Yes, I know it sounds crude but that was the way he was known at the shelter. When I adopted Thumper, 3-4 weeks ago, they told me that he tended to hump objects and other cats even though he'd been neutered about five years before, when he was a kitten. Until the middle of last week, Thumper did not live up to his soubriquet and I thought the change in environment had changed his behavior. In fact, I thought the shelter people had exagerated, or were remembering past behavior.
Most of the covers and throws I put over my furniture and bed are comforters or polarfleece, but I have a few that are fake fur and I tossed one on the sofa last week. Less than an hour later, I came back into the room to find Thumper gripping a corner of the throw in his teeth, straddling it and going through the motions. I have seen a few of my male cats straddling a female (all spayed and neutered), and a few males and females that liked to bite on the scruff of another cat, but I've never seen this behavior with a blanket before. Is it common? Have others on PT seen their cats behave this way? Is there a reason for the behavior?
