derby378
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Thu Nov-25-04 11:03 PM
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Our 14-year-old kitty has just taken to jumping on tables and walking all over them, sometimes knocking over stuff. Is it a phase, or is there a chance he's going senile? (He's never done this before.)
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| htuttle
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Thu Nov-25-04 11:08 PM
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| 1. If he's still using the litterbox, and only the litterbox, successfully... |
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...then he's probably not entirely senile yet.
I had a senile cat that began to mistake any rectangular box-like object as her litterbox...just had to keep an eye on her for a few years like that. :eyes:
What kind of cat? Sometimes Siamese get weird for no discernable reason.
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| DS1
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Thu Nov-25-04 11:08 PM
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| 2. Gravity Games! My cat loves knocking shit over and watching it fall |
| The Velveteen Ocelot
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Thu Nov-25-04 11:09 PM
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| 3. He might just be trying to get attention. |
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Does he have any problems hearing or seeing? Fourteen isn't really all that old, so maybe there's nothing wrong; it could be that he just decided he likes being on tables for a change. Kitties are somewhat erratic by nature. They are very strange (but wonderful) animals.
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| Joy Anne
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Thu Nov-25-04 11:13 PM
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My cat started doing that for the first time in her life when she got fleas. (How she got them, I don't know. She was an indoor cat, recently moved to a house with hardwood floors and no carpet to harbor fleas.)
On the other hand, my other cat always has jumped on tables (and the roof, etc.)
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| derby378
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Thu Nov-25-04 11:18 PM
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Turns out he's 16 instead of 14, and he acts like he might be losing some hearing.
Plus, we just killed a couple of fleas. Damn. We need bug bombs.
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| Joy Anne
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Fri Nov-26-04 08:58 AM
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The vet gave the cat some stuff that killed her fleas, and a spray that killed the house fleas. Sorry, it's too long ago for me to remember anything specific.
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Thu Nov-25-04 11:24 PM
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| 6. Better than erotic kitty behavior. |
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:-)
My little one is such a slut. She's always rolling over in somersaults on my feet and then waving her paws in the air.
She also likes to knock things over to see if gravity is still working.
Maybe he's going into a second kittenhood?
Doesn't sound like anything to worry about though.
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