My 3 year old kitty Khaleesi is a former bottle fed kitten, I got her at 6 weeks when she was weaning off of the bottle and onto KMR mixed with wet food so I only bottle fed her for a week or so. However, I noticed some strange traits she has that other kitties of mine don't, and was wondering if they are common to bottle fed kitties. She is very orientated to me, meaning if she is sleeping and I get up from my seat to get a cup of water she wakes up and 9/10 will follow me to the kitchen and back. Speaking of sleeping, she only sleeps in one of two locations (at least that I am aware of) either next to me on the matching recliner when I am home/awake watching TV or sleeping next to me in bed. Unlike my other kitties who were independent and slept in other rooms, Khaleesi will never sleep more than 10 feet from me at any time. She has even memorized the particular sound of my cars beep it makes when I lock it and when she hears it will run to the door to greet me as she knows that means I am home. She is also unbelievably trusting of me, a lot of the time I feel like she treats me as an extension of herself as she will frequently do things like ask me to pick her up and hold her up so she can get the fly that is just out or reach, or hold her up so she can sharpen her claws on the top part of the scratching post that she can't usually reach.
Now the bad. She is VERY skittish, anything new or unusual I do or loud noises and she runs/hides for an hour. She also sometimes makes me feel guilty for leaving the house, if she sees me getting ready she will become excessively affectionate and clingy, even to the point of screaming like she is injured while running in front of me to stop me leaving. I have never seen a cat do that before! Very dramatic for sure. She makes me feel like I am 100% the center of her universe (and no she isn't an only cat, I have another older female who she gets along with) and while I love that most of the time...other times I feel guilty because I can't be there with her 24/7. She stares at me sometimes, and I know this may be me projecting human feelings onto a cat, and it seems like she wants something from me but I don't know what. She can stare for 20 minutes easily, a lot of the time she will get up behind my TV so while I am watching it she is staring right at my face LOL.
I am just curious I guess to see if anyone else has experienced this with bottle fed kittens. Perhaps it isn't her bottle fed past that caused this personality, but she seems way more attached to me than any other cat I have known
Now the bad. She is VERY skittish, anything new or unusual I do or loud noises and she runs/hides for an hour. She also sometimes makes me feel guilty for leaving the house, if she sees me getting ready she will become excessively affectionate and clingy, even to the point of screaming like she is injured while running in front of me to stop me leaving. I have never seen a cat do that before! Very dramatic for sure. She makes me feel like I am 100% the center of her universe (and no she isn't an only cat, I have another older female who she gets along with) and while I love that most of the time...other times I feel guilty because I can't be there with her 24/7. She stares at me sometimes, and I know this may be me projecting human feelings onto a cat, and it seems like she wants something from me but I don't know what. She can stare for 20 minutes easily, a lot of the time she will get up behind my TV so while I am watching it she is staring right at my face LOL.
I am just curious I guess to see if anyone else has experienced this with bottle fed kittens. Perhaps it isn't her bottle fed past that caused this personality, but she seems way more attached to me than any other cat I have known