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New here with 13 month old kitties and this is a long one. They are boy and girl littermates and were neutered and spayed at 5 months. We adopted them at 8 weeks and they came home very confident little kitties - walked right in with tails in the air. They started out about the same size, now he's 12 lbs and she's not quite 8 lbs. They used to always sleep together and developed separate movements and habits as they got older. However, the male always took comfort being groomed by her and she seemed to be soothed by being the mommy. He even sucked on her ear and still does occasionally.
For the two weeks, the female has been acting strangely - yeowling at us (she's wandering the house yeowling right now), getting pissed off at her brother when he wants to play, peeing in the dining room, and now obsessed with a toy (the kind with feathers at the end of a wire). She went to the vet and she doesn't have a UTI and they suggested idiopathic cystitis and gave us some brochures. We haven't changed our routine or the house (except tossing the pee'd on rug), they live in a large house with 3 levels, litter boxes on all floors (2 on the main floor), large homemade cat tree, scratchers on all floors, two beds by the fireplace, the house backs to open space with lots of big windows to watch birds from all angles of the couch, the bench, the cat tree, etc., a dwarf bunny housepet (he's not loose all the time) she's trying to befriend (rolling on her back in front of him), we play with them and try to run out their teenage energy, and my husband works from home 3 days a week - kitty paradise, no?
One theory is that she's had it with her brother. We felt she was the dominant one but now he's 50% bigger than her and has a significant advantage now when they wrestle or squishes her when he tries to snuggle. So, we are trying giving her no-brother time and she sits by the basement door wondering why he's down there. She does seem annoyed with him but is that sibling annoyance something to cause the yeowling (might be trying to get us to play with her toy with her), peeing, and toy obsession (haven't described that - obsessed and its a prey toy not a pretend baby). Or is he annoying her because she doesn't feel well?
They are both sweet kitties and are worried about our pretty girl. Any advice?
New here with 13 month old kitties and this is a long one. They are boy and girl littermates and were neutered and spayed at 5 months. We adopted them at 8 weeks and they came home very confident little kitties - walked right in with tails in the air. They started out about the same size, now he's 12 lbs and she's not quite 8 lbs. They used to always sleep together and developed separate movements and habits as they got older. However, the male always took comfort being groomed by her and she seemed to be soothed by being the mommy. He even sucked on her ear and still does occasionally.
For the two weeks, the female has been acting strangely - yeowling at us (she's wandering the house yeowling right now), getting pissed off at her brother when he wants to play, peeing in the dining room, and now obsessed with a toy (the kind with feathers at the end of a wire). She went to the vet and she doesn't have a UTI and they suggested idiopathic cystitis and gave us some brochures. We haven't changed our routine or the house (except tossing the pee'd on rug), they live in a large house with 3 levels, litter boxes on all floors (2 on the main floor), large homemade cat tree, scratchers on all floors, two beds by the fireplace, the house backs to open space with lots of big windows to watch birds from all angles of the couch, the bench, the cat tree, etc., a dwarf bunny housepet (he's not loose all the time) she's trying to befriend (rolling on her back in front of him), we play with them and try to run out their teenage energy, and my husband works from home 3 days a week - kitty paradise, no?
One theory is that she's had it with her brother. We felt she was the dominant one but now he's 50% bigger than her and has a significant advantage now when they wrestle or squishes her when he tries to snuggle. So, we are trying giving her no-brother time and she sits by the basement door wondering why he's down there. She does seem annoyed with him but is that sibling annoyance something to cause the yeowling (might be trying to get us to play with her toy with her), peeing, and toy obsession (haven't described that - obsessed and its a prey toy not a pretend baby). Or is he annoying her because she doesn't feel well?
They are both sweet kitties and are worried about our pretty girl. Any advice?
