My funny 18 year old cat
I'm not sure what's up with her. Over the last few months she has become very playful with toy mice. She never did much with these toys that my younger cat plays with all the time - until recently. I can hear her chasing them around the bedroom in the night for maybe 5-10 minutes. Then at times she will pick one up in her mouth and carry it around while she yowls and yowls. She can go on and on with this until I go see what's going on. Then she drops the mouse and purrs. This morning I thought she was dying but no - just carrying the mouse around yowling. During the last episode she finally carried the thing into the other room where I was and brought it over to me - something she's never done. I feel like she has some kind of dementia....
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6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoMy cat used to bring her toy mouse to us to signal that she wanted to play. We couldn't keep up with her demands so we got her a kitten. Often she'll yowl to tell him she wants to play. I think it's a fake distress call and she only uses it when she wants someone to play with her. Every now and then my boy cat will sit behind the sofa and meow, which is his signal to Gracie that he wants her to come find him. Or he goes in the bathroom and closes the door and meows, hoping she'll come investigate.
Scoot looks a lot like your kitty. He is laying on his back for a belly rub as I type.
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6 years agoWe have two cats, litter mates,
Earl Gray and Ginger Spice. Earl Gray brings one specific toy and drops it at our feet and yowls until we play with him. He also has a morning ritual: he wakes us up first thing in the morning and won’t quit making sad baby noises until we follow him to his food bowl. Then he circles around the food, wants to be petted while he eats. Ginger jumps on to the bed, gets under the sheets with us and purrs heavily and falls asleep. They are a hoot.
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Scoot has a bit of a lion's mane under his chin. His two black sisters were more like your kitty and Stevie Ray.
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I think all their play is practice hunting. I've noticed that they only like the flatter mice that they can hold in the mouths easily and carry all around the house. Gracie's big thing now is a ping pong ball that we have to kick into a pile of tissue paper. She can keep it going all around the living room. Boy is she fast!
She really loved peacock feathers too, which I'd forgotten about. I'll have to get her one. Some pet stores sell them.
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3katz, yes, they assume the same pose all the time. They have the same coloration too on their bodies, though obviously different color. we call them “same model, different color” as you can see.
6 years agoStevie Ray has inflammatory bowel disease. After a rough flare up he gets a bit scraggly and looks like he’s wearing an Elizabethan collar. Then he fluffs back out and all is well in the world. :-)
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoOur black kitty also yowls with his toy and walks down the hall with it, though he prefers fleece or fabric balls vs mice. I have to toss the ball down the hall to him or else he likes when I toss it on the bed and he can jump up there and pounce on it. He loves to play ball! He still has a good spring in his step at almost 14. Just had an exam and bloodwork that was good. He takes the kitty glucosamine for joint health.
Little girl kitty will bring us the mouse and yowl down the hall, too.
They are as opposite as can be but love each other.
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