Posted on 08/03/2013 5:36:01 AM PDT by Daffynition
Uncut title: Think you know your cat? Think again: New video demystifies feline body language - and reveals they probably DON'T want their tummy stroked
Every cat owner likes to think they share a special bond with their feline friend, but experts believe that many people might be missing the chance to communicate effectively.
Britain's leading cat charity has produced a video guide to cat behaviour after a study found many owners struggle to understand their pet.
The Cats Protection video dispels popular myths such as cats licking their lips when they are hungry or wanting their tummies scratched when they roll over.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
*snicker* Anything that dangles is a cat toy.
Wise men are satisfied with understanding a few basic things and leave it at that.
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Very true BUT as long as there is a Government (AT least fools pulling the money strings) willing to grant money for such inane studies, someone will do it - GLADLY accepting OUR money to finance their tom-foolery.
People used to rail Art Bell and call HIM crazy.
I looked at Art Bell as rather a ‘sanish’ type person making a living. The people I ‘worried’ about on his show were the CALLERS that had been abducted, probed and worse.
“Is she afraid of the vacuum?”
Not really. But if it gets too close, she walks away. It’s just that she doesn’t like the loud noise.
...roll over on her back for a tummy rub....
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Not the reason kitty rolls over, as explained in the piece. Cats don’t like a tummy rub.
“Cats don’t like a tummy rub.”
Mine does! And tummy brushing too. High point of her day!
I question the intelligence of the people were in this study. Some of this stuff is about as basic as it gets. Maybe they should trade their cats in for something more suitable to them, like a pet rock.
Wonderful Corgi scene. Your dog?
I must say, some cats really do want their tummy rubbed!
I bought a brush like that. Not scratchy enough for Mao. She doesn’t like it.
She just got brushed. She jumps up by my left side, when I’m on the computer, walks in front of me. Beeps a couple times. Maybe gives me a head butt, or a tail slap. Then she jumps down by my right side, and shoots off. I’m supposed to chase her! She loves that. She’ll head for the stairs, or will jump on top of the fridge. Then she heads for her brush. If I move them, I ask her “Where’s your brush?” She searches until she finds it, then nudges it with her nose, and looks at me. Pretty hard to resist that treatment!
It’s the Daily Snooze....what did you expect?
Are we Limeyphobic?
No, I wish...We have a black Lab....who also loves to be vacuumed.
Okay! Hey, does anybody know where I can get some cat handcuffs? I’ve gotta get a pair of cat handcuffs. Either two little ones like this, to go around the little paws.. or a big one that hooks onto my arm and then hooks onto the cat.
I found out my cat was embezzling from me, so I’ve gotta get a little pair.. of cat handcuffs, so.. Well, I found out that when I’m away, he goes to the mailbox, picks up the checks, take them down to the bank and cashes them. The way I caught him, I went out to his little house, where he sleeps at night, and there was like $3,000 worth of cat toys out there. And you can’t return them, because they have spit all over them..
I don’t know where he is now, I guess he went out to Catalina, or something like that, I don’t know.. [ audience groans slightly ] No. He bought a catamaran, and went out.. [ audience groans again ] No, he got it out of a catalog.. [ groans ] This is a catastrophe! Hey, just remember - comedy is not pretty!
-Steve Martin
Nonsense. I had a cat who loved tummy rubs. He was a tummy rub fanatic. If you didn't rub his tummy he was very miffed.
I also have had cats who didn't like them but that one did.
Aww, that is so sweet!
I don’t like British humor, either.
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