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Cat Health & Behaviour => Health & Behaviour General => Topic started by: lisa77 on December 21, 2007, 09:46:36 AM

Title: Eating hair
Post by: lisa77 on December 21, 2007, 09:46:36 AM: Morning all

Of late while spot cleaning Leos litter tray I am finding my hair in his number 2's ?????

This has happened 3 times now & the other morning I woke up to him licking the top of my head ... (Obviosly as its long it gets caught in his tongue)

I think im going to have to start wearing a hat to bed :shocked: :Crazy: to stop him.. will this harm him ?

Ive never known a cat like Leo.. he does the most strange things !

:Luv:
Title: Re: Eating hair
Post by: Sabrina (Auferstehen) on December 21, 2007, 11:43:37 AM: Are you positive he's not a burmese?

Sounds a lot like our Lirael.

Their hair passes through them so ours can as well, just careful of the furballs and if you think something is stuck then off to the vets in case.
Title: Re: Eating hair
Post by: Maddiesmum on December 21, 2007, 11:44:18 AM: My boy wakes me up every morning with a good hair pull.
Title: Re: Eating hair
Post by: lisa77 on December 21, 2007, 12:27:29 PM: he he I think he is a mixture of all sorts ! even various breeds of Dog !!! :evillaugh: :evillaugh:

Thats a relief xx
Title: Re: Eating hair
Post by: lucy on December 21, 2007, 17:42:07 PM: Xanthe has been known to try to swing off daughter's / my ponytail - not the most comfortable experience!
Title: Re: Eating hair
Post by: berties mum on December 21, 2007, 21:45:32 PM: If I ever kneel on the floor in the house, Bertie will creep up behind me, put his paws on my shoulders and then attach his teeth to the roots of my hair and snap his head back, so quickly that I can't stop him - it's AGONY. I don't kneel on the floor anymore :rofl:
Title: Re: Eating hair
Post by: lisa77 on December 21, 2007, 22:12:05 PM: Quote from: berties mum on December 21, 2007, 21:45:32 PM
If I ever kneel on the floor in the house, Bertie will creep up behind me, put his paws on my shoulders and then attach his teeth to the roots of my hair and snap his head back, so quickly that I can't stop him - it's AGONY. I don't kneel on the floor anymore :rofl:

Thats what Leo has don in the morning before.. :Crazy: certainly wakes you up alright..!!!
Title: Re: Eating hair
Post by: blackcat on December 22, 2007, 07:06:43 AM: grooming is a cat way of saying I love you. I suspect the biting side of it is because they find out hair feels like it is tangled. If they are grooming another cat and find a tangle they bite and pull, so they do the same to us. Smidgen usually does it when i have left it too long between washes... or if I use a herbal shampoo ..........
Title: Re: Eating hair
Post by: Tiggy's Mum on December 22, 2007, 10:37:38 AM: Perfectly normal to let your cat eat your hair - in a crazy cat lady kind of way :evillaugh:

Here's a youtube vid of Lu doing it to me...

http://www.purrsinourhearts.co.uk/index.php?topic=6230.25

Quote from: Tiggy's Mum - Helen on July 26, 2007, 17:52:45 PM
Firstly let me set the scene, I would like to point out that I don't normally take videos of my head. I was laying on my front on the floor as Lukey was playing in the tent so I was trying to video it. As soon as he saw me he came rushing out and jumped on my back, I was quite comfy so decided to stay there until he got off. It was then that he started grooming my hair so I turned the phone round at pointed it at my head!

Here's his solo youtube debut...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFBnvsHwKvo
Title: Re: Eating hair
Post by: madkittyrescue on December 22, 2007, 14:04:02 PM: lol... aww bless... only draw back I find is the claws.... they dang well hurt!!! lol ;)
Title: Re: Eating hair
Post by: lisa77 on December 27, 2007, 22:27:18 PM: People will read this & think we are nits !!!!! nits ??? I meant NUTS !!! :Crazy: :evillaugh:
Title: Re: Eating hair
Post by: Gwen on December 27, 2007, 22:35:50 PM: I think you and Helen need a trip to the pharmacy :rofl: