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Actually, I am starting to consider the possibility that Puppy has some kind of mental problem. Any of these by themselves would be just normal weirdness, but this is a little much. This is beyond the normal "crazies" that my previous cats would get late at night. Can cats have ADD? What mental diseases can they have?
Symptoms:
* high frequency of crazies (multiple times in a night), even though we play with him about 4 hours every evening, high intensity playtime. That's in addition to general attention he gets when we're home.
* Meows at random times, and not when there are people in the room. He meows at walls.
* Purrs at random times. He will purr when we pet him, but also just randomly.
* Cuddles with shoes and chairs, but not people.
* Gets upset if we don't pat his head when he wakes up. Not a full pet, he just seems to want to be acknowledged that he's alive.
* Acts like he has ADD. When we play with him, we have to keep drawing his attention back to what we were doing.
* Attempts to jump onto invisible ledges. Really. He keeps going onto the desk, looking into the corner as though he sees a ledge, and then preparing to jump. He a few times stood up on his hind legs and seemed confused when there wasn't a ledge there. He also jumps at invisible ledges when he's on the windowsill. In that case, he thinks the curtains are hiding the "ledge", so he jumps, misses (duh), and crashes to the floor. Then tries again...
Symptoms:
* high frequency of crazies (multiple times in a night), even though we play with him about 4 hours every evening, high intensity playtime. That's in addition to general attention he gets when we're home.
* Meows at random times, and not when there are people in the room. He meows at walls.
* Purrs at random times. He will purr when we pet him, but also just randomly.
* Cuddles with shoes and chairs, but not people.
* Gets upset if we don't pat his head when he wakes up. Not a full pet, he just seems to want to be acknowledged that he's alive.
* Acts like he has ADD. When we play with him, we have to keep drawing his attention back to what we were doing.
* Attempts to jump onto invisible ledges. Really. He keeps going onto the desk, looking into the corner as though he sees a ledge, and then preparing to jump. He a few times stood up on his hind legs and seemed confused when there wasn't a ledge there. He also jumps at invisible ledges when he's on the windowsill. In that case, he thinks the curtains are hiding the "ledge", so he jumps, misses (duh), and crashes to the floor. Then tries again...