12 Weird Cat Behaviors Explained
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- As much as we love our feline friends, some of their behaviors are puzzling. That’s why we thought it would be helpful to explain the meaning behind some of the strangest cat behaviors. Now without further ado, here are 12 weird cat behaviors explained. PRODUCTS ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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I have a cat that likes cuddling 😂 close to me to sleep at night. The first thing she does is a head bump. I guess ro verify that I am 2ho she thinks I am.
The "weird behavior's" of cats is one of the things that makes them so awesome and loveable
After having cats for years these don't seem so strange anymore. LOL ... My cats have pretty much done all of them but rarely seen blepping, but it sure is cute! Thank You...
Same lol only one of my cats bleps
My cat blops all the time, but not for investigating! Being fussed, chasing her sis, sleeping, she blops a lot, which we’ve associated with her being relaxed or happy.
Ours used to do it as well! I was on my computer one time, trying to remember what it was I was going to Google when my mate put in "kitten blep" jus randomly! A few lines of results later we saw a lion cub and I said "how long 'til we see a tiger, d'you reckon?"! It was one line! And there were two tiger cubs blepping!
Very interesting, my cat has done all of those except #9, the "blepping", and i consider those as normal cat behavior. Now, earlier today, he was being a "clingy cat", which he doesnt do very often, but i just took it in stride.
My new little girl, Love Bug, loves to kneed me. She lays on my chest and kneeds my neck while she rubs her cold, wet nose all over my face.
How sweet! 😻
Pets are so funny, lovely, cute, adorable I have a German shepherd and pitbull dogs do you have any?@ natasha.
The last one is not specifically about rubbing their scent on your thing, but more about using the heat of those places. When you just sat on your chair, for example, and get up your cat often immediately takes your place. Or sitting on your laptop keyboard, it just gives off heat. Cats love heatsources to snuggle up to, because it saves energy and it makes them feel comfortable and safe.
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I guess I have a very well behaved kitty. He doesn't knock anything over & never leaves presents. The worst thing he does is tap me & cry in my face when he's bored & I'm sleeping- which usually means he's ready for breakfast. I love when he gets the zoomies ❤️
His comfy little sleep space is in the top corner of the heated bed with his booty touching me. He has to be touching me at all times when I'm home- which is pretty much all of the time due to health reasons. Adding that he always gives me his belly for scratches & kisses. I honestly think I have the sweetest kitty in the world
I've never had an issue or thought about my cats Zoomies.
IMHO: Kneading is just their way of making a nice comfy bed.
None of these cat behaviors have made me scratch my head and ask why.
That's a sign you're a cat mom with lots of experience! 🐈❤
Before finding the term "Zoomies", my family's term for that was "kitty rips"; since our dogs often ran around randomly as well, this became known similarly as "puppy rips". I've come to prefer the term "Zoomies" since it's all encompassing.
I'm using that instead of zoomies lol
Pets are so funny, lovely, cute, adorable I have a German shepherd and pitbull dogs do you have any?@ Donna.
To me they are, and always will be, "the skitters". Particularly when they are performed on hard floors.
Oh my, how understanding ; ; ? about purring . . .
@@wildbirdbuffetfrenzy4161 oh really,if I may ask,do you have any pets?
Oh, I love it when they get the zoomies!!!! It's so hilarious to watch! The other favorites of my cats are, they LOVE drinking out of fountains, I guess because I have several fountains around my house, I've never seen any of them try to drink out of the faucet. And I once had one cat that would just refuse to cover up his poop!! Luckily the next cat that would go in the box would cover it up for him!! lol. Boxes are always a favorite thing around here and yes a lot of these guys will absolutely STUFF themselves in to the tiniest boxes, I sometimes think they will actually get stuck in there!!! lol. This was a really fun video to watch! The weirdest behavior might be when they really don't realize that their tongue is still sticking out!!!😛😺
Love it!!! :)
Glad you enjoyed it! 😻
Pets are so funny, lovely, cute, adorable I have a German shepherd and pitbull dogs do you have any?@ Ethan.
@@user-hq1eo7gc9z I have two cats and a dog :)
My Wordsy likes showing me his belly.
2:16 last thing a mouse sees. 😁
1:18 I don’t let my cat going outside for this reason (well also because I don’t want my cat to get parasites) lol
I used to let my oldest cat outside on a harness, but when we moved, that ended. Our yard is way too tiny, we live around a lot of dogs and other cats, and we have coyotes and such in the area. I'm hoping to build my cats a catio one day.
You're also protecting it from being hit by cars, or attacked by other animals. Cats belong indoors 💕
If my cat goes outside, it's on a leash with someone in the yard with him. As far as I know, he's never caught anything outside, but he's usually good at catching anything that gets in and he presents it because he knows he will receive a reward.
I'm going to get that water fountain, very cool. Nice video. 😊
Which of these cat behaviors do you think is the weirdest? And does your cat do any of these behaviors regularly? 😺
I goofed on my original reply, my cat does not drink out of a faucet. As for bringing "gifts".........not "dead" mice, but when he was an "indoor/outdoor" cat, he would bring in live chipmunks and small rabbits, which i would have to chase, catch, and put back outside.............fun times at the Smith house! 😹😹!
Weird is when my cat Tiger-J sticks his tongue out.
I think the gift thing is weird and my cats have never done it 😹 one of my cats really likes to knead me and one bleps sometimes and a few of them show their stomachs but one loves belly rubs lol
I don't understand why anyone would find any of those behaviors odd. Car surfing, now that's odd.
I accidentally took my cat car surfing when I went out in the dark of the morning and I didn't know he was on the roof of my suv. I only went a few hundred yards at about 20mph +/- before I discovered him up there. Ever since then, if he's near my car when I start it, he'll jump on the roof for a little car surfing if he's in the mood.
My cat will lie on my chest and lick my face. Just when I think she's being sweet, she'll nip my nose.
The cat we had when I was a kid used to push down things like flower pots as a signal he wanted to go outdoors.
Trixie, the younger of my two cats, clearly has a thing for marking me as "*My* human, do not steal!" by laying on top of and kneading on my "out of house" clothes whenever she sees I'm about to get dressed up and go somewhere.
My cat Tiger-J does all of the strange behaviors. Very rarely does he stick out his tongue. He does have an open mouth at times after smelling something.
Pets are so funny, lovely, cute, adorable I have a German shepherd and pitbull dogs do you have any?@ Amelia.
@@user-hq1eo7gc9z Sorry 😔, I don't have any dogs. I live in a cats only apartment.
The funniest gifts I've seen my mom recieve from our cats where fortunately delivered alive and well. Unfortunately...they were both delivered in my mom's bed while she was resting. The first was a small quial they stole from the neighbors (they bred them, don't know why they also had chickens) and yes they were returned relatively unharmed but since our cats were raised with hamsters & birds as siblings not to kill. It wasn't uncommon to have my hamster walking around and the cats would not hurt him just hang out. It was embarrassing for my mom to have to go tell them our cat managed to either pull one from their cage or the quail escaped and were then caught. They weren't upset luckily just decided to get better cages since not all cats would be so gentle and many cats roamed the area.
The second gift was some kind of small backyard mole. I don't know how the heck they managed to tag team and wrangle up one of the moles that lived in the empty land behind our home but they proudly plopped it in my parents bed. 😂 My parents were somehow able to return the poor mr.mole back to his house but it's safe to say it's really scary to wake up to those kinds of gifts while your trying to sleep. My mom thinks it was because he probably looked like a hamster (or at least close enough for the cats) so they probably thought "hey you like these don't you? Want another?".
Luckily for me my husband and I decided our cats are in door only for many beneficial reasons. So no gifts in our bed 😅 but those are definitely some interesting memories. Cats are so strange and smart!
Our cat deliver a still alive snake into the shop, luckily my partner seeing that while checking some liquid items. I'm lucky not around since I was freak out with reptiles 🤣. Not the first time tho...😅
Thanks for explaining the blepping. My cat used to do that frequently and I have many adorable pictures of her cute tongue sticking out. However, I haven’t seen her do it in seven months. Now I know that it is because her sister died seven months ago and her scent has faded in the house. I had wondered about this and thank you for the explanation.
I've had cats for decades and I've always had cats that DO NOT bury their poop. They were always the dominant cat in the household at the time.
Pets are so funny, lovely, cute, adorable I have a German shepherd and pitbull dogs do you have any?@ surrender.
I love that "making biscuits" 🤣🤣😍
One of my cats loves to drink from the bathrooms sink 😹 i think ill get him a little fountain and my other cat screams when he think hes alone or feels lonely, but he LITERALLY screams is not a loud meow, he screams with a voice pretty deep for a cat, even neighbors can hear him 😹
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My daughter's cat screams. I heard her from across the street 😂😂
Pets are so funny, lovely, cute, adorable I have a German shepherd and pitbull dogs do you have any?@ Carola.
I didn't know why cats knocked stuff off shelves makes perfect sense as explained here!
My black cat often bleps.
If I'm close enough to her, I'll reach out and touch her tongue and say "blep, blep". She'll pull her tongue in and give me a look like, "mom, you are SO embarrassing sometimes!" and I swear I can feel her mentally roll her eyes at me.
Sometimes I also feel like I can feel her mentally shrug.
Or maybe I'm turning into a crazy cat lady now. (Was more of a dog owner until a few years ago.) 😅
Pets are so funny, lovely, cute, adorable I have a German shepherd and pitbull dogs do you have any?@ Jedi.
My neighbours cat happened to bond deeply with me and he had a phase where I’d wake up to 10 mice sacrifices in the garden
Our 2 rescues do all of these but the gift as they are always indoors.
I remember one time when I was a kid, it was my moms birthday and the whole family was over. Our cat decided to give my mom a gift as well, by walking in and dropping a dead mouse in the middle of the living room in front of everyone. It was very sweet of her but I dont think my mom appreciated it much.
my sweet cat tolerates belly rubs, but she will gently bite you to let you know shes had enough. the 2nd time won't be a gentle warning, roflmao
I refer to zooming as trampling with my cat, as this is exactly what he does in the early morning hours too! He comes from down the hall at warp speed, lifts of the ground at an incredible height to land on me, then proceed across the bed to trample my husband before instantaneously doing a great nija move of flipping in midair to be able to land back on my husband, trample me and flee down the hall again! LOL As for the paws outstretched showing his butt, I call this him taking a bow because he only does this before leading me or other things that he seems to be proud of himself for accomplishing. LOL
It's confirmed! Cats are actually ninjas in disguise. 😹
@@ThePurringJournal Thank you, as I love validation! LOL
Why is it that a 10-lb cat sounds like a Clydesdale when it runs down the hall?
@@ThePurringJournal Agreed! lol
@@jolyndunavant8142 To put the fear in people of them pouncing or trampling you. lol
We call them the rips. My Toonces is a teenage cat now and she gets them a lot
Gee, I don't know which it is... Is my cat just leaving all these gifts for me because he loves me, or is it because he is trying to teach me how to hunt. Hmmm?!
I've seen "zoomies" from my cat indoors, but also outdoors, but mostly when there's wind blowing at him.
This explains so much cat behavior that we were ignorant of. Thanks a lot.
Every cat Ive ever had just loved getting into storage spaces in attics and other small nooks in the house that have very low ceilings and lots of stuff in there for them to hide between. It can be difficult to get them back out sometimes and if you dont realize they got in there and lock the entrance you hear weird noises at night
My cat has the 2 AM "Zoomies"; so sometimes I have to check out what he's zooming about!
I've had plenty of cat kneadings in my time. Had cats around all my life (family cat or my own).
Nothing Hannah Banana does is weird to me ! 🐈⬛
Pets are so funny, lovely, cute, adorable I have a German shepherd and pitbull dogs do you have any?@ Mary.
Cats love watching these videos 😸
I watched this video because my 16 year old cat who is usually sleeping or watching me eat has recently picked up a habit of just randomly sprinting across the room before stopping by the door or the back of the TV stand and yelling out a sound that sounds remarkably like the word “hello”, and was a bit concerned that he’s trying to tell us something…then wouldn’t you know it’s the first item on this list 😂 well thanks for addressing that!
My cat leaves me chipmunks, squirrels, birds but the one thing that really freaked me out is when I came home I found a large eyeball on my couch, my cat has both of his eyes never figured out where he got it 🤐
I love watching my cat batting the mice around. It is kinda funny!
When l was a child, my cat (Tiger) brought a "gift" to my mother. Tiger was really a lover and not a fighter, so he was very proud of himself. My mother screamed and jumped up on a chair. Cat's faces are not that mobile, but l swear that cat look so hurt at her reaction! He hung his head and scurried out of the room!. It emqasxa long time ago, but l still remember how hurt he looked. That was the last gift she received!!!
My cat runs his nails lightly thru my hair when he’s hungry, or lushes his face in my armpit if I’m sleeping. He just started this when he turned 10.
When I first moved in with my roommate, her brother's cat brought me a dead spider. I'm terrified of spiders, so I saw it as a "I got'chu" sign. And that adorable gray fluffball loved to hug.
Pretty good I learned a lot
Great video! 💫 Simon's favorite part was the blepping, of course!
Thanks FURiend! 😺
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My cat loves bringing me gifts any chance she's gets and loves cat naps her food every day and yes playing with her Tail
As a life long pet lover 💕 this video was great 👍
Glad you enjoyed it! 😺
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my baby girl shows me who is the boss in the house by never ever covering her poop 😅she always leaves it our proudly like "look mommy, what I made for you" 😺😹
Pets are so funny, lovely, cute, adorable I have a German shepherd and pitbull dogs do you have any?@ lenkah.
Oh and sometimes a cause for concern, I just remembered that one
Plenty of times I've seen cats in small spaces they can't fit their whole body in. Right now I remember a cat I had trying to fit in a kleenex box. Hilarious!
I've had alot of head bunting from my cats. The one I have now does that plenty. Sometimes out of love, sometimes because he wants something... more likely food with this guy.
The weirdest thing my cat ever did was when I bought him a puppet squirrel. He loved it, and he would put its nose in his food dish and then he would take it to the litter box. It was so cute.
Ermagerd that’s so cute! 🥰
Love 🥰😻😹this video, so enjoyed it 😂 my orange & white cat 🐈 does most of these things in this video !😸😻🤗😹
baby girl always comes to get me every night at 8:45 as we go to bed at 9 and she gets treats for sweet dreams--how she knows it's almost 9pm is beyond me...But she does!
9:26 His shirt and cat are matching 😁 Black and White 🖤🤍
Like it very much ! Cats !!
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When our cat ran away years ago she would eventually leave gifts outside of our door. I was so excited when seeing the dead mouse knowing she wanted to come back.
I keep an Amazon small box for my furbaby to sit in. She loves sleeping in her open door carrier, on MY.PILLOW small dog pillow, on certain chairs but her favorite may be on blankie at the edge.of my.bed.
Lol she blepped the other night when smelling my comforter. Lol i said it's only you and me here no other people or cats or dogs.
My cat only drinks from the bathtub tap, i let it slowly run constantly. I change his water bowl everyday but he never drinks from it, lol And he also sleeps in a Chewy box with the brown wrapping paper, too!
I believe that the box fascination is also a behavior going back to hunting in the wild. Instead of stalking they find sitting stealthily, patiently waiting for dinner to stroll by is effective too.
My first cat I had used to do this strange thing when someone like my mom or dad would yell at me my cat would run up to that person and bite there ankle.
My cat brought in the biggest rat I've ever seen in my life! It must have been close to a world record size.
God they are amazing My cat used to do the kneading and suckling thing when she was younger. Really strong bonding there. I always called it "faux nursing". So special.
Bleping lol learned a new word
I remember when I was a kid our grey-shades-striped kitty Henry put a mouse under Christmas tree in mom's birthday 26th of december.
I have several open big boxes for my two in the living room. And they have an open flatter boxes for their toys that they can go in an choose one to play fetch with me.
Even with those cats who like belly rubs ( like my late cat) it is not as simple. It is not always seeked out. I her case: Just lying on the back without prior interaction = "Hooman, LOOK, I'm SOOOOO happy! / HELLOOOOO, finally you are there!" and similar meanings. No belly rub required.
If there was prior interation like stroking, tickling or brushing and she turned on her back in the process of it, different story. ~ 95% chance that she wanted to be stroked and tickled there as well.
My cat sleeps through his "play sessions".
Dear God in Heaven knows how I love cats.
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What are they doing when they do the Halloween cat? You know, when you look up and they are running by on their toes, with their backs arched way up high?? And when they hop on their hind legs??? I love both!!! 🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱
We call the zoomies, "Ucees," Unexplained cat excitements.🙀😸😼
What is the name of the shaver you use for mats?
Simply "drinking more water" cannot be "essential for optimal health" unless we have a baseline for the amount of water they're currently drinking. That logic only applies if they're currently drinking a suboptimal amount of water.
Pets are so funny, lovely, cute, adorable I have a German shepherd and pitbull dogs do you have any?@ Mary.
My mom have got vis before cloud and one of his sisters kiru sat on my mom’s laptop
My cats' poos do NOT smell the same to me at all. They eat the same food, but I can always tell which can has just used the litter tray.
Even I think this is strange. I've lived with cats most of my life. I'd rather to have grown to look like them than share their smelling abilities.
If I fits I sits.
Pets are so funny, lovely, cute, adorable I have a German shepherd and pitbull dogs do you have any?@ nicoletor.
A cat showing you there belly is called a floop
It’s amusing that you listed none of the weird sounds they can make, cat behavior is pretty diverse!
Beautiful kitties 😍
I subed you
I don't think my cat would nock things over because he wants me to spend more time with him. I spend plenty of time with him when he wants to. I have all day, as I haven't worked for years due to health matters.
What about the Bouvier from Belgium...I have had 4 in my life and they're Amazing. If well trained they're better than a German Shepherd.
Pets are so funny, lovely, cute, adorable I have a German shepherd and pitbull dogs do you have any?@ Elizabeth.
My cat sticks their tongue out of their mouth a lot and my cats oh so headbutt me like every day now I feel very honoured
I have 5 cats only 1 brings back gifts thank goodness🤣🤣🤣
I wonder why my 20 plus cat "howls" at me....I don't know if she has dementia, if she can't hear anymore, or what...makes me crazy! because she does this at All Hours!
My cat severalyrs ago , my cat left a non poisonous small green snake on the pavement at my door., I jumped , I was so scared.
How about the way they circle around many times before settling down for a sit.
My female cats never had a baby toy, like the males did, maybe because they had kittens , but all the males had a special toy , for one, it was a small rubber duck that had a cloth cover. And squeeked,
THIS CAT BETEEEN AGES 2- 6 MONTHS.
Brought this duck to Bed each night without fail, then in the morning, he would take it out to the kitchen and put it in his food bowl, sometimes I'm his water bowl too.
Another young male had small stuffed hamster toy.
He also did the same behavior as the previous one.
But surprised me when he became interested in a pet mouse I had gotten, already over a year old, he played gently with the mouse, let it ride on his back, it had tubes to run through, which the cat chased him safe as he was, I would put the mouse in a roll ball the the mouse or rat quickly learns to roll it and guide its path, the cat would gently help guide the balls journey , one day cat and mouse were outside on the porch. Mouse in ball cat enclosed with cardboard gate on porch, I stepped inside to use the bathroom, and when I returned the ball was open and the mouse gone.
A couple of days later, my apt neighbor says he has a new pet mouse. ( he was mentally disturbed, ) he left the mouse in a cage in the hot sun of a west window, and killed the mouse., I didn't get another because they are a constant mess to clean up,
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I don't quite buy the last one, it's almost always been the cat wants attention/food/whatever (at least the human-loving, and abused, ones), and they do usually fuck off after they receive that.
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I got rid of my cat for blupping cause my neighbor was trying to train me to blup as part of a posture. I I felt that neighbor was also train my Tom cat to do also to trigger me.
Happy International Cat's Day 2022!! 🐈🐈😼
I call the zoomies the Daytona Kitty 500.
If you’re confused about cats knocking stuff over, you probably haven’t thrown a big rock off a high place