I have three kittens same litter, One has IBD. He's always been different from the other two, who are lap cats and very easy to pet and pick up. He's not aloof, but he's one of those cats that both is begging you to pet him and then suddenly turns around and screams and bats at you - usually with his claws in, but no always.
You can sit and talk to him when he's up on something and he purrs and rolls over and purrs - it's like petting a ticking time bomb though so I stick to the verbal stroking. When company comes he'll stand there purring and being charming, but if the raise a hand to pet him, he'll hiss. He's only one who'll his at the vet, but he's all talk, at least so far.
So anyway tonight he jumps up an hour after dinner and plants himself firmly in front of me rolling and gyrating and purring like he's having a love fit. He got a few good love bites in when I was trying to pet him. This went on for a good two minutes. It's just felt - well - bizarre. Now he's just hanging out in his cat bed and purring up a storm.
Is there some sort of developmental stage thing when cats get to be his age - his almost two y.o.? My impression has always been he's at the bottom of the totem pole around here; his sister is half his size and she body slams him regularly, or used to. I don't get the feeling he's quite as passive as he used to be.
You can sit and talk to him when he's up on something and he purrs and rolls over and purrs - it's like petting a ticking time bomb though so I stick to the verbal stroking. When company comes he'll stand there purring and being charming, but if the raise a hand to pet him, he'll hiss. He's only one who'll his at the vet, but he's all talk, at least so far.
So anyway tonight he jumps up an hour after dinner and plants himself firmly in front of me rolling and gyrating and purring like he's having a love fit. He got a few good love bites in when I was trying to pet him. This went on for a good two minutes. It's just felt - well - bizarre. Now he's just hanging out in his cat bed and purring up a storm.
Is there some sort of developmental stage thing when cats get to be his age - his almost two y.o.? My impression has always been he's at the bottom of the totem pole around here; his sister is half his size and she body slams him regularly, or used to. I don't get the feeling he's quite as passive as he used to be.
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