Is this normal?
My mother has a cat who drools whenever you pet him. He purrs the second your hand touches his fur (if not first sight of you walking in the room). She's bad with animals and had kept 2 of the cats locked in the basement in pretty much total isolation (except for feedings and when she had to go down to laundry) for about 12 years. I really don't know how they lived as long as they did. I was a kid growing up there so had no control over it. One of them managed to find a duct up to the kitchen from the ceiling of the basement that led into the cabinet beneath the sink and he would purr and howl and bang his head against the door of the cabinet trying to get out, but we weren't allowed to touch him. That cat is dead now and he was the sweetest cat I've ever met in my entire life. The sweetest anything I've ever met. The other one got kind of weird and now he drools whenever you pet him and doesn't wash himself. He's got dreadlocks and he's a shorthaired tabby. He's living on the first floor of my mother's house now with my mother's boyfriend's cat. My mother's boyfriend's cat is larger and in better shape and has all his claws. The strange cat is quite fat and declawed and has a small frame. He has managed to become the dominant of the two. He still has very little human interaction, but it's better than all those years in the basement. Anyway, I guess I just wanted to know if drooling to the point of making huge puddles when a cat purrs is normal and if anyone has ever met another cat that refused to groom itself. Sorry, this story is so depressing. There's nothing I can do to change the circumstances.
My mother has a cat who drools whenever you pet him. He purrs the second your hand touches his fur (if not first sight of you walking in the room). She's bad with animals and had kept 2 of the cats locked in the basement in pretty much total isolation (except for feedings and when she had to go down to laundry) for about 12 years. I really don't know how they lived as long as they did. I was a kid growing up there so had no control over it. One of them managed to find a duct up to the kitchen from the ceiling of the basement that led into the cabinet beneath the sink and he would purr and howl and bang his head against the door of the cabinet trying to get out, but we weren't allowed to touch him. That cat is dead now and he was the sweetest cat I've ever met in my entire life. The sweetest anything I've ever met. The other one got kind of weird and now he drools whenever you pet him and doesn't wash himself. He's got dreadlocks and he's a shorthaired tabby. He's living on the first floor of my mother's house now with my mother's boyfriend's cat. My mother's boyfriend's cat is larger and in better shape and has all his claws. The strange cat is quite fat and declawed and has a small frame. He has managed to become the dominant of the two. He still has very little human interaction, but it's better than all those years in the basement. Anyway, I guess I just wanted to know if drooling to the point of making huge puddles when a cat purrs is normal and if anyone has ever met another cat that refused to groom itself. Sorry, this story is so depressing. There's nothing I can do to change the circumstances.
