Oct 092015
Just a quicky one of "Cat Attacks!"
I've read from several sources that the notorious "Cat Butt Wiggle" prior to the pounce is to warm up their muscles, and make sure they have good footing for the pounce. Kind of like a track star setting his/her feet in the blocks.
Anyone have any other ideas?
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Love the mop one! Thanks
Damn, Nameless I almost choked on some saffron basmati rice, I was laughing so much! I particularly like the kitten chasing the bear! I have seen that one quite a few times. Talk about David and Goliath!
Thanks for the humour! I needed the giggles today!
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Cross posted to Care2 by Lynn at http://www.care2.com/news/member/775377582/3916539 Dang, Nameless, saffron is expensive. She might have chokes on a fortune!
That makes great sense on the butt wiggle. Now if someone could only explain the chattering (flehming). I realize (I think) that the open mouth is to get extra scent via the Jacobson's Organ, since, after all, knowledge is power, but the sound seems counter-productive
Although I (obviously) can't hear my Nike "chattering" with the birds outside the window (very rarely w/ squirrels) – I can see him "talking" up a storm to them.
So I Googled it, and think I'm going to need to give him a toy mouse to DESTROY when he's doing it, so he won't be so frustrated … and attack ME! (I've got the wounds and 3+ weeks of antibiotics to get over his fang-inflicted cellulitis to prove it!).
http://www.catbehaviorassociates.com/why-do-cats-chatter/
Thanks Mitch–somewhat illuminating
Thanks, Nameless. Mine chatter at bugs on the ceiling, or birds in the yard. My old cat, who lives in the guest room, by her choice, chatters at anything that goes by on the street. Love them,no matter why they are chattering.
Sorry to hear that you have kitty wounds! I can certainly sympathise! I did 26 days of anti-biotics earlier this year for kitty bites.
My three usually chatter at me or each other, but on occasion, they chatter vociferously at crows or squirrels on the garage roof.
Oh no Nameless, not you with cellulitis too! Please everyone, keep some Iodine at home (and use it on cuts and scrapes) – either a tincture which is usually easily available, or Lugols Iodine, which is even better. Though my health is horribly battered after decades of illness and my immune system in tatters, Lugols Iodine has saved me from many infections from cuts and scrapes even if I have forgotten about them and got soil in them – which is why surgeons have used Iodine from time immemorial! If ever I got a bite, that would be the first thing I would think of to put on it – and keep putting it on there every time the Iodine oxidised and the 'stain' disappeared, certainly for a few days…. please everyone?
Pat A, I have never tried Lugol's iodine, but have never needed it -50% strength food grade hydrogen peroxide (as opposed to the 3% from the drugstore) has been all I ever needed. I grant that it stings. But it's something to think about for anyone who doesn't do well with, or can't get, Lugol's. (It does need to be kept air tight and it helps to keep it cold.)
Yep… silly cats… lol.
I loved this. I especially loved watching the cat chase the dog. My sister fostered a cat and kittens last winter. The momma cat terrorized her German Shepard. The cat would chase the 100 pound dog out of the room with the dog screaming even thought the cat hadn't touched him.
Funny and adorable. TY this was a lot of fun to start the week end with. Sherri
Bless you Nameless for this – I needed that (kidney stones again this week, though we may have a little improvement on the way) – my darling old rescue cat (who adored and adopted my German Shepherd as a puppy – he used to bring her live mice to try and teach her to hunt like a cat) but sometimes he got a bit of a zinc deficiency and so got very cranky and would launch himself at her big thick GSD ruff (she was an adult by this time) and bite hard – fortunately the thick fur saved her. So I looked up vit and min deficiencies and got my cat some eco-friendly scallops which are high in zinc, he gobbled them up, and happiness was restored to the home!
Thanks too to Lynn, of course for sending us the message about these!
My 2 chase each other around like maniacs all the time. They chatter at the birds, squirrels and deer and anything else that wandrs into the yard.
Loved the turtle creeping up on the cat. Video is adorable.
Thanks, Nameless for this.
By the time I got to this posting it was already Sunday afternoon by then, but my husband and I enjoyed it just as much while drinking a cup of tea. Great fun, so we watches some others offered afterwards too.
This seems an idea worthy of becoming a weekly post tradition
I agree – I'll be glad to do it. (And searching for them is a hoot for me – there's a gazillion of them! And I don't think they should all be cats, either. There are other cute critters – not to mention some pretty funny and entertaining politicians. Then again, maybe not … lots of folks are scared of Clowns!.)
A weekly tradition newly established that can start the weekend off with a giggle. That's a great idea JL>
I agree!