For me the answer to the question, “why does my cat lick me?” mainly comes from personal observation. Mother-kitten relationship My cat looks upon me as a mother cat. All domestic cats do the same. Our cats are kept in a state of perpetual kittenhood with us as we provide for them and unwittingly …
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Intro 15th Aug 2017: this was written around 8 years ago when Charlie was in my life. He has now passed. People ask: Why do cats stick their bum in the air when you pet them? This page is my answer to that question. It probably differs from other answers on the internet. I …
Why do cats do things that seem mystifying? Nothing that a cat does is mystifying to the cat. It is all natural behavior. A lot of what people do is truly mystifying! The answer as to why a cat does a particular thing that seems odd to us is in the instinctive behavior of …
by Linda (Bullhead City, AZ) My cat ‘George’ will sit and look out the window and begin scratching on the glass with both paws (one then the other). At first I thought he was seeing his reflection, but he also does this on the trashcan, the bathtub and any large object with a slippery …
My cat has a very sensitive lower back by DARCIE (ST.PETE FLORIDA ) I scratch my cat on her back right before her tail, she reacts really funny. She will squint her eyes and her head goes up and kind of goes back and forth in jerky motions. Then she will lick my arm …
Why Does My Cat Lick by Michael (London, UK) Photo by Muffet (Flickr – creative commons license) People ask, “why does my cat lick” and we see it so often that we don’t think of it as behaviour that is, well, somewhat exceptional amongst all the animal species. Not odd but certainly a question …
by c salzano (columbia, md) Our cat has been getting into our bed and kneading the comforter and hissing at the same time, sometimes when we are in it. Do you know what this means? Thanks! c salzano Hi… thanks for visiting and asking. I will assume the “conforter” is what we call a …
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