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Cat Health & Behaviour => Health & Behaviour General => Topic started by: kp76 on February 12, 2009, 14:36:33 PM
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This isn't a serious health question but why do both my cats massage my fluffy cushions & my jumpers? They're almost in a trance like state when they do it & it can go on for ages. Lol
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It's known as kneading - Kittens do this to get the milk from Mum teats - My Thai does this just before bedtime and she is 7 this year. It's also a sign of being content. :Luv:
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Ditto what Gail says my boys do it to the cushions and to me when I am wearing my dressing down
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Mine do it to the ones on our sofa. It's so cute!
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Mine do it to the ones on our sofa. It's so cute!
It is cute - Thai does it at bedtime -she jumps on the bed - does her foot thing (as we call it) - generally on my leg. Then finally after about 5 minutes she settles down to sleep :Luv: I love it, Zubin does it very rarely.but I have never seen zeb do it.
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My lot do it to us when they are either settling down in out laps or going to sit beside us.
Skye also does it when she gets onto our bed at night. It last blooming ages first me, then hubby, then plonks herself in between us - that plus the purring at a hundred decibels means we don't get to sleep for at least half an hour :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
My hubby says "here she goes with her plodging" :evillaugh: :evillaugh:
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Just be glad they dont drool aswell :tired:
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:rofl: :rofl: Plodging, isn't that something you do in a puddle or the sea?
I never thought about the mum & kitten feeding theory. You'd think it would be something they'd grow out of. I'm glad i have a rule in my house that means they aren't allowed on the beds & they get shut in the kitchen at night so i don't have to put up with the night time 'plodging'.
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Mine do it a lot and I love it but not when its on my bare skin!
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Some of my cats have done that more than others, our Penny did it alot and Byron does
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Lu does it to my fluffy cushions too. I don't mind him kneading it, it's when his little bottom starts to wiggle in a way that it shouldn't that freaks me out - perv :evillaugh:
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We like to call it " making biscuits" :naughty:
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:rofl: I can see the relevance of plodging but where does the name making biscuits come from???
I glad my 2 don't do some sort of bum wiggling dance. That could be embarrassing if i had friends round.
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I glad my 2 don't do some sort of bum wiggling dance. That could be embarrassing if i had friends round.
Oh it's not a dance - he well, erm tries to 'get friendly' with the cushion :sick:
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:rofl: Thats worse. Imagine that happening when you have the in laws round for tea or trying to impress a new partner.
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I remember posting about this on Cat Chat, so apologies to anyone who knows the tale (tail?!)
My daughters cat, Lucky, had a fetish for woolen things. He "fell in love" with a blanket on my daughter's bed and regularly tried to (there is no polite way of saying this!!) have sex with it. And this was a cat that had been neutered and was probably about 10 when he first started his blanket relationship.
Later, we persuaded him to turn his attentions to an old pullover which became known as "Wa**y Woolie" ..... :-[
And yes, he did seem to do it when it was most inappropriate ....
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my Jack is a wool sucker. he's also a dribbler when "padding", spend more than 5 minutes stroking him and you'll end up well and truly soaked :rofl:
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:rofl: :rofl: oh wibblechick the blanket relationship story made me laugh.
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Since were on the subject ..... Hendrix has fallen madly in love with my dressing gown , which involves at least 10 minutes of kneading and waggling every time he finds it , so more fool me for draping it over myself on the bed the other night as extra insulation only to be awakened in a most unseemly fashion at 2am ..... :shocked:
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Yep my little boy cat (13 months now) does his weired kneeding, "humping" and then licks him self very loudly. He has been done. His record is 3 times in 1 night.
My husband is so proud!!
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Thats the way it goes - some cats come and sit on you while others sit and ...... I better stop there :naughty: :-[ :rofl:
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Hmmmmm - I hadn't realised Purrs was THAT sort of site :shocked: :shocked: :shocked:
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Thats the way it goes - some cats come and sit on you while others sit and ...... I better stop there :naughty: :-[ :rofl:
:evillaugh:
This thread has cheered me right up!
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I dont want to get a reputation for being paw-no-graphic!!! :evillaugh: