Please tell me if my cat is OK!!!!!!!!!!

[lhg0962]

Troy,
Mimi will accept loving attention for a little while and then just turn on me for no reason at all! I am the only one she does this to, as my daughter can do just about anything she wants and Mimi allows it. She's been that way since Helen was a little girl. It doesn't happen often, but occasionally, I'll be loving her by petting her (never touch her stomach) and she just turns on me with claws and teeth! I have many war wounds to show for it. They aren't all caused by Mimi, but also by her predicesors, Shrimp Boat and Tigger. We always have kept the claws on our kitties, where they belong!

[Troy]

My two cats are fully clawed too, or you could say "kitted out" . Typha (with the skit attacks) never turns on me, or anyone, but when he is having an attack you have to be careful not to startle him or he could use you as a spring-board to escape!

I have met cats that will turn-on you when they have had enough attention although this is usually because they are very old, grumpy cats (just like grumpy old men or women). I don't think they are trying to hurt you but they find it quicker that way

I wonder if it is a female-cat-thing as I have never met a male cat that does that?

Troy.

[crazykat]

my cat loves plastic bags ... not that I let him play with them .. but if he gets into the cupboard where I keep them ... he rolls in them and pulls them out all over the floor. Silly guy got his head caught through one of the bags handels ... and was walking around the house dragging the bag behind him!!!

[4 feline house]

I have read before that cats sometimes get a "pleasure overload" and their only way to handle it is to attack. This is why they sometimes turn on you after too much scritchies. Also, sometimes you are petting them on a place that would be sexually stimulating to them, like on their bellies or their back near their tails. They will then turn on you because that's what they would do if they were not ready to mate. Males and females, even neutered and spayed cats, will sometimes do this. I have also heard they will also occasionally get fits and tear through the house with a wild-eyed look. This is to expend energy that builds up in a typical housecat, especially ones that don't go outside much or at all.

These theories may explain the perplexing behaviors we have all experienced at one time or another.

[Troy]

> I have also heard they will also occasionally get fits and tear through the house with a wild-eyed look.

...yes, mine do this although they are both outdoor cats they do seem to enjoy the odd "gallop" through the house. Sometimes they will have worked out a circuit so they can tear through the house, out of one of the windows, around the house, through the back door and back to the start without even so much as a pause.

Unfortunately, while lying on the couch, I have been caught in the middle of this racetrack and was made aware of this fact as 5.5 kilos of cat (12lbs for the metricapped ) hits my stomach and springboards off as if I was just an added bonus of the track...

[4 feline house]

I hear ya there, Troy!