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So last time I posted here it was about a pregnant kitty that unceremoniously attached herself to me. A lot of her strange behavior I assumed was a result of hormones since I’d never dealt with kitty pregnancy. All my experience has been with dogs until recently. But Squeaker? She’s the most unique animal I’ve ever had and she does the most curious thing.
A tiny bit of her history that I know of:
She was a stray/street cat in my mother-in-law’s neighborhood. We’d been trying (unsuccessfully) to TNR one of the local feral boy kitties and one day she just showed up squeaking (not meowing!) away at my MIL. She let her pick her up and pet her and feed her and even started licking and purring immediately. We just assumed she’d been starving and was grateful for the food. But alas, she’s just weird.
Fast forward—we quarantined her until the vet appointment and the only thing the vet found was the possibility that she might be pregnant. So we kept her in quarantine and just a few weeks later she had four adorable little brats. When the brats were five months we got her and them all spayed and neutered, but all of her odd behavior is still around so now I can no longer chalk it up to hormones.
She’s the friendliest, most outgoing, cat I’d ever met. Not an ounce of fear from her when we introduced her to the other cats and she never even flinched when we took her to the vet. She was running around and squeaking all over the vet’s office. Instead of being cautious when the techs came in she just went right up to them and settled in their arms while being examined.
All these little things seemed to me that she was raised, quite well, with humans. So we hunted and tried our best to find her owner but to no avail. So. She adopted us. It definitely wasn’t the other way around, we had no choice in the matter.
Anyway. That brings me to this weird behavior she exhibits. You see, she chews our fingers. Never hard. You can’t even call it a nip or a bite because she never bites down. It’s more like she rolls our fingers around her mouth. It’s the oddest thing I’d ever seen. She just...kind of chews. She doesn’t close her mouth to suckle and doesn’t bite to nip or use anything beyond her front little tiny teeth. She’s been checked out by the vet and she even admitted that she’s just an odd little cat.
The chewing doesn’t bother us because she’s extremely gentle and she’s never bitten or hissed or scratched out of malice, anger, or fear. She’s just...
Odd.
We estimated her age at somewhere between 8 months and a year and a half. So she’d be close to or at 2 years old now.
The other odd thing she does is that when she chooses to lay down somewhere, she’ll refuse to budge no matter how many times you poke or prod her. You have to pick her up to move her. All my other cats will...well move. Not her.
I’m just looking for insights to see if anyone else has experienced something like this and whether or not it’s a throwback to when she was a kitten (bottle fed maybe?) or if she’s just weird. Well. She is weird. She’s my little weirdo.
A tiny bit of her history that I know of:
She was a stray/street cat in my mother-in-law’s neighborhood. We’d been trying (unsuccessfully) to TNR one of the local feral boy kitties and one day she just showed up squeaking (not meowing!) away at my MIL. She let her pick her up and pet her and feed her and even started licking and purring immediately. We just assumed she’d been starving and was grateful for the food. But alas, she’s just weird.
Fast forward—we quarantined her until the vet appointment and the only thing the vet found was the possibility that she might be pregnant. So we kept her in quarantine and just a few weeks later she had four adorable little brats. When the brats were five months we got her and them all spayed and neutered, but all of her odd behavior is still around so now I can no longer chalk it up to hormones.
She’s the friendliest, most outgoing, cat I’d ever met. Not an ounce of fear from her when we introduced her to the other cats and she never even flinched when we took her to the vet. She was running around and squeaking all over the vet’s office. Instead of being cautious when the techs came in she just went right up to them and settled in their arms while being examined.
All these little things seemed to me that she was raised, quite well, with humans. So we hunted and tried our best to find her owner but to no avail. So. She adopted us. It definitely wasn’t the other way around, we had no choice in the matter.
Anyway. That brings me to this weird behavior she exhibits. You see, she chews our fingers. Never hard. You can’t even call it a nip or a bite because she never bites down. It’s more like she rolls our fingers around her mouth. It’s the oddest thing I’d ever seen. She just...kind of chews. She doesn’t close her mouth to suckle and doesn’t bite to nip or use anything beyond her front little tiny teeth. She’s been checked out by the vet and she even admitted that she’s just an odd little cat.
The chewing doesn’t bother us because she’s extremely gentle and she’s never bitten or hissed or scratched out of malice, anger, or fear. She’s just...
Odd.
We estimated her age at somewhere between 8 months and a year and a half. So she’d be close to or at 2 years old now.
The other odd thing she does is that when she chooses to lay down somewhere, she’ll refuse to budge no matter how many times you poke or prod her. You have to pick her up to move her. All my other cats will...well move. Not her.
I’m just looking for insights to see if anyone else has experienced something like this and whether or not it’s a throwback to when she was a kitten (bottle fed maybe?) or if she’s just weird. Well. She is weird. She’s my little weirdo.
