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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / June 2004Question on Torti Cat Behavior
Hi - I have a Torti who is now a year and a month old. I've noticed some odd behavior from her. She "meows" an awful lot around me. Like if I'm laying in bed. She'll find a spot and sit there and maybe for a few seconds and she gets up and meows some more and finds another spot and does this repeatedly. While in these various spots she'll try to put her nose in a wrinkle of the bed spread and starts to "kneed". She keeps trying to find a place that is "suitable" to her but can not find anything. And continues to be very vocal. Plus as of late, she follows me around everywhere. If I go into the bathroom she'll race to the bathroom even before I get in there. It's hard in the kitchen while I'm cooking it's hard to cook and to watch out for her by my feet. I find if I pet her and hold her, she stops being vocal. Of corse I can not hold her all the time. Just wondering if this is just typical Torti type behavior or maybe if she is uneasy about something and is causing her to want to be soothed all the time. I did take her to the vet yesterday because of another issue which has been ruled by the vet to be an irritable stomach, and she is being put on food that isn't so rich. Just wondering if that may be the cause of her vocalness or if it could be something else. Thanks! __________________________________________________________________ Melzy ICQ#: 2830575 Current ICQ status: + More ways to contact me __________________________________________________________________ > Hi - > > I have a Torti who is now a year and a month old. I've noticed some odd > behavior from her. *snip* > I did take her to the vet yesterday because of another issue which has been > ruled by the vet to be an irritable stomach, and she is being put on food > that isn't so rich. Just wondering if that may be the cause of her > vocalness or if it could be something else. I would suspect that yes, her discomfort is the cause. I'm glad you took her to the vet. That would have been my first recommendation. Did the vet do a full checkup? Behavior changes are very often the result of a physical problem. They are rarely caused by coat color. :) Let us know how she gets on.  Signature-- ~kaeli~ It was recently discovered that research causes cancer in rats. http://www.ipwebdesign.net/wildAtHeart http://www.ipwebdesign.net/kaelisSpace Yes, the vet did a full checkup. However, her meowing and kneeding she's always done since she was little. She would try to suck on our skin all the time, and be very unhapy when she couldn't. I thought maybe she was weened from her mother at a young age or somethng. But she recently in the last oh 3 or 4 months started to follow me around all the time. Mel > > Hi - > > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > http://www.ipwebdesign.net/wildAtHeart > http://www.ipwebdesign.net/kaelisSpace >From: "Melissa K. Brown" Melzy@tds.net >Yes, the vet did a full checkup. However, her meowing and kneeding she's >always done since she was little. She would try to suck on our skin all the >time, and be very unhapy when she couldn't. I thought maybe she was weened >from her mother at a young age or somethng. But she recently in the last oh >3 or 4 months started to follow me around all the time. Hi Mel, I also have a tortie. She loves to be with me and follows me around too :) She doesn't meow like yours, but sometimes she will carry one of her toys around in her mouth and meow plaintively. I think she thinks it's her baby. When I got Meesha, some people were saying that torties are cranky cats. But that couldn't be further from the truth. Meesha is the sweetest, gentlest cat I've ever had. We also have her brother Mickey, a gray tuxedo. He kneads and suckles on my husband's beard. He's 4 years old now and has been doing it since he was a kitten. Lauren ________ See my cats: http://community.webshots.com/album/56955940rWhxAe Raw Diet Info: http://www.holisticat.com/drjletter.html http://www.geocities.com/rawfeeders/ForCatsOnly.html Declawing Info: http://www.wholecat.com/articles/claws.htm circa 28 May 2004 12:58:37 GMT, in rec.pets.cats.health+behav, PawsForThought (darnit7@aol.comnolitter) said, > Hi Mel, > I also have a tortie. She loves to be with me and follows me around too :) > She doesn't meow like yours, but sometimes she will carry one of her toys > around in her mouth and meow plaintively. Camille does that, too, but her noises are LOUD. Oh, and if it's not one of her toys, it's one of my socks or a pair of nylons she's dug out of the laundry. > I think she thinks it's her baby. I have no idea what Camille thinks. I'm not sure she's the sharpest knife in the drawer, to be honest. :-) > When I got Meesha, some people were saying that torties are cranky cats. Camille is catsophrenic. Lovey one minute, running like a bat out of hell to hide the next (anything taller than she is that is moving scares her). > But > that couldn't be further from the truth. Meesha is the sweetest, gentlest cat > I've ever had. We also have her brother Mickey, a gray tuxedo. He kneads and > suckles on my husband's beard. He's 4 years old now and has been doing it > since he was a kitten. And it's not a weaning thing. Camille does the obsessive hand/feet licking, and her mamacat was around until Camille was about three or four years old. Mamacat didn't kick her kittens off the nipple until they were larger than she was. Laura SignatureI am Dyslexia of Borg, Your a.s will be laminated. I'm glad to hear that this is somewhat normal behavior. Hope will wander around the house and periodically whine. It's cute when she drags her little feather stick that I bought for my cats. She's an odd one. Most cats of mine go nuts over the feather. No she wants the other end of the stick! She goes mad after it lol She is a strange one! lol I have three other cats besides her. I have Smokie who is a 4 year old Blue Russian, I have CC (or sassy as is her nick name) She's a 6 year old tuxedo cat. And then there is Precious (nick name lucky) I found her at a park in a rusty old cage with a note attached to her saying she was free to a good home. No food or water with her. I took her in, hence her nickname lucky! lol I believe she is a tabby mix. I'm working on a webpage to show my "children" lol I'm hoping with the memorial day holiday that I'd be able to do get that finished. =) Mel > circa 28 May 2004 12:58:37 GMT, in rec.pets.cats.health+behav, > PawsForThought (darnit7@aol.comnolitter) said, [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > I am Dyslexia of Borg, > Your a.s will be laminated. >From: "Melissa K. Brown" Melzy@tds.net >I'm glad to hear that this is somewhat normal behavior. Hope will wander >around the house and periodically whine. It's cute when she drags her little >feather stick that I bought for my cats. She's an odd one. Most cats of mine >go nuts over the feather. No she wants the other end of the stick! She goes >mad after it lol She is a strange one! lol Aww, she sounds adorable :) Meesha sometimes chases the stick end too, when Mickey is dragging it by the feather. >e) She's a 6 year old tuxedo cat. And then there is Precious >(nick name lucky) I found her at a park in a rusty old cage with a note >attached to her saying she was free to a good home. No food or water with >her. That's horrible :( I'm so glad she found a forever home with you. Lauren ________ See my cats: http://community.webshots.com/album/56955940rWhxAe Raw Diet Info: http://www.holisticat.com/drjletter.html http://www.geocities.com/rawfeeders/ForCatsOnly.html Declawing Info: http://www.wholecat.com/articles/claws.htm She is cute. I finally got my webpage up for my cats. I'm hopefully going to put a daily update on them on the page. But for now, there are intros on each one, a photo page, and a message board. The URL is http://melzy.topcities.com. This way you can see my furbabies! Mel > >From: "Melissa K. Brown" Melzy@tds.net > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > http://www.geocities.com/rawfeeders/ForCatsOnly.html > Declawing Info: http://www.wholecat.com/articles/claws.htm > http://melzy.topcities.com. > This way you can see my furbabies! They are all so beautiful. Hope, as a baby, looks just like my Gnarly's dark tortie--who had a really big mouth, even as a baby! Your Russian Blue is strikingly handsome, too. They all look really happy, too! Oh yes. Hope has always had a big mouth! LOL But smokie is the one who has a bottomless pit as a stomach lol about every 4 hours he's hungry LOL Mel > > http://melzy.topcities.com. > > This way you can see my furbabies! [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.688 / Virus Database: 449 - Release Date: 5/18/2004 >From: "Melissa K. Brown" Melzy@tds.net >She is cute. I finally got my webpage up for my cats. I'm hopefully going to >put a daily update on them on the page. But for now, there are intros on >each one, a photo page, and a message board. The URL is >http://melzy.topcities.com. >This way you can see my furbabies! Very nice webpage, Mel, and your kitties are adorable! Mickey & Meesha insisted on signing your guest book :) Lauren ________ See my cats: http://community.webshots.com/album/56955940rWhxAe Raw Diet Info: http://www.holisticat.com/drjletter.html http://www.geocities.com/rawfeeders/ForCatsOnly.html Declawing Info: http://www.wholecat.com/articles/claws.htm Well tell Mickey and Meesha that Sassy, Smokie, Hope and Lucky say thank you! ;) Mel > >From: "Melissa K. Brown" Melzy@tds.net > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > http://www.geocities.com/rawfeeders/ForCatsOnly.html > Declawing Info: http://www.wholecat.com/articles/claws.htm >From: Laura R. UseFirstInitialPlusRobinson@tech >We also have her brother Mickey, a gray tuxedo. He kneads and >> suckles on my husband's beard. He's 4 years old now and has been doing it [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >Laura Interesting. So if it's not a weaning thing, I wonder why they do it? Cause it makes them happy? ________ See my cats: http://community.webshots.com/album/56955940rWhxAe Raw Diet Info: http://www.holisticat.com/drjletter.html http://www.geocities.com/rawfeeders/ForCatsOnly.html Declawing Info: http://www.wholecat.com/articles/claws.htm circa 31 May 2004 01:40:15 GMT, in rec.pets.cats.health+behav, PawsForThought (darnit7@aol.comnolitter) said, > >We also have her brother Mickey, a gray tuxedo. He kneads and > >> suckles on my husband's beard. He's 4 years old now and has been doing it [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Interesting. So if it's not a weaning thing, I wonder why they do it? Cause > it makes them happy? As near as I can figure, it's a comfort/affection thing. :-) Laura SignatureI am Dyslexia of Borg, Your a.s will be laminated. >Hi - > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] >ICQ#: 2830575 Current ICQ status: + More ways to contact me >__________________________________________________________________ She is "communicating". Some girls are very talkative, some are the silent type. Is she part Siamese? They are very vocal. MLB circa Thu, 27 May 2004 13:41:46 -0500, in rec.pets.cats.health+behav, Melissa K. Brown (Melzy@tds.net) said, > I have a Torti who is now a year and a month old. I've noticed some odd > behavior from her. She "meows" an awful lot around me. Camille, my dilute torti, is very vocal in the morning when she's following me around begging to be petted. The rest of the time, she's pretty quiet- except when Oscar is pissing her off and she's growling and hissing at him. > Like if I'm laying > in bed. She'll find a spot and sit there and maybe for a few seconds and she > gets up and meows some more and finds another spot and does this repeatedly. Camille will squeeze up next to me on the couch or if I'm reading in bed, she'll crawl under the covers and lick my feet. (She has a licking fetish.) However, when I'm lying in bed, she'll snuggle close to me until I either pet her or until she figures out that I'm going to sleep, in which case, she moves to a different spot on the bed. She's just weird. > While in these various spots she'll try to put her nose in a wrinkle of the > bed spread and starts to "kneed". She keeps trying to find a place that is > "suitable" to her but can not find anything. And continues to be very vocal. > Plus as of late, she follows me around everywhere. If I go into the bathroom > she'll race to the bathroom even before I get in there. Camille hauls a.s into the bathroom if she thinks I'm headed in there. Her little claws scrabble on the floors and she shoots like a rocket into the bathroom. Again, she's just weird. > It's hard in the > kitchen while I'm cooking it's hard to cook and to watch out for her by my > feet. I find if I pet her and hold her, she stops being vocal. Camille hates to be held, and the more I pet her, the more vocal she gets, mewling the second I stop petting. > Of corse I > can not hold her all the time. Just wondering if this is just typical Torti > type behavior or maybe if she is uneasy about something and is causing her > to want to be soothed all the time. Sounds like a cat to me. :-) Laura SignatureI am Dyslexia of Borg, Your a.s will be laminated. |
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