Hi,
Is me again and it is still about my boy boy Garfy. This morning while i read through some of the thread, suddenly one question pop up into my mind, "Why is my boy never like to purrr as others cat?; Is he happy or not?"
Garfy has been with since he is in 6 weeks old. He was a present from my hubby to cheer me up as that time I am having depression due to my phd study. Before we buy him, he was put in a cage together with his mother and 3 sisters. I can see that he is not very sosialable. He like play alone. As the cage is small, most of the time he like to lying in the litter box rather than side by side with the sister. In fact, I recall that none of his sister, his mother nor himself purr during my visit in the pet shop (I visit once a week). As Garfy is my first cat, I don't know that a cat who got the potential to be a good pet should be able to purr. So I bought him when he is 5 weeks old but yet I put him in the pet shop so that he can still be with the mother. After all of his sister has been fetched home by their owner then only I picked him up. I though of want to let him with the mother for another 2 weeks but my vet told not to do so as he has found that Garfy has ring worm problem and ear flea problem too. So starting then, Garfy has been staying with me until now.
Ya, I admit that he look a bit different from others cat. He seem to dislike for people to hug him or hold him. He like to be alone. The closest that he feel ok with human is that he will follow where ever you go and sleep under the chair of table when I sit down to work or watch TV. At the same time he is very playful, we found that he like to play with his own shadow, or in a way as he has is an imagine or inviisible cat partner. So when he was in 3 months old, we decide to buy him a friend to play with. My second cat AMBEL is a very cute and aldorable exotic short hair girl. She use to purr and greet us whenever she saw us.
Now Garfy is going to be one years old in one month time. But yet I can count that he ONLY PURR for 3 times. He purr when he want to wake me up in the morning. It happened when he realise that I didn't wake up at the time that I used to be. He seem to be worry about me. When he purr, he also use his nose to touch or rub on my face and shoulder. I can feel that he seem to tell me "mummy are u ok, why you haven't wake up?"
I love Garfy a lot compared to Ambel even though Ambel seem to be a beter pet than him. Now he have started to let me hug him for 2-3 minits. Somehow with this boy i can feel the message from his eye and body language. I can feel that sometimes he will miss my hug if I have not been hug him for more a day. He know that mummy loves him a lot and somehow he will not get punishment as what his sister get when they are doing the same mistake. I can feel that sometimes this boy is taking advantage from my love toward him.
Ok. The reason why I wrote so long is hope to provide enough information on Grafy so that you all can tell me is that anything wrong with my boy of not being purring. Frankly speaking I cannot tell whether my boy is happy. What I know is that he like some of the toy that I bought for him but after a while he seem to be bored about it. The only thing he like until now is his straching post. Sometime when he play chasing with Ambel, I know he is happy, he can chase and play until he shout like kid. That is the only time i know that my boy is happy. Other than that I don't know as he will only sit aside watching me doing my thing and when I approach him to touch to pamper him, he will walk away slowly just like I am disturbing him.
Is my boy normal? Is he need help?
Is me again and it is still about my boy boy Garfy. This morning while i read through some of the thread, suddenly one question pop up into my mind, "Why is my boy never like to purrr as others cat?; Is he happy or not?"
Garfy has been with since he is in 6 weeks old. He was a present from my hubby to cheer me up as that time I am having depression due to my phd study. Before we buy him, he was put in a cage together with his mother and 3 sisters. I can see that he is not very sosialable. He like play alone. As the cage is small, most of the time he like to lying in the litter box rather than side by side with the sister. In fact, I recall that none of his sister, his mother nor himself purr during my visit in the pet shop (I visit once a week). As Garfy is my first cat, I don't know that a cat who got the potential to be a good pet should be able to purr. So I bought him when he is 5 weeks old but yet I put him in the pet shop so that he can still be with the mother. After all of his sister has been fetched home by their owner then only I picked him up. I though of want to let him with the mother for another 2 weeks but my vet told not to do so as he has found that Garfy has ring worm problem and ear flea problem too. So starting then, Garfy has been staying with me until now.
Ya, I admit that he look a bit different from others cat. He seem to dislike for people to hug him or hold him. He like to be alone. The closest that he feel ok with human is that he will follow where ever you go and sleep under the chair of table when I sit down to work or watch TV. At the same time he is very playful, we found that he like to play with his own shadow, or in a way as he has is an imagine or inviisible cat partner. So when he was in 3 months old, we decide to buy him a friend to play with. My second cat AMBEL is a very cute and aldorable exotic short hair girl. She use to purr and greet us whenever she saw us.
Now Garfy is going to be one years old in one month time. But yet I can count that he ONLY PURR for 3 times. He purr when he want to wake me up in the morning. It happened when he realise that I didn't wake up at the time that I used to be. He seem to be worry about me. When he purr, he also use his nose to touch or rub on my face and shoulder. I can feel that he seem to tell me "mummy are u ok, why you haven't wake up?"
I love Garfy a lot compared to Ambel even though Ambel seem to be a beter pet than him. Now he have started to let me hug him for 2-3 minits. Somehow with this boy i can feel the message from his eye and body language. I can feel that sometimes he will miss my hug if I have not been hug him for more a day. He know that mummy loves him a lot and somehow he will not get punishment as what his sister get when they are doing the same mistake. I can feel that sometimes this boy is taking advantage from my love toward him.
Ok. The reason why I wrote so long is hope to provide enough information on Grafy so that you all can tell me is that anything wrong with my boy of not being purring. Frankly speaking I cannot tell whether my boy is happy. What I know is that he like some of the toy that I bought for him but after a while he seem to be bored about it. The only thing he like until now is his straching post. Sometime when he play chasing with Ambel, I know he is happy, he can chase and play until he shout like kid. That is the only time i know that my boy is happy. Other than that I don't know as he will only sit aside watching me doing my thing and when I approach him to touch to pamper him, he will walk away slowly just like I am disturbing him.
Is my boy normal? Is he need help?