Why are tortoiseshell cats crazy

Gigi is a tortie with white; white feet and chest, ginger face. We took her in when she was 5. She is a cobby, long hair cat. Gigi is gentle, her main thing is to get attention through pets or brushing. She is not aggressive with other cats but will put a rambunctious kitten in their place, if they bother her. Freyja is 5, we got her from the shelter at about 8 weeks of age. She is nice natured, non-aggressive with other cats, though she will put Timmy, our 8 year old orange boy in his place he still plays like he is 4 months old.

When she was a year old, she was already bigger than him, and kept growing for a while. When he gets the zoomies, she sits in a vantage point and watches him as if he is prey. The do get along well. I recently moved and thought that it was a good time to at least consider getting another cat. A friend of mine posted a picture of a humongous bruiser of a Maine Coon that was available at the local shelter so the next morning, I went, thinking I was going to come home with a full grown Maine Coon male.

True to form though, even though I was there as soon as the door opened, he had already been spoken for. They invited me into the cat room to see if I found another one that struck my fancy and I had hardly got into the door before this tiny little Tortie kitten came running up to me, winding around my feet. I sat down and she jumped right into my lap, reared up, butted my chin with her head and started chirping like a little bird.

When the other cats tried to approach me, she growled like a Rotweiller and let them know in no uncertain terms that she had claimed me. I had gotten accustomed to a grumpy old tabby who usually ignored me unless he wanted out or I had something he wanted to eat so I was rather out of practice having a kitten around, especially a Tortie. Let the games begin! I have a 6 year old tortie that I rescued a year and a half ago and she terrorizes and stalks my youngest cat to the point that the youngest is terrified and hides most of the time.

I am still trying to figure out how to resolve whatever the issue is and get everyone to at least tolerate each other so no one is hiding in fear. I have 7 cats and this is the only major issue that has occured. Lucy is too fiesty for that! Although I am in a slightly worse situation with attempting to add a backyard rescue to my 12 y.

So, although 2 play sessions a day keeps Honey from scratching the furniture, I fear she may never be open to a playmate her own size as this is my 2nd, 2 month attempt. Clicker training is a great way to give a tortie mental stimulation, and it can also be used to work on behavior issues.

It explains how to do everything in detail. She mentions there that sometimes you need to redo the steps of introduction. And she walks you through how to do the steps that most people are used to, but with the addition of the clicker to reinforce what behaviors you want them to adopt. I took in a tortie stray about a 2 years ago and then about 6 months ago adopted a kitten and 4 year old stray from brooklyn, ny.

The kitten and tortie took about a couple weeks to a month until they were playing and my tortie didnt see him as a threat.

The stray was harder. I think that helped her confidence and eventually i played the wand toy w the three of them. Although my tortie and the stray are not percent BFFs they are at least able to sit in the same room and be fed together w no aggression. Our son has a tortie cat that he brought in as a rescue to join his two other cats at home! Tortie immediately started attacking his other two!

He gave her some calm down medicine for the first month including everytime she attacked she had to have a time out being isolated in the bedroom for a fe.

Freyja is 4 years old, she is a 15 pound, longhair, dark tortie that resembles a Norwegian Forest Cat. Although she is a very dignified lady, now, she has not lost her kitten fascination with the water dishes, basically, she picks at them until she overturns them. We would crate her at night in a large crate when she was little.

She had the usual items, food, water, toys, bed and litter. Unfortunately, we were using clumping litter. One morning, I got up to find her covered in litter, some of it hardened, there was water all over. I thought she had been playing hard and feel in her water.

We set about cleaning her up, no easy task, all the while hoping she had not ingested enough of the litter to cause harm. Fortunately, she was OK, she was switched immediately to non-clumping litter and I bought a heavy, ceramic dish, with slopped sides, which we still use.

She still works on tipping it, once in a while, but there is no edge she can hook to flip it. She has an obsession with trying to tip over the water dish and I cannot figure out why. You are not alone in this behaviour! She just turned 5 last month and still has the water dish fixation. Lol well my girl is now 3 and though she has slowed down on trying to tip it over.

She still tries. I have 3 Torties. Soon after she delivered them she allowed me to help clean them and bottle feed them for her.

Once the kittens were 2 weeks old I brought them inside and helped the mom-kitty take care of them. They suffer from dwarfism. Yet with all that they have the tortitude in full strength! All are very loving and crave attention, even from my shitzu. But they can also be the devil and swipe food from my dogs as he eats, even though they have their own food sitting out. They do not meow very loud, it is more like mew, mew, mew slight sound comes out of their open mouth.

They enjoy wrestling with their brothers the orange kittens that are almost twice their size — Nutty 11 lbs, Cheeto 10 lbs, and Cheddar 12 lbs. Their brother Nutty is the most playful with them. They all are very versed in how to pass gas on him when they say it is time to stop playing. She was unbelievable. Not only looked like a live piece of jasper, but was wickedly smart, and so loving. She would come to our bedroom, announse herself, jump at the bed, and talk to us.

Only then would go eat. A very talkative and social cat, almost dog-like in attachment to humans. The poor deer was hit by a car last week. I am wondering if you have adopted another tortie, yet, and wondering where you live. I am in Northwest Kansas and am helping a feral four-month old tortie who will soon be ready for a home.

Want to add that we have friends and family in the Denver area and Colorado Springs area who would deliver this little girl to her new home. Freyja is our 4 year old, long hair, dark tortie; she is 16 pounds and has a close resemblance to a Norwegian Forest Cat.

She is smart and very quick. Freyja like plastic items and will play with them, though I am concerned about this and confiscate them as soon as I see her with something. The next day, it showed up in the middle of the basement floor. It had teeth perforations but was otherwise intact; it when in the trash, very quickly.

I had a long haired dilute female torti — she was a devil.. I had to get my mom to come take her for a day to give me a break and I immediately got her in to the vet to get fixed. I said did you operate on her? Results for California gubernatorial recall election in Yolo County finalized November 4, Humor: UC Davis switches to new parking app, turning every parking lot into a used car lot November 11, Humor: Is it just me or does one of the Eggheads look slightly angrier than usual?

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Calicoes and torties have reputations for being feisty and unpredictable, characteristics that the study appears to confirm. Calicoes are mostly white with patches of orange and black. Tortoiseshells have coats that feature a constellation of black, brown, amber and red patches. Because two X chromosomes are necessary to produce their coloring, the vast majority of both types of cats are female. If you want a cat that will keep you on your toes, a calico or tortie is the way to go.

I stumbled on this thread by accident and felt the need to reply. I have a crazy Tortie too! She loves to do the strangest things and is a total creature of habit. Some of her favorite things to do are: Sleep with her feet inside our shoes she does this all the time! If I put her down she will climb back up and do it all again.

She love to take her paw and open the cupboard door just ever so slightly so it slams shut, she will continue to do this over and over until I feed her or pet her. It is the most annoying thing ever! She also love to eat weird things such as tape yup.. Packing tape, scotch tape..

She also like to get high off our cleaning products. If my SO is cleaning the bathroom or using any major cleaning products we have to lock her on the other side of the house otherwise she rolls around in the product and becomes "high"..

Here are some pics:. Feb 24, 0 Kansas. My sister's Tortie is insane, lol. She will walk an obstacle course on the rest of the furniture in the room to avoid the floor There's a bunch of other wacky stuff she's done too, however my mom will swear that she got a little more sane after she was declawed. I don't know if that really had an effect or not though, lol. Now, my other sister's Tortie seems relatively normal and all the ones I've had were sane. However, my black male cat is probably just as insane as the first tortie I mentioned, lol.

Necromancer O. I have a Tortie kitten called Polly named so because shes polychromatic. She's about 6 months old now and she's a little crazy and very cheeky, but she never fails to crack me up.

When she gets into trouble, she plonks herself on the ground and goes belly up:. Jul 4, 3, 24 51 At the Beauty Bar. You must log in or register to reply here. Register on TPF! This sidebar then disappears and there are less ads! Top Bottom.