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A cat just turned up in my house from nowhere & seems like he was abused ( wherever he came from) . This cat is normal but sometimes he does crazy stuffs. Like we all have one friend in our circle who is always crazy. The cat is not violent but tries to mess up with other things e.g pillow, rug, curtain ( hanging) . Just wondering
My familiars are always cats. My last cat possibly saved my life once when he walked in our front door just ahead of me and suddenly took a defensive prose. He crouched down, began to scan with his eyes and I could see he was definitely alarmed by something he sensed. That's when we heard the rattle. One of my worst fears, a rattlesnake, had come in through the kitty door and was trying to get to my quail chicks I was brooding. If not for my cat, I would have walked right by the cabinet the snake was under and likely have gotten bit. Cats are the greatest.
The cat sounds bored, so get it some toys and it with a water pistol and give it a a sharply said "NO" when it claws furniture or anything else you don't want it to do.
Every cat I've ever owned except for one very boring one had what I used to call attacks of the "mads" so I reckon it's normal behavior and very entertaining unless they're destroying something you value.
I hope you've had it vet checked and if necessary neutred: if cats are routinely microchipped where you live you could find its owner from that.
It could be just because the cat is young and full of beans. If he's getting fed regularly now, he possibly has an excess of energy that he needs to work off.
One of our cats (neutered male) is now in in his teens - so middle-aged going on elderly for a cat - and he's normally pretty laid back, but he still occasionally goes a little bat-shit crazy and races around the house, pretending that he's stalking and attacking random stuff.
Clawing upholstered furniture and climbing curtains are two of the worst habits cats can get into. When the cats we've had did this as kittens, they always got shouted at and a little swat to their hindquarters. Cats are very independent-minded and most aren't really trainable in my experience, but that at least meant they didn't do it while we were around, so the damage was minimised. Having said that, we've always lived in places where it was safe for the cats to have a cat-flap and come and go as they wished, so they were free to do their normal cat things outside.
Cats don't really understand negative reinforcement the way dogs do, so it's unnecessarily cruel to ever strike them or even spray them with water. It's best to just keep their claws trimmed and give them scratching boards/posts and also plenty of healthy exercise to keep them from wrecking your things.
Where do you live? Where I am (Australia) there's a curfew for cats: not allowed off their owners' property at all, which I think is a good thing, given one of their "normal cat things" is killing wildlife.
I'm in the UK and live in a small village surrounded by farmland. Our cats are free-range, but they're both middle-aged now, so they tend to spend all but a few hours of the day sleeping. When they are awake, they're far more interested in pestering us for treats than they are in going outside and killing something.
We've given a home to several rescue cats over the last 30+ years, so I'm very aware that cats are predators and they kill creatures even when they're well-fed by humans. I also know that cats pose a particular problem for Australian native fauna.
Our cats do occasionally kill birds, but since we keep our bird-feeders constantly filled over the winter and it's common for a couple dozen birds to be eating from them, I think we are, on balance, a good thing for the local bird population.
Our cats also kill mice, which I have zero sympathy for since mice have been responsible for causing thousands of pounds worth of damage to our stuff. One of our now-deceased cats developed a hobby of killing rats, and I doubt if many people would believe that was a terrible thing.
A kitten/cat, who hasn't neutered or spayed, might have inexhaustible energy, due to the active hormone. My cat was very crazy until he was neutered at 2.5 years old. He stole the food， bit us, peed on the bed and meowed day and night.
Now he is well-behaved and becomes stronger and stronger. We also traveled together last month.
Lol that’s pretty normal for a cat to do. What you should do to prevent that is get some cat toys and redirect him to play with those instead when you see him doing something you don’t like. Then maybe give him a treat when he does what you want.
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do you plan on keeping the cat? if not you should send it to an animal rescue/shelter to have it rehabilitated
I dunno, but if you rescue, and rehabilitate an abused and neglected animal you will have a friend for life. My first pet on my own as an adult was a ginger cat that only had three legs. He was smart, and well behaved around my rodents, but he liked pushing big dogs around, and making them whine.
My Siamese cat on the other hand is a spoiled and pampered little angel who has no idea how scary the world can be. Sometimes I like to watch My Cat From Hell, and bask in his gentle cuteness. I love watching that show with Andrew, because it makes me extra grateful for his presence in my life!