Just a couple questions...

by Corrine
(Racine, WI, USA)

I had 2 siamese cats growing up, and recently adopted Carly, a seal point. She is a very unique cat, and will bite her food in half, and spit the other half out. I was just wondering if this is just a unique trait, or if I should get her mouth rechecked? Everything seems fine, she eats 2-3 cups of food a day, so I'm not too worried, its just kinda odd. Also, she tends to hide all of her toys in the couch and bite us (not hard--more like playful) when we get close to it...is this because in the wild cats would do similar things or does she just enjoy hiding them?

Now onto the problem that I'm starting to worry about. Money is kind of tight right now, so I'm hoping this is nothing too serious, but once in a while, she will start wheezing and moving her head side to side...it sounds as if shes trying to cough up a hairball, but doesn't cough up anything. It is normally over in a matter of seconds, but I was just wondering if maybe she just can't cough the hairballs up, or if it is something worse.

Thanks for all you help!