Hi all,

My cat Gus has had a hard time settling into our new apartment (he and I previously lived in a house of similar square footage). For context, my boyfriend and I did not live together before but Gus is very familiar with him and they have a wonderful relationship. It’s been about three months and he occasionally gets a weird burst of aggressive behavior that seems to come out of nowhere. He’ll just come up to me or my boyfriend and start yowling and biting us, then seeking affection, and back to biting. When it happens it’s really hard to redirect him or comfort him. I’ve had him for three years previously and he’s never displayed this type of behavior. We went to the vet and have maintained a really structured routine with treat puzzles, play in the morning and evenings, and turned our balcony into a catio (he had one at the old house). I’m on a waiting list for a behavioralist but I’m just really lost and wondering if you all had advice on how to respond to this behavior when it happens and also on ways you think we can help him. I feel like it’s probably anxiety based. We used a Feliway diffuser for a minute but it seemed to make these outbursts more frequent. I just hate that he’s in distress. :(

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the past few months my cat has been making biscuits more frequently. i have read online that it may be “sin biscuits”. how can i (if i even should?) stop him? should i be concerned? is this just a phase?

Can someone explain this behavior and if it’s good or bad? Noodle (the tabby) was so calm and then if not sure why, but attacked one of the kittens. Also, he will peacefully sleep next to the Castor (blue collar) but then randomly bite his ear and swat him or lick the top of his head. I’m having trouble interpreting the mixed signals.

Hello all!

I have a 2 year old male cat among two females (12 & 4 both fixed) and another male (1yrs old).

I recently started seeing the older male mounting the younger male, biting him on the back of the back and ‘mounting’ his back end/ sitting on him.

The younger cat does not seem distressed and this is followed by some play fighting/wrestling.

I am concerned this is a sexual thing, is this possible? I have attached a image for reference

Fell victim to the cat distribution system again. Been doing my best to get these two to get along. Should I be concerned about senior male cat's behaviour with the new baby? Why does he want to carry the baby around so much? Is it a dominance thing?

*First post deleted because I couldn’t figure out how to add the video

Hello! I adopted a second cat, a kitten, at 11 weeks old from a shelter. Since almost immediately he has taken to my earlobe to try to suckle. He literally chooses a side a will suck on my earlobe while doing his biscuit making paws until he falls asleep (still latched to my ear). He’s now just under 6 months old and still loves a good cuddle/ ear nursing session haha. I’ve had to make one of my ears off limits by redirecting him to the other due to it developing a callous and being sore, but otherwise this has caused me no harm.

Does anyone else’s kitten/cat do this? Is it like human babies where it’ll mess up his teeth or can I just leave him be?

He will not take to anything else like fingers, fabric, baby bottles etc. and this is not medical as he’s been vetted and is healthy.

Thanks so much!

My 8 month old kitten knows I don’t want him to bite my feet, but unfortunately they are just too bite-able for him to resist. Recently I told him no, so he leaned back and launched his face towards my feet. Is there a name for this behavior?

She laid down on me and started doing this. This is a completely new behavior. She’s around 15 weeks old we think, so could it be a kitten thing? She’s purring like a lawnmower.

Hello all! I know this isn't something as serious as a lot of the other things posted here, but me and my wife are honestly super curious. When me or my wife get out of bed our cat, Coffee, will jump up onto the bed and just start rolling around and meowing where we were laying! Its super cute and we both are just so confused why she just likes rolling around where we were. Is it because of warmth?

I've been trying to find an answer on Google, but honestly don't even know HOW to search what she's doing lol.

Thank y'all for the knowledge!

Sorry, the video is kind of long, but I wanted to show the tackle and the eventual walking away. I’m pretty sure Ive posted our girls before, but it’s been 6 months and things haven’t really changed. I know the response is “if they’re actually fighting, you’ll know. They’re just playing” but I have a hard time believing this is play. They definitely play sometimes, but it often ends like this, with some tackling, squeaking, and puffs of fur. I know the bengal is desperately trying to be submissive, she usually is. I feel like our tuxedo just doesn’t like her and I’m not sure what to do. Should we be intervening when they do this? Or just let it play out? Is there some way to help them get along? We have feliway plug-ins in every room, they eat separate, we have 3 litter boxes, and our introduction was over the course of 2 months with minimal drama. We got the bengal in January, and she is incredibly sweet and wants to be our tuxies friend so bad. She tries to lay with her and hang out, but gets a smack if she gets too close.

Anyone know why my cat does this? She rubs her face up against pretty much everything she can, she especially likes corners of furniture and my lamp shades. Sometimes with the lamps she will do it so aggressively that she will lift the (very heavy) lamp. Ive heard about bunting but i didn’t know if this was something different

Please help My cat has been super aggressive since the spay. She was so sweet before. Has anyone experienced this?

This looks like a weird mating thing but i’m not sure. i just happened to catch it. The Brown cat, Vinny, Is 1 year and gonna be 2 in February. We got him in September last year, a rescue. My other cat who’s white and brown, Apollo, is, i believe, 3 years old. we got him when he was a kitten too, also a rescue. Sometimes they hiss at each other, and then the next moment they’re licking each other like they’re fine. they sleep in beds next to each other. I’ve never seen them do this before. I got concerned and i was like “apollo!” and he walked away. What do you think? what should i do? i’m so weirded out.

My tuxedo boy, Mojo, will bring me his favorite cuddle toy at least once a day, meowing while he walks toward me. Usually he does this at bedtime when I’m not near my phone, but today he did it in the middle of the day and I was able to grab a quick video.

This is not a toy he plays with - he only either brings it to me, or takes it to bed and snuggles it.

I think this is super cute, but I’m hoping someone can help me understand what this behavior means.

TYIA!

Okay so my cat had a singleton kitten yesterday morning (complete accident) and yesterday she was doing really well with him and all day today as far as I know (I’ve been trying to let her be but I’m really anxious about all this) but tonight I came in the room (we only have one room atm) and dad had taken the kitten (I assume because he had him) and was on the floor with him out of the hutch where mom nested and has kept the kitten and was grooming him?? I put him back in the hutch with mom and now she’s not acting the same towards him? She’s also been laying on him sometimes and I’m just really stressed something is going to happen to him. She’s now got him down by her butt instead of against her belly like she’s been keeping him. Any advice or pointers would be wonderful as I’ve only dealt with orphaned kittens a few weeks old and never a newborn. Pic of mom and baby for tax.

my female cat suckles on my fingers or my ear my eyelids. She is doing it since she is a kitten. She is 10 months old now. when she starts to purr she immediately do so. i wonder if it is pica. I guess she was separated from her mom early but, it makes me wonder if she is happy or not? She also eats plastic by the way..

I have a male kitten thats around 3 months old and he is driving me nuts !!!!! I work really long hours and when I get home I want to relax but my cat has other plans! He wont sit still and is constantly jumping all over, climbing curtains, knocking things down etc... I was hoping he would be chilled and enjoy being stroked but NO he wants to chew on my hand or my arm or my face. I also get woken up several times a night. Please advise on what to do I am worried he may be brain damaged or something and he needs to calm down abit. A friend suggested catnip to mellow him down but hell no never again ! Thanks in advance

This is Momo, she was my partners families cat, but when my partner and I got into a place together we took her with us. She is 15 so he has had this kitty for a long time. She treats us so differently but in the sweetest ways. For me she likes to crawl under the blankets, she watches me sleep and often puts her little paw on my lips. She kisses my hair a lot too. For my partner she always sits on his lap, makes biscuits on him, or when she escapes outside she runs right back up to him if he calls for her. Our relationships with her are obviously so different, is that why she treats us so differently? Does she think im her baby?

Hi guys! We have a 1 year and a half male cat. He is highly energetic, aggressive, claws a lot even us owners when we are carrying him and he always fights and chase his 7 year old sister. We both decided to buy a shirt and he suddenly calmed down. Do you guys think that putting shirt tames/calms down the cat?

this is the third time the cat did this to me