A Cat Question!

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 7/6/09 at 3:19pm

I have 5 cats (4 boys and 1 girl) all completely declawed and sterilized.
However...at least once or twice a day. The two oldest males will get together for interesting behavior. One will make a "different" meow than usual and then the other will come and get on top of him kinda bite his neck. They do it laying down too and one will "make biscuits" on the others back.
Sometimes they change roles.

Anyways, has anyone ever seen this type of behavior? What is it and what should I make of it?

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 7/6/09 at 3:23pm

Wrestling...my female/male brother and sister do it all the time...playing and grooming often overlap. I wouldnt worry about it at all.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/6/09 at 3:26pm

They love each other. The Making Biscuits behavior is something cats do when they are REALLY content. The knead their mom's belly when feeding as kittens and it's thought they do that again unconsciously as they experience that same kind of warmth & contentment.

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 7/6/09 at 3:28pm

Except that it's not really a fighting type of thing.

My roommate says it is something to do with dominance over the other one.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/6/09 at 3:29pm

Cats will lightly bit each other (or their human) as a sign of love- kind of like their way of hugging.
Updated On: 7/6/09 at 03:29 PM

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 7/6/09 at 3:30pm

Gay.

They are gay.

Gay gay gay!

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 7/6/09 at 3:32pm

They must be because when we brought the girl has been here almost a year and they want nothing to do with her and still hiss at her!

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 7/6/09 at 3:33pm

I asked my cat and he says your cats are gay.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 7/6/09 at 3:34pm

My female is the dominant sibling (spayed/neutered, so the gender roles can be blurred.) She cleans her brother, then will bite his neck...sometimes she walks by and bites his leg for no reason. It's like she says, "get up ya fatass!" They're just loving each other. If one were unhappy or being hurt, you'd know it! I wouldnt worry about it at all.

[danmag]

Posted: 7/6/09 at 3:34pm

Diva, you told me my dog was gay. You just think everyone's pets are gay.

[tazber]

Posted: 7/6/09 at 4:20pm

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/6/09 at 4:44pm

I am making biscuits on my monitor screen right now, Taz. I better leave before it's gravy time.

[Patronus]

Posted: 7/6/09 at 5:08pm

It's a sign of establishing themselves as the leader of the pack.

Or...maybe they are just pissed that you declawed them and they want to make a mess for you to clean up. I know I'd be pissed if someone cut my fingers off at the first knuckle.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 7/6/09 at 5:34pm

Dan,

Your dog was waving a flag for the 4th. He's gay.

Now my cats are straight, but they say MTVMan's cats are gay.

You'll have to take it up with them.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 7/6/09 at 5:50pm

See?!

My cat is SUPER!

[danmag]

Posted: 7/7/09 at 11:11am

Diva, he wasn't WAVING it. He was retrieving it. He's a retriever.

Updated On: 7/7/09 at 11:11 AM

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 7/7/09 at 11:16am

"Retrieving" is just sophisticated "fetching". Your dog is either 1) urban elite or 2) gay or 3) both.

I owned a poodle in the city, so I know.

[danmag]

Posted: 7/7/09 at 11:16am

Oh, he's definitely gay. He's just not a flag waver!!

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 7/7/09 at 11:19am

So he's a gay, commie dog.

He IS beautiful!

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 7/7/09 at 11:56am

Too bad he can't fly like my cat...

[Eris0303]

Posted: 7/7/09 at 12:09pm

Rather than starting a new thread I'll just post this here.

Has anyone ever had a cat have trouble walking after receiving a shot? My cat, Storm, got a shot late last week and on Friday was found to be limping. She's walking flat on one of her hind legs. Anyone who has cat knows that they have two joints in their legs and they walk on the first one. Well, Storm is walking on the second one. I took a picture of it but don't have access to it from work. At first the vet thought it might be a reaction to the shot but now she won't say anything other than the limp may be permanent. Storm isn't running or jumping anymore. She just seems really sad.

Add this to Storm's previously discovered UTI and my other cat, Luna, having blood in her bladder and I'm an unhappy "mommy".

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 7/7/09 at 1:12pm

Ask another vet. Sounds like yours isn't telling you the truth.

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 7/7/09 at 1:12pm

Is Storm your older Cat?

Most of the time they get shots in their neck right? I think I might have seen that happen a time or two after a cat has got a shot in its leg...but I don't know what to say.

I can say that the vet told me that with my older cats that it was probably better NOT to get them rabies shots since ALL 5 are strictly indoor cats. I seem to remember her reason why having something to do with their age...I can't remember if the reason was that they don't heal as fast or not though.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 7/7/09 at 1:38pm

Storm is 4 and Luna is 10.

I wasn't present when Storm got the shot nor was the Vet. She said she was going to find out if the shot was given in the leg. But now she's not saying anything nor is she giving any more shots.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 7/7/09 at 1:45pm

Get a lawyer.