cats
- Does your cat let you sleep/nap not facing them?
Just curious. If we're sharing the bed and I roll to not face her, my cat yells and marches over in front of whatever side I'm now facing and if there's not enough room, that's a problem for me to fix.
Just curious if this is standard cat behaviour or another adorably needy quirk of mine?
- Realizing that my cat spent months teaching me he likes head massages.
We've had my cat Roto-Borola (pictured here) for over two years, we got him when he was maybe five months. A couple months back I discovered he really enjoys having his head massaged. He likes me to put a good bit more pressure on his head than I would expect him to be comfortable with.
He's still a very playful cat at times, and I try to engage with that as best I can but I don't always love being play-bitten. At some point a while back, if I'm petting his head and move my hand somewhere else near him, including petting his back or somewhere else on him, it sets off a timer of 15-20 seconds typically (usually around 10-15 seconds with no reaction, when he opens his mouth just a hint it means he is about five seconds away) for him to play bite me. If he's laying on top of me the timer it sets off is just for exiting the ride. I've been playing with him pretty rough by squeezing his head or giving him a little noogie, but it just hit me that this has really been him training me in how he wants to be pet.
So I'll give him a pretty rough noogie and he acts like "oh no, I'm really trying to bite you but I can't when your hand is right there", but he's definitely able to outspeed me. And I'm realizing now in retrospect, I started going for the back of his head because he left me one spot to find where he would pretend that he can't get to me. And he gradually trained me I needed to be more and more violent if I wanted to not get bitten.
So yeah, I put my entire hand around his skull and squeeze a bit tight and somehow he loves this. Realized a few months ago that this is his thing, realized today that this is something he taught me.
- Tommy trying to look like a seal today
Image description: a black cat lying down on a ledge next to a window. Only one of the hind legs is visible on the cat.
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- Honestly, I would probably die trying to pet it (Sound on)
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- Miez doesn't like walking on the grille
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- Cats Basically Are a Liquid After All, Study Confirmswww.sciencealert.com Cats Basically Are a Liquid After All, Study Confirms
If you've ever lived with a cat, you've seen the way they ooze and spill and flow, like a small ambulatory fur puddle.
Finally, proof!
- Miez just got to know my neighbour's lawn mower robot
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- Why you do this to me?
Noki has been eating Scooters left over wet food and we think he's allergic to something in it. He's licking the hair off his butt so he has to wear the donut. We know he's allergic to wheat but neither his dry food or Scooters wet food has any so we're guessing he's also allergic to the soy in the wet food. Trying to keep him from eating the leftovers and also switching it up with a different brand.
- His favorite activity is staring out windows and plotting his escape.
You have to be really careful opening doors. He's bolted a few times. He's only ever made it to the end of the patio before he stops like the grass is made of lava. It makes it pretty easy to walk to him and catch him. Still, I don't want to risk him ever getting brave enough to actually go so I always shoo him away before I open the door.
He loves to reach up at the things he wants. He realizes doors are the way outside so trims to all of our exterior doors are covered in scratch marks. This is how he learned to open the door between the kitchen and the garage. That door gets locked now. We just leave the key in the chamber on the other side.
Smart little butthead.
- Glacier! Stop barking!toot.cafe Baldur Bjarnason (@baldur@toot.cafe)
Attached: 1 image This little cat was a bit concerned about how loud the neighbour’s dog was being. (That dog would be Jökull, which I know because his owner keeps shouting at him whenever he’s barking too much. “Jökull! Hættu að gelta!”)