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Liberal Veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-03 07:15 PM
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Weird cat behavior......
Okay....is the cat pathological?

It has an unnatural attraction to a towel I use to block door drafts.

He will pull the towel into a ball at the edge of the door and knead it over and over and over. If he catches me watching him, he makes a little trilling noise (like a gurgly meow) and if I continue to watch him, he comes over and bites me and then goes back to his towel.

It's quite bizarre.


:freak:
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-03 07:17 PM
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1. nope...
pretty common.

My old roommate had a cat that did that to one specific nightgown of hers.

My new cat does the same thing to my EAR. He sucks on it and makes those little gurgly noises while kneading my neck and face.

It's a nursing instinct. It comforts them.
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patdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-03 07:19 PM
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2. Well, my cats always want to be on the 'other side' of a closed door?
If I close a door and they are on the outside...they attempt to open it...and cry...If they are on the inside of a closed door..they attempt to open it and cry? I just wonder if your cat thinks somehow the towel is the magic door opener?

I love cats...cats are VERY strange creatures!
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starroute Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-03 08:39 PM
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11. Cats really hate to feel left out of anything
One of my cats has two different ways of dealing with doors. If a door is left slightly ajar, she will normally just ghost through the opening, barely touching it on either side.

But if a door is slightly ajar with one of us on the other side of it (for example, if I've shut the bedroom door because I'm trying to take a nap), she will shove it wide open and stalk in, with her body language yelling, "Okay then, what are you trying to hide from me?"

So I get up and shut it again with her on the inside, and then she's happy.
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 12:48 PM
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14. All the doors in the house are always open for my cat
Edited on Tue Aug-19-03 12:49 PM by nuxvomica
except the basement door. At least once a day he'll cry in front of it. I'll open it, he runs downstairs, makes a quick inspection, and then returns.
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Dirk39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-03 07:23 PM
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3. The reason for this behaviour is...
when they drink milk from their mother, they use to do this to her breast, to get more milk. And they remember these moments as moments of happyness and satisfaction. This is the reason, they repeat this behaviour, mostly if they fell good and comfortable.
IF they would only know that we have no fur.
Miau from Germany,
Dirk
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Liberal Veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-03 07:30 PM
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4. Ah...so it's just smurgling.....
I thought it might be, but the self-consciousness (or whatever) of the cat to come over and bite me for watching him with his "friend" was something I haven't seen a cat do.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-03 07:48 PM
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7. Smurgling?
SMURGLING??????????????????????
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Liberal Veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-03 07:55 PM
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8. Yes, smurgling.......
It's really a word.

:)
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SOteric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-03 07:57 PM
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9. Well, remember that cats
don't have hands, so ...often biting is their way of pulling you over to do something with them. My cats use their teeth to tug at my hand when I brush them and they want me to brush some specific spot, or when they want to go out and I haven't opened their little door yet, sometimes they'll tug at me with their teeth as well.

Maybe kitty is just trying to share the joy of kneading his little towel.
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morningtheft Donating Member (45 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-03 07:33 PM
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5. give him/her a magic carpet ride on it
me cat loves to be dragged around the kitchen floor on a towel much like a sled
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-03 07:47 PM
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6. Well, then, don't watch.
This is obviously something very personal and private to your cat.
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-03 07:57 PM
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10. I agree
Don't watch. My cat does the same thing with anything that's blue and fuzzy. He doesn't want people watching either. We call it his "flat-footed floogie" 'cause he gets his back feet in motion too.
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Booberdawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-03 08:47 PM
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12. All cats are brain damaged!
LOL!

I have 2 and there's just no other explanation for the wacky things they do!:o
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patdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-03 08:53 PM
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13. The don't watch....kitty pride is VERY REAL
My VERY old Sweetie Pie loves to park on top of the computer but the older she gets the harder it is for her to jump on top...so I have helped her several times...and she looks at me like...'How dare you do that...I was perfectly capable of doing that....just LEAVE ME ALONE YOU JERK'!

Cats are funny creatures..and we just get to be friends for too short a time! :bounce: :hi: :party:
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