allogrooming

Cat bites hand

Cat licks your passive hand and then suddenly bites it hard. Explanation.

My conclusion from my discussion below is that domestic cats can get confused when they are licking their owner’s passive hand at a time when there is no petting and relate to the hand as food, perhaps a prey animal and bite it. It is an instinctive mental aberration brought about because of conflict between …

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Allogrooming

Do female domestic cats lick more than male domestic cats?

We don’t know everything that there is to know about domestic cat behaviour. That is the first point to make. Please don’t expect clean, definitive answers to every question about cat behaviour. This is one of those instances in my opinion. But the question is relevant to a study that I’ve just bumped into about …

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Why do cats expose their soft belly and then attack you for petting them?

I have my own answer on this but before I put pen to paper I decided to do a bit of research but couldn’t find a decent answer. Lots of words written but no clarity and really no definitive answer. These are my thoughts, for right or for wrong. The first and perhaps fundamental issue …

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Cat grooming a person's hair

I have one cat that likes to chew on my hair while I’m sleeping. Why? Two reasons.

A visitor asks: I have one cat that likes to chew on my hair while I’m sleeping; why? There are three possible reasons as I see it. Yes, one more than in the title! Grooming – specifically ‘allogrooming’ When one cat grooms another it is called allogrooming. This is an example of allogrooming. The first …

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