My cat is so jumpy! 9/10 times when we go up to him from behind, he jumps 2 feet in the air - and it's not graceful! It's as if he isn't even aware of anything around him until we touch him and he freaks out!! Maybe he's in his own little world?? We have two other cats who we can scoop up from any angle, and they don't mind. There have been a few times where either me or my boyfriend will be holding him, and he'll hear a noise and just FREAK out, and claw his way out of our arms (owch!). Just this morning, he refused to get off the table and he turned his back towards my boyfriend. When my boyfriend went to push his little booty off the table, the kitty just jumped with claws beared and ran off.
For the most part all you see is his gentle soul and he just loves to sleep with us and lick our faces and cuddle. He never hisses or growls at anyone... even when we brought a new kitty home. he is basically a big bundle of love!
Now, we know this jumpy kitty has great hearing and vision b/c he hears us before we get into our apartment and he sees the tiniest bugs on the floor as prey, and he eats them. So we don't think he has any sort of visual/spacial issues. He is very sweet and he loves his brother and sister (not biological) very much. He is a big boy, about 15 lbs and so cute, he's completely indoor now (he was a stray before we adopted him at the shelter), and he has claws. I'm worried that someday his jumpiness may cause him to scratch a human baby or something :( he'll play with me at times without clawing me (he doesn't retract (?) his claws), but i still get worried.
Does any one have any idea what could be his problem? And, what we might be able to do to help him through it?
