When Your Cat Won’t Let You Leave
While cats have a reputation for being independent and a bit antisocial, if you own a cat, you know this isn’t true. You may have even experienced trying to leave your home and your cat blocking the door.
This behavior could be the result of separation anxiety, which happens from excessive attachment. In this situation, the best thing you can do is provide activities to keep your cat busy when you’re gone, ignore attention-seeking behaviors, and create a consistent routine.
Why Your Cat Stays Up All Night
Does your cat wake you up at night by running across your furniture, nibbling at your toes while you’re trying to sleep, or walking across you while you sleep? There’s even a name for these behaviors—the night crazies! And you can bet they cause lack of sleep for cat owners.
Well, Cats have different Sleep-Wake Cycles Than Other Animals and Cats are nocturnal Creatures. They Sleep Almost All day or Hunt During the Night. This Beh. avior can also be a size that your cat spents too much time home, , or it’s hungry.
When Your Cat Hops Around
How cute is it when cats give you a little hop when they’re greeting you? Most of the time they raise their front paws off the ground and then they drop right back onto the floor. Like many other behaviors, it’s learned when the cats are kittens.
The behavior is part of the bonding process with the kitten’s mother. Mother cats lower their heads to make contact with their kittens’ heads to spread their scent and the kittens raise themselves to meet her. It’s a way of bonding and it allows the cats to recognize the mother.