My boy lived to be 20 years old and would wake me when I stopped breathing. A few times he'd hit hard enough to leave bruises to get me to breathe. It took a while to realize what he was doing, but he always had a concerned countenance on his face. Maybe I saved his life as a kitten, but he saved mine too.
If you haven't already, you may want to get yourself checked for Sleep Apnea, if you stop breathing in your sleep that frequently. CPAP isn't the only option for treatment. They make a mouth guard that changes the angle of your jaw that can help a LOT of people, no air-pressure necessary.
@@mkmalay I'm not saying that you can't get hurt sometimes... But there is a noticeable difference between a playful accident, and if the cat thought it was in real danger. It would be a _big_ step up in savagery. Oh, and stay on top of keeping those nails trimmed.🙂
I assumed this video would focus on quirky behaviors of male cats, but I was surprised to see it discussing things all cats do! Are there really specific things that only male cats do? I thought the behaviors would be more distinct. Can someone explain the difference
They're trends, all of them do these things but some behaviors are more pronounced or frequent in male cats. If you examined the life and behavior of a thousand cats you might see a clear difference that isn't so easy for most of us to notice
Honestly, I think the similarities are what make cats so great! Whether male or female, they all have their odd habits. Maybe the title was misleading, but I still enjoyed the video and the funny moments shared
I appreciate the discussion! I think it’s interesting how certain behaviors can be exaggerated in male cats, like their playful aggression or competitiveness. There might not be a lot of distinct behaviors, but the context can change how they act
I found the video really interesting! While some behaviors are shared, I think male cats have their own quirks, especially when it comes to marking territory or being more affectionate. It's a fun topic, even if not everything is exclusive to them
I get what you're saying! I was hoping for more unique behaviors specific to male cats, but it seems like a lot of these traits are just common among all cats. It would be nice to have more distinctions between genders
I am a parent to 3 boys (brothers) from day 1 and they see me as dad and I find this video to be true. One thing is they'll play rough with me and each other - recently a dog came into our territory and when there is a threat like that, they'll team up to protect each other and me. I found it fascinating and love my boys as much as they do me.
What utter BS. All cats male or female do these. If fact out of all the cats I've owned the male cats have always been a lot more mild manured than our female ones.
Yes! I have specifically chosen males because I have always found them to be chill and goofy 😊 My female was sweet and never had issues, she was just more reserved. 😊
@@aburg6393 really it comes down to personality, I have one male that just lays down 24/7 and another that will jump around, both would play bite, just no need to start it with the second one, you'll find him running around. I wouldn't want a chill and goofy cat, that's why I wanted a female, but life goes its way.
I’ve had two female cats now. Both my childhood lady cat and my current girl kitten nip and nibble at my fingers, but affectionately. The kitten even likes to nurse on my shirts. My male kitten though only nips at fingers when he’s feeling feisty and playing. Otherwise, he never nibbles me.
I had an orange male named Moses. He loved me and guarded me all the time. When my husband and I were just starting to date, Moses chased my husband (rather hatefully) down the hallway. They later got to be very, very close. The second time he chased a human down the hallway, was when an amulance driver came to take me to the hospital for emergency surgery! That time my husband had to defend the amulance driver; needless to say, Paul, knew how he felt.
I remember when my Max brought home a girl kitty ( max was a indoor/outdoor cat) it was like he was showing her to me and my sisters ( we where younger) moral to the story I miss max so much!!! He was not my pet, he was my brother!!!
Ive never enjoyed a cat video more in all the years Ive watched them, more than this one! I honestly learned SO much from it! I have a 15 yr old boy that always wants to sleep with me but he just will not lay down and be still! He walks all around me off and on all night...or else it sure seemed like all night. So I had even told my husband that I was gonna have to start shutting him out of the bedroom so i could sleep and then here is this video the very next day about them doing that to guard us and protect us! So now I know why he doesnt rest while Im asleep! 💗
My boy does something like that too! He'll get under covers each night & at first he'll lay down and lick my arm & knead awhile,then many nights he patrols all around d me keeps jumping over me!😺🐾 Love everyone, love to your kitties!
I know all of my male cats let me pet and hug them whenever I wanted to, and the females 'received' love on their terms, only when they wanted it. And males let you touch them anywhere, whereas females (the ones I've loved) were sensitive about touching their hind end-lower body and their paws.
Interesting video don't recognize all of this. I own 2 British short hair cats, a mother and son. They can both be ferocious 'players', both with equal fanaticism. Once I fainted in my apartment during a heatwave and broke my ankle. When I came to it was the female cat (and her kittens at the time) all sitting around me, especially around my broken ankle. When I feel truly miserable, either because of a depression or physically ill - the female cat also always picks up on that. She is less affectionate than my male cat, but when I am sick or down she always comes to sit by me and 'suffers' my petting and gently using her as a pillow.
We have six cats with their different personalities. Our bedroom is on the second floor and My Bobby cat likes to sleep at the doorway. Now I understand he is on guard. My latest cat is a six fingered Siasmese. My husband always tells me they follow me with their eyes, watching me wherever I go. If I go downstairs, they follow. And like my six fingered little Dedos, they are more than a handful. But they fill our lives with happiness, fun and love.
my boy used to rush to me and play with whenever i come home from college. Then he would settle in my lap and naps.....just purring away. I miss him so much..
Most of these behaviours have been true of every female cat I’ve ever known in the last 45 years. One thing that wasn’t the case with females I’ve known was the mounting. But then I’ve never experienced that with any male cats I’ve known either. The noise is definitely a thing. I find males to be noisier. And every male cat I’ve ever known has been as thick as two short planks! Lovely, funny cats. But daft as a brush! But the biting/nipping, aggressive play, dominant gestures, guarding etc are things I’ve experienced with plenty of female cats - our own and other people’s cats. 2 things that I’ve noticed, which aren’t mentioned here: I’ve found that female cats gravitate more to male members of the household whereas the males tended to bond more with female people. I’ve also found that males, when not neutered, are more prone to ‘spraying’ all over the house to mark territory. Which, frankly, smells nasty. I’ve never known that in a female, or in a neutered male.
Sorry, but having had cats my whole life, and currently having a female (non-spayed), she does ALL of these. Every cat can do these things, regardless of gender. When I saw the thumbnail, I thought it would be about female cats because that's one of her favorite play strategies. She'll clamp on the arm or leg and chew/nip/bite... She won't do it to my wife because she has trained her not to by disengaging. I let her do it (mostly because of a high pain threshold) and usually have multiple scratches and small bite marks. She hunts us, cuddles us, and loves to climb the walls. I enjoy the videos, but definitively stating that one gender does this, and another does that, is disingenuous and misleading.
I have a very deep bond with our male cat. He watches over me all the time. He’s also a Ragdoll so I’m never out of his sight. A few nights ago when I was sick he kept checking on me. He comes up and either partially stands or fully stands on me and watches for a bit. At the moment he’s on the floor facing my direction. I know now why he bites my husband, it’s guy play.
I live the country, and my family has had cat and dogs since i was a toddler. I had a Ginger Tomcat for 14 years... He was the sweetest best buddy cat i ever known. Never bite me or scratch me, always showed affection, came to cuddle and sleep on the couch, came out to walk with me, always protected "our" territory, he would chase other cats away lol.... midnight or 1am in the morning you would hear in the woods across the road "Meeeuuuaaahhhhhh hisss osdghosdjgdsjognk"..... Lol. Demanded to come into the bathroom to sit or lay on the toilet lid while i took a shower and then when i put my bathrobe on, he would jump from the seat onto me and purr. Aw man.. That cat was really something special. Sadly as it mostly goes with cats, his kidneys gave out and had to put him to sleep. I'll say this, treat animals with respect and kindness, and they will stay and you'll get back a thousandfold of what you put in. God bless
My cat tried doing the actions of dominance once but I one-upped him and showed him that I outrank him. However another cat, Scratchy, was always the dominant one in grandma’s house despite his age of old.
A nibble?!? My cat has more different bites than there are words in the English dictionary. There's a bite to get my attention, there a bite for being hungry, there's a bite for playing (got ya!), there's a bite for not wanting to be picked up, there a bite for moving my feet under the blanket, there's a bite for "Better leave me be", there's a bite for "I'm not having my best day", there's a bite for "I'm mad as hell", but the worst by long shot: frustration! That one is full force and jerking to tear into my meat. And the less time he spends outside, the worse it gets. And still we are the best of friends...although, wonder why...
All of my cats have been big Tom Cats lol. I love them 😂 Both lived to be 20 years old, and they were both shelter cats. I am going to look for my next big playful boy soon
My girl siamese will sometimes get in a mood and bite/claw my hand. I just harden it and let her try to shred. She'll alternate between attacking in earnest for a moment, licking, then shredding before showing affection again. There is no reaction from me beyond hardening my hand and letting her attack until she's done. My boy siamese will nibble me, but always affectionately and usually during our morning cuddles.
This has been pretty true for the male cats I've had. At times they're so full of energy they just HAVE to do something. They generally are more physical beings. The mischief is there. My males were much more likely to sneak up and sort of pounce or to sneak up on the back of a chair and wack my head or neck, often with jaunty big eyes and grins. They seem to have the broadest senses of humor, too. Females seem more concerned about your health, though. I have a female now who lightly bats me in the mouth if she thinks I've slept too long.
My male orange tabby does consider me his territory. I was once in the hospital for four days. When I came home and sat down in my recliner, about all my wife and girl would allow me to do. The cat kumped up on my chest and wouldn't leave. He gives us cold hard stares when i let the dog on my lap and sometimes resorts to running through the house as hard and fast as he can. Making lots of noise. The dog jumps down to chase him, he doubles back and takes the dog's place. The dog has mostly stopped falling for the trick, but it took most of a year. He views me dog as stupid.
As a base information before commenting: Okay, so, I've 2 cats, one male (orange/tabby) and female (tortoise), they're siblings and both been 'snipped/fixed'. I've had one cat before them, she lived 17 years, was a tortoise. 1:28 In my experience withmy cats, both, my first female cat and current female cat, they're more playful and more... rough with their playing. Would snip at me sometimes. While my boy is more calm one, he does play, but not so excitedly as his sister, he doesn't really even nip/bite me. Only few, rare occasions, and it would be when he was angry/annoyed. But I don't know how to describe the times my two cats play together... They had a bad fight about year ago, I had to keeo them separately fir about a week and get them used to each other again. (More about this later in comment.) I think my cats play a bit too roughly with each other... Not sure, but it feels like that, maybe I'm just anxious because they had that fight and don't want it ti start all over again. 1:55 Well, I here continue the stiry about the sibling cats bad fight... The girl got stuck by her leg on a cage outside, I rushed to get her out of it. She was scared, probably in pain or shock, as she was slightly hanging from her hind leg, she did reach the ground level, but I imagine it must still hurt and be scary. I started to help her, she started biting and scratching me furiously, well her brother came running over and tried to get between me and his sister... So this claim sums up, at least with my male cat. But the thing is, they were in really bad terms after that, boy tried to get close to sister, while the girl became defensive and even aggressive towards her brother. Lots of hissing, growling and chasing happened, at first at the girl's oart until the brother started to act more in the same way towards her too. 2:36 And this goes pretty much correctly for my female cat. She has always bene more timid out of the two. She can be the first at the door to greet me, but if she doesn't recognize me immediately, she would run and hide for a moment. 3:05 This doesn't apply for my male. Well, apart that he pounces on me, but he doesn't wrestle or bite me really. He is more like a gentle 'lover' who likes to cuddle. 😆 🥰 3:42 This goes for my boy. He's a cuddler, I love him. Though, I guess I might sometimes be little too excited and happy to cuddle him in my arms. 😅 🤣 My poor boy. 6:14 I have noticed this odd thing though. The boy lets his sister always to groom him. But the girl doesn't usually ever let her brother to groom her, not even at the time before that fight.
Our male cat we had was so crazy accurate and amazing, even the fastest flexible and smallest insects he was able to hear and catch even when they were flying around him, that was always so funny to observe. He also regularly engaged in very hard territorial fights
My family collective have had Cats since the 1960's - all had been female. Until, I adopted George, my now 9 year black-fur' Cat. He is very loyal. He sits as "guardian" at end of the bed, then will cuddle. He does nibble, bite, swat my arms -people not the scratches - yet, I have learned that he often wants to "tell" me there is no food or water remaining - or, he doesn't want to to get out of bed. When rain storms, and thunder out, he shelters with me. When I watch TV, he will wrap around one of me feet, and if the telephone rings, I may get a scratch too (these machines make noise!!) I'm 55 year. and my Cat, according to a chart at the Vet' shows in Cat years, George would be 54 years, so...we are like brothers.
My (neutered) male cat is actually very gentle with humans, while his sister is the one who's (slightly) more likely to play-bite or grab. He is very insistent when he wants attention or to cuddle up, though. Both are actually less grabby than our two previous cats (both females). I think we may have had some odd ones!
There's a stray black and white Tom that has become friends with me. He always plays what I call the "Bitey bite" game if I lightly tap his side. He has never, not once actually bitten me. He just pretends to, and then lets go immediately. He also stands up on his hind legs, and braces his front paws against me so I can scratch him behind the ears. He's also a jealous little guy. If I pet another cat, he doesn't hurt them, he just places himself between me and the other feline! He's my buddy!
My cat grabs my hand and bites frequently and he keeps his claws in his paws but he bites like he is trying to eat me. Seriously. From the first 'nip' he bites as hard as he can and I have no idea how to get that across. Pulling my hand will make him think it is play and raising my voice will make him afraid. So far pulling my hand away and ignoring him for a minute isn't doing it either :(. He is a super sweet kitty too... he just BITES.
I've had cats for 50 years. My top 3 best cats were all male. They had the strongest personalities and did the most amusing things. Female cats tend to be less destructive and are often great lap cats, but are just less entertaining.
Adonis was a feral we earned the trust of and brought inside to live. We would lock the screen door and let him and Adelise, my humane society adoptee, look outside from the safety of indoors. (They never tried to actually go out when the door was open; no interest in it.) One night something slammed into the screen door and scared them both away from it, but while Adelise came and ran to hide beside me, Adonis stayed half-way between us and the door facing the door. We never found out what it was, but it was sweet that he put himself between us and the perceived (likely actual, for them, since we have coyotes and foxes around here) danger. However, now that he's passed away, Adelise has been guarding more often. Other than that, she does all the same things the male cats are explained to do. Also, Gourry was a coward and he was a male. A bird got into the house once and he hid under the bed. xD But I will say that the neutered male thing is absolutely accurate. In my experience the males are usually the more friendly and affectionate ones. That said, the neighbour's cat was a male and was the one to start bringing Adonis to our house because he seemed to know we'd feed Adonis like we had been feeding him. (And we did. That's part of how we got his trust.) He came with him every time and if something spooked him he'd run and bite Adonis and they'd both run off together. When we finally got Adonis inside and took him to a vet for shots and neutering, they said at some point he had been hit by a car because he had a limp and xrays showed so much had been broken and healed or healed improperly. (Nothing, however, that they said would cause him lasting troubles or pain to live with, so no need to put him down thank God.) With the injuries they showed, the only possible way he could have survived out there long enough to heal and come to us was if the neighbour's male cat was helping him while he was hurt. So not all males are hostile to one another.
Until Sept. 18, 2023, I had a pair of unrelated cats of the same age, a male tuxedo kitty, and a female dilute tortishell. She is still with me, at 15 years of age, and acting pretty much as if she were about 2-6 years of age. They used to do this really cute thing, where they would insist on being in the bathroom with me. I couldn't close them out without making them claw at the door. Well... shared living arrangements made that something to avoid, and I did find a work-around. They would do a "changing of the kitten guard" where they took turns guarding me in my vulnerable state. I even have a short video of my tortie laying belly up on July fourth, completely unbothered by the fireworks while "guarding" me. They really did take turns, and in a way that very much felt as if they were taking turns. As one walked out, the other entered. A little later, they'd swap again, not wanting to both be in the same confined space as the other. With me was fine, just not each other. (giggling over their silliness) They didn't even really want cuddles. Some petting was good, but mostly, they were protecting me. Both of them.
Oh my God, this brought tears to my eyes from overwhelm, to find out in the 2nd minute of this, on *their Guarding nature* 🥲🥲SO very true🙌🏼 .. about them positioning themselves between us and the door or window.. possible threat areas.. Both our lovely male cats, neutered, 🐈 🐈⬛ have had similar great traits & behaviours, all likeable ones 😅😎🤩 Many Thanks for this great informativevideo.. 🙏🏼 As, some things told to us here, have just confirmed my own thoughts/ instincts & conclusions I used to tell my young grown kids as explanations of Our Cats day to day cool sides of their behaviour & habits 😊
When my male cat hears something that scares or bothers him he usually comes and sits beside me. I don’t think it’s protecting me, it’s more like he wants to be sure I’m going to reassure and protect him.😺
Our very friendly and playful older female kitten does nips and love bites much more than our male cat. Cats featured in news stories on TH-cam who protected and/or saved humans or animals were female in many cases
I have had MANY cats over the years. Today I have only three.. two males and a female. One male and the female are neutered. The two males DO go to nip me sometimes.. but never actually pierce my skin. They seem to know just how hard to bite without causing real pain or harm. I counter this with a pull on his fur or neck.. which he recognizes as a valid response.
@3:19 Speaking of biting, letting your cat play with, maybe be near, earphone or USB wires is likely to get that wire cut. My cat used to chew on those just because they were in reach.
Agree 100%; miss my boy (boy cat that is; he passed away this past January; would have been 17 years old this past April). My girl is nowhere near as rough playing, but I love her none the less. She was just a kitten when I started feeding her; once I found out her gender, I had her spayed and got her shots thus she became my girl. That was 7 years ago now. Sad these creatures don't live longer.
I’m so sorry for your loss; 17 years is such a long, special time to have with your boy ❤️. It’s beautiful that you’ve had your girl by your side for 7 years now-cats really do find their way into our hearts, don’t they? They may not be with us forever, but the love they leave behind is priceless. Sending you lots of love and warm memories of your boy 🐾💖.
I had a beautiful large pure grey male cat. He was a perfect specimen, and he was fully equipped. I lived by myself and one day a friend came to visit. He looked rather scornfully at the cat and said, 'Why do you keep a cat? They are useless and just take advantage of you.' My utterly handsome grey got up immediately and walked out the door. About five or ten minutes later, the cat walked in with a very large rat that he had just killed and dropped it squarely between my friend's feet. He then, turned around with his tail straight up and walked out the door. He attracted a lot of female admirers, and one day I went out the door, and there were five females sitting on the roof of my van. He was studying them from the verandah. I went and gave the females a little scratch one by one, and when I turned around, the Grey was sitting with his back towards me. I walked past him back into the house and said, 'No need to be jealous, I wouldn't trade you for all of them, I was just saying hello.' I went in and sat down, and he eventually walked in, sat in the middle of the room and looked at me intently. Then he sauntered over, jumped up onto my lap, stood on his hind legs, and put one front paw on each of my shoulders He looked straight into my eyes, and then he bit me on the end of my nose. Not at all hard, just a little exercise to blow off steam I reckon, then he jumped down, turned and walked out the door.
Well done, and there are a LOT of cat videos. I don't know if I subscribe to everything here, but altho they are important to us, we become their world. Never ignore a soft gesture towards you from a cat; their quality of life may decrease if they sense you aren't a priority.
I had a female cat that was way more territorial and protective than my male cat. She'd go after dogs, strangers, other cats. He would run and hide. If I'd cry or whistle, she'd be up in my face trying to figure out what was wrong. But my male cat was indeed very nippy. every chance he gets he'd nip me.
You made a comment about unutered cats not getting along, and these boys were not as domestic as one might think. I would say ask the foxes, skunks, minks, weasels, ratcoons, etc but there any. Squirrel s and mice and the such are still around. They just killed everything the say as a threat, always running to any of the others in a fight. 5 of them. Had their pecking order, didn't spray in the house or even use the bathroom inside: asked to go out. Great with the kids, would run off even big dogs. Had 4 females at the same time, a whole other conversation. They played, ate, slept, and went out in the forest together. I hear this about male cats, the fighting and spraying and wonder why mine never did any of those things.
My step mom had a very well built male cat, that would always get carried away while playing. I was the only that really interacted with him for more than a minute at a time, so he got over stimulated easily and would start biting, grabbing and kicking. He wasnt being mean, he was just poorly socialised and didnt have anyone to olay with.
My little girl was affectionate most of the time but was always ready to play fight, the only problem was play was full power, no retracting claws and such like. Admittedly she was a tiny, half feral kitten when I found her, but grew to a long legged, long body gorgeous "little girl" ( big, not talking huge, body as long as my arm, thin ) that my nieces thought she hated them when she was just playing. I named her Angelica after the little girl on rugrats, the one that terrorised the babies but had all the adults fooled. Lost her to two dogs that got out and attacked her in her front garden.
Untouched males will gather with preheat female and would hang around for a month, if a colony has multiple females, it means you'll find lots of males all the time there, plus male kittens often stay with the colony to help with youngs.
About Territorial behaviour. I've had several cats (mostly males)... But they all knew I let them be territorial... but all of them knew who was the boss, me! No not by force, that does not work anyway. But by protecting the other cats for the dominant male. Standing in between them, keep the dominant male in another room (or hight) when diner was served. It always worked.
I've had female cats all my life, it wasn't until 13 years ago I adopted to boy kittens. One of them passed away but the other, who was the runt, is actually very healthy. He likes to guard the bathroom whenever I use it, and I mean every facility in the bathroom. I've caught him standing in the doorway facing away from me when I was showering. He's known my mailman all his life but still hisses at him, and sometimes he sleeps at the edge of the bed facing the doorway. I thought he was like that because the home we adopted him from had dogs.
A lot also depends on how much stimulation they can take before they playbite. I had a lovely female cat called "Baby" and it took me a while to figure out at what point she was becoming overstimulated during pets and that's when to stop. But, once I got that down pat, everything was great. =D
Nipping/biting, guarding - that's my female calico cat, but then again, she imprinted on me. My white male cat is completely stolid (phlegmatic). He's more like a rabbit - never scratches you with front paws or bites you, but if you grab him he'll try to jump away using his strong hind paws (and that can leave marks if you're not careful). The only "male" thing my male cat loves is going to the bathroom with me, when I go to toilet. There he relaxes, non-judgmental Al Bundy- style, sharing the room, while I do my thing...😼
Sounds familiar. Especially guarding, my mother couldn't go anywhere without our two boys. They were always following her around 👀👀 And yes, scratches all over 😯 They played rough. My ex-next door neighbour had three boys, they were guarding their owner too. All of them rescued and they did it to me too, I couldn't even go to bathroom without one of them and of course they had to jump in my jeans 🤣🤣
In regard to the mounting, my male tuxedo cat (and I'm also male) does a very weird thing.. He has not been fixed because he is impossible to bring to a vet or even be in the same room with a stranger, for NO reason. (I've been with him since he was 2 weeks old. Nothing bad has ever happened to him with any stranger, ever). He's like 6 now and two years ago decided he was going to start humping my fuzzy black bathrobe I was wearing. I thought he was trying to do it to *me* but eventually realized he wanted the robe, and would do it every time I wore it. I eventually just gave it to him. Lmao. Now it stays on the bedroom floor, and this is where it gets weird. Every single day, starting in the morning when I'm having coffee and then a couple to a few times throughout the day and night until bed, he starts going crazy on the thing on the floor next to me while I'm sitting at my computer. He bunches it all up under him and grabs it in his mouth like a female cat and the entire time he glances up at me, with puppy-like baby whale eyes, and screeches at me. He burrs, chirps, whines, and screams, and acts like he wants me to pet him while he's humping!! I'll reach down and pet his head gently and say something to him, and he screams bloody murder at me like he's pissed, but then looks at me again when I take my hand away like "Pet me, damn it!" I swear to god that if someone was walking by and my window was open, they'd think he was either gravely injured or that I was beating him or something. When he's done after about five-ten minutes, he walks a few feet away and falls over on the floor and starts grooming himself, then relaxes. I've owned tons of cats in my 33 years but never one that did this! Lmao. Has anyone else experienced this or know what it's about? I may video it and upload it to my channel XD
I'll add something which I forgot to mention. He also only does this to the bathrobe if I'm in the room with him, and usually sitting in my chair. He will not do it if I'm gone or outside, or even sleeping. It's like I'm somehow inadvertently triggering him to hump? I don't get it. LOL
I have one of each, both spayed and neutered of course. The male is definitely more aggressive with play, he latches on while bunny kicking and biting. But the female is more territorial and spends more time with us. It's not uncommon for her to be on our foot stool in the living room while we're there, or at the foot of the bed.
I have many cats over the years both male and female and have found the neutered male to be more affectionate and sooky than the females the gingers seem to be more affectionate, they all have their own personalities and without them in my life I would be lost.
Ok serious comment but warning its rated R: i've heard before that some animals, especially cats can smell emotions and/or intentions. Case and point, sometimes just before me and my then-wife were about to copulate, my male cat would enter this frenzied state and start bouncing off the walls! At first it was shocking to see but eventually we got used to it and it became quite entertaining. Moreover i suppose prior to the act we humans might release pheremones or something similar that we ourselves can't smell anymore, but i guess some other animals still can.
Don’t fully identify with many of these stronger for males, but I have always preferred male cats. Don’t know why, just seem to be more personable on whole, though often the barn cats (female) were extremely friendly form my aunt’s place. But personable, and also tougher, usually, my male cats. Not so flighty, etc. our current is a mixture. He isn’t quite as good as some of our past males overall in all categories but he is a friendly and tolerant cat.
Nipping and biting?. My female does it to me when she's beginning playful and she's constantly playful. She actually plays more like a dog leaving my hand raw half the time. Guarding is another one I'm going to call bs. Butterscotch constantly guards me particularly from the puppy. Both dogs can't really get attention from me and she's not below pouncing without the use of claws at people if they get too close while she's on my lap. She's also pretty territorial when it comes down to other cats. We got some outdoor cats and last winter we let the 2 in for a few days because those days were extremely bad. Butterscotch did not approve one bit. She mainly beat tf out of the female. It's not a mating thing, butterscotch was fixed within a week of being old enough. The male simply hid the entire time. Butterscotch I guess is simply a B**** but I love her.
My cat always guards me outside. Everytime I'm out in my garage working, he'll sit at the door and keep watching and has chased off animals that got too close.
I miss my solid black semi-feral tomcat Atro, short for Atroviridis (named after a mushroom). I was the only human who could pick him up and when I meowed at him he would meow back.
Male cats do not have “more pronounced hunting skills”. I don’t have any freaking clue where you heard that. I’ve seen more people say female cats are better hunters, but there isn’t even any evidence out there to support that either. All cats also guard their owners as we are part of their territory. Our female is the roughhouser at my home I don’t think unblinking stares are attempts to show dominance. They claim your spot because they want to feel close to you. And the other shit you described sounds more like attempts to grab your attention. Male cats aren’t less hygienic either. Where the fuck do you get your info?
My first boy would gently bite me to wake me up, I'd play him like I was sleeping. He'd progressively bite a little harder till I "woke up". One morning I was actually sleeping. He was using enough pressure to startle me but not nearly enough to hurt.
My tortoise shell female is very affectionate and playful with me. But was a feral orphan so does not interact with other humans. She was also affectionate with the 17 year old toms who acted as her protectors and babysitters when she was young. They were all fixed in their first year of life. She is much more a climber and snoop that they were. And she seems to sleep up against me at night and comes by to cuddle and talk with me a few times daily.
Not so sure about the first one. My new 1-year old female adoptee is very "bitey" -- not just "nippy" either! I know she doesn't mean to hurt, but my arm has a lot of puncture marks!
My boy lived to be 20 years old and would wake me when I stopped breathing. A few times he'd hit hard enough to leave bruises to get me to breathe. It took a while to realize what he was doing, but he always had a concerned countenance on his face. Maybe I saved his life as a kitten, but he saved mine too.
"Hey, if you don't wake up, I don't get food, affection, or a personal servant."
If you haven't already, you may want to get yourself checked for Sleep Apnea, if you stop breathing in your sleep that frequently.
CPAP isn't the only option for treatment. They make a mouth guard that changes the angle of your jaw that can help a LOT of people, no air-pressure necessary.
Umm … hopefully you got that taken care of …
That's amazing ❤
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It’s not biting, it’s a teeth hug 😂
The way I explain the 'nibbles' is that, if the cat was trying to hurt you... YOU'D KNOW. 😆
My cat might be nibbling me, but it sure does hurt and I know he doesn’t mean it to hurt me
Yup. Mine nail are super sharp. I saw him 'nibbling' my foot playfully slowly and still nicked my foot. 😂
@@mkmalay I'm not saying that you can't get hurt sometimes... But there is a noticeable difference between a playful accident, and if the cat thought it was in real danger. It would be a _big_ step up in savagery.
Oh, and stay on top of keeping those nails trimmed.🙂
if the tiger was trying to hurt you you'd know when the hand and arm is gone.
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@@Henry-sv3wv LMAO. 🤣🤣
My male cat would rub his face in mine and gently nibble my face, I loved him. God, I miss him.
I assumed this video would focus on quirky behaviors of male cats, but I was surprised to see it discussing things all cats do! Are there really specific things that only male cats do? I thought the behaviors would be more distinct. Can someone explain the difference
They're trends, all of them do these things but some behaviors are more pronounced or frequent in male cats. If you examined the life and behavior of a thousand cats you might see a clear difference that isn't so easy for most of us to notice
Honestly, I think the similarities are what make cats so great! Whether male or female, they all have their odd habits. Maybe the title was misleading, but I still enjoyed the video and the funny moments shared
I appreciate the discussion! I think it’s interesting how certain behaviors can be exaggerated in male cats, like their playful aggression or competitiveness. There might not be a lot of distinct behaviors, but the context can change how they act
I found the video really interesting! While some behaviors are shared, I think male cats have their own quirks, especially when it comes to marking territory or being more affectionate. It's a fun topic, even if not everything is exclusive to them
I get what you're saying! I was hoping for more unique behaviors specific to male cats, but it seems like a lot of these traits are just common among all cats. It would be nice to have more distinctions between genders
I am a parent to 3 boys (brothers) from day 1 and they see me as dad and I find this video to be true. One thing is they'll play rough with me and each other - recently a dog came into our territory and when there is a threat like that, they'll team up to protect each other and me. I found it fascinating and love my boys as much as they do me.
What utter BS. All cats male or female do these. If fact out of all the cats I've owned the male cats have always been a lot more mild manured than our female ones.
Yes! I have specifically chosen males because I have always found them to be chill and goofy 😊 My female was sweet and never had issues, she was just more reserved. 😊
Agreed. I have two boys. I always choose a male. If they bite a little, I make a crying noise. They stop and lick me to say sorry.
@@aburg6393 really it comes down to personality, I have one male that just lays down 24/7 and another that will jump around, both would play bite, just no need to start it with the second one, you'll find him running around. I wouldn't want a chill and goofy cat, that's why I wanted a female, but life goes its way.
I’ve had two female cats now. Both my childhood lady cat and my current girl kitten nip and nibble at my fingers, but affectionately. The kitten even likes to nurse on my shirts. My male kitten though only nips at fingers when he’s feeling feisty and playing. Otherwise, he never nibbles me.
@@LuxValkyrie Yup. Girls can be sweet but nibble too. I just choose males because neutering is less invasive than spaying.
I had an orange male named Moses. He loved me and guarded me all the time. When my husband and I were just starting to date, Moses chased my husband (rather hatefully) down the hallway. They later got to be very, very close.
The second time he chased a human down the hallway, was when an amulance driver came to take me to the hospital for emergency surgery! That time my husband had to defend the amulance driver; needless to say, Paul, knew how he felt.
Got love the orange cats 🐈
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It's not really love, but their instincts to protect... we shouldn't attribute human characteristics to animals...
Orange cat behavior
Off topic, but curious what country was that in. My country hasn't had ambulance drivers for about fifty years.
I remember when my Max brought home a girl kitty ( max was a indoor/outdoor cat) it was like he was showing her to me and my sisters ( we where younger) moral to the story I miss max so much!!! He was not my pet, he was my brother!!!
My boy is called Max too! He just turned 16 😻
I have a Maxwell!
Ive never enjoyed a cat video more in all the years Ive watched them, more than this one! I honestly learned SO much from it! I have a 15 yr old boy that always wants to sleep with me but he just will not lay down and be still! He walks all around me off and on all night...or else it sure seemed like all night. So I had even told my husband that I was gonna have to start shutting him out of the bedroom so i could sleep and then here is this video the very next day about them doing that to guard us and protect us! So now I know why he doesnt rest while Im asleep! 💗
My boy does something like that too! He'll get under covers each night & at first he'll lay down and lick my arm & knead awhile,then many nights he patrols all around d me keeps jumping over me!😺🐾 Love everyone, love to your kitties!
Yeah this channel is really good for that!
You learned a bunch of horse shit. Disregard what you learned from this video because it’s loaded with misinformation
I know all of my male cats let me pet and hug them whenever I wanted to, and the females 'received' love on their terms, only when they wanted it. And males let you touch them anywhere, whereas females (the ones I've loved) were sensitive about touching their hind end-lower body and their paws.
Me too I get more love from a male cat . my girls treat me like a service monkey
0:37 actually my boy is a sweetheart, its my girls who like to nip a bit here and there lol
So true
It’s all fun and games until someone ends up wearing a cone …🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛
Lol
1:09 Siri define “rambunctious” 😂
Interesting video don't recognize all of this.
I own 2 British short hair cats, a mother and son. They can both be ferocious 'players', both with equal fanaticism.
Once I fainted in my apartment during a heatwave and broke my ankle. When I came to it was the female cat (and her kittens at the time)
all sitting around me, especially around my broken ankle.
When I feel truly miserable, either because of a depression or physically ill - the female cat also always picks up on that. She is less affectionate
than my male cat, but when I am sick or down she always comes to sit by me and 'suffers' my petting and gently using her as a pillow.
We have six cats with their different personalities. Our bedroom is on the second floor and My Bobby cat likes to sleep at the doorway. Now I understand he is on guard. My latest cat is a six fingered Siasmese. My husband always tells me they follow me with their eyes, watching me wherever I go. If I go downstairs, they follow. And like my six fingered little Dedos, they are more than a handful. But they fill our lives with happiness, fun and love.
my boy used to rush to me and play with whenever i come home from college. Then he would settle in my lap and naps.....just purring away. I miss him so much..
Great video. Now I know why my male cat does things that used to fluster me 😊❤
One of our female cats does the nibble/bite thing too... she is as spirited as any male cat I've had!
This describes our female cat, way way more than our male.
Yeah freaking right master guns, what the heck do you think you’re doing here? get back to snco duty
@@Nope-ik8wv 🤣🤣 i be retired now.
@@Nope-ik8wv I got a nice herd of barn cats on my farm
@@mgysgtk8835 lol I know I’m just messing, me and the wife both are and we got a whole bunch as well 😅
Most of these behaviours have been true of every female cat I’ve ever known in the last 45 years.
One thing that wasn’t the case with females I’ve known was the mounting. But then I’ve never experienced that with any male cats I’ve known either.
The noise is definitely a thing. I find males to be noisier. And every male cat I’ve ever known has been as thick as two short planks! Lovely, funny cats. But daft as a brush!
But the biting/nipping, aggressive play, dominant gestures, guarding etc are things I’ve experienced with plenty of female cats - our own and other people’s cats.
2 things that I’ve noticed, which aren’t mentioned here: I’ve found that female cats gravitate more to male members of the household whereas the males tended to bond more with female people. I’ve also found that males, when not neutered, are more prone to ‘spraying’ all over the house to mark territory. Which, frankly, smells nasty. I’ve never known that in a female, or in a neutered male.
My cat is the oddball. He absolutely adores my boyfriend. And me, he can be lovy, in different or a bully...lol...
❤I love the video ❤
1:22 Excellent choice, showing a tortoise shell cat as an example. They are all like 99% female. 🐈🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛
Love the video!!
I'VE always had male cats, and they never bit me, then finaly i got a female cat, and she bites, even while purring...
cats are like girls, they bite:
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@@maggypregnolato5517 uh- oh
She must be a biter, the biting is just her being playful or she just have a different temperament.
4:54 - The tux's golden eyes with the green at the center are so pretty!
Sorry, but having had cats my whole life, and currently having a female (non-spayed), she does ALL of these. Every cat can do these things, regardless of gender. When I saw the thumbnail, I thought it would be about female cats because that's one of her favorite play strategies. She'll clamp on the arm or leg and chew/nip/bite... She won't do it to my wife because she has trained her not to by disengaging. I let her do it (mostly because of a high pain threshold) and usually have multiple scratches and small bite marks. She hunts us, cuddles us, and loves to climb the walls. I enjoy the videos, but definitively stating that one gender does this, and another does that, is disingenuous and misleading.
Thank you for not spaying her. Hope she has a full life as a full kitty.
I don’t agree 🎉 enjoy your Sunday
@@Zaso87 ?. You don't agree that MY female cat has done these things? Or that both gender cats do these things? That literally makes zero sense.
@@nitewing7442 I don’t agree with the person saying not to spay a cat ……. Cats deserve optimal health .
@@Zaso87 Gotcha! Thanks for clearing that up. I agree that doing our best to take care of our pets should be our number one priority.
I have a very deep bond with our male cat. He watches over me all the time. He’s also a Ragdoll so I’m never out of his sight. A few nights ago when I was sick he kept checking on me. He comes up and either partially stands or fully stands on me and watches for a bit. At the moment he’s on the floor facing my direction. I know now why he bites my husband, it’s guy play.
Good stuff!
Their tendency to bite may be related to their mating behavior. When having sex, they bite the back of the female's neck, to hold her in place.
Me too
Lol 😆
My Gurly is really protective, she kind of breaks norms.
“Un-neutered Tom’s” 😂😂😂 Great and interesting video nonetheless.
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#1 - hook a finger around their fangs and tell them “I got your tooth!”
It’s fun and it will also calm down mouthing aggression
I live the country, and my family has had cat and dogs since i was a toddler. I had a Ginger Tomcat for 14 years... He was the sweetest best buddy cat i ever known. Never bite me or scratch me, always showed affection, came to cuddle and sleep on the couch, came out to walk with me, always protected "our" territory, he would chase other cats away lol.... midnight or 1am in the morning you would hear in the woods across the road "Meeeuuuaaahhhhhh hisss osdghosdjgdsjognk"..... Lol.
Demanded to come into the bathroom to sit or lay on the toilet lid while i took a shower and then when i put my bathrobe on, he would jump from the seat onto me and purr.
Aw man.. That cat was really something special. Sadly as it mostly goes with cats, his kidneys gave out and had to put him to sleep.
I'll say this, treat animals with respect and kindness, and they will stay and you'll get back a thousandfold of what you put in.
God bless
My cat tried doing the actions of dominance once but I one-upped him and showed him that I outrank him.
However another cat, Scratchy, was always the dominant one in grandma’s house despite his age of old.
A nibble?!? My cat has more different bites than there are words in the English dictionary. There's a bite to get my attention, there a bite for being hungry, there's a bite for playing (got ya!), there's a bite for not wanting to be picked up, there a bite for moving my feet under the blanket, there's a bite for "Better leave me be", there's a bite for "I'm not having my best day", there's a bite for "I'm mad as hell", but the worst by long shot: frustration! That one is full force and jerking to tear into my meat.
And the less time he spends outside, the worse it gets. And still we are the best of friends...although, wonder why...
All of my cats have been big Tom Cats lol. I love them 😂
Both lived to be 20 years old, and they were both shelter cats.
I am going to look for my next big playful boy soon
My girl siamese will sometimes get in a mood and bite/claw my hand. I just harden it and let her try to shred. She'll alternate between attacking in earnest for a moment, licking, then shredding before showing affection again. There is no reaction from me beyond hardening my hand and letting her attack until she's done.
My boy siamese will nibble me, but always affectionately and usually during our morning cuddles.
My neutered male Tuxedo taught himself to nip my shins to wake me when my blood sugar goes low (before my continuous glucose monitor does.)
This has been pretty true for the male cats I've had. At times they're so full of energy they just HAVE to do something. They generally are more physical beings. The mischief is there. My males were much more likely to sneak up and sort of pounce or to sneak up on the back of a chair and wack my head or neck, often with jaunty big eyes and grins. They seem to have the broadest senses of humor, too. Females seem more concerned about your health, though. I have a female now who lightly bats me in the mouth if she thinks I've slept too long.
My male orange tabby does consider me his territory. I was once in the hospital for four days. When I came home and sat down in my recliner, about all my wife and girl would allow me to do. The cat kumped up on my chest and wouldn't leave. He gives us cold hard stares when i let the dog on my lap and sometimes resorts to running through the house as hard and fast as he can. Making lots of noise. The dog jumps down to chase him, he doubles back and takes the dog's place. The dog has mostly stopped falling for the trick, but it took most of a year. He views me dog as stupid.
As a base information before commenting:
Okay, so, I've 2 cats, one male (orange/tabby) and female (tortoise), they're siblings and both been 'snipped/fixed'.
I've had one cat before them, she lived 17 years, was a tortoise.
1:28 In my experience withmy cats, both, my first female cat and current female cat, they're more playful and more... rough with their playing. Would snip at me sometimes. While my boy is more calm one, he does play, but not so excitedly as his sister, he doesn't really even nip/bite me. Only few, rare occasions, and it would be when he was angry/annoyed.
But I don't know how to describe the times my two cats play together... They had a bad fight about year ago, I had to keeo them separately fir about a week and get them used to each other again. (More about this later in comment.) I think my cats play a bit too roughly with each other... Not sure, but it feels like that, maybe I'm just anxious because they had that fight and don't want it ti start all over again.
1:55 Well, I here continue the stiry about the sibling cats bad fight... The girl got stuck by her leg on a cage outside, I rushed to get her out of it. She was scared, probably in pain or shock, as she was slightly hanging from her hind leg, she did reach the ground level, but I imagine it must still hurt and be scary. I started to help her, she started biting and scratching me furiously, well her brother came running over and tried to get between me and his sister... So this claim sums up, at least with my male cat. But the thing is, they were in really bad terms after that, boy tried to get close to sister, while the girl became defensive and even aggressive towards her brother. Lots of hissing, growling and chasing happened, at first at the girl's oart until the brother started to act more in the same way towards her too.
2:36 And this goes pretty much correctly for my female cat. She has always bene more timid out of the two. She can be the first at the door to greet me, but if she doesn't recognize me immediately, she would run and hide for a moment.
3:05 This doesn't apply for my male. Well, apart that he pounces on me, but he doesn't wrestle or bite me really. He is more like a gentle 'lover' who likes to cuddle. 😆 🥰
3:42 This goes for my boy. He's a cuddler, I love him. Though, I guess I might sometimes be little too excited and happy to cuddle him in my arms. 😅 🤣 My poor boy.
6:14 I have noticed this odd thing though. The boy lets his sister always to groom him. But the girl doesn't usually ever let her brother to groom her, not even at the time before that fight.
Our male cat we had was so crazy accurate and amazing, even the fastest flexible and smallest insects he was able to hear and catch even when they were flying around him, that was always so funny to observe. He also regularly engaged in very hard territorial fights
Interesting
My family collective have had Cats since the 1960's - all had been female. Until, I adopted George, my now 9 year black-fur' Cat. He is very loyal. He sits as "guardian" at end of the bed, then will cuddle. He does nibble, bite, swat my arms -people not the scratches - yet, I have learned that he often wants to "tell" me there is no food or water remaining - or, he doesn't want to to get out of bed. When rain storms, and thunder out, he shelters with me. When I watch TV, he will wrap around one of me feet, and if the telephone rings, I may get a scratch too (these machines make noise!!)
I'm 55 year. and my Cat, according to a chart at the Vet' shows in Cat years, George would be 54 years, so...we are like brothers.
My (neutered) male cat is actually very gentle with humans, while his sister is the one who's (slightly) more likely to play-bite or grab. He is very insistent when he wants attention or to cuddle up, though. Both are actually less grabby than our two previous cats (both females). I think we may have had some odd ones!
I had a feral female cat who was a lefty. And was never shy about letting cats know it. She had a mean left hook.
There's a stray black and white Tom that has become friends with me. He always plays what I call the "Bitey bite" game if I lightly tap his side. He has never, not once actually bitten me. He just pretends to, and then lets go immediately. He also stands up on his hind legs, and braces his front paws against me so I can scratch him behind the ears. He's also a jealous little guy. If I pet another cat, he doesn't hurt them, he just places himself between me and the other feline! He's my buddy!
My cat grabs my hand and bites frequently and he keeps his claws in his paws but he bites like he is trying to eat me. Seriously. From the first 'nip' he bites as hard as he can and I have no idea how to get that across. Pulling my hand will make him think it is play and raising my voice will make him afraid. So far pulling my hand away and ignoring him for a minute isn't doing it either :(. He is a super sweet kitty too... he just BITES.
I've had cats for 50 years. My top 3 best cats were all male. They had the strongest personalities and did the most amusing things. Female cats tend to be less destructive and are often great lap cats, but are just less entertaining.
Adonis was a feral we earned the trust of and brought inside to live. We would lock the screen door and let him and Adelise, my humane society adoptee, look outside from the safety of indoors. (They never tried to actually go out when the door was open; no interest in it.) One night something slammed into the screen door and scared them both away from it, but while Adelise came and ran to hide beside me, Adonis stayed half-way between us and the door facing the door. We never found out what it was, but it was sweet that he put himself between us and the perceived (likely actual, for them, since we have coyotes and foxes around here) danger.
However, now that he's passed away, Adelise has been guarding more often. Other than that, she does all the same things the male cats are explained to do. Also, Gourry was a coward and he was a male. A bird got into the house once and he hid under the bed. xD But I will say that the neutered male thing is absolutely accurate. In my experience the males are usually the more friendly and affectionate ones.
That said, the neighbour's cat was a male and was the one to start bringing Adonis to our house because he seemed to know we'd feed Adonis like we had been feeding him. (And we did. That's part of how we got his trust.) He came with him every time and if something spooked him he'd run and bite Adonis and they'd both run off together. When we finally got Adonis inside and took him to a vet for shots and neutering, they said at some point he had been hit by a car because he had a limp and xrays showed so much had been broken and healed or healed improperly. (Nothing, however, that they said would cause him lasting troubles or pain to live with, so no need to put him down thank God.) With the injuries they showed, the only possible way he could have survived out there long enough to heal and come to us was if the neighbour's male cat was helping him while he was hurt. So not all males are hostile to one another.
Until Sept. 18, 2023, I had a pair of unrelated cats of the same age, a male tuxedo kitty, and a female dilute tortishell. She is still with me, at 15 years of age, and acting pretty much as if she were about 2-6 years of age.
They used to do this really cute thing, where they would insist on being in the bathroom with me. I couldn't close them out without making them claw at the door. Well... shared living arrangements made that something to avoid, and I did find a work-around. They would do a "changing of the kitten guard" where they took turns guarding me in my vulnerable state.
I even have a short video of my tortie laying belly up on July fourth, completely unbothered by the fireworks while "guarding" me.
They really did take turns, and in a way that very much felt as if they were taking turns. As one walked out, the other entered. A little later, they'd swap again, not wanting to both be in the same confined space as the other. With me was fine, just not each other. (giggling over their silliness) They didn't even really want cuddles. Some petting was good, but mostly, they were protecting me. Both of them.
Well my females do these things also.
Oh my God, this brought tears to my eyes from overwhelm, to find out in the 2nd minute of this, on *their Guarding nature* 🥲🥲SO very true🙌🏼 .. about them positioning themselves between us and the door or window.. possible threat areas..
Both our lovely male cats, neutered, 🐈 🐈⬛ have had similar great traits & behaviours, all likeable ones 😅😎🤩
Many Thanks for this great informativevideo.. 🙏🏼 As, some things told to us here, have just confirmed my own thoughts/ instincts & conclusions I used to tell my young grown kids as explanations of Our Cats day to day cool sides of their behaviour & habits 😊
When my male cat hears something that scares or bothers him he usually comes and sits beside me. I don’t think it’s protecting me, it’s more like he wants to be sure I’m going to reassure and protect him.😺
Our very friendly and playful older female kitten does nips and love bites much more than our male cat. Cats featured in news stories on TH-cam who protected and/or saved humans or animals were female in many cases
Thank you❤
I have had MANY cats over the years. Today I have only three.. two males and a female. One male and the female are neutered. The two males DO go to nip me sometimes.. but never actually pierce my skin. They seem to know just how hard to bite without causing real pain or harm. I counter this with a pull on his fur or neck.. which he recognizes as a valid response.
My cat bites me to let me know he wants me to fill the food bowl.
I had a tummy issues one time and all four of my cats stood guard around my toilet. They did a great job.
Bleeding ankles on the way to the bathroom?
Yep.
@3:19 Speaking of biting, letting your cat play with, maybe be near, earphone or USB wires is likely to get that wire cut. My cat used to chew on those just because they were in reach.
7:12 Also, back then, it was a common practice to put the cat out for the night. Completely indoor cats is a relatively new concept.
Agree 100%; miss my boy (boy cat that is; he passed away this past January; would have been 17 years old this past April). My girl is nowhere near as rough playing, but I love her none the less. She was just a kitten when I started feeding her; once I found out her gender, I had her spayed and got her shots thus she became my girl. That was 7 years ago now. Sad these creatures don't live longer.
I’m so sorry for your loss; 17 years is such a long, special time to have with your boy ❤️. It’s beautiful that you’ve had your girl by your side for 7 years now-cats really do find their way into our hearts, don’t they? They may not be with us forever, but the love they leave behind is priceless. Sending you lots of love and warm memories of your boy 🐾💖.
I had a beautiful large pure grey male cat. He was a perfect specimen, and he was fully equipped. I lived by myself and one day a friend came to visit. He looked rather scornfully at the cat and said, 'Why do you keep a cat? They are useless and just take advantage of you.' My utterly handsome grey got up immediately and walked out the door. About five or ten minutes later, the cat walked in with a very large rat that he had just killed and dropped it squarely between my friend's feet. He then, turned around with his tail straight up and walked out the door.
He attracted a lot of female admirers, and one day I went out the door, and there were five females sitting on the roof of my van. He was studying them from the verandah. I went and gave the females a little scratch one by one, and when I turned around, the Grey was sitting with his back towards me. I walked past him back into the house and said, 'No need to be jealous, I wouldn't trade you for all of them, I was just saying hello.' I went in and sat down, and he eventually walked in, sat in the middle of the room and looked at me intently. Then he sauntered over, jumped up onto my lap, stood on his hind legs, and put one front paw on each of my shoulders He looked straight into my eyes, and then he bit me on the end of my nose. Not at all hard, just a little exercise to blow off steam I reckon, then he jumped down, turned and walked out the door.
Well done, and there are a LOT of cat videos. I don't know if I subscribe to everything here, but altho they are important to us, we become their world. Never ignore a soft gesture towards you from a cat; their quality of life may decrease if they sense you aren't a priority.
I had a female cat that was way more territorial and protective than my male cat. She'd go after dogs, strangers, other cats. He would run and hide. If I'd cry or whistle, she'd be up in my face trying to figure out what was wrong. But my male cat was indeed very nippy. every chance he gets he'd nip me.
You made a comment about unutered cats not getting along, and these boys were not as domestic as one might think. I would say ask the foxes, skunks, minks, weasels, ratcoons, etc but there any. Squirrel s and mice and the such are still around. They just killed everything the say as a threat, always running to any of the others in a fight. 5 of them. Had their pecking order, didn't spray in the house or even use the bathroom inside: asked to go out. Great with the kids, would run off even big dogs. Had 4 females at the same time, a whole other conversation. They played, ate, slept, and went out in the forest together. I hear this about male cats, the fighting and spraying and wonder why mine never did any of those things.
My step mom had a very well built male cat, that would always get carried away while playing. I was the only that really interacted with him for more than a minute at a time, so he got over stimulated easily and would start biting, grabbing and kicking. He wasnt being mean, he was just poorly socialised and didnt have anyone to olay with.
My little girl was affectionate most of the time but was always ready to play fight, the only problem was play was full power, no retracting claws and such like.
Admittedly she was a tiny, half feral kitten when I found her, but grew to a long legged, long body gorgeous "little girl" ( big, not talking huge, body as long as my arm, thin ) that my nieces thought she hated them when she was just playing. I named her Angelica after the little girl on rugrats, the one that terrorised the babies but had all the adults fooled.
Lost her to two dogs that got out and attacked her in her front garden.
🌼💐🌼 Nothing like a male, I always say. Thank you for this. Males rule! 🌼💐🌼
I have a male and a female and she can be very moody ( sorry girls)
Untouched males will gather with preheat female and would hang around for a month, if a colony has multiple females, it means you'll find lots of males all the time there, plus male kittens often stay with the colony to help with youngs.
I have a tangerine orange cat named Pico. He’s a male and yes he acts exactly like the character from Friday Night Funkin
About Territorial behaviour. I've had several cats (mostly males)... But they all knew I let them be territorial... but all of them knew who was the boss, me! No not by force, that does not work anyway. But by protecting the other cats for the dominant male. Standing in between them, keep the dominant male in another room (or hight) when diner was served.
It always worked.
I've had female cats all my life, it wasn't until 13 years ago I adopted to boy kittens. One of them passed away but the other, who was the runt, is actually very healthy. He likes to guard the bathroom whenever I use it, and I mean every facility in the bathroom. I've caught him standing in the doorway facing away from me when I was showering. He's known my mailman all his life but still hisses at him, and sometimes he sleeps at the edge of the bed facing the doorway. I thought he was like that because the home we adopted him from had dogs.
A lot also depends on how much stimulation they can take before they playbite. I had a lovely female cat called "Baby" and it took me a while to figure out at what point she was becoming overstimulated during pets and that's when to stop. But, once I got that down pat, everything was great. =D
Nipping/biting, guarding - that's my female calico cat, but then again, she imprinted on me. My white male cat is completely stolid (phlegmatic). He's more like a rabbit - never scratches you with front paws or bites you, but if you grab him he'll try to jump away using his strong hind paws (and that can leave marks if you're not careful). The only "male" thing my male cat loves is going to the bathroom with me, when I go to toilet. There he relaxes, non-judgmental Al Bundy- style, sharing the room, while I do my thing...😼
Sounds familiar. Especially guarding, my mother couldn't go anywhere without our two boys. They were always following her around 👀👀 And yes, scratches all over 😯 They played rough. My ex-next door neighbour had three boys, they were guarding their owner too. All of them rescued and they did it to me too, I couldn't even go to bathroom without one of them and of course they had to jump in my jeans 🤣🤣
It's hard not to smile while watching this video.
My male calico nibbles ocassionally but it’s more like how you would grab something his sisters bite, and actually hurt bite.
In regard to the mounting, my male tuxedo cat (and I'm also male) does a very weird thing.. He has not been fixed because he is impossible to bring to a vet or even be in the same room with a stranger, for NO reason. (I've been with him since he was 2 weeks old. Nothing bad has ever happened to him with any stranger, ever).
He's like 6 now and two years ago decided he was going to start humping my fuzzy black bathrobe I was wearing. I thought he was trying to do it to *me* but eventually realized he wanted the robe, and would do it every time I wore it. I eventually just gave it to him. Lmao. Now it stays on the bedroom floor, and this is where it gets weird.
Every single day, starting in the morning when I'm having coffee and then a couple to a few times throughout the day and night until bed, he starts going crazy on the thing on the floor next to me while I'm sitting at my computer. He bunches it all up under him and grabs it in his mouth like a female cat and the entire time he glances up at me, with puppy-like baby whale eyes, and screeches at me. He burrs, chirps, whines, and screams, and acts like he wants me to pet him while he's humping!! I'll reach down and pet his head gently and say something to him, and he screams bloody murder at me like he's pissed, but then looks at me again when I take my hand away like "Pet me, damn it!"
I swear to god that if someone was walking by and my window was open, they'd think he was either gravely injured or that I was beating him or something. When he's done after about five-ten minutes, he walks a few feet away and falls over on the floor and starts grooming himself, then relaxes. I've owned tons of cats in my 33 years but never one that did this! Lmao. Has anyone else experienced this or know what it's about? I may video it and upload it to my channel XD
I'll add something which I forgot to mention. He also only does this to the bathrobe if I'm in the room with him, and usually sitting in my chair. He will not do it if I'm gone or outside, or even sleeping. It's like I'm somehow inadvertently triggering him to hump? I don't get it. LOL
My manly kitty is a sweetheart he's one of a kind such a caring soul
I have one of each, both spayed and neutered of course. The male is definitely more aggressive with play, he latches on while bunny kicking and biting. But the female is more territorial and spends more time with us. It's not uncommon for her to be on our foot stool in the living room while we're there, or at the foot of the bed.
' Why do only male cats bite and nip you? '
Me: my female cat does this all the time but not my male cat😅
My two older male cats are always mounting each other. Yes, they’re both neutered. 😂
I have many cats over the years both male and female and have found the neutered male to be more affectionate and sooky than the females the gingers seem to be more affectionate, they all have their own personalities and without them in my life I would be lost.
My FEmale cat,Spirit is & does ALL these things. This is the most cat exist bologna I've ever heard! MEOW.(well,except the mounting 😂)
My male is goofy and funny. My female is sometimes moody and she will angrily strike the male
Ok serious comment but warning its rated R: i've heard before that some animals, especially cats can smell emotions and/or intentions. Case and point, sometimes just before me and my then-wife were about to copulate, my male cat would enter this frenzied state and start bouncing off the walls! At first it was shocking to see but eventually we got used to it and it became quite entertaining. Moreover i suppose prior to the act we humans might release pheremones or something similar that we ourselves can't smell anymore, but i guess some other animals still can.
Don’t fully identify with many of these stronger for males, but I have always preferred male cats. Don’t know why, just seem to be more personable on whole, though often the barn cats (female) were extremely friendly form my aunt’s place. But personable, and also tougher, usually, my male cats. Not so flighty, etc. our current is a mixture. He isn’t quite as good as some of our past males overall in all categories but he is a friendly and tolerant cat.
Snowy even checks my glass sometimes
I have a male cat and a female cat. My female cat has all these characteristics. My male cat has none of these. 🤷♂
I have 1 male and 1 female , my male is more vocal and he does arm hugs and bites
One of my cats is skittish and doesn't like being held. However if I oversleep he'll come in and check on me and cry.
Nipping and biting?. My female does it to me when she's beginning playful and she's constantly playful. She actually plays more like a dog leaving my hand raw half the time. Guarding is another one I'm going to call bs. Butterscotch constantly guards me particularly from the puppy. Both dogs can't really get attention from me and she's not below pouncing without the use of claws at people if they get too close while she's on my lap. She's also pretty territorial when it comes down to other cats. We got some outdoor cats and last winter we let the 2 in for a few days because those days were extremely bad. Butterscotch did not approve one bit. She mainly beat tf out of the female. It's not a mating thing, butterscotch was fixed within a week of being old enough. The male simply hid the entire time. Butterscotch I guess is simply a B**** but I love her.
My cat always guards me outside. Everytime I'm out in my garage working, he'll sit at the door and keep watching and has chased off animals that got too close.
I miss my solid black semi-feral tomcat Atro, short for Atroviridis (named after a mushroom). I was the only human who could pick him up and when I meowed at him he would meow back.
Male cats do not have “more pronounced hunting skills”. I don’t have any freaking clue where you heard that. I’ve seen more people say female cats are better hunters, but there isn’t even any evidence out there to support that either.
All cats also guard their owners as we are part of their territory.
Our female is the roughhouser at my home
I don’t think unblinking stares are attempts to show dominance. They claim your spot because they want to feel close to you. And the other shit you described sounds more like attempts to grab your attention.
Male cats aren’t less hygienic either. Where the fuck do you get your info?
Calm down. wow.
My first boy would gently bite me to wake me up, I'd play him like I was sleeping. He'd progressively bite a little harder till I "woke up".
One morning I was actually sleeping. He was using enough pressure to startle me but not nearly enough to hurt.
My tortoise shell female is very affectionate and playful with me. But was a feral orphan so does not interact with other humans. She was also affectionate with the 17 year old toms who acted as her protectors and babysitters when she was young. They were all fixed in their first year of life. She is much more a climber and snoop that they were. And she seems to sleep up against me at night and comes by to cuddle and talk with me a few times daily.
Not so sure about the first one. My new 1-year old female adoptee is very "bitey" -- not just "nippy" either! I know she doesn't mean to hurt, but my arm has a lot of puncture marks!