My cat is weird and she is driving me mad, she nuzzles and tries to eat my breath!

[pavlovthecat]

My female tortoiseshell cat has driven me to distraction. Seriously she is driving both DH and I absolutely bananas.

We got her at 5 weeks, as she was being mistreated by her 'owner', so too soon really. She has always nuzzled and kneaded, we have dealt with it. But it has got worse and worse and worse.

She comes up to us, like some obsessed mad creature and starts to knead with her claws and lick and suck anything she can of us, mainly our armpits, but our chest, our face, the bed, anything that smells of us. She also sits on us for a fuss which would be nive, but then keeps putting her paw gently on our lips, then kneads, we push her away, she comes back, we push her away, she comes back, and she is behaving like she is desperate to do it. It makes it impossible to fuss her, as soon as you, she is there in our faces, kneading each paw manically.

She also comes up to us when we are in bed and sniffs our mouth, like she is literally trying to take our breath, its really spooky, and she has become a frustrating cat.

Our other cat, big great lump, comes up for a fuss, sits there and really loves us fussing him. The tortoiseshell seems to be almost addicted to something that she must have, oh i cant explain it. but I am losing my cool with her, and and not enjoying her company right now.

Pavlov, my own cats are the same. My female cat behaves like that upstairs and her brother downstairs. I give in to a certain extent, but they do get the hint that down means down. It takes a while about three years but they do eventually leave you alone.

pavlovthecat - honest, my vet used the term to describe my old cat and when I laughed he said it's a genuine veterinary description!

I had a cat like this, it got too much when dd woke up crying because he was trying to snog her, or whatever the hell it was he was up to. I think he may have left his mother too young too. Luckily I have horses and one of my cats already lived there, but there are plenty of rodents to go around so I put him there! He loves it! He does still like to be stroked when we see him, but he has gone a bit wild really, but it is an improvement!