Kitty behavior questions...

[cassiesmom]

Pinot: on three very smooth surfaces (the 'fridge door, the surface of the side of the island in the kitchen, and our glass shower door when I'm in it), she will just start incessantly pawing for no reason. It's not going to get her anywhere; why is she doing that?

Cassie does the same thing with cardboard boxes, the rolled edge of the box spring, and the sofa cushions. She's front paw declawed (I didn't do it; the people whose porch she chose to have her kittens had her spayed and front-paw declawed because they thought at first they'd be keeping her). I suspect she has p hantom sensations in her front paws that make her want to grab hold and pull. Sometimes she just does it when she is content, like a way of releasing energy. But that wouldn't explain why Pinot, who is not declawed, would want to paw at smooth surfaces. Just a Cassie idiosyncrasy (sp?), I guess. Is Pinot pawing at something she sees reflected in the glass, I wonder?

[krazyaboutkatz]

I can't really answer your questions either. My RB Sunny would also paw at my sliding glass door. He's do this if he saw dry leaves blowing around in the wind. I guess he thought that if he pawed at the door enough that he'd be able to get through to the leaves.

He was also the one that would pee very high in the litter boxes but only in the ones that had covers on them. The pee would then leak through so I had to put puppy pee pads under the litter boxes and I'd also have to clean the lid and box with an enzyme cleaner. I still use the puppy pee pads under and in back of the litter boxes just in case.