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Another behavior post here. I made a post earlier about Z sucking on our chests when he can. I was wondering if some of you had answers to his other quirks.
When we describe Z we describe him as "The reason people don't like cats"
He almost seems to be Bi-Polar. Some parts of the day he will be the laziest cat in the world lounging around and catching all the naps.
The next second he is cat lightning zooming around jumping from cat tree to cat tree (often knocking the trees over). We take this as a sign of play and when we approach him to do so he arches his back and gets bouncy. He then usually swats at us with claws. After a second he will lay down and almost pretend to be lazy, but If you walk past you better be alert, or you might get a claw to the head. This might last for about 10 minutes, we will ignore him and he will come to us for some pets, then ignore us again.
When we go to bed he will come and jump up and maybe lay on one of our chests and do the knead/ suck. Then he will find a spot (usually on my wife's head) stay there for a couple seconds, crawl over her face (he is not light-pawed) to another spot between us. This continues for about 20 minutes. Crawling all over us and laying down for 30 seconds. Eventually he will go to our feet. God forbid you move your toes in your sleep, because he will attack them like its life or death (usually getting me to kick him out).
We just wanted a nice cuddly kitty, but somehow we rescued Satan incarnate. We love him to death and he has good days where he is sort of cuddly. Mostly though he is kind of a jerk.
Are we just stuck with his moody personality? Or are there ways to calm him down into a more relaxed cuddly cat?
When we describe Z we describe him as "The reason people don't like cats"
He almost seems to be Bi-Polar. Some parts of the day he will be the laziest cat in the world lounging around and catching all the naps.
The next second he is cat lightning zooming around jumping from cat tree to cat tree (often knocking the trees over). We take this as a sign of play and when we approach him to do so he arches his back and gets bouncy. He then usually swats at us with claws. After a second he will lay down and almost pretend to be lazy, but If you walk past you better be alert, or you might get a claw to the head. This might last for about 10 minutes, we will ignore him and he will come to us for some pets, then ignore us again.
When we go to bed he will come and jump up and maybe lay on one of our chests and do the knead/ suck. Then he will find a spot (usually on my wife's head) stay there for a couple seconds, crawl over her face (he is not light-pawed) to another spot between us. This continues for about 20 minutes. Crawling all over us and laying down for 30 seconds. Eventually he will go to our feet. God forbid you move your toes in your sleep, because he will attack them like its life or death (usually getting me to kick him out).
We just wanted a nice cuddly kitty, but somehow we rescued Satan incarnate. We love him to death and he has good days where he is sort of cuddly. Mostly though he is kind of a jerk.
Are we just stuck with his moody personality? Or are there ways to calm him down into a more relaxed cuddly cat?