Wtf?! (Or...A place to go when you need pet questions answered.)

[satindesire]

My younger female cat has been mounting her father lately. She even bites his nape the way a male cat does to a female he's mating with. Wtf?

Any ideas?

 

[YourCaptor]

Humping isn't just for procreation, its also a sign of dominance, you should know this.

 

[satindesire]

Humping isn't just for procreation, its also a sign of dominance, you should know this.

She does this very lustily, I might add. He does not enjoy it at all. It makes me laugh uncontrollably.

 

[be_ignited]

Hah. Actually, my family's been having similar problems with our house rabbit (exactly what it sounds like--hops around the living room, uses a litter box, etc). We had him fixed soon after we got him (5 or so years ago?) and lately he's been humping everything in sight. Barring his testicles having grown back (we checked), we were clueless. The Vet said it was a dominance thing so maybe something similar with your cat?

At any rate, the vet wound up perscribing the poor horny bunny with anti-depressants in hopes of decreasing his sex drive because my step-mother was absolutely horrified (Not my THROW PILLOWS!). From what I've heard though, it hasn't worked.

 

[YourCaptor]

Maybe she is overly horny as a result of a development stage. Unless it’s a serious issue I would do anything.

Vibratory maybe???

Hmm, or give them separate food bowls if they don’t have them already, that may be creating social issues that need resolving when less hungry.

 

[satindesire]

Maybe she is overly horny as a result of a development stage. Unless it’s a serious issue I would do anything.

Vibratory maybe???

Hmm, or give them separate food bowls if they don’t have them already, that may be creating social issues that need resolving when less hungry.

Hn, good food for thought. I've got four food bowls but I'll pick up another so that the cats won't feel a need to fight for their meals.

Thanks.

 

[sanjuaneros]

Sounds like she is trying to show dominance.

 

[satindesire]

Yes, she is, and she's about 5 pound smaller than he is. Which in the cat world, is a HUGEmongous difference.

It's ridiculously hilarious to watch. He won't speak to me now.

Cats know when they're getting laughed at...I swear.

 

[FurryFury]

My cat shows her Dom thing by merely glaring like an owl at her furry sisters. She is the oldest. She has few teeth left. Her front claws were taken out before I got her. She is the smallest and the sickly one but they back the fuck down from her. LMAO! She has what it takes!

 

[graceanne]

Ok, so if you can ask pet questions here . . .

One of the kids noticed Kitty (our rat) fall off her wheel. I pulled her out of her cage to check on her, and she's got CLAW marks over her eyes. I'm waiting for a vet assistant friend of mine to get home and see what she says. Oh, and I got her a chocolate chip out of the freezer (her favorite treat) and she turned it down. Which made me realize it's not in my head, she isn't eating as much.

Hm. I'm gonna google this, too.

 

[Netzach]

My younger female cat has been mounting her father lately. She even bites his nape the way a male cat does to a female he's mating with. Wtf?

Any ideas?

I'm NOT a freak of nature.

 

[satindesire]

I'm NOT a freak of nature.

*coughcouchdenialcough*

 

[Betticus]

Um, I thought this thread was going to be about a completely different kind of pet.

 

[graceanne]

Um, I thought this thread was going to be about a completely different kind of pet.

Pervert.

 

[Betticus]

Pervert.

Oh? Which one of us were you calling a pervert?

 

[satindesire]

Oh? Which one of us were you calling a pervert?

*Aside* He has a mouse in his pocket.

 

[graceanne]

*Aside* He has a mouse in his pocket.

I was kinda wondering.

 

[Bi_Kitty]

My younger female cat has been mounting her father lately. She even bites his nape the way a male cat does to a female he's mating with. Wtf?

Any ideas?

This totally reminds me of my cat when he was humping my arms. I couldn't figure out what the hell he was doing to be while I slept because I would wake up in the mornings and be all clawed up on both arms. Then one day when I was laying on the bed watching TV, Louie came up and starting doing what he did at night. I let him do it to see what exactly he was doing because I had been asleep all those other times. When I saw that he was humping my arm, first I knocked him off of me then I laughed.

A couple of months later (and a few more scratches) I had him fixed. Since then he hasn't even tried it, LOL.

 

[EmpressFi]

completely in the opposite vein.. my youngest cat isnt fixed yet so she's always horny.. our two male cats have been fixed since they were kittens. They have enough instinct to be sadists. They know how to bite her neck to get her to submit..and she does.. then they sit next to her with their mouths on her neck. Then after about 10 seconds, when she's got her butt in the air all exposed and ready.. they walk off.

It's hysterical to watch...poor thing.

 

[YourCaptor]

Ok, so if you can ask pet questions here . . .

One of the kids noticed Kitty (our rat) fall off her wheel. I pulled her out of her cage to check on her, and she's got CLAW marks over her eyes. I'm waiting for a vet assistant friend of mine to get home and see what she says. Oh, and I got her a chocolate chip out of the freezer (her favorite treat) and she turned it down. Which made me realize it's not in my head, she isn't eating as much.

Hm. I'm gonna google this, too.

Maybe she had something in her eye, tried to get it out and screwed up, now it hurts a lot and so she doesn’t want to eat.

Age + a simple viruses my also be playing a role.

The positive, a rats number one sense is smell, so the loss of any sight wont bother her much once the eye heals.

My advice, get her diagnosed fast because once a small animal starts turning it happens very quickly.

Lots of luck

 

[graceanne]

Maybe she had something in her eye, tried to get it out and screwed up, now it hurts a lot and so she doesn’t want to eat.

Age + a simple viruses my also be playing a role.

The positive, a rats number one sense is smell, so the loss of any sight wont bother her much once the eye heals.

My advice, get her diagnosed fast because once a small animal starts turning it happens very quickly.

Lots of luck

Well, I'm gonna try and get her into the vet. But the truth of the matter is that if I get her into the vet, and it's major, I'm just gonna have to have her put down. I can't afford anything major, and quite frankly she's 2 1/2 - even if I could something else will crop up in another few months and something after that. I can't make her live forever, and it's cruel to put her through uncomfortable procedures cause I'll miss her.

 

[YourCaptor]

Well, I'm gonna try and get her into the vet. But the truth of the matter is that if I get her into the vet, and it's major, I'm just gonna have to have her put down. I can't afford anything major, and quite frankly she's 2 1/2 - even if I could something else will crop up in another few months and something after that. I can't make her live forever, and it's cruel to put her through uncomfortable procedures cause I'll miss her.

If its only and external wound then keeping it clean and keeping her paws off of it will probably do it. The eye should be self-cleaning though, so that’s simple. You may have to force feed her baby food with a syringe, because when rodents feel bad they instinctively retreat themselves and quite.

Syringe may sound cruel, but really its just putting drops of food in the back of the tongue so that the animal then has to swallow. No needles involved.

As you can tell I have done this before, a certain someone had a very sickly guinea pig.

What you may want to focus most of you energy on is figuring out what to tell the kids… I don’t know how old they are. I imagine this could be one of those defining moments for them.

 

[graceanne]

If its only and external wound then keeping it clean and keeping her paws off of it will probably do it. The eye should be self-cleaning though, so that’s simple. You may have to force feed her baby food with a syringe, because when rodents feel bad they instinctively retreat themselves and quite.

Syringe may sound cruel, but really its just putting drops of food in the back of the tongue so that the animal then has to swallow. No needles involved.

As you can tell I have done this before, a certain someone had a very sickly guinea pig.

What you may want to focus most of you energy on is figuring out what to tell the kids… I don’t know how old they are. I imagine this could be one of those defining moments for them.

The first thing I did when I saw she wasn't feeling well seems to have been the right thing. Last time we cleaned her cage we put napkins in instead of papertowels. I took out the napkins, and today she's doing a lot better. She's not completely better - her equilibriam is still a bit off, but her coat is cleaner, she's walking more surely, and her eyes don't look as sore. Plus she's eating everything in site, and she made her bed this afternoon. (That was one of the most alarming things. Kitty is very persnickety. She wants things JUST SO, and will spend a lot of time getting it that way. She has her bed in one corner, and she only uses the paper towels for that. She poops in the opposite corner, and everything is kept neat and clean - but she didn't this week.)

 

[YourCaptor]

The first thing I did when I saw she wasn't feeling well seems to have been the right thing. Last time we cleaned her cage we put napkins in instead of papertowels. I took out the napkins, and today she's doing a lot better. She's not completely better - her equilibriam is still a bit off, but her coat is cleaner, she's walking more surely, and her eyes don't look as sore. Plus she's eating everything in site, and she made her bed this afternoon. (That was one of the most alarming things. Kitty is very persnickety. She wants things JUST SO, and will spend a lot of time getting it that way. She has her bed in one corner, and she only uses the paper towels for that. She poops in the opposite corner, and everything is kept neat and clean - but she didn't this week.)

Yup napkins would be a bad idea. They absorb and stop urine or other fluids from evaporating. They actually make a foam for extinguishing fires using a concept taken from paper towels. The water in the foam takes much longer to evaporate, and so it acts as a fire retardant.

I'm glad things are looking up.

 

[graceanne]

Yup napkins would be a bad idea. They absorb and stop urine or other fluids from evaporating. They actually make a foam for extinguishing fires using a concept taken from paper towels. The water in the foam takes much longer to evaporate, and so it acts as a fire retardant.

I'm glad things are looking up.

Me, too. It was really alarming how quickly she got sick, that's why I was thinking a possibly allergy, but everyone I talked to kept saying cancer. She's not the first rat I've had - I know they're very prone to cancer.

Oh, and my kids have had an animal die on them already. It's actually a funny story. My oldest was 7? which would have put B at about 4. She asked me where Sherbert, our cat, was. I said "Honey, Sherbert was hit by a car. He's went to live with Jesus." B got this HORRIFIED LOOK on her face and she said 'JESUS ISN'T IN MY HEART ANYMORE?' I had to take a couple seconds to keep my face straight before I could explain that Jesus is everywhere, including her heart.