By wrong, I don't mean medically wrong, or even "wrong" in the sense that there's a problem that needs corrected. He's just weird.
Drogon is about three years old, and I adopted him two Octobers ago when he was almost two. (Pictures to come later!) Very tiny gray cat with a baby kitten meow, and I was shocked when the shelter people told me that he had been there for over eight months before I'd come to adopt him.
In the shelter, I remember walking up to find this tiny little gray cat curled up in his cage in a tight little ball, just staring at me. When I reached a finger through to pet him, it was like I pressed an ACTIVATE button. Little dude just starts meowing like crazy and rolling around the cage to get into better contact with my hand. Just barrel rolling all over in the confines of his cage not even caring that he kept bumping his head. He purred like a damn motorboat. Eventually, he got overstimulated and grabbed ahold of my hand with his teeth, shook it one rapidly, and let go. Still purring. Still demanding pets.
That interaction there is the only reason I can think of as to why such a sweet cat would get overlooked for almost a year. People think animals biting = vicious. But....there was no raising of the hackles. There was no growling or warning. Just playfulness and desperation for human attention.
So I took him home.
Over the next several months, his weirdness became pretty clear.
- He's vocal as fuck. At any point in the day, at any time of the day, he will just start baby-yelling at you for pets. Or for food. Or because he likes to hear himself talk. We don't know. I don't even think he knows what he wants sometimes. He's not hearing impaired, so as far as we know, he just likes singing the song of his people.
- He LOVES attention. Basically, if he isn't sleeping, he is physically inserting himself into your vicinity and forcing you to pet him. If you hold a hand out to him, he will slam his entire face into your palm, or even the side of your hand, to get into contact with it. If we're not careful when we initiate pets, he might miss the hand and whack himself on the side of a desk. You have to give him food on the floor so he doesn't slam an eyeball into your pinched hand with treats. Working on the computer or watching TV? He'll either come up behind you and yell or just hop into your lap and slam his face into your face. I can't tell you how many times he's connected with my skull while I'm lying down. He'll also smack phones out of hands.
- He also HATES attention. Give in to his demands and pet him like he wants, but don't pick him up. He's gotten a little better about it since I've gotten him (you need to be picked up to go to the vet, buddy), but most of the time, picking him up to cuddle him even if he demands it might result in him briefly losing his shit and kicking to get away. But then he goes right back to demanding cuddles as if nothing happened.
- He's very sensitive to change. VERY. If I add a new piece of furniture, rearrange the room, have a maintenance guy over, ect? Loses his shit and hides for the day. I had to move him and my other cat to my sister's house to evacuate for a hurricane last year and he spent about six hours screaming in the corner. They use Feliway on him at the vet, though, and he goes from "screeching banshee" to total sweetheart in minutes.
- I think he might have been feral at one point, which is the only reason I can think of for his erratic behavior. To support that theory, if you can't find him in the house anywhere, he's likely in one of his hibernation spots - a place he knows no one can reach. We were looking for him one day and found that if you lift the couch while he's nestled in the bottom of it, he'll give a small series of baby hisses and run off to find other shelter.
- He gets overstimulated easily. And he's also a bastard about it too. If it's not randomly biting you when being petted, it's tearing through the house at 4am and occasionally attacking people's toes. He will also run over to my roommate's cat and follow her around and bother her like he's two months old. He'll slowly walk up to his sister, sit innocently by her, and then play bite her neck or her face. Battle ensues. It's hilarious seeing her eyeing him like she knows something's up.
Yes, this was mostly me wanting to talk about my cat and how weird he is. I like to speculate a lot about how he got the way he is, but....maybe at the end of the day, he's just a weird cat.
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