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Hi all, new to this forum here. I have a 4-month old kitten named Marbles who has been with us for 8 weeks now.
Marbles is a Jekyll and Hyde kitten [emoji]128516[/emoji] When she's tired, she's super cuddly and sweet, purrs and snuggles. When she's not sleepy, she goes on zooming tears around the house like she's possessed. You can't pet her, touch her, get near her. If you try, she runs away and hides. She's constantly on "alert" and will puff her tail and sometimes arch her back over nothing- like, if she sees me, or if I say her name. She acts afraid of us, although she's clearly not really. She sleeps with us all night and is a lovey sweetheart then.
Is this just usual kitten behavior? I had kittens as a kid, but don't remember them acting quite this wild! But maybe I just don't remember.
The only thing that gives me pause is I've noticed her back muscles twitching sometimes. Then sometimes she'll go on a tail-licking spree. She spent a good deal of this afternoon chasing her tail or licking it- enough that I felt like it was obsessive, and made an effort to tear her away and get her doing something else. She also randomly shakes her head sometimes. I read about feline hyperesthesia, and am trying to see if the back twitching correlates with the crazy-acting zooming around all freaked out, but am not sure yet. During most of the tail-chasing/licking today, I didn't see back twitches.
Marbles is a Jekyll and Hyde kitten [emoji]128516[/emoji] When she's tired, she's super cuddly and sweet, purrs and snuggles. When she's not sleepy, she goes on zooming tears around the house like she's possessed. You can't pet her, touch her, get near her. If you try, she runs away and hides. She's constantly on "alert" and will puff her tail and sometimes arch her back over nothing- like, if she sees me, or if I say her name. She acts afraid of us, although she's clearly not really. She sleeps with us all night and is a lovey sweetheart then.
Is this just usual kitten behavior? I had kittens as a kid, but don't remember them acting quite this wild! But maybe I just don't remember.
The only thing that gives me pause is I've noticed her back muscles twitching sometimes. Then sometimes she'll go on a tail-licking spree. She spent a good deal of this afternoon chasing her tail or licking it- enough that I felt like it was obsessive, and made an effort to tear her away and get her doing something else. She also randomly shakes her head sometimes. I read about feline hyperesthesia, and am trying to see if the back twitching correlates with the crazy-acting zooming around all freaked out, but am not sure yet. During most of the tail-chasing/licking today, I didn't see back twitches.