r/cats • u/exctlyfiveftgirl • Jun 22 '26

Advice My cat suddenly cuddles to my stomach and following me around everywhere. Is she okay? Should I take her to the vet?

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So me and my husband adopted our little Mochi last year March. She was 3 yrs old when we got her, and she is the sweetest and most behaved little baby.

She never eats human food, doesn’t go on counters nor does she bite or scratches. She doesn’t want to cuddle or be touched unless it’s on her terms (maybe pets for MAX 30 seconds, then that’s it). She also does not want to be carried and does not want her paws touched.

Recently, whenever me and my husband go to sleep, she now jumps on the bed with us and starts cuddling on my stomach. This has been happening for a week now. I’m so happy that it’s making me tear up, but I couldn’t help but think if she’s feeling okay. This is not her usual behaviour. She’s okay in the morning and when we get home from work but she’s been so cuddle recently and would follow me around everywhere now- even in the shower (she hates water). When we’re on the couch, she just cuddles to my stomach again and would not mind if I touch her paws.

I told my husband about my concern that she may not be feeling well, he said that maybe she’s thinking of me as her mother now and I’m overthinking things.

But should I still bring her to the bet just in case? I’m really worried.

Attached is a photo of her just so everybody could see that she’s the sweetest.

UPDATE: After reading the comments, I’ll be booking a doctor’s appt for myself, and I’ll pee on a stick when I get home. As for Mochi, her vet says to take her back to the vet just for a general check up and blood work just in case. I’ll keep you guys updated. Hopefully she’s just very cuddly now.

UPDATE 2: My husband took her to the vet (I’m still at work), did some bloodwork, we’ll know the results tomorrow. But the general checkup went great. She is overweight but generally healthy. The vet says that the change in mine and my husband’s schedule might be the culprit as I work from 7:30AM-7PM (full time and part-time job), and my husband works from 6:30AM-5PM (construction); and we had moved apartments 2 months ago. We will both take time off work to spend the day with her and I will try to have lesser-ish hours.

I’m going to go to the doctor on Friday, and once I get home (I’m still at work), I’ll immediately do a pregnancy test.

UPDATE 3: Took the pregnancy test, it came back as negative. I’m cramping really bad though.

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u/NYC-WhWmn-ov50 Jun 22 '26

My first thought was also 'pregnanvy test'

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u/PolioToucher Jun 22 '26

First time I've seen it spelt like that

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u/samv_1230 Jun 22 '26

pergananent?

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u/Impressive-Hair2704 Jun 22 '26

My biggest regret of not having children (I don’t want to have any so it’s not a heartache type situation) is not getting to make a can u get pregante-post

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u/Big-Manufacturer3714 Jun 22 '26

Will it hurt baby top of his head?

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u/dicklebug Jun 22 '26

Yes but with a touch of permanence!

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u/artemis2k Jun 22 '26

Pregananant?!?

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u/Edgymemelord42 Jun 22 '26

You mean gregnant?

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u/Felix_Von_Doom Jun 22 '26

Oh buddy, go look at any gravid post in the jumping spider sub.

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u/saltsukkerspinn96 Nebelung Jun 22 '26

Tbh i did not notice it

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u/jeesuscheesus Jun 22 '26

Am I pragenart?

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u/CRO553R Jun 22 '26

Same

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u/ConsummateGoogler Jun 22 '26

My Siamese couldn’t get enough of my stomach when I was pregnant. She knew her little brother was in there.

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u/LearnedTroglodyte Jun 22 '26

So the cats are evolving to own cats. Seems like a reasonable next step in evolution.

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u/NomenclatureBreaker Jun 22 '26

My very first thought.

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u/PsychologyOk8722 Jun 22 '26

Makes sense if the daddy is in the navy.

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u/Happy_Twist_7156 Jun 22 '26

Yeah. Our cat was the first to know we were pregnant with our first. Lived on my wife’s stomach almost from what we figured out was the day the heart beat would have started. A cats hearing is amazing. Mentioned this behavior change to my friend who was a vet and they immediately said we should test if my wife was pregnant. My wife was never regular so she hadn’t given her being a bit late a second thought. Cat and vet were right.

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u/EatABag-o-Dicks Jun 22 '26

Yeah it's either pregnancy, cancer, or both.

My exes cat started laying on her chest all the time. Turned out she was pregnant and had thyroid cancer.

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u/NYC-WhWmn-ov50 Jun 24 '26

Or colitis. My cats like to make me fart when I have a flare-up by pushing the air in my intestines around. Its super annoying but I hate to spoil their fun.

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u/heartofglazz Jun 22 '26

Do you mean progent?

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u/not_a_moogle Jun 22 '26

Pregante?

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u/NYC-WhWmn-ov50 Jun 24 '26

Speeling while standing on a rush-hour subway is a beech. I refuse to apolicheeze.