Conference misery::feline

    I bet your kitten was taken from his mother too soon and not gone
    through the weaning process.  It sounds like he is doing the
    equiv. of sucking his tumb or a holding onto a favorite blanket.
    
    I don't know how you stop it or if you even should.  As to weird
    behavior, when was it you met cat that was normal?
                                      

     True, very True. I don't try to stop him from doing it, he's very
    different from any other cat I've ever had. He's kinda amusing. He also
    jumps in the bath tub when we run the water. He likes water
    

Hobbes, our new addition does it too. It looks one HECK
of a lot like nursing, so it is probably a safety 
blanket like behaviour that feels comforting to him.
It sure is strange though...

Thanks,
Keith 

    I know of another kitty taken from mom too early... she sucks her own
    nipple. 
    
    I think they'll let go it later...
    
    Nat

    Julie, who was not taken from her mother too early (Meg let Julie nurse
    from her even after she was spayed), recently started sucking on her
    tail.  All the fur from the tip of her tail is missing....looks funny! 
    In Julie's case, it's caused by anxiety.  I dunno....I think if cats
    had their way, we'd spend the day rocking them in our arms in a rocking
    chair....
    
    Mary

    It's quite strange how kitties pick up these habits.  My kitty Harley
    still likes to suck on my ear lobes and he's 8 months old.  I was
    wondering if he would ever grow out of this habit, but it doesn't
    appear to be happening.  Harley also likes to lick my face and
    especially the bridge of my nose.  His newest thing is to lay across my
    neck and purr in my ear as I'm sleeping as if to say "come on Mom...play 
    with me!" If I don't wake up, he becomes relentless until I do. 
    Only problem with this is that he seems to like to do this around 2:00 a.m.
    
    
    They do some of the most strangest things I've ever seen, but I
    wouldn't trade him for anything in the world!
    
    I hope that you enjoy many wonderful years with your kitty
    
    
    Dawn
    

    
       As of last night, my siamese did something different again to make
    me believe he is definately human. We had some company at my home and a
    conversation was getting a little loud and my cat came running out of
    the kitchen jumped on one of the quest's lap and put his nose against
    my friends nose and growled at him. If he tried to pull his face away
    the cat growled louder, He wasn't playing he fuzzed up and everything.
    I had to picked the cat up off his lap so the cat wouldn't tear him
    apart. Who needs a dog?!!

    RE REPLY 7.
    
    I love it... Can I borrow him.  My only cat that had Siamese in him is
    now gone and none of the others have his endearing trait of *staring
    you into silence*...
    
    Sandi mom to 6 wonderful cats

    Reminds me of the much-missed cat of a dear friend of mine.  She had
    escaped from a rather nasty divorce scene, taken cat and kids and dogs
    with her, and one day her ex shows up and sweet talks his way into the
    house via the kids.  She came home and he was at the kitchen table, so
    they sit down to talk.  Cat comes up to the guy, jumps up on his lap,
    climbs up to head-butt him, and then pisses all over him.
    
    That cat lived like a king for the rest of his days.
    
    Dana

    re .7 - Are you *sure* this guest is a friend?!  I've learned never to
    underestimate the judgment of a cat.  Keep an eye on both of 'em!
    
    Leslie

    
     He better be I've known him for around 10 years or so, he doesn't like
    cats maybe he sensed it. He is my first Siamese not sure if he is 100%
    he sure looks it though, right up to his crossed blue eyes. He's a
    character. So far he's turning out to be the best cat i've ever owned
    
         I took him to York beach maine when I first got him. We went for a
    walk that afternoon and we put him down so he could walk with us he
    kept running into the surf I kept a good eye on him but he was having a
    ball. A passer by offered me 200.00 dollars for him but no sale, he
    thought he was 100% siamese.  his personality is incredible he is so
    healthy and strong. I hope he will last as long as our family Russian
    Blue we had three years ago, she lasted 21 years before she had Kidney
    failure and we put her down as a result of it.

    Yeah, those Siamese will do some strange things, but I love 'em! 
    I had a spayed female Siamese, Alice, who used to nurse on (off?) my 
    neutered male Siamese, Alfie. When I lived on Cape Cod I used to take 
    Alfie (before I got the other two) to a quiet, private beach sometimes 
    for a walk on the leash. If I walked through a shallow (1-2 foot) tidal 
    pool, he would swim after me. (I did some weird things in my youth; I'd 
    never do this with my cats now.) When I left the Cape, I stayed with my 
    parents for a while until I got an apartment. One night, my sister came 
    home late, after everyone was in bed. When Alice heard the front door 
    open, she jumped off the bed and ran, growling, toward the closed bedroom 
    door. She did it one time after that, too.

    Re: .5

    > In Julie's case, it's caused by anxiety.  I dunno....I think if cats
    > had their way, we'd spend the day rocking them in our arms in a rocking
    > chair....
    
    Tell me about it, Mary!! Wrigley punishes me if I'm away from the house 
    longer than he thinks I should be. It's especially bad after I've taken, 
    say, one or two weeks' vacation at home and then go back to work. His 
    revenge is to eat any cloth or other remotely edible thing he can find. 
    I've had to pick up all scatter rugs, remove throws from the couch and 
    love seat, put towels out of his reach, keep my slippers in the closet 
    when they're not on my feet, and generally just keep anything that might 
    tempt him out of his reach. Wrigley is not allowed in the bedroom without 
    supervision and he is not allowed in my closet at all. If I wrote a list 
    of things he's chewed, it would be as long as my arm. It's a wonder he 
    hasn't had an obstruction. His latest trick was to eat the kitchen 
    curtain over the sink. It's now a Cape Cod curtain with no ruffle on the 
    bottom. Three different vets have told me it's not food-related. My vet 
    says it's separation anxiety. Whenever I tell the vet about the latest 
    object of Wrigley's anxiety, he just says sympathetically, yeah, 
    sometimes it turns into an obsession. Sigh. It's nice to be missed, but 
    this is ridiculous! I keep telling him it's lucky for him he's so cute!

    Linda

    
    
    	Wait....let me get this straight.  Cats that will run
    	INTO the ocean??!!!
    
    	Sasha likes water but I don't think I'd ever get her to
    	do that!
    

    
     We haven't taken shadow to the ocean since he was a kitten. I think I
    would have a hard time getting him to do that now. My rat doesn't chew
    on anything when I've been gone along time, when I come home he just
    runs around the house at a 100mph Then when he's tired he'll crap out
    on my lap.