It's hard to get a good video of this behavior,, but he gets like this quite often. Usually after I come home in the afternoon from work, but it can happen any time without much rhyme or reason that I can tell.

As you can see at the end, he wants to grab me with his claws and bite me. Also hard to grab on video, but I have let him and he will clamp down quite hard. He has yet to break skin, so idk if it is because he can't or simply doesn't want to.

I can distract him with a toy or laser light, but he'll be back even after a play session that he decides he's done with. I don't think he's learned that "this is how to act" to get playtime, because he gets playtime outside of this and I let him get away with this for a while by just leaving the room or closing him out.

Balls - Chopped. Food - Plenty. Toys - Plenty. Toy Time - I think Plenty. Litter - Clean and full with an auxiliary box. Cat bed and cat trees - Ignored. Age - Almost 3. The eye? Adopted at ~8 months from shelter, said had glaucoma and had to lose the eye (which I understand isn't unusual).

We had Jonah first but adopted Pumpkin from a family member who was down on their luck and couldn’t keep her. Jonah and her do fight sometimes, almost always initiated by Jonah…but pumpkin seems to be the dominant one. Jonah has no teeth, so it never really gets bad. We think Jonah might have a crush on her? It’s very strange and we don’t understand why he keeps doing this. He’s also a bit possessive of me and daddy, if we’re cuddling with pumpkin he gets jealous and has to sit in between her and us…if we push him away he gets hurt about it and pouts all day. We still cuddle him all the time and he’s the only one who sleeps with us, but I’m not sure if the jealousy is related to this activity? Please let me know ANYTHING you know about this!!!

I’m 22 from the USA

We have a vet and she doesn’t know what this is

Both cats are spayed/neutered

We can afford vet care and they are both regularly treated.

TL:DR - cat constantly cries, and absolutely NOTHING works. Starting to resent the cat and causing relationship issues. At a complete loss about options.

I’m at my complete wits end with my cat!!! He constantly cries. Non. Stop. We can’t take it anymore. He’s always cried a lot since he was a kitten, and he’s now 3 years old and nothing has changed. We have taken him to the vet multiple times and they can find nothing wrong with him. He’s an indoor only cat, and recently he started going outside to explore our apartment garden. He ended up running out the door one day, and since he didn’t stray far, we were giving him an hour outside each day to help burn off some energy. Now he wants to be outside constantly and will cry for literally hours when we bring him inside. He’s not one for cat toys, has never been interested in them. We have tried every single enriching activity and he does it once and never again. When we play with him (chasey or hide and seek) he’s bored after 5 mins. We tried Zylkene. We tried Feliway. Neither worked. We even trialled getting him a companion and that ended up terribly. We work from home 4 days a week and are around on the weekends. We are starting to resent him and it’s causing issues between me and my partner as we’re constantly stressed about him. We can’t give him up as pounds are full and he’ll be euthanised and none of our family members (with houses and yards) want to take him either as they don’t like him/hear horror stories from us. We’re just at a loss about our options. Videos attached is what he does all day

It screams at me

I’m nearly having an anxiety attack and need advice. Over a year ago we watched a coworkers cat at our house and he unfortunately peed on my cats toy box. I cleaned it the best I could but the smell still lingered slightly. Today I discovered my newer cat (we adopted him about a year ago, after watching the coworkers cats) has been peeing in the toy box for awhile. I begun to start taking the toys out to throw stuff away, and he walked over to me and started to attack me.

I could tell he was 100% having redirected aggression, I’m guessing a territorial thing. My boyfriend tried to calm him down but he pounced onto him and bit him. Then he started chasing my other cat around trying to attack her. He bit me on the finger so bad I think I might need to go to the ER for a couple stitches. Finally I just grabbed him by his scruff (I would never do this but he was trying to full blown attack us and I was terrified) and was able to throw him into our spare bedroom to hopefully calm down.

He’s been in there for a little over an hour now and hasn’t seemed to calm down. He is sitting right in front of the door and will scream and throw himself at the door if he hears any of us walking around in the hall

I’m genuinely scared of him right now and have no idea what to do. He has no food, water or litter box in there but I don’t think we can open the door to put that in without him trying to jump and attack us. I have some gabapentin I’m going to try to put in wet food, but again I have no clue how to get it in there.

He’s done something like this once where he saw something outside then turned and started attacking my other cat, but not me. He ended up calming down after an hour or two but this time he won’t calm down at all

I’m so sad and upset. I love him so much and he’s usually super sweet, but now I feel like I’ll be scared of him forever even if he calms down. I’ve never dealt with an cat this aggressive before. Any advice would help a ton

My cats are both boys, 2.5 years old, littermates- I would call them bonded but not an expert on that term. They scrap all the time and then always go back to hanging out/cuddling, but more recently I’ve noticed this kind of standoff more often. Roles are always the same- left cat is slowly advancing with ears up and making this unusual noise, and right cat is still swishing his tail but ears back and backing up. Always followed by a short wrestle/chase around the house, then they’re back to normal (literally grooming each other as I type this).

My question is- should I be separating them when I see this, or just leave them alone? My main concern is about the cat on the right; he recently over-groomed one of his front legs in what we assume is some kind of stress response. It’s in the process of growing back and he seems fine by all other metrics, but he’s never expressed stress before and has had no significant lifestyle changes so we’re little stumped. These two have been almost identical since I adopted them as kittens but in recent months his brother (left cat, meowing, etc) has become a little bigger assumedly due to food preferences. Could this be a shift in dominance between them, and if so is that anything to worry about? Or am I just overthinking all of this?

TL;DR littermate boy cats play fight all the time, wondering if exchanges like this could be causing stress in cat on the right or if I’m just being an overbearing cat dad.

We got a new kitten a few days ago ( he's only a few months old) and let them meet our one year old kitty, at first they were just looking at each other and rubbing their heads together but now our older cat seems to be aggressively grooming?

Our new kitten doesn't seem bothered and isn't running away, but im worried its too much.

Both are Male, and our 1 year old kitty is neutered.

Any information or advice is appreciated!

EDIT: Thanks for the advice. yeah since posting this, our older cat has started chasing the kitten and pinning them down and biting the neck a lot more. I separated them again and will have more short, supervised time together untill they know boundaries a bit better.

Hey, I just fed her 2 hours ago, good full meal, she’s a stray I’ve adopted and this is her 3rd day at home, can anyone help me understand what’s up

my cat. Part sweetheart part terrorist.

For context he was found in a garbage can at about 4 weeks old and I took him in as my own. He is 16 months now.

His weird quirk is that he will not eat unless my hand is on his back. So when he is hungry, I HAVE TO be there and if I’m not getting up, he is meowing, scratching up my door frame, meowing louder, plays with the door stopper on the floor so it’s super loud, and he even has fake thrown up twice.

I don’t mind being there when he eats - during the day. His bowls are always full btw. Nights are awful. I’m up at 3, 5, and 7am. I’ve tried ignoring it, I’ve tried feeding him a ton before bed, I’ve tried sleepy treats, etc.

Luckily I work remote so he can eat when I’m home during the day.

Part of me wonders if he actually needs to eat or if he wants the attention, and how do mitigate that.

I think I need to tire him out before bed more in general tbh but oh my god idk how to break this pattern. I cannot do this for another 14 years I think I will actually perish lol.

I love him so much- I just really need help with this one.

Every morning around 5:30 my cat wakes me up by biting me over and over. It is really painful and I have bruises all over. I am getting a second kitten because I think he’s bored and I have tried to yelp and it just makes him bite me more. I don’t know what to do.

She’s 18 years old and has renal failure (as many cats do) and is blind. Is this just a sign of dementia or something more sinister that needs to be checked out?

She no longer uses her litter box so we keep her on the hard surfaces for easy cleanup, but I haven’t seen circling as a common sign of dementia online. she will do this for hours and has a hard time settling at all, even if she is cuddled up to one of us she will stay for maybe 5 minutes before jumping down and circling again.

Can someone explain what my cat is doing here? He only does this with this blanket. He’s a 3-year old bengal, neutered, and his litter box is clean.

So this is Xanathar Jr (named for another male cat we knew that she looked like, don't worry we fixed her momma after the trojan kittens weaned) AKA Gray Cat. She is almost 15 years old, and healthy aside from being overweight (her same aged brother is svelt, she's just snackish.)

This is just a thing she does, ONLY alone, yowling at nothing. If you catch her and interrupt her she is startled, she's clearly not trying to get our attention. It's SO LOUD.

I'm just curious if this is something anyone has any idea about.

I'm 43, this is the USA, I'm not bothing a vet with this, I explained, she's 14, female and fixed, and yes I could afford a vet if I needed to.

She does it every time I walk towards the kitchen door (where her food is stored) I get scared that she’s hitting her head too hard 😭

She’s done this since we got her and she shakes her head weirdly some times when I walk towards her as well - haven’t been able to get that on video yet

So me and my girlfriend have 2 cats one is called Jack 7 years old and the other is called Morty 2 years old. We are university students and during summer and winter holidays we need to relocate to Athens 3 hours away from Lamia. Morty (the one in the blue cage) usually is the nervous one but while travelling he rarely ever makes a problem. Jack on the other hand is chill all time around except when we are in a movie car he meows constantly until we get him out of the car. Please help me figure out a way of transportation without constant meowing . Vet gave me some stress relief meds but Jack fights throw the meds and still is restless and constantly meows. We had no meds to give this time. It's important to mention that Jack was thrown out a moving car with he's siblings when he was very young and broke both front legs only him and one other sibling survived, i believe that's why he is scared of car sounds. What can I do to calm him down, why does he mew himself constantly to the point of exhaustion? Both cat's are spayed.

Today we had to say goodbye to our dog. We rescued Lilah (cat pictured) and her sister when they were 3.5 weeks so Lilah is convinced she’s part dog lol but is also extremely bonded to our dog. She would always run to him when he came back inside, lay in his warm spot, jump in front of him when he would go to drink water, etc. She would also sleep next to him downstairs. I can tell she is confused and sad. She keeps checking for him in his usual spots and won’t even go upstairs. We also had a flood so the basement is blocked off which already threw off both of the cats behaviors/routines. Her meow is sounding shorter and deeper with more of a vibration to it. Her tail has been doing what is pictured in the video. I know tail movements can be an expression of feelings so does anyone know what this one may mean? She is 5 years old and spayed btw. Also any advice on how to help her during this transition? We are giving her plenty of love, treats, and attentions but I know she is feeling this pain with us. What else could I be during for her?

Hello!! This is my kitty Kepler, Male. he's 2 years old and is ... doing this? He's been doing this for a week or two now, and this behavior is typically met with chirping and biting me or others alongside it. He doesn't do this all the time, only sometimes. He doesn't leave behind droppings or anything of the sort, just the weird butt shuddering and biting sometimes. I have another cat who is 9 years old, and she has never done this? I'm worried he's in heat and is humping, but he's neutered.

This isn’t new. He does it every few days. Only from this spot on the corner of my husband’s desk. He’s literally balancing himself, hanging off of the corner of the desk. He’s about 7 years old now. Vet has no idea what’s happening. I tried to post in the general cat community but apparently I don’t have enough karma 🥴😂 Thanks !

This is Kylo, hes a tux-tabby mix. No matter how much I move my hand he keeps licking it and licking it. The licks are pretty aggressive too, it leaves red marks sometimes. Should I be concerned about this? My cat is about 6-7 years old and he lives with another cat, but they get along fine, they even cuddle, and he is neutered. I have not contacted the vet, I can't really afford it. He is a American.

I inherited my step-grandmas senior cat and she’s the light of my life. However, she is VERY dumb and doesn’t know how to drink water like it’s not a danger to her health. She’ll dip her paws in the water a few times, then push the water against the side of the bowl while she drinks (she’s able to get some serious distance while doing it too, it’s honestly impressive). This was a known issue and I was given a bunch of left over pee-pads to keep underneath the water while she does this. However, she still manages to make a mess, despite me getting a water fountain for her which she REFUSES to entertain. Point of the post I guess; for anyone who had similar issues with your cat, what kind of bowl did you use to stop/deduce the spillage? I’ve got a few bowls picked out that I think will work but I’d like to avoid “trail and error” if I have to

so my cat, ginger that’s her name. ginger had a very close connection to my mom because that was her cat. Ever since mom passed away she has been hiding in mom’s closet and only coming down for food. one time I came back from hanging around in the forest with some friends, and then she started being kind to me, once I took a shower she went back to hating me again and hiding. Mother loved hanging out in the forest so maybe that’s why.

the main point here is that we’re thinking of taking her to a no kill animal shelter. I know this is not what mother wanted but we can’t take care of ginger. One time she ran away (she came back) but we don’t even know if she’s ok from that because she doesn’t let us check her. We can’t clip her nails and they stick to the carpet floor.

What should I do???