Hi,
My first post -- so glad to have found this well built site.
I've just read the thread regarding grooming the fuzzy blankets and all your pertinent replies.
My problem is just slightly different:
although Smokey has kneaded (either in our laps or in his fleece bed or on a blanket) since he first arrived (taken away from Mom way too young and delivered to the SPCA where we found him), it is 12 years later and just tonight I woke up to a weird scratching noise.
He hasn't ever carpet scratched. What he is doing now is licking (the noise was his rough tongue rather furiously consuming) the carpet. This isn't new carpet, hasn't been recently cleaned, it's in the bedroom and not been exposed to food or such odours and hasn't been trod upon at all in that area.
All of a sudden it seems that he is simply fixated on digesting that bit of carpet and he is doing so in a side-to-side typewriter (corn on the cob) method.
He suffers from asthma (and has been on meds that control it for years) so any new strange behaviour always alerts/concerns me.
He's an indoor cat. He has a 100% natural food which he loves. No litterbox probs. No changes/stresses in the household.
I'm mystified really. He is only rarely sick to his stomach and the past two times this has happened there has appeared to be both fecal matter and some matted stuff in the vomit. That was new to us.
Now I'm wondering if this is the source of the matted gunk. What I really need help with are suggestions for the cause?
I just sprayed the area he was focused on with lavender and he has departed from there but likely he'll just move somewhere else unless I can figure out what is up.
Anyone?
Thanks v.m.
Christie
My first post -- so glad to have found this well built site.
I've just read the thread regarding grooming the fuzzy blankets and all your pertinent replies.
My problem is just slightly different:
although Smokey has kneaded (either in our laps or in his fleece bed or on a blanket) since he first arrived (taken away from Mom way too young and delivered to the SPCA where we found him), it is 12 years later and just tonight I woke up to a weird scratching noise.
He hasn't ever carpet scratched. What he is doing now is licking (the noise was his rough tongue rather furiously consuming) the carpet. This isn't new carpet, hasn't been recently cleaned, it's in the bedroom and not been exposed to food or such odours and hasn't been trod upon at all in that area.
All of a sudden it seems that he is simply fixated on digesting that bit of carpet and he is doing so in a side-to-side typewriter (corn on the cob) method.
He suffers from asthma (and has been on meds that control it for years) so any new strange behaviour always alerts/concerns me.
He's an indoor cat. He has a 100% natural food which he loves. No litterbox probs. No changes/stresses in the household.
I'm mystified really. He is only rarely sick to his stomach and the past two times this has happened there has appeared to be both fecal matter and some matted stuff in the vomit. That was new to us.
Now I'm wondering if this is the source of the matted gunk. What I really need help with are suggestions for the cause?
I just sprayed the area he was focused on with lavender and he has departed from there but likely he'll just move somewhere else unless I can figure out what is up.
Anyone?
Thanks v.m.
Christie