My moms cat did the same thing to a soft green blanket. Now My 2 year old male has started doing this to his small stuff toys.
Any small stuff toy will do for him. Both cats where neutered at 6 months of age. Glad my cats are not the only odd balls...
Oct 16, 2009 Rating
My boy's object of affection is a sweater by: Madam Heather
I was searching the internet to see if this is a common thing. Most of these stories are about abandoned or kitten adopted very young... I wonder if there is a correlation.
My male tabby was found at less than a week old, abandoned. He was bottle fed and only knew humans for the first 2 months of his life. (My parents bottle fed him).
I had him for 4 more months and got him neutered. The behavior did not actually happen until after the neuter... (Interesting huh...)
I was packing up some clothes for donation and he pulled out this old fluffy sweater that I hardly ever wore because it attracted every kind of lint you could imagine.
He drug it around and was making a high pitched meow. His back legs quivered and what appeared to be spasms radiated from his hind quarters. They have been buddies ever since...
He gets very aggressive if you take it away (even when it is not in use) or he cannot find it. I believe he dominates it at least 3 times a day.
Not only does he do this, but he wants for you to SEE him do it. He will drag the sweater out to where you are and do it right in front of you.
I really don't understand it, but it is a fun party conversation when he drags out the "girlfriend"...
I got a lot from the discussion. Hope others find the same in mine.
Sep 03, 2009 Rating
The touch of a blanket by: Anonymous
My dad's cat does this and so does mine. Little do they know, they've both had fun with the same blanket! This blanket is faux fur with a cow pattern.
May 18, 2009 Rating
Soft Blanket is Best Friend by: Anonymous
My cat does this as well. Everytime he comes to lay on my bed he hunches up on top of a really soft throw, and does his thing.
One day he decided to pick up a teddy bear and drag it around the bed. When hes done he decides to clean himself.. Must have been good! haha
Feb 25, 2009 Rating
Find him a stuffed girlfriend by: Anonymous
As I'm sitting here, my six year old male cat is humping "his girlfriend, the stuffed lion". He was neutered at 8 mos (a little late due to a heart murmur). Originally, he humped everything, including me. My vet suggested an "object for his affection", and my daughter's stuffed lion was donated for the job.
Whenever he is really happy, he starts howling at me; I get the lion, and he does his thing. It's a little embarrassing during the middle of a dinner party (yes, he's done this!)but otherwise, we cope. Any suggestions on how to limit it? I'm recently home from vacation, and he is sooo happy that it's a bit over the top on frequency these days.
Other than that, we just kind of laugh at it. It's harmless, and it makes him quite happy! I've had many male cats in my life, and this is the first one I've had with this issue. My two other male cats do not follow his lead, thank God!
Feb 09, 2009 Rating
not just older cats by: Anonymous
my boy was just a tiny little two-week-old thing when we found him. we had him neutered at six months. but about a month before we got him fixed he started to hump my blanket. it's a big thick plush tiger-striped blanket. i thought it would stop when he got snipped but it didn't. he's three now and he still does it several times a day. i put the blanket away for a while and he found some other plushy blanket to hump. there's just no stopping him. not all male cats will do this, just the really weird ones.
Jan 27, 2009 Rating
Oh my god!! by: daria
I was actually going to post this separately but re-read the list and realized this is exactly the behavior that so confused us all when my mom's cat turned 17 or so...his version was to drag his feathers-on-a-wand toy into the living room right in front of the tv (while we were watching) - then he would drop it, kind of hover over it while making angry, cat-in-heat type loud meows, stomping/kneading the ground around the toy, and arching his back. He would fluctuate btw this and picking up the wand and rotating in a circle, still "kneading" and meowing through a mouthful of feathers while making extremely - er - sexual gestures! My mom found it very disturbing, I found it hilarious - it seemed the obvious sexual frustrations of a slightly senile virgin kitty. A bit sad considering he was such a dignified gentleman his whole life! :)
Jan 13, 2009 Rating
cat humps blanket by: Anonymous
I got my male cat "Tony" as a small kitten. He was neutered at around 6 months old. He would lay at the bottom of my bed on a sheep skin blanket, a faux one. I noticed that he started to knead a lot on the blanket, then his eyes would get glassy and he'd start to hump the blanket as well as bite it. This happened quite a bit before he was a year old. the blanket is long gone. Tony is now 4 years old and just this past weekend, I found a piece of sheep skin and put it in his cat bed for a blanket. And guess what? The behavior was on again!! He humped the blanket 3 different times in one hour. Happy camper or crazed cat?
Jan 05, 2009 Rating
Cat humping blanket by: Anonymous
My neutered male cat does this as well. He was a rescue, and I gave him a blanket when I brought him home. He kneaded on it from day one, and also gets very aggressive and attacks and meows. It's impossible to touch him. It's improved somewhat (this used to end with him jumping at my face, sometimes in the middle of the night); now, I don't interrupt him, and don't try to touch him and he winds down pretty quickly. He's a senior cat now, and I don't think he'll ever get it out of his system.
Jan 04, 2009 Rating
Same cat behavior by: Anonymous
My boy does the same thing. He's four years old and was a stray - he was "fixed" late in life. He's purely an indoor cat and used to get angry if you moved or tried to take the blanket but no longer responds that way. I've been told it's just something that they remember instinctive and usually occurs when a male is fixed later in life. I think it's kind of cute!
