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Cat Forum / General Topics / October 2005What does it mean when a cat raises his paw and taps you with it?
I've seen my cat, and other cats, do this to both humans and other cats. He kind of raises his paw and taps me face with it, what's it mean? > I've seen my cat, and other cats, do this to both humans and other cats. > He kind of raises his paw and taps me face with it, what's it mean? The cats seem to do it to each other when they want to play or get the other one to move out of the way. My youngest taps my knee when he's hungry. If I'm brushing Pookie and stop before she's had enough she'll tap me on the hand to get me to continue. Max taps me on the face sometimes in the morning to say "get out of bed you lazy human!" > > I've seen my cat, and other cats, do this to both humans and other cats. > > He kind of raises his paw and taps me face with it, what's it mean? [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > me on the hand to get me to continue. Max taps me on the face sometimes in > the morning to say "get out of bed you lazy human!" Good answer. Cats learn from experience; and when they do that, we humans react with more attention because we perceive it as being cute. Hence, a habit is formed--and a nice one, too. I have a couple of insiders who picked it up, and they make good use of it. --The Observer >> I've seen my cat, and other cats, do this to both humans and other cats. >> He kind of raises his paw and taps me face with it, what's it mean? [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >me on the hand to get me to continue. Max taps me on the face sometimes in >the morning to say "get out of bed you lazy human!" My one does it to me 3 / 4 times a night and when I raise up to look she jumps on my pillow and waits to "snuzzle" then after a cople minutes of this she goes back to her bed. The first few times she did this to me it scared the crap out of me!! When you are supposed to be alone and someone taps you on the shoulder at night it is enough to give a person a heart attack!! http://members.aol.com/larrystark/ http://members.aol.com/larrystark/strays.htm It is alleged that 5cats claimed: > The cats seem to do it to each other when they want to play or get the > other one to move out of the way. My youngest taps my knee when he's > hungry. If I'm brushing Pookie and stop before she's had enough she'll tap My cat shreds my knee when she's hungry.  SignatureJeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org The from userid is killfiled Send personal mail to gordol "I'm glad they see it my way." "They do not, but public opinion is on your side." (Cmdr. Sinclair and Sen. Hidoshi, B5 "By Any Means Necessary") > I've seen my cat, and other cats, do this to both humans and other cats. > He kind of raises his paw and taps me face with it, what's it mean? Mine does it when she wants attention. Sometimes it means she wants food, sometimes she wants attention, and sometimes she just seems to want to tap me because after she does it, she goes away :) Whatever the case, it's only behind the "mushing" thing they do with paws in the cuteness factor. > I've seen my cat, and other cats, do this to both humans and other cats. > He kind of raises his paw and taps me face with it, what's it mean? You have spaghetti sauce on your chin >> I've seen my cat, and other cats, do this to both humans and other cats. >> He kind of raises his paw and taps me face with it, what's it mean? > >You have spaghetti sauce on your chin <snerk> Either that, or "You've cut yourself shaving." >I've seen my cat, and other cats, do this to both humans and other cats. >He kind of raises his paw and taps me face with it, what's it mean? My boy cat does this. I think he's trying to get my attention so he can get even more pets. >I've seen my cat, and other cats, do this to both humans and other cats. >He kind of raises his paw and taps me face with it, what's it mean? Some thing along the lines of, "Hey you, buddy, yeah you, I'm tawkin' to you, pay attention." |
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