Has anyone had a cat that was taken away from its mom to young and had them find strange ways to self soothe themselves when they are stressed or before they go to bed. My cat Weeble`s mom abandoned them when he was around four weeks, so I took them and bottle fed them and cared for them. Right after his mom left him he started doing the strangest thing that he still does to this day. He sucks on his own nipples!! He does it much less now but I still find when he is stressed like when I have people over or after he goes to the vet and sometimes in the middle of the night I wake up to him laying on the pillow next to my head and hear a strange sucking noise. I look over and he is laying on his back with his little muzzle buried in his own chest hair just sucking away!
This is him in action!
Closer view
Wet belly after he is done!
I don`t know if he will ever stop doing it but everyone around here thinks he is so strange and he creeps them out when they catch him doing it. I used to worry cause he would do it so much that his poor little nipples would be completely raw, so I started taking a mandarin orange peel and squeezing some of the oils out and rubbing that on his belly so he wouldn`t want to suck on it. Personally I feel bad for the poor little guy. He had a bad trauma as a baby and this is his way of coping!
Has anyone else encountered a cat that does something weird like this
This is him in action!
Closer view
Wet belly after he is done!
I don`t know if he will ever stop doing it but everyone around here thinks he is so strange and he creeps them out when they catch him doing it. I used to worry cause he would do it so much that his poor little nipples would be completely raw, so I started taking a mandarin orange peel and squeezing some of the oils out and rubbing that on his belly so he wouldn`t want to suck on it. Personally I feel bad for the poor little guy. He had a bad trauma as a baby and this is his way of coping!
Has anyone else encountered a cat that does something weird like this