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 @futurebird With another kind of animal, I wouldn't have any idea. With a cat, I'm betting on game-playing. Our cat Callista always starts swatting and snapping when petted. But she keeps right on purring the whole time! She isn't upset. She just thinks she has to swat and snap because that's what cats do. 8 comments
 Maybe it's just a matter of some cat notion of "dignity" being picked up ought to be hard, because she is a cat and fast and only "let" me catch her. "oh no I've been caught, now I will HAVE TO be petted and told how beautiful I am... my life is so hard and unfair" - Pica, probably. @futurebird @dedicto @futurebird @dedicto @futurebird @dedicto My favorite puss, Ms. Mertz, had a skin allergy to grasses. When the itching would get bad enough, she'd hang around the cat carrier nonchalantly, sort of "Oh my. Look, the door is open and I might fall in accidentally and get taken to the vet for a shot, but it wouldn't be my fault, oh no..." Her pride insisted that she not go to the vet willingly, but if it was all an accident, her pride was saved! @futurebird @dedicto "I'm a pwedator, not a baby! ... Oh ok, ah, well yes, I'm a baby too purr purr" |
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@futurebird The solution if you want to get her to stop is counterintuitive: put your FACE next to her. Never once has she ever swatted or snapped at a face. Only hands. She's a rescue, and I suspect the asshats who abandoned her taught her that primate hands are cat toys.