My 15 month old female tuxedo cat is acting incredibly strange and we're worried. She has continuous fights with her own tail and she's always biting it rather hard. THis is NOT normal tail chasing and playing! She growls at it almost constantly and when the fight starts she sounds like a Tasmanian Devil. She acts like a whirling dervish during this until she catches her tail and then she starts gnawing on it. The last 1" - 1 1/2" of her tail is crooked and was this way when we adopted her. Was it broken and is this causing her some pain? She's been with us since she was 9 or 10 weeks old but the tail biting has only been going on for 2 months now.
She's always been a bit anti-social unless you have cat treats. With those in hand you can pet her for perhaps 20 seconds before she bolts away. If you feed her one she'll take it a few feet away and return for another when she's finished. The longest petting occasions are no more than 30 seconds and these happen once or twice in a week. She's not aggressive to us very much unless we over do it with the touching. She's very likely to jump away if you even flinch a single finger and she'll often run to another room. I can deal with the skittish behavior but not the awful sounds and sights of the tail wars. What gives? Any clues out there?
Thanks,
Andrew
She's always been a bit anti-social unless you have cat treats. With those in hand you can pet her for perhaps 20 seconds before she bolts away. If you feed her one she'll take it a few feet away and return for another when she's finished. The longest petting occasions are no more than 30 seconds and these happen once or twice in a week. She's not aggressive to us very much unless we over do it with the touching. She's very likely to jump away if you even flinch a single finger and she'll often run to another room. I can deal with the skittish behavior but not the awful sounds and sights of the tail wars. What gives? Any clues out there?
Thanks,
Andrew