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Mike Harrison - 31 Dec 2003 06:50 GMT

when I pet my cat on the stomack etc he gets weird, he stretches and his
eyes close then he purrs and gets stiff almost like a dead animal. if you
stop petting him he stays in the same position purring.

Also my other cat keeps messing with the waterbowl and dumping the water, he
has some kind of obsession with doing this.

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Rich - 31 Dec 2003 06:59 GMT

> when I pet my cat on the stomack etc he gets weird, he stretches and his
> eyes close then he purrs and gets stiff almost like a dead animal. if you
> stop petting him he stays in the same position purring.

I find this NORMAL behavior as four of our five cats will do exactly the
same.

Rich

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dinkmeister - 31 Dec 2003 08:47 GMT

:when I pet my cat on the stomack etc he gets weird, he stretches and his
:eyes close then he purrs and gets stiff almost like a dead animal. if you
:stop petting him he stays in the same position purring.

Lucky, every cat I've known gets mad when someone pets their belly

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~*Connie*~ - 31 Dec 2003 11:22 GMT

how would you react if you went and got a people massage?

> Also my other cat keeps messing with the waterbowl and dumping the water, he
> has some kind of obsession with doing this.

Chances are he's trying to find the water in the bowl, and can't... so he's
pawing at it trying to figure out where it is, and in the process is dumping
the bowl. Cats have pretty horrid eyesight for things that aren't moving.
Get a heavier bowl.

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butch burton - 31 Dec 2003 15:53 GMT

> > when I pet my cat on the stomack etc he gets weird, he stretches and his
> > eyes close then he purrs and gets stiff almost like a dead animal. if you
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> the bowl. Cats have pretty horrid eyesight for things that aren't moving.
> Get a heavier bowl.

My cat just likes to play in water-a glass with any water in it at all
immediately gets turned over-so it is plastic water bottles-he won't
mess with those. Also he will drink water from any faucet left on
till he upchucks-so I time those drinking sessions. When we took him
camping, on hot days he would jump out of the front of the canoe into
the lake and I would retrieve him as he came along side me in the rear
of the canoe-the cat clearly likes water.

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