Butterfinger
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Okay, so.... Is my kitten...a genius? (I'm not saying this as a good thing, haha!....Hah....Haaah. )
He knows very well what he can and can't do, this is normal. When I look around for him and see him, and he's somewhere he knows he can be, he'll just look back like "Whut?"... if he's somewhere he's not supposed to be, doing something he's not supposed to be doing, he'll try to crouch down before I see him, and peek out all wide-eyed from whatever bad thing he's doing. (If I chase him away from it, he'll usually come back to it half a minute later and repeat this process) Also normal.
He responds and sometimes comes to his name knowing very well that there's no food involved, knows and responds to the words "C'mere," "What?", and "Jump" without any training or food....nnnnot as normal, but not extrordinary.
Before I tell you a story, I'd like to mention that my kitten is very clingy and likes to be with me wherever I am, in the same room, even though we only live in a two-bedroom apartment.
Okay, so the kitten goes to his litter box normally, and is very VERY good about his poops. Not so much about his pee. He crawls into the tightest, most hard-to-get-to spot there is, then pees there. I have no idea why. There's no reason he'd need to make a statement in those places.
BUT
This is an issue when he climbs into the rip in my mattress cover underneath my bed (Not the cover over the mattress, like...the cover that covers the springs under the bed)....and pees there. I can never wash that place, and he pees there. The bed isn't even mine.
So, I put him out of the room and close the door (I don't have a lock) and stuff a shirt under the crack so that he can't open it.....because if I don't, then he will. While I'm busy making a NIC gate around the entire bottom of my bed, the kitten SOMEHOW MANAGES to stuff his paw under the door until he can get the shirt completely away from the opening, then leaps, hangs from the handle, and opens the door, running in. (How did he know it was the shirt that was keeping him from opening the door??? )
Iiiiis this normal cat thought-process? I have more stories if you want them, but this little guy.... None of my other friends that have had cats have had them do this kind of thing. ....He also has an unhealthy fixation with any kind of paper (Crinkled or flat, any size or type) and eats the dirt from my potted plants (No, not the leaves. The dirt), but I won't go into that.
Normal?
I don't know; I've never had a cat before, so this is news to me. Just curious, haha. (But I feel like if I ever wanted to get a border collie, I'm way prepared now, haha )
Here's a picture of the little devil, since I wrote so much.
He's six months old now, but this is him at five and a half months
He knows very well what he can and can't do, this is normal. When I look around for him and see him, and he's somewhere he knows he can be, he'll just look back like "Whut?"... if he's somewhere he's not supposed to be, doing something he's not supposed to be doing, he'll try to crouch down before I see him, and peek out all wide-eyed from whatever bad thing he's doing. (If I chase him away from it, he'll usually come back to it half a minute later and repeat this process) Also normal.
He responds and sometimes comes to his name knowing very well that there's no food involved, knows and responds to the words "C'mere," "What?", and "Jump" without any training or food....nnnnot as normal, but not extrordinary.
Before I tell you a story, I'd like to mention that my kitten is very clingy and likes to be with me wherever I am, in the same room, even though we only live in a two-bedroom apartment.
Okay, so the kitten goes to his litter box normally, and is very VERY good about his poops. Not so much about his pee. He crawls into the tightest, most hard-to-get-to spot there is, then pees there. I have no idea why. There's no reason he'd need to make a statement in those places.
BUT
This is an issue when he climbs into the rip in my mattress cover underneath my bed (Not the cover over the mattress, like...the cover that covers the springs under the bed)....and pees there. I can never wash that place, and he pees there. The bed isn't even mine.
So, I put him out of the room and close the door (I don't have a lock) and stuff a shirt under the crack so that he can't open it.....because if I don't, then he will. While I'm busy making a NIC gate around the entire bottom of my bed, the kitten SOMEHOW MANAGES to stuff his paw under the door until he can get the shirt completely away from the opening, then leaps, hangs from the handle, and opens the door, running in. (How did he know it was the shirt that was keeping him from opening the door??? )
Iiiiis this normal cat thought-process? I have more stories if you want them, but this little guy.... None of my other friends that have had cats have had them do this kind of thing. ....He also has an unhealthy fixation with any kind of paper (Crinkled or flat, any size or type) and eats the dirt from my potted plants (No, not the leaves. The dirt), but I won't go into that.
Normal?
I don't know; I've never had a cat before, so this is news to me. Just curious, haha. (But I feel like if I ever wanted to get a border collie, I'm way prepared now, haha ) Here's a picture of the little devil, since I wrote so much.
He's six months old now, but this is him at five and a half months
