Kittens may be as young as three to four months old when they
start wool sucking, for example.
However, an exclusively indoor life may be restrictive and is possibly a factor leading to compulsive behaviors such
as wool sucking (when the cat sucks, chews or ingests fabric) or psychogenic alopecia (when the cat pulls his own hair out).
Cats may also be affected by stress which will lead to disorders such as excessive licking, hair chewing,
wool sucking, fabric pulling and rippling skin disorder.
The most common compulsive behaviors in cats are
wool sucking or fabric eating (a form of pica) and excessive licking, hair chewing or hair pulling (called psychogenic alopecia).
Wool sucking is a fairly common habit of cats.
The wool sucking habit may diminish over a relatively short time, or it may persist well into adulthood.
For example, there is a behavior called «
wool sucking,» which occurs in cats who are weaned too soon.
Wool sucking is seen more commonly in Siamese and Birman cats (not to be confused with Burmese cats).
Wool sucking could be more of a nursing behavior, which is related to kneading.