Margaret's Musings on Cats

Archive for September, 2002

Sumner’s night time yelling

Sumner, has taken to making loud calling noises in the evenings and in the middle of the night. Every time I go see what’s up, he’s playing with one of his toys. He didn’t used to “yell at” his toys. I don’t know why he does now. I used to think [...]

Stressful night- Mostly Simon and Sumner

Sept. 18, 2002
Last night was a bit stressful.  My three males are around two years-old, the age of social maturity for cats and there have been tensions.  I heard Simon make his scary, guttural moan from hell “urrrerrrrurrr” noise, the one that sounds unearthly that he uses when an intruder cat comes in the yard [...]

Cats dominating

Simon dominating
Galen- not sexual in nature

For the past few weeks, every other day or so, I hear Galen squeak, and find Simon on top of him doing the dominating neck hold thing. Galen does not seem to care much, though, [...]

Tensions between Simon, Snookums and Sumner

September 16, 2002
There are some changes going on with the cat’s “hierarchy”. This is to be expected as the males are all around two years-old, the age when cats reach social maturity. Jolie has a urinary tract infection (UTI), so she could be getting stressed from the changes, which then led to the UTI. I even get [...]