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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / March 2005Is this something to worry about?
Hi All: I adopted 2 year old stray George, in September and everything is going very smoothly. He's adapted well, he's the only pet in a 1 person household and has the run of the place. He's an indoor cat. He's a pretty affectionate little fella, very much right out of the adoption cage. One question I have, sometimes he'll disappear and I'll go look for him in the house and on more than one occaision I find him under the bed. He's just kind of sitting there watching me. Is this strange for a cat to be hiding like that? Nothing stressed him out as there are no kids or ruckus in the house and I'm really quiet. For some reason he spends a fair amount of time under that bed. Could it be he has just found a place he really likes to chill out in? > Hi All: > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > that bed. Could it be he has just found a place he really likes to > chill out in? no, that is just probably his "chill" place.Now if he goes there and is not eating or playing then you know he doesn't feel good and is trying to find comfort by being in his "chill" place. > Hi All: > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > that bed. Could it be he has just found a place he really likes to > chill out in? One of my cat Luna's zillion nicknames is "UnderTheBed" :) No need to worry unless George is also acting lethargic, not eating, or just generally "out of sorts"... there is just something about being under the bed that cats like...probably has to do with a feeling of safety and security. Pam > Hi All: > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > that bed. Could it be he has just found a place he really likes to > chill out in? Under The Bed is the centre of the Cat Kingdom. When cats Want To Be Alone Where No One Can Disturb Them, Under The Bed simply has every other place in the house whipped. I have two cats in my household, one of whom regularly decides to remind the other that he's dominant. The one who is reminded has annexed Under The Bed as his territory. No one or nothing can get him there, he can do what he wants. Except, of course, for when I'm going to bed, when he always hides Under The Bed in the hope that I'll forget to look so he can end up staying in the room with me for the night (I'm slightly allergic to cats, so I lock em out of the bedroom overnight). Every now and then, when I'm really exhausted, I do forget to check, and am woken by purring at about 3am. But the purring is instantly followed by jumping off the bed and going to the door, as he knows that's where he's headed. Other times, he sits there Under The Bed, out of my reach, even though I'm down on the ground talking to him, telling him he knows what's going to happen now. It's not until I get the Big Stick and prod him with it that he moves out from Under The Bed and heads straight for the door, because he knows there's no point resisting. :-) >>Hi All: >> [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > moves out from Under The Bed and heads straight for the door, because he > knows there's no point resisting. :-) This whole post cracked me up. Don't you just picture your cat sitting under the bed with a sh.t eating grin?! The caption over his/her head would be "Under the bed? *priceless*!!!" :) Pam > This whole post cracked me up. *He* cracks me up. He's really funny. Sometimes when he's sitting Under The Bed, I can reach him to scratch under his chin. But he always moves away from my hand (unlike when he's Outside The Bed), as if he can somehow avoid being evicted tonight as long as I don't touch him. The first time I had to resort to the Big Stick to move him from Under The Bed, it took a *lot* of prodding to get him to move. Now it just takes a gentle tap, and you can almost see him thinking "Damn!" > Don't you just picture your cat sitting under the bed with a sh.t eating > grin?! The caption over his/her head would be "Under the bed? > *priceless*!!!" > > :) > Pam > > I have two cats in my household, one of whom regularly decides to remind the > > other that he's dominant. The one who is reminded has annexed Under The Bed [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > :) That's EXACTLY what I pictured. :) If he was a stray, he probably had to use hiding as part of his survival skills. He may just feel more comfortable there at times because of his history. That being said, the kittens that were born in our house and were never strays, love to sleep under the couch at times. They can spend hours under there. Lots of cats just love little hidey-places. Rhonda > One question I have, sometimes he'll > disappear and I'll go look for him in the house and on more than one > occaision I find him under the bed. He's just kind of sitting there > watching me. Is this strange for a cat to be hiding like that? > |
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