| It is hard for us humans to understand cat behavior | | | | everything? Because it doesn't need to. A cat spends |
| which can seem very strange and weird. Like all | | | | so much time licking its fur, that rubbing its body |
| animals, they want food and water, and all cats like a | | | | against something is enough to transfer its saliva and |
| clean litter tray and will try to get our attention when | | | | scent. |
| they have a need, but why do they do so many | | | | For the same reason it will rub against any strangers |
| other weird things? For example, why does your cat | | | | who come into your house, and do the same to you |
| always want to jump onto the lap of a friend who | | | | if you have been out any place where there were |
| hates cats, even when there are lots of cat lovers in | | | | other cats. It seems like it is welcoming you home, |
| the room who would just adore for it to be fussed | | | | and it is, in a way. It is making you its property again. |
| by them? | | | | You may sometimes feel that your cat owns you |
| The reason is linked to another typical aspect of cat | | | | instead of the other way around. Your cat would |
| behavior. Have you noticed your cat rubbing up | | | | agree wholeheartedly! |
| against furniture and pushing its head inside things like | | | | This is why cats seem to target people who have |
| cartons and spaces? When cats go into a new place | | | | pet allergies or don't like cats. Your cat wants to |
| for the first time, or into a room that has just been | | | | make all of your visitors belong in its house by giving |
| redecorated, they will brush along the walls and go all | | | | them its scent. Most people will happily let it rub |
| around behind and under everything as if they are | | | | around their legs as soon as they walk in the door, or |
| curious to see what is in all the hidden spaces in your | | | | stroke it or let it lick their fingers, and its job is done. |
| room. | | | | Those people have been accepted and it can ignore |
| In fact they are not being curious at all. What the cat | | | | them for the rest of their visit, unless they wash or |
| is doing is putting its saliva on the objects in the | | | | change their clothes. But people who are allergic will |
| room, so that its scent is on them. This makes it | | | | avoid the cat, and so the laws of cat behavior |
| clear to it and any other cats that the room is your | | | | require that it keeps on trying to get close to them! |
| cat's territory and those objects are part of it. In cat | | | | That is the reason that cat seem to love people who |
| terms, your whole house and everything in it belongs | | | | hate them! |
| to the cat. So why don't you see the cat licking | | | | |