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Really weird cat

11 replies

Notfootball · 30/11/2017 21:12

My tortoiseshell is really odd. She will come upstairs for a huge love-in, strokes with purrs, meows and head butts then lead me downstairs and start behaving as though I'm a stranger who is about to kick her - she'll run away/cower/hide. This will occur moments after she couldn't get enough of the petting.

How can I get her to calm down? My vet just says that tortoiseshells are call crazy.

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Girliefriendlikesflowers · 30/11/2017 21:16

I agree with your vet

DancesWithOtters · 30/11/2017 21:36

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Fluffycloudland77 · 30/11/2017 21:37

You could try zylkene capsules in her food.

Our cat won't talk to Dh if he's outside. He runs off like Dh is a cat abuser.

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Notfootball · 30/11/2017 21:40

I don't think she's playing, when she runs away she sometimes does that standing-still run where she cannot get away fast enough.

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abbsisspartacus · 30/11/2017 21:44

Get something for her to play with you with like cat fishing rod etc play that down the stairs as you walk

MsMims · 01/12/2017 00:21

Is it because when you’re upstairs you’re sitting and looking non-threatening, but standing up makes her skittish? (Not suggesting you really are intimidating standing up btw!)

TheHodgeHeg · 01/12/2017 00:42

my cat can be a bit like this but I think she's just playing (in her own weird way). If I get a toy out when she's behaving like this she'll play with it and she doesn't object too much to being picked up...if she sits still long enough to be caught!

RubbishMantra · 02/12/2017 12:16

If I wear shoes in the house Little M stares at them in horror, like a feline Mrs. Bucket. It's not like we have a cream coloured carpet or anything.

FruSkogKattOla · 02/12/2017 16:44

Is she a really fluffy cat? I wonder if she has a bit of Norwegian Forest Cat in her breeding cattime.com/cat-breeds/norwegian-forest-cats#/slide/1? Apparently they can be a bit 'up & down' with their affection towards their humans.

We have a lad who, I suspect, has some NFC in him. He's just the same as you describe - one minute total a 'love-in' with me to the point I can't move from wherever I am, the next minute he's telling me to piss off!!

Weedsnseeds1 · 03/12/2017 01:14

My tortie was fairly normal as cats go.
Current cat is a dog.
Previous cat was a drama queen who spent a lot of her time behaving like an RSPCA poster child.
They're all different.

Piewraith · 03/12/2017 01:34

Sounds like she has torti-tude!

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