Since mid-July I have a new kitten at home.
She was found among the waste bins and garbage when she was about 5 weeks old. I'm sure she was abandoned before a holiday, she's sweet and used to humans and home.
We named her Pesca, meaning Peach in Italian, because she was as small and round when I took her home.
Now she's 3 months old.
Since the first days, I noticed she liked to bite and chew on strange things, like cardboard boxes and kitchen tissue rolls, and I thought it was just a kitten play.
Now I noticed that things are getting... worse?
She has already chewed on the window curtains (a tiny piece is missing, I noticed). I stopped her by rubbing a cut Key lime on the lower part of all the curtains.
She managed to chew on the sofa cushions padding.
I caught her trying to eat some small slivers of brick/plaster, parts of her toys, the PC cables (only once).
She eats (or tries to eat) whatever she finds on the floor, even if it's the dust I have just swept with the broom.
She also bites my hands and feet (sometimes they are quite painful bites), and chin and nose tip too, but with less strength, luckily. At first I thought it was love bites, but now, looking at them from a wider perspective, I think they're part of the same problem.
I wonder if this could explain her soft (and sometimes runny) poop. Eating weird stuff might upset her bowel.
Do I have to think she has pica?
If so, I foresee a long and troubled cohabitation...
Any experience? Thanks!
She was found among the waste bins and garbage when she was about 5 weeks old. I'm sure she was abandoned before a holiday, she's sweet and used to humans and home.
We named her Pesca, meaning Peach in Italian, because she was as small and round when I took her home.
Now she's 3 months old.
Since the first days, I noticed she liked to bite and chew on strange things, like cardboard boxes and kitchen tissue rolls, and I thought it was just a kitten play.
Now I noticed that things are getting... worse?
She has already chewed on the window curtains (a tiny piece is missing, I noticed). I stopped her by rubbing a cut Key lime on the lower part of all the curtains.
She managed to chew on the sofa cushions padding.
I caught her trying to eat some small slivers of brick/plaster, parts of her toys, the PC cables (only once).
She eats (or tries to eat) whatever she finds on the floor, even if it's the dust I have just swept with the broom.
She also bites my hands and feet (sometimes they are quite painful bites), and chin and nose tip too, but with less strength, luckily. At first I thought it was love bites, but now, looking at them from a wider perspective, I think they're part of the same problem.
I wonder if this could explain her soft (and sometimes runny) poop. Eating weird stuff might upset her bowel.
Do I have to think she has pica?
If so, I foresee a long and troubled cohabitation...
Any experience? Thanks!