CAT LOVERS - fess up! Do you enjoy playing mind games with your cat?

Cats have bigtime personalities..

Does your cat roll over on command?

I do that often yes.

So no Queen/Freddie Mercury fans here?

I know there's a lot of cat lovers on here (as well as tons of cat haters) so I wanted to compare notes with you guys.

I have a background in psych so it's fascinating to try to understand how their minds work. Does anyone play "spy kitty"? That's when you make eye contact with the cat and quickly hide out of their sight. Then after a second or two you pop up again, make eye contact again and quickly disappear - cats hate not knowing what's going on so they'll start getting closer to investigate. This is how you can play "green light red light" with them. If you don't know what that is, check out this video:

I like making anthropological observations of their behavior. I know this makes me sound like an old crazy cat lady, but I'm really more interested in understanding their behavior. I have noticed that if you whisper to a cat, you'll have its attention, not sure why that is. It has to be a loud whisper, but they seem to be intrigued by the sound. I've also noticed that cats like peer pressure.... I know it sounds crazy but it's true and I'd like to ask some of you with multiple cats to try it and let me know what your findings are. A stray cat we had temporarily taken in had a litter of 7 kittens which are now 2 months old and I hand-raised, so I get to observe all kinds of kitten mischief and cat culture. I have noticed that if you egg a cat on, they'll totally go for it.. say kitty spots a ball of yarn on the ground and is contemplating getting it, if you sit and pressure him by saying "do it, kitty", "go get it, kitty", "come on, kitty", "do it kitty, do it!" they will almost always immediately act on it. I first noticed this with my old cat Zeus, and I have noticed it as well with these kittens. Also, if they're feeling particularly playful and pouncey, and cat A walks by cat B and I tell cat B "go get him kitty", he'll do it about 75% of the time. I'd like to know if anyone else has tried this and if it worked.

I'd love to hear any other observations or anecdotes from fellow cat observers, please feel free to share!

So no Queen/Freddie Mercury fans here?

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RIP Nugget. 08-10-2013



Lost our cat this morning, she was run over, bless! Tis a very sad day indeed.




Please repost this image so you can see her, I can't do ths image link thingy. tia

I'm so sorry about Nugget. She was a beautiful kitty. :(

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RIP Nugget. 08-10-2013

Lost our cat this morning, she was run over, bless! Tis a very sad day indeed.




Please repost this image so you can see her, I can't do ths image link thingy. tia

So sorry to hear about your little pet. My daughter and her family lost one of their two cats, he got hit by a car last week. It's very sad. I cried for a whole day, he was such a friendly cat and loved people. All the best to you.

It's amazing how different all their personalities are.

And hello, this is my first post!

Love this. Used to play this "game" with my favorite gal quite a bit. Called it "Peek-A-Boo" and she would always lose. I'd throw in a giggle sometimes as I hid and it would drive her insane. Thought I was the only crazy human that did this...Darn, I miss that Gal.

I don't know if any of you are Queen fans, but Freddie Mercury was a big cat lover, even calling to talk to them over the phone when he was away on tour.

All of his cats were saved from the shelters [ I think he had 14 in all], but his most beloved kitty was named Delilah.

One his last album [not the very last when the last album when he was alive] had a song about Delilah.

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In fact his "goodbye" video to his fans featured Freddie wearing a vest showing all of his feline friends.

Warning: this is a very hard video to watch as Freddie was very close to death at this point due to him being sick with AIDs.

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Also, I really don't trust people who don't like cats. Hitler, was a cat hater.

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Anyway I have a cat that has came back from the dead three times now.

The first time was Christmas eve one year after he died.

The second time was Easter this time two years after he died.

Its the same cat every time. All of his mannerisms, such as NO human food except for hand fed fruits, always afraid of thunderstorms, same color, same voice, same personality.

Each time he passes away I thanked God for sending him to me, and so far he has always came back.[youtube]

I hereby declare this thread to be in honor of little Nugget.

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I hereby declare this thread to be in honor of little Nugget.

Once my cat was sitting there looking at me and I opened my mouth as wide as I could and stuck its head in my mouth for a second. You shoulda seen the look it gave me.

Thank you OP, that means a lot to me and I'm sure Fu would appreciate it too but it does feel like we've hijacked your thread some so I'll make this as quick as possible.

This very morning @ 4am I went out and attached some flowers from her grave to the tree that I found her under on Tuesday. I'd say time of passing was between 4/4.30am due to her state of death. I awoke about 4am, sat bolt upright and spent 3 hours wondering where she is/was, assuming out having fun. By 6am I had that dreaded feeling but moving swiftly on.

Deffo lost a part of me with this one, sheeeeet.

Anyways,

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The image is of her resting place, under a Yew tree (the tree of creation.) It was like a climbing frame to her and If you look closely, you'll see the scarring from her scratching sessions, LOL. This was also one of her 'dusting' spots too so it seems quite fitting to place her here. The lump of granite is going to have her name and dates engraved on it real soon, Bless Her and the 2 recycling crates were set up for her to ly under and we're going to move her patches of cat grass over to here also.

At least when people ask where Nugget is, we can say 'in the garden'.

I'll come back at some point and post a link to a vid I'm going to put together of our little beauty so you can enjoy her too.

Thanks for the support and your kind words.

OP to you, yours & your feline friends.