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I've been googling and trying to find out if this is a common problem, but I think my cat has a severe attention seeking disorder!!
At least once a day, ever since she's lived with us (we took her in as a stray), she finds some random object to wedge against her windpipe so that it restricts her breathing and she starts to choke. She always does it when she's in the same room as me, so I think it's attention seeking. Just telling her to stop won't work, I have to physically pull her away. A couple of times I've had headphones in and didn't hear her choking until it was almost too late and her tongue was blue and sticking out!!
I think it must be attention seeking, because if she did this when I was out of the house she'd surely be dead by now. She also manages to do this with just about any object so I can't choke proof my house. She sometimes hangs her head off the edge of the table to do it, or over the back of a hard chair, or even on the edge of a shoebox!
She was badly treated before we took her in, and she always seems to want to be loved but then can't handle it and runs away or scrabs us, very very seldomly she will come and sit on us but if we try and stroke her she goes crazy. But we love her and her crazy ways and have lived with her for 5 years. I just wondered if anyone else had ever heard of cats behaving like this, it's like some kind of asphyxiation fetish!
At least once a day, ever since she's lived with us (we took her in as a stray), she finds some random object to wedge against her windpipe so that it restricts her breathing and she starts to choke. She always does it when she's in the same room as me, so I think it's attention seeking. Just telling her to stop won't work, I have to physically pull her away. A couple of times I've had headphones in and didn't hear her choking until it was almost too late and her tongue was blue and sticking out!!
I think it must be attention seeking, because if she did this when I was out of the house she'd surely be dead by now. She also manages to do this with just about any object so I can't choke proof my house. She sometimes hangs her head off the edge of the table to do it, or over the back of a hard chair, or even on the edge of a shoebox!
She was badly treated before we took her in, and she always seems to want to be loved but then can't handle it and runs away or scrabs us, very very seldomly she will come and sit on us but if we try and stroke her she goes crazy. But we love her and her crazy ways and have lived with her for 5 years. I just wondered if anyone else had ever heard of cats behaving like this, it's like some kind of asphyxiation fetish!