So Anya has been doing this for a couple of weeks now, but we've just now decided we think we know why she's doing it. Plus she's doing it more now.
She wakes Brian up around 4:00 am every single morning (lately she's done it again around 6:30ish.) She crouches on his chest and licks the stubble on his chin until she has it sufficiently wet and then rubs he head on it. Then she repeats...and repeats...and repeats. He said this morning his chin felt raw.
A few weeks ago I asked Brian if he ever saw her clean her face. He answered no, but that she didn't groom any part of her body as much as the cats he had grown up with. We have always attributed it to her being taken away from her mom at around 5 weeks or so and not really learning the grooming process from her or other cats.
We've decided that this nighttime ritual is her face cleaning. And she's very insistent about it. If Brian turns his head, she'll lay across his face so she can get to his chin and he won't move. The only thing he can do is pull the covers over his head, but then she comes to me and wakes me up to complain that daddy is being a meanie.
Anybody else ever experience this? Is there a way to teach her to groom her face herself without the aid of Brian's stubble? My poor husband is becoming more than a little sleep deprived because of this, but he's loves her so much he just lets her do it until she finishes and then rolls over.
She wakes Brian up around 4:00 am every single morning (lately she's done it again around 6:30ish.) She crouches on his chest and licks the stubble on his chin until she has it sufficiently wet and then rubs he head on it. Then she repeats...and repeats...and repeats. He said this morning his chin felt raw.
A few weeks ago I asked Brian if he ever saw her clean her face. He answered no, but that she didn't groom any part of her body as much as the cats he had grown up with. We have always attributed it to her being taken away from her mom at around 5 weeks or so and not really learning the grooming process from her or other cats.
We've decided that this nighttime ritual is her face cleaning. And she's very insistent about it. If Brian turns his head, she'll lay across his face so she can get to his chin and he won't move. The only thing he can do is pull the covers over his head, but then she comes to me and wakes me up to complain that daddy is being a meanie.
Anybody else ever experience this? Is there a way to teach her to groom her face herself without the aid of Brian's stubble? My poor husband is becoming more than a little sleep deprived because of this, but he's loves her so much he just lets her do it until she finishes and then rolls over.