My 2 ½ year old female, Mischief, has some strange behavior. I don't want to call it a problem ... maybe she's just eccentric.
She's always been a very nervous cat. My girls have never been hit or disciplined physically, they seldom hear our voices raised or anything like that. This cat tho', will have the wits scared out of her with the least little sound or movement. Of course, her reaction sets off her sister Frosty and then we have to settle them both down again. They are both very high strung cats with hair-trigger reactions. The thing is, we can't figure out why she's so nervous and jumpy all the time. By the way, both of my girls are strictly indoor only cats.
Mischief is jumpy enough that if she is accidentally disturbed in the litter box, she will bolt for the door when she's only half finished, leaving poops scattered across the floor! It's bad enough with her long fur catching it and dropping it in various places let alone having this happen.
Now, this is the really eccentric part. I've never in my life seen a cat do this before. Of course again, it's Mischief.
She loves her toys, especially the wands with string holding feathers and bells at the end. But ...... she insists on regularly 'baptising' her toys. We go out to the kitchen and find the feather end of the wand, or a toy mouse, or a tin foil ball, etc., in the water dish. She will drag or carry a toy all the way across the house, crying the whole time so you know she's carrying something, and drop it in the water dish ... never the food dish .... just the water. It's hilarious but again, I have no idea why she does it.
Any ideas?
She's always been a very nervous cat. My girls have never been hit or disciplined physically, they seldom hear our voices raised or anything like that. This cat tho', will have the wits scared out of her with the least little sound or movement. Of course, her reaction sets off her sister Frosty and then we have to settle them both down again. They are both very high strung cats with hair-trigger reactions. The thing is, we can't figure out why she's so nervous and jumpy all the time. By the way, both of my girls are strictly indoor only cats.
Mischief is jumpy enough that if she is accidentally disturbed in the litter box, she will bolt for the door when she's only half finished, leaving poops scattered across the floor! It's bad enough with her long fur catching it and dropping it in various places let alone having this happen.
Now, this is the really eccentric part. I've never in my life seen a cat do this before. Of course again, it's Mischief.
Any ideas?