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Yep. You haven't lived until you've seen and heard a cat hiccupping and belching as he rises, swaying, from his food dish and tries to look dignified.

You don't know, of course, what she experienced in her former home, and you may be unwittingly doing something that Quinne associates with something unpleasant -- a particular gesture, say. A friend of my wife has a rescued cat which is terrified of high-heeled shoes, which leads us to...

It could hardly be anything but a way of communicating. The slightly puzzling thing is that normally, the only cats who purr are kittens and nursing mothers. Other adult cats only purr in human company. Some cats even use something called a "soliciting purr", which is a purr combined with a...

If the bloated belly appears just after she's eaten, that's likely just because she's eaten a lot. She's still very young and still growing (I'm surprised she's already been spayed, actually), and I'm guessing she's wolfing her food down until she can eat no more. Ours used to look like...

How exactly are you stimulating him?

Progress report: My wife is still a bit distracted in the "make sure specific doors are closed" department. Bonnie is no longer fearful of Clyde, just really, really crabby towards him. She has, however, decided that we're on her side and is seeking to take advantage of the situation. Yes, she...

A shot in the dark: in case you decided to sue?

You're not the only one. It's one of those things that even the experts aren't sure they've completely understood. If he's still a kitten, he's probably under the impression that it's a game. If he didn't like it, I think he'd be more likely to try to run away or scratch you.

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There's no accounting for taste. One of the cats in my childhood loved boiled cabbage and would do anything to get it. The only time we ever caught Clyde on the kitchen counter-top he was eating cold boiled potatoes.

There's no particular need to have the tray in the same room she sleeps in; cats are perfectly able and willing to get up in the middle of the night and go to another room to do their business. Personally, I prefer not to be woken in the middle of the night by the sound of a cat pooping, and...

If your apartment is so huge, you might consider getting a second litter tray. Some cats will actually insist on pooping in one tray and peeing in another, but that aside, as long as you're not tripping over them, too many litter trays is usually better than not enough. Placement of litter...

A cat usually has to have a lot of trust in you before he'll let you rub his belly. Even if he just shows you his belly, that's a vote of confidence. Sounds like he knows he's come to the right place.

I'll join the chorus here. Realistically, it's a small chance, but there are stories of cats trekking hundreds of miles to their old homes and arriving hungry and exhausted, but otherwise in good shape. Closer to your new home, there's a chance he might have got shut in somebody's garage or...

Obviously not, otherwise she probably wouldn't do it. Pain is a message that says, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do it again." I think you're right not to take all this lightly, but I suspect things aren't as bad as they might seem. Our Bonnie had stitches and no collar (I'm not...

This is a blatant plug... but just so you can see the sort of videos I normally make, apart from the occasional cute cat video, this is by way of a travel documentary:

Our Bonnie goes through phases when she'll lick just about anything, mostly furniture, but my monitor will also do: Occasionally, my keyboard gets a complete grooming. This is Bonnie as a small kitten: it's out of focus, but it looks to me more like grooming than anything tasting or eating.

My first thought was boredom, to be honest, but it's hard to tell. I presume you've had her since she was young and this is new behaviour -- has anything else recently changed? Something that might, say, upset her routine, or perhaps a family member moved out, anything at all?

Well, that is part of my vague plan, yes: try to keep them separate for now and do the whole reintroduction thing step by step. I can't think of anything else to do and neither can anyone else, so it's all we've got and apart from a little sanity, we have nothing to lose. I'm just not clear on...

Well, so much for my vague plan. My wife accidentally set in motion a chain of events that saw them eating together, but ended in feline fisticuffs. At 4am. I don't know whether Clyde attacked Bonnie or Bonnie tried a pre-emptive strike. My wife thinks Clyde just wanted to play, but if that's...