All About Cats
All You Always Wanted To Know About Cats
They knead you
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Kneading refers to a cat’s habit of using its front paws to massage a person’s chest or stomach. It goes back to kittenhood, when a nursi...
There’s a name for it: “bunting”
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There’s a fabric called “bunting,” and you can “bunt” a baseball. Likewise, your cat will “bunt” you and your furniture as part of a famili...
Mad dashes
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It amuses us as much as it mystifies us: for no apparent reason a cat suddenly makes a mad dash through the house. Many cat owners claim cat...
The “I see you” call
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Cats vary greatly in their “talkativeness,” but most of them will give an “acknowledgment” call to people with whom they are familiar. This...
Allogrooming and autogrooming
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Yes, we all know that cats are fanatical groomers (that is, lickers) of themselves, but every cat owner also knows that a cat will also groo...
So much primp time
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If a human spent one-third of his waking hours on grooming, you would call that person vain and self-obsessed (unless the person was you, of...
Covering their traces
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The fact that cats use their litter boxes (usually) is one of their finer traits. Owners assume that covering up their wastes is another sign...
High as a cat
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If you’ve ever given your cat the herb known as catnip, you know how much pleasure it gives. The cat rubs his face in it, licks it, then str...
The urine-catnip common bond
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To the human nose, catnip has only a faint smell, but obviously cats respond to it in a flamboyant way. Curiously, cats can also get a high ...
Privacy, please
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Dogs are notoriously “public” animals, perfectly willing to urinate and defecate in a busy area with lots of people observing. Cats are mor...
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