Posted on 10/05/2014 8:47:13 AM PDT by Fenhalls555
Lovingly stroking and snuggling your cat should be a comforting treat.
But now pet owners have been warned that cuddling their feline can cause them stress.
Research has revealed that more than half of people do not know how to cope with an anxious cat and think that petting them is the answer.
Leading cat charity, Cats Protection, asked pet owners what they knew about caring for their moggy but found too many were letting the love of their pets cloud their judgement.
Nicky Trevorrow, Cats Protections behaviour manager, said: Being held or stroked for too long can be very stressful for some cats.
Space and peace is often what they need - theyre not small furry humans so what would comfort us wont necessarily comfort them.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Yep. When a cat gets enough love they get up and walk away.
I’ll go to Confession after. Who knew it was bad to stroke your pussy?
I must be very very cruel.
Stressed out cats don’t taste as good. :)
These are experts who fit the old definition “ex”= “x”= unknown; “spert”= “spurt”= “drip of water under pressure.” Unknown drips.
This one was DELICIOUS!
what about chickens? can we still stroke our chickens?
Cats can be odd creatures. My cat loves to play rough. Hi loves an oven mitt where he can grab onto it and kick and bite. Or a hand under a thick comforter he can attack.
I can pick him up by his tail (carefully, near the root) and he isn’t upset in any way.
But fascinatingly, he loves it when I am in my kitchen, and I grasp his tail and launch him across the floor. He slides about five feet on the slippery linoleum floor, his legs all splay akimbo, then strides back over to me for another toss. He will let me do this over and over again, purring the whole time. He used to fetch, but doesn’t do that anymore.
On the other hand, he nearly ripped my legs to shreds as I was watching a movie late one night recently. He was all purry and chilled out on my lap, and I opened a beer.
The hissing sound as it opened caused him to peel out on my legs, leaving scarlet skid marks from his claws on the tops of my thighs.
Hogwash! A freshly freaked out kitten responds immediately to a good head to tail rub-down, simulating a reassuring lick-down from mom.
Via this handy chart.
Tell that to my 3 felines, 2 of whom are self-propelled lap ornaments-I’ve lifted the brindle tabby Midget from my keyboard several times in the last 10 minutes...
Cats know perfectly well how to let you know when they don’t want attention-and when they do...
I’m really having to fight not posting about “stroking a (another name for a cat) causes stress”.
Our tuxedo cat starts by jumping up on the desk and rubbing against the monitor, turning it so it's hard to see (darn LCDs are too light, that would never happen with a CRT). Next he drapes himself on my mouse. If my hand is on the mouse, all the better. Then he rolls over and covers half the keyboard.
With regard to notebooks, they are to lay on and provide warmth. If the lid is open, he can turn off the wifi, enable the numeric keypad, check for updates and turn it off. The last one makes him angry as he loses the warmth as the thing cools down.
OhOh - here he comes now!
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