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I have a two year old very spoiled and loved male maine coon. The problem is he has intimate relationships with blankets and other fuzzy things. It's weird and creepy. He's been neutered since he was 4months old. He will find a blanket, and the only way I can say it is to say it, humps it to death. He loves one blanket in particular and will steal it off the back of the couch and drag it into the bathroom. He also gets very weird if you catch him. Sometimes he just picks the blanket ulp and walks around with it.
It's not just the blanket. Certain coats, other blankets, stuffed animals bring out this problem.
The new one is my kids have a rather beat up couch in a room all their friends hang out in to play video games. It had a tear on the back of the couch and I didn't worry about it. I just put a throw over it. Sometimes the kids use the throws though. The otehr day he pulled the hole apart a bit more. He pulled a bunch of fluff out of the couch and squeezed into the whole and was in love with the foam in the couch.
This problem gets worst when it first gets cooler out. He's a high energy cat and we notice that it gets worst when we haven't played with him alot. So I always make sure to keep alot of toys around and we all try to play with him. But even so, this problem has been getting worst lately. Help.

he's a teenage boy going thru puberty. I had the same problem with a cocker spaniel and he outgrew it. My bedspread he was in love with didn't survive.

My yellow lab was quite fond of a sheep house slipper I had...

He eventually outgrew it.

he's such an indiscriminate humper too. Any fluffy, fuzzy thing will do. If he's not humping it he's just dragging it around in his mouth.

OceanCityGirl wrote:he's such an indiscriminate humper too. Any fluffy, fuzzy thing will do. If he's not humping it he's just dragging it around in his mouth.

my bedspread ended up in shreds one day. A friend was with me when we opened the door (he knew of the dog's fondness for the bedspread). There were bedspread threads EVERYWHERE. We stood there for a few minutes looked at each other, and then .

After we regained our composure we picked up the threads that were scattered all over and and then drank massive amounts of alcohol.

i guess it's a good thing he didn't find a female.

OceanCityGirl wrote:i guess it's a good thing he didn't find a female.

his first time with a female he froze up and couldn't perform

Virgin-Island-Girl wrote:My yellow lab was quite fond of a sheep house slipper I had...

He eventually outgrew it.

eeeek.. all I got a mental picture of was you sticking your foot in a slipper that was squishy

ph4ever wrote:

OceanCityGirl wrote:i guess it's a good thing he didn't find a female.

his first time with a female he froze up and couldn't perform

Couple of drinks usually takes care of that.

I mean, that's what my friend with that problem said.

hah....oh gah....I'm sorry for your kitty, OceanCityGirl, but I sure needed that laugh when you described all the things he was getting hump-alicious on.

12vmanRick wrote:

Virgin-Island-Girl wrote:My yellow lab was quite fond of a sheep house slipper I had...

He eventually outgrew it.

eeeek.. all I got a mental picture of was you sticking your foot in a slipper that was squishy

Rick eeeeked

we alternate between laughing at it and getting freaked out about it.

My ex had a pet rabbit that had been fixed who loved to hump fuzzy things. He didn't outgrow it either. It was funny at times but it was more disturbing then funny.

"Lend" your cat to jimolliemom, so the cat can hump any unwanted guests...

I have a cat that does this also, and he is 10 years old- so much for outgrowing it

he likes a certain teddy bear, and some fuzzy blankets. We call it 'mushing' for lack of a better description (as in- Otto's mushing on that blanket). And he makes a weird noise if we try to take the mush-object away from him.

Mostly it is just funny. He was fixed too, but had a traumatic experience about it, and it mostly a shy and slightly nervous cat. Plus a huge mamma's boy. Lucky me!

So no advice here, but I do love Maine Coon cats. Is he big??

Maybe he needs these to be complete again.
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