immediately show up the minute my husband is sitting or laying anywhere and lay on him. In any awkward position he can as long as he's laying on my husband. No one can pet him at that point though. He'll rub his face on you like, Hey pet me, and then he'll bite because he really doesn't want you to touch him.

So yeah, the lady emails me a month later saying she was happy he found his "forever home" and that he bullied her ADULT cats like there was no tomorrow. Yeah she waited a month to tell us that.

mca47....We totally thought it was our old cat crapping on the floor until we actually saw how our young one was doing it. If it was the old one, I'd understand. And it's just crap! He pees in it! Argh!

On the food...well I leave dry food out at night and some during the day. My old one grazes. I give them each half a can of food in the morning and maybe half at night on occasion. The young one is not fat at all. The old one has a little extra tummy but that's all. He's old, healthy, and has been sick in the past due to other owners so I think, hey, if he wants something nice to eat, or a little more, I'll give it to him. Besides, if he walks away from his wet food because he grazes...the young one will devour it. We have to watch them eat so we can make sure he gets a chance to eat.

Lizardjam

Here's the devil:



When he was in his "let's see if we can get above the fridge and chill, and see if anyone notices" phase:



I came home from lunch one day to find him up there.

EmBleve

Lizardjam wrote:

Here's the devil:



When he was in his "let's see if we can get above the fridge and chill, and see if anyone notices" phase:



I came home from lunch one day to find him up there.

he's adorable.

Lizardjam

EmBleve wrote:

he's adorable.

That's how he reels you in!

PureandEasy

One time I came home from shopping and put a bunch of bags on the table. My cat was curious as to what I bought and managed to stick her head in a bag and got it caught in one of the handles. When she went to jump off the table, having the bag attached to her, freaked her out and she proceeded to run from room to room at breakneck speed until every item in the bag fell out. There were items all over the place.

It was hilarious.

Oh and she also likes to get up on the kitchen cabinets. As high as she can go.

redrock

Lizardjam wrote:

I came home from lunch one day to find him up there.

Aawwwww... he looks just like my Jet on this pic!

Lizardjam

redrock wrote:

Aawwwww... he looks just like my Jet on this pic!

It's the black ones! They're the devils!