Well, the hoarder is my grandma (unfortunatly ), so I know how he was treated and everything. Atleast he wasn't stuck in a room -- he had free run of the outdoors. She told me that he was litter trained when she gave him to me (and he did use his litter box and nothing else for the first couple of weeks), and she said that he had never peed on anything (though how could she really know anyways, with a billion cats peeing on everything ). Off topic, but last month she told me she had a new kitten that looks just like Caleb. And that kitten's mom was the poor sick cat she dumped at my house for me to take care of, and she has kideny disease, so think of the ailments that poor kitten will suffer. I know it sounds evil, but the animals make her heath really bad (ammonia and bird poop), and I hope that one day she has to be hospitalized so that I can go up there and take all of her animals away and clean her house.

I worry that it will be hard to be consistent with Caleb, as most often we don't catch him doing it, but I'm thinking about spying on him and just seeing if I can catch him, and then lock him in the bathroom. He does hate to be locked up, so it might work. Even this morning he was locked downstairs and I went upstairs and he cried and cried. Do you think that's an obsessive thing? Unless he's sleeping, if we leave him downstairs he will act like he's dying. I ignore him, but the longer it goes on, the more "yowly" he becomes. He starts to sound like a siamese. He's 10 months old, I would think he would be over this.

I try to think of any odd behaviours he might have that might be tied with this; But I can't think of anything. He acts perfectly normal. He sleeps most of the day, or sits at the window and looks out. He drinks alright, and he loves to eat. I think one thing that might bother him sometimes is that he came from a place with many cats and now he's the only one. When I took care of my grandma's sick cat, he wouldn't leave her alone, he loved her so much. Now that I think of it, he never peed on anything for those couple of days because he was too busy obsessing over her. But I don't think he would stop for four months and then start again for that reason. After I move out I am going to adopt an older torti. I bet he'll love that.