Is my cat just very affectionate in old age?
(She's 13 now) I'm wondering because she sorta used to hate me. When I was little, I'd tie her to my mini shopping cart (Not too tight, just tight ...
(She’s 13 now)
I’m wondering because she sorta used to hate me. When I was little, I’d tie her to my mini shopping cart (Not too tight, just tight enough that she couldn’t get out) and push her in it, and stick her in cloth bags and carry her around. I mean, she got revenge on me by hiding beneath the slotted stairs and swiping at my feet (Claws out >.<), and my feet only, when I’d go up or down!
Now she sleeps cuddled next to me, follows me around alot, lets me pet her tummy, and pick her up and carry her around.
Is this normal for a senior?
She’s been this way for two years but my parents wouldn’t let her sleep in my room because I had a loft bed. But my mum just tells my dad to let my cat sleep in here because she’s old. ^.^
It’s old for an indoor/outdoor cat (Well, she was for most of her life) who was poisoned seven years ago. xD
Very normal, my cat was exactly the same, I couldn’t go near her for the first 10 years of her life . She lived to be 18 and for the last years she was the biggest old pet going!.
EDIT Ignore the comment about death it’s absolute nonsense. when a cat passes their youth they settle and calm down the same way humans do.
i’ve lot of cats at my home and when they change personality it usually means that the cat is going to die,maybe.
Cats are the same as humans in that they change as they get older. Also, 13 is not that old for a cat. They can live 18 – 20 years or longer if they are kept indoors. She is just a mature adult.
well you have grown up too havent you..so she has forgotten what a pest you where..and now lets you do things she likes..
She knows you were young, she does not hold the shopping cart against you. She also knows that you are now a grown girl, a little more gentle on her old body. Sure is nice to be loved isn’t it?
It’s amazing what cats will let you do to them and still love you. She’s has loved you all along if she didn’t she’d have found a way to completely avoid you at all costs. She’s probably feeling her age and want to spend as much time with you as possible. She wants to make the best of the next few years that she has left. It’s very normal for senior cats to do that. I just lost my 17 yr old in January,( I really miss him) so make the best of it with her.