Question for Cat owners, lovers etc.....

[Theben]

My female cat is like a dog. She follows me around the house, and if I twiddle my fingers she comes running right over. Very affectionate. Likes people, not other cats. And yes I had her spayed and de-clawed.

[chequita guevara]

The only thing that will stop you kitten from acting like a kitten is when he becomes a cat. You definately need to have them fixed, though, and very soon. If not for the kittens, then simply because once a cat starts spraying, they never really stop.

[alva]

BTW, don't forget that fixed cats never 'grow-up' and remain adolescent for the remainder of their life.

[Amesjustin]

I have 2 cats both female. Casey is 5 years old and Joey is 8 months. Casey only plays about 2 hours a day now, and is pretty docile, but Joey plays constantly. She fetches too, sometimes catching midair. she knocked over our XMas tree 4 times. She also hunts me, and is constantly attacking casey.

This is just feline youth. Cat breed is also part of it - Joey is a Calico, and allegedly these are the most rambunctious bunch. Each cat has its own personality too.

[rah]

In her youth, one of our darlings used to play fetch. But now she has discovered the pleasure of sleeping 20 hours a day.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Yep, my Hobbes fetches and he's been fixed. Acts like a dog, very loyal, curls at my feet. Holy terror and climbs and gets into everything.

[Japher]

Catz suk, get a dog. At least then you can blame it on him/her being a dog instead of a freaky cat.

If you want a freaky cat, come meet mine... Poor thing has flashbacks.

[C0ckney]

i've got 3 male cats of various ages.

like others have said get them fixed, to prevent kittens and the male peeing everywhere (and knocking up all the other neibourhood cats). he'll calm down a bit once he grows up but will probably still be fairly playful

[Tiamat]

Stevie is just your regular run of the mill tabby and Sparky is our black cat. He hasn't started spraying thank goodness.....but oh my gosh the loads this little thing can drop How can something so little make something that stinks so bad!

He is a bit of a freek he doesn't really care for the expensive cat toys we've bought him nOOOOoooooo! He goes for the twist off bottle cap, the plastic milk jug top. He plays fetch with those and then has the annoying habbit of batting the bottle cap which is cute except he does it at five in the morning just when we're going to bed. Right as you doze off you here the rattle of the bottle cap then the thud as he runs into the door.

[alva]

I have about a bucket filled with cat-toys and hardly any of them are used. The only ones are catnip-mice and a ping-pong ball ( sold as a cat toy so they could charge more of-course.)
Favourite toys of
cat A : ear-plugs
cat B : leather (broken) shoelace(sp?)
Our job as cat owners (slaves) is not to question the why and how but to provide and serve.

[Theben]

Originally posted by Tiamat
How can something so little make something that stinks so bad!

Do you feed him wet or dry food?

[chequita guevara]

Feed your kitties Iams. Their feces won't smell so bad if you don't give them kittie junk food like Wiskas and Meow Mix.

[Japher]

Iams is good. My cat has a weight problem so I have to fork out for the Science Diet crud.

The dumb cat also does not play with it's toys. Instead it plays with the dog's toys or leafs... Strange.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Re: Question for Cat owners, lovers etc.....

Originally posted by Tiamat
So for those of you with cats the question would be after you had your male cats fixed did that take them down a peg or two? We were thinking that getting him fixed might make him a bit less of a holy terror and he might calm down a bit, or at the very least be a bit pissed off for his removal

Getting him fixed will take care of and/or prevent a lot of other issues - spraying, wandering off for good, fighting every other cat he can find, etc., (not to mention kitten manufacturing ), but his basic rambunctiousness is the adolescent hunter instinct, and he'll just grow out of that as he grows up. He's working on his fierce jungle predator (in that little peanut looking thing that passes for a cat's brain ) skills, and that's just a phase a lot of cats go through. By about 18 months to 2 years, they should grow out of it, but you just have to find some outlets for all that energy in the meantime.

[Japher]

Kittens love to be put in paper bags and then poked at from the sides, through the bag!!!