Strange Behavior in My Cat

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You mentioned some good stuff Redd. MG mentioned some good ideas for getting a cat to play. However some cats like the one we have mostly wants to play with us when she is in the mood to play. She usually quickly loses interest when playing with a toy on a string or a laser pointer or whatever we try. But a while later she may suddenly start running back & forth & scratching at the doors because she likes the material. She sometimes has a lot of fun playing with our chinchilla when we let him out of his cage. He's been living with us a while before we started letting him out to play so him & our cat were both kinda used to the other being around. We also kept a very close eye on him when we 1st started letting him out. Sometimes she chases him but other times he chases her. Sometimes she gets a little too rough with him & he'll freak out & hide & then maybe start barking because she's waiting rite there for him to come out. Then we make her move & maybe decide to pick him up back in his cage if he's been out a while. We had a guinea pig before him & our cat was not into the pig that much. Our pig was older & a chinchilla behaves more like a mouse than a guinea pig does. I would NEVER suggest letting a new cat or new rodent or other small animal have unsupervised play together.

I thought of one idea to add here. Don't allow the cat to be in the bedroom while your sleeping. Maybe that's keeping your bedroom door closed or putting her in another room. Water, litterbox, & her wet &/or dry food should be accessible to her. Also consider the temperature for her so she won't be stuck in a room that's too hot or too cold. When me & Cass moved in together, I insisted that the cat she had then would not be allowed in our bedroom. I was not afraid of being attacked. I sleep better without a cat climbing on me or playing next to the bed. Cass wouldn't want our cat to be in the bedroom we have now because it is not cat friendly the way things are set up.

She wants money?

Loo means toilet in the UK. He's saying maybe she needs to go potty.

She is trying to say something.

Loo. Lavatory. Toilet.


Different from "This is a stick up. Give me all your cat biscuits!"

Has she been spayed? I hear cats can act crazy at times if they haven't been spayed or neutered.

I guess they can also act crazy while they are being spayed? I thought it was males that acted crazy if they were not spayed?

Males are more apt to be aggressive and territorial I imagine. But I know females go into heat and want to mate unless they are spayed.

That gave me a laugh

In the U.S we have a lot of groups seems like typically volunteer organizations or whatever who will catch feral cats and get them fixed/neutered sometimes other medical attention and re-release them. Its not a perfect solution but the idea is it will reduce the amount of new cats thus reducing the impact to wildlife. Not sure if there is anything like that in australia.

Still though, I'd figure humans are still #1 when when it comes to habitat destruction, especially in urban areas. My mom has cats and they go outside but mostly stay in the back yard...its how they have been for years but I guess if i ever get a new cat I will likely keep it inside, or create a fenced in area for it to go out...or maybe teach it to walk on a leash(I have seen cats on leashes outside, so could be an idea).

I had a cat growing up, I really loved that cat...but he did viciously attack me sometimes. Never could figure out why or how to stop him. He'd just sometimes crouch down and start swishing his tail....and I'd know the claws and teeth were coming no matter what I did or said. I tried firmly telling him no, shouting, asking nicely and running away, and well I guess sometimes charging at him worked.

That said me and my family never actually tried to really address the behavior or find a solution, as it didn't happen very often and well at the end of the day it was just some scratches. He also did fight with other cats and maybe even other animals IDK.

My cat was a good Angel last night.

Yes, cats get spayed now I think before they get adopted. She was a rescue kitten.

My cat is still biting me. I tried closing my bedroom door, she meows when it closes, she can put her paws under the door & she scratched my door too.

Stress and anxiety are possible factors, yes; and there is a question which I've not yet seen a direct answer to, how much active, energetic, play or activity is done with her?

The cat lifestyle is to conserve energy through most of the day to then use up in energetic hunting spurts.

Not having an outlet for that hunting energy can sometimes lead to aggressive behavior.
And a lot of frustration for the cat.

Thing to do is try various cat toys, various invented toys, in personal interactions with her so as to give her an outlet for that energy.

In late 1980s and early 1990s my cat Annabelle loved leaping after paper planes. Her companion Applesauce loved batting around those plastic golf balls with the holes, which he could use his fangs to pick up the ball and bring it to me.

My current cats Grumman and Georgie like chasing a long piece of brown twine with a tassel tied to the end as I walk/run through the house dragging it through rooms and over and around furniture.

Georgie in particular will chase a laser pointer spot until he is huffing and puffing.

Grumman likes batting at small paper balls.

If space and money allow (for me they do not) you know how there are hamster wheels?
I saw via a cat tumblr I follow that there are now similar for cats
Google found this,
Entertaining to watch, but is it safe for cats? Veterinarians weigh in on cat running wheels
January 27, 2019
https://www.dvm360.com/view/entertainin ... ing-wheels

Also, lots of good cat info on website, blog, podcast, and in a book, from here,
https://www.wayofcats.com/blog/