Ok all you cat people.

[swamp]

I need some advice. 

At at the end of June we adopted a 6 week old kitten. He was a barn cat. I think he was taken away from his mother too early because he wants to suckle my neck all the time. Only me, not DH, not the kids. 

As soon as I sit still, he's on me. 

Why me?  How do I get him to stop?  I keep pulling him off, it five him my hand instead, but He still goes right for my neck. 

[sarcasticgirl]

Ditch the cat and get a dog.

Sent from my Nexus 10

[Deleted]

Cats know if you don't want them around. Smother him with love and he will soon lose interest (maybe).

[TheOtherMe]

Sept 21, 2014 13:22:56 GMT -5 oped said:

Cats know if you don't want them around. Smother him with love and he will soon lose interest (maybe).

Maybe being the key word.  

The cat I have now is 3 years old and that is what she does to me.  I've had her for 2 years.  

Play with her and wear her down.  Catify your house so she has lots of things to do.  Google Jackson Galaxy to learn how to catify your home.  This does not qualify as being a "my cat from hell" cat.  

Do not ditch the cat.  It's young.  Do your best to entertain it and divert it's attention now.

[mmhmm]

Cat toys! Also, find an old sweater, or small, soft blanket and put it over your shoulder (covering your neck) when you sit. She'll soon associate the blanket with you and will suckle the blanket, instead. That's worked for a couple of mine over the years.

[Deleted]

A little habenero powder on your neck ought to take care of that problem. 

[sarcasticgirl]

Sept 21, 2014 13:25:36 GMT -5 Ratchets said:

Sept 21, 2014 13:22:43 GMT -5 sarcasticgirl said:

Ditch the cat and get a dog.

Sent from my Nexus 10

Nooooo! Don't ditch the cute ickle kitty-witty for some fat smelly dog  !!

If she properly cares for a dog, it wouldn't be fat and smelly.

[swamp]

Sept 21, 2014 13:26:04 GMT -5 TheOtherMe said:

Sept 21, 2014 13:22:56 GMT -5 oped said:

Cats know if you don't want them around. Smother him with love and he will soon lose interest (maybe).

Maybe being the key word.  

The cat I have now is 3 years old and that is what she does to me.  I've had her for 2 years.  

Play with her and wear her down.  Catify your house so she has lots of things to do.  Google Jackson Galaxy to learn how to catify your home.  This does not qualify as being a "my cat from hell" cat.  

Do not ditch the cat.  It's young.  Do your best to entertain it and divert it's attention now.

I have a 6 year old and an 8 year old. Kitty gets LOTS of attention 

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

Do you have an old sweatshirt that you can wear, get your scent so he can sleep on it?  That might be a way of diverting his attention to you.  6 weeks is really early for a kitten to leave his mommy.  When I adopted Gizzy at 8 weeks, he latched onto Gomez rather than me.  As Gomez was a needy cat (he was driving me crazy after HIS buddy died), they were good for each other.

Also, lots of cat toys are a good thing.  You want to avoid catnip until he's a little older, but fishing poles with toys on the end of it that he can chase are good.  Sheldon LOVES these balls, he bats them around like crazy and they are small enough that he can carry them in his mouth.   All my cats have loved them, and when I moved I must have found about 30 of them under my furniture! 

Jackson Galaxy is really big into tiring cats out with play so they stop being a pain in the butt via other means.


www.amazon.com/1-4-Porcupine-Balls/dp/B000NBGHVM/ref=sr_1_42?ie=UTF8&qid=1411324904&sr=8-42&keywords=cat+toy+balls

[Deleted]

Does the cat like catnip? Give it a toy it will like. Chloe kitty absolutely LOVED catnip so we took an old sock, filled it up with catnip and tied the end. She LOVED her sock. The other 3 were meh. They like a little nippy but she would go batshit for it. Carried that damn sock into bed with us almost every night. Turns a gross shade of green but it made her happy.

She was cremated with that sock a couple weeks ago. It didn't feel right to keep it.

[sarcasticgirl]

Sept 21, 2014 15:16:01 GMT -5 Ratchets said:

Sept 21, 2014 13:41:12 GMT -5 sarcasticgirl said:

If she properly cares for a dog, it wouldn't be fat and smelly.

It still won't be a cute kitty-witty either though !!

exactly!

[Nazgul Girl]

    I am a long-time cat owner and lover and there is a way to handle this situation.    When kitten starts this behavior, take it firmly ( as in scooping it up ), and instantly deposit her on the floor.   You kind of let the kitten drop the last two or three inches or so.   You aren't throwing her, you're letting her know that you're not feeling motherly toward her.   Cats don't like to be jostled, and eventually, she'll leave you alone.   Also, the idea of a nice, warm sweater that she can suckle is a great idea.    If these ideas don't work, I'd put some lemon juice on my neck, and let her get a taste of that.   She might not think you're so darned cuddly after all.

   Meow.

[ZaireinHD]

same happened with my x
and we wondered the same
thought the same - that our new kitten was taken away from mother too soon
he would suckle all over her when she lay down in bed.
her finger, arm, thigh!
she purchased a bottle - that helped but didn't completely stop
which didn't completely stop until he got older.
 

[weltschmerz]

Sept 21, 2014 13:21:12 GMT -5 swamp said:

I need some advice. 

At at the end of June we adopted a 6 week old kitten. He was a barn cat. I think he was taken away from his mother too early because he wants to suckle my neck all the time. Only me, not DH, not the kids. 

As soon as I sit still, he's on me. 

Why me?  How do I get him to stop?  I keep pulling him off, it five him my hand instead, but He still goes right for my neck. 

I can relate. Ever since I got out of the hospital, Sushi the Demon Cat won't leave me alone.  He has to be ON me, all the time, and won't let me out of his sight.

He's really afraid he'll be "abandoned" again.

He was actually doing somersaults when I came home.

[ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ]

My last cat (before this one) was 22 when he departed this world. He used to do the same thing - only with me - never DH or anyone else.

He also used to knead on my chest before snuggling his face into my neck to do what yours is doing.

I started putting a towel over my shirt/shoulder to get my scent on it, as well as his - eventually, that towel became his "blankie".

But he also had the habit of wanting to crawl under my sweatshirt or sweater and fall asleep against the warmth of my body inside his little "tent" if I was sitting watching tv. At night, it was going under the covers.

My current "baby" sleeps up by my pillows and nuzzles into my neck.

[Opti]

Sept 21, 2014 13:41:19 GMT -5 swamp said:

Sept 21, 2014 13:26:04 GMT -5 TheOtherMe said:

Maybe being the key word.  

The cat I have now is 3 years old and that is what she does to me.  I've had her for 2 years.  

Play with her and wear her down.  Catify your house so she has lots of things to do.  Google Jackson Galaxy to learn how to catify your home.  This does not qualify as being a "my cat from hell" cat.  

Do not ditch the cat.  It's young.  Do your best to entertain it and divert it's attention now.

I have a 6 year old and an 8 year old. Kitty gets LOTS of attention 

Not a cat person because of allergies, but definitely an animal person.

I'd try buying small doll bottles and filling them with formula and let

her suckle that for a few weeks and then wean her off.

Just a gut feeling, plus when the family female guinea pig got sick,

my Mom bought the bottles and we fed them formula or milk on a daily basis.

The kitty wants to imprint on you plus establish a secure bond. Let her. It

will pay off in the future.

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

Sept 22, 2014 0:06:25 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

Sept 21, 2014 13:21:12 GMT -5 swamp said:

I need some advice. 

At at the end of June we adopted a 6 week old kitten. He was a barn cat. I think he was taken away from his mother too early because he wants to suckle my neck all the time. Only me, not DH, not the kids. 

As soon as I sit still, he's on me. 

Why me?  How do I get him to stop?  I keep pulling him off, it five him my hand instead, but He still goes right for my neck. 

I can relate. Ever since I got out of the hospital, Sushi the Demon Cat won't leave me alone.  He has to be ON me, all the time, and won't let me out of his sight.

He's really afraid he'll be "abandoned" again.

He was actually doing somersaults when I came home.

Yep.  Gizzy was on me all the time when I finally got out of the hospital.  The only time he left my lap was to eat/drink or use his box.  When home health came by to do my picc line dressing, he watched very carefully until he could return to my lap, but he was not happy that he couldn't help.

[Cookies Galore]

Kitty kneads! Katt von Cat is 14 and still kneads and licks. Henry Chinaski is three and a biter. I'll take the kneading.

[TheOtherMe]

I had one cat who did not want to stay off my lap when I returned home from a 28 day hospital stay after surgery.  Dad had flown out to take care of me, but he wasn't much of a caretaker.  I had fallen asleep and cat sat on my stitches and it hurt! I asked him why he didn't say something and he said he didn't want to wake me.

[CarolinaKat]

Sept 21, 2014 13:30:44 GMT -5 mmhmm said:

Cat toys! Also, find an old sweater, or small, soft blanket and put it over your shoulder (covering your neck) when you sit. She'll soon associate the blanket with you and will suckle the blanket, instead. That's worked for a couple of mine over the years.

This!!!!! Mine like the soft microplush blankets that are popular now. I think we're up to having about 4 or 5 of them in the house. (ETA blankets, we have 4 cats in the house, who all like these blankets) They don't suckle but they do 'make biscuts' all.the.time. They will do it on the blanket as long as it is available and near you/on your lap. If not, it will be your arm, leg, DH's crotch, whatever...

Playtime is also very very important. Lazers are your friend. My cats have also recently decided to start playing with dog rope pull-type toys (that mom's puppy left at our house). They also like jumping to catch bubbles.

[mmhmm]

We have warming blankets for ours. They're dog-sized and covered with faux shearling. They love them. When I first got them, I made it a point to take them to bed with me so they'd pick up my scent.

[cael]

One of my cats I had growing up would suckle my shirt at night... I'd wake up with a wet spot on my shoulder because he suckled as he went to sleep. Some cats grow out of it, some don't fully (yours is still young though, so he may). My cat kneads on my neck at night and sleeps on my pillow but she doesn't suckle (she's also a licker but will lick DH too, not just me). I think they decide who is their boss/alpha/caretaker/mama and do the suckling/kneading/attachment to that person. He loves you, swamp!

Empress, sorry about your kitty

[Deleted]

Pick her up by the scruff of the neck like her mother would do and move her to where you want.

[Firebird]

Kitties always find the person who doesn't want them.  It's part of their charm

Working from home is tough because Tess thinks that if I'm home, I must be free to snuggle ALL THE DAY.  If I tell her I'm not, she complains loudly and a lot.  And attempts to interfere with my typing by sitting on my forearms. 

[CarolinaKat]

Sept 23, 2014 13:35:53 GMT -5 Firebird said:

Kitties always find the person who doesn't want them.  It's part of their charm

Working from home is tough because Tess thinks that if I'm home, I must be free to snuggle ALL THE DAY.  If I tell her I'm not, she complains loudly and a lot.  And attempts to interfere with my typing by sitting on my forearms. 

All the more reason for the snuggly blanket phenomena. Cat lays on fuzzy blanket next to laptop

[Firebird]

All the more reason for the snuggly blanket phenomena. Cat lays on fuzzy blanket next to laptop

Not so much but usually I can convince her to sit in the windowsill next to my desk after awhile, especially if I bribe her with cucumber

[movingforward]

I just returned from a week long business trip and my cat acted like I was gone for a month.  I didn't get a wink of sleep Sunday night (first night back).  He was constantly on top of me, specifically across my neck.  A 16 pound cat across your neck doesn't work.  I finally got him to lie on my stomach but I was still uncomfortable.  He also purred for two hours straight .  He drove me nuts.  Good thing he is so darn adorable! 

[TheOtherMe]

My cat act likes she has been totally abandoned if I leave the house for the day.  I get nuzzled, liked, etc. and, yes, the non-stop purring.  

If I do leave her overnight, it goes like almost40 describes.  She loves me.