Thread: Kneading and suckling on blanket

My angel kitty Koda after he went into complete heart failure at the age of 3(he lived to be 7 and had diabetes and fatty liver disease in addition to heart disease)started to suckle on blankets but then moved on to suckle on one of his back paws on the pads. When my family took him to his vets for his vacs and told the vet he said it was probably just like a little kid sucking on their thumb and it was for comfort and not to discourage it unless he was breaking his skin or we really didn't like it. Koda would want one of my family to sit in his popazon chair and he would hop up curl up and start suckling. The only person outside the family he tried to suckle on was my neighbor and friend when she came over Koda sidled up to her leg as she sat on the floor and curled up and started suckling on his foot. It's really up to you to decide if you want your kitten doing this the vet did tell me that if I really didn't want Koda suckling on his foot to put some hot sauce on his foot and that would stop him.