Badly Behaved cat

tesuhoha

Sometimes cats can bite out of affection. My cat goes into a kind of blissful trance when I pet her and sometimes she gives me a little bite on the arm. She doesn't sink her teeth in and withdraws using obvious self control when she realises what she is doing. The Bengal cat gets carried away sometimes and goes to bite whilst playing but also doesn't sink her teeth in. Somehow I have managed to train them from kittens not to bite. I trust both of them implicitly and the Bengal is the soppiest one..

They are used to being manhandled, having their tummies tickled and they both seem to like having their tails pulled. The only thing they won't tolerate is being picked up but they only struggle gently until put down. We have done this so that the vet doesn't have a hard time handling them but I should think its a different matter with a rescue cat who may have had a tough beginning in life.

calicocat

I think your cat likes you a lot. He like to go for walks with you etc. He's just a bit of a psycho when bored it seems and in the house more.

Loved reading the thread.

Nice to know i'm not alone with an asbo-cat..... .

Mine also does most of the above stories, and I warn folk about her when they come to the house. Some listen, some don't and pay the price.

My psycho is 16 now......and still the same. Well maybe a bit more chilled out, but not a lot.

It's all part of what I love about her, her independence, her my way or the highway attitude. :rotfl:


Years ago I had a similar one who would hide round corners and attack you...it was his way of playing with you. I called him Kayto. After the mad chinese bloke from the pink panther films that used to hide and then attack peter sellers in the house. The cat was just like him.... .


The one I have now.....if people sit on the sofa crossed legged and swing the one crossed over.........this is a signal to be launched at....she's just playing....but it used to hardcore play.

People don't do that anymore in my house.

Mine too used to follow me for short walks when she was younger, and to other people's houses..!


Years ago I had two cats that would sit and wait at the end of the farm track for me to be driving home from work. I would stop the car, they would hop onto the roof, and get a lift back home lying on the sunfoof like two mini lions.


Funny things cats.

choille

He does pounce when on walks - ambushes me & jumps an amazing height to nip my arm. He is a devil.

Thanks for sharing your cat stories. I used to live up a mile long farm track & one of my cats used to be there when I came home & follow me up on the bike. She was a wonderful cat who seemed to have a second sense on most things as I came home at different times, but she knew & was always there unless it was really wet.

Pollycat

calicocat wrote: »

I think your cat likes you a lot. He like to go for walks with you etc. He's just a bit of a psycho when bored it seems and in the house more.

Loved reading the thread.

Nice to know i'm not alone with an asbo-cat..... .

Mine also does most of the above stories, and I warn folk about her when they come to the house. Some listen, some don't and pay the price.

My psycho is 16 now......and still the same. Well maybe a bit more chilled out, but not a lot.

It's all part of what I love about her, her independence, her my way or the highway attitude. :rotfl:


Years ago I had a similar one who would hide round corners and attack you...it was his way of playing with you. I called him Kayto. After the mad chinese bloke from the pink panther films that used to hide and then attack peter sellers in the house. The cat was just like him.... .


The one I have now.....if people sit on the sofa crossed legged and swing the one crossed over.........this is a signal to be launched at....she's just playing....but it used to hardcore play.

People don't do that anymore in my house.

Mine too used to follow me for short walks when she was younger, and to other people's houses..!


Years ago I had two cats that would sit and wait at the end of the farm track for me to be driving home from work. I would stop the car, they would hop onto the roof, and get a lift back home lying on the sunfoof like two mini lions.


Funny things cats.

I think calicocat has a very good point.

My OH always used to say about my old boy (mentioned several times above) that "he loves you, he tolerates me and nobody else exists in his world".

He used to wait for us on the front lawn when we'd been out in the evening and would come running along the pavement when we got off the bus, grumbling at how late we were.

He didn't mind the rain and would sometimes be wet through when he came in and I'd throw his own towel (big bath sheet) over him and pick him up and sit on the bottom step of the stairs with him swaddled in the towel upside down. Strange for a cat that would bite with no notice.

Like calicocat, I think your cat loves you.
He's just a character.

OP, thanks for starting this thread, it's been really nice to hear about other people's 'mad & bad' cats and remember my lovely, much-missed boy.

calicocat

I think he sounds like real character too.........:D.


My friends used to be scared to go to the toilet at my house. :rotfl: she would hide in the bath, and attack once they had sat down....or standing. it was always the blokes that were more scared. .

My dearest friend for 16yrs has tried to be her friend. But she would try to stroke her too much, and speak to her in a very odd squeeky high voice. When she was in the bathroom myself and her husband used to count down from 10......by around 3 we heard the scream.

She doesn't do this now though, she got bored with that by around 12.

She's 16 now, so hasn't the motivation to attack/play so much.




I have the task of getting mine to the vets next week.......what joy..! .... :eek: . It is time she had an MOT at 16, she's only been to the vets a very few times. So this will be horrendous. She stresses so much. She will probably hate me for at least 12hrs, as we are having full bloods done so as to give her a thorough check for any diabetes /thyroid/kidney/liver damage at her age. Get her teeth checked, and claws trimmed a little.

Doind this 6 yrs ago could have had me in hospital.... . But she is fab, and would have another like her tomorrow.

choille

Lovely to hear of everyone's stories.

Mine & yours are right characters....if they were people you would walk across the road to avoid eye contact - probably, but because they are your little monsters we fret & fuss about them. Although I don't really fuss him too much as he wouldn't like that - meaning: he'd bite me. Although I think the biting is a play thing gone wrong!

I bought a lovely island unit that's marble topped & has a sink in it. I call it Gizmo's fountain as he doesn't drink out of a bowl - he goes to the sink & I put the tap on & he drinks out of that. He has his own bed, which he doesn't use, but I have put a woollen blanket on the marble top as he sleeps on that.
What was quite a lovely feature now looks a bit mingeing & unhygienic.

HB58

It's lovely to hear about everyone's cats - and the obvious affection that even the bad-tempered ratbags are held in

My Alf came to me when he was just short of 1 yr old. He used to follow his previous meowmy when she went out and got himself lost (we eventually found her but I was besotted with him by then and persuaded her to let me keep him).

He's a big lad but something of a wuss. He loves to be near us but is not a lap cat. When the other cat has gone to bed in the evening, he will come and lie on my chest in bed and let me scratch his ears. He'll creep up during the night too. If I'm not doing what he wants he will bite me. Hard. That includes not tickling when he wants me to and tickling after he wants me to stop. Difficult in the middle of the night when it is dark and I am not properly awake as I can't pick up the warning signals!

He will sit on the bannister at the top of the stairs and reach out to snag me for a bite. He will make do with any other part of me if I manage to keep my arm out of reach! He used to live with his sibling and I suspect he never learned any other way of requesting play or attention. I can sometimes see him trying to get at my hands, even though I have never let him use these as toys.

I am careful to keep myself out of any situation where he can grab my arms with both front paws and bunny-kick with his back as I still have scars from where he raked me nearly 12 months ago!

He is worse if he is bored, especially at the moment when I can't play with him as he would like. I haven't yet found any toy that he will play with on his own.

I have tried various things to stop him. The most successful seems to be a high squeak +/- a sharp puff of air at him.

He still likes to accompany me if I go out on foot but I keep him in the house if this is going to be anything more than just popping round to the neighbours, I don't want to lose him the way his previous meowmy did! He often comes to meet me when I come home in the car - I'm very thankful for the rearview camera so that I can see where he is as I reverse into the drive. He's my little man (at 6kg+!) and I love him tons

calicocat

When mine was young....and a real live wire (shredding curtains/running along curtain poles etc)....

Now this is going to sound pretty bonkers...but she loved it, and it burnt off some energy.....i used to literally chase her round the house. Then would hide...call her name...she would creep around to get near me...then either she would chase me around, or I would chase her. This would go on for around 10 - 20 mins.


She still asks to play it now on the odd occasion.....at 16....:D.

Now to a non animal person, this would look utterly insane. But she wasn't really that interested in toys. I got her at around 4-5weeks old as it was thought the mother was dying, (they were born feral). So she pretty much hung out like glue to me or the dog...or the guinea-pig. She very probably has an identity crisis.



Anyhow, that game might work with Alf, as mine too likes the whole bannister attack . Worth a try I guess to see if he likes it.

tesuhoha

calicocat wrote: »

When mine was young....and a real live wire (shredding curtains/running along curtain poles etc)....

Now this is going to sound pretty bonkers...but she loved it, and it burnt off some energy.....i used to literally chase her round the house. Then would hide...call her name...she would creep around to get near me...then either she would chase me around, or I would chase her. This would go on for around 10 - 20 mins.


She still asks to play it now on the odd occasion.....at 16....:D.

Now to a non animal person, this would look utterly insane. But she wasn't really that interested in toys. I got her at around 4-5weeks old as it was thought the mother was dying, (they were born feral). So she pretty much hung out like glue to me or the dog...or the guinea-pig. She very probably has an identity crisis.



Anyhow, that game might work with Alf, as mine too likes the whole bannister attack . Worth a try I guess to see if he likes it.

That's really strange not because of the game but because I play chase with my Bengal. It started off as a kitten when she used to get poo on her paws from treading in her own waste in the litter tray. I used to chase her around the rooms with an animal wet wipe and she would evade me and eventually wash her own paws. Now she is older she doesn't do that but we have developed a game where I approach her calling her name in a long drawn out way and go to grab her, then she starts running. We go from kitchen to living room and back several times till she gives in by lying on her back. Cats are funny.

choille

My late departed tabby who lived till he was about 21 - he was a stray who adopted me, would wait until I was ready for bed. He would peep round the bathroom door & knew it was bedtime when he saw me brushing my teeth. He would wait until i climbed the staircase & had three steps to go when he would rush up the stairs & jump on the bed in front of me & roll on his back - laughing - well it would seem he was.
I sometimes would sneak upstairs & 'hide' & jump out and ambush him when he came leaping up the stairs. he was a fast learner & would be onto me pretty quickly though. He was a lovely gentle cat who also would come for very long walks - thought he was a dog.