Post AnQhQ5qYuhBJPgOvjs by futurebird@sauropods.win
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(DIR) Post #AnQh3hANzeieUvzeIS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-27T11:00:38Z
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Poor Pica. She loves being held, and petted and squeezed, and will come to me to get picked up and comforted... BUT she gets a little scared, or maybe finds it fun to run when you reach out to grab her. So she keep circling back an almost getting picked up over and over, until she's a just a little too slow. And gets caught. Then she goes limp in your arms and purrs and is so happy.What an absurd animal!(And I don't pick her up for a day or too, she starts sadly meowing more and more...)
(DIR) Post #AnQhQ5qYuhBJPgOvjs by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-27T11:04:40Z
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To be fair, I too would be scared of being grabbed by a giant. But, I can't tell if this is a game for her, or if she just still has a hang up with being grabbed.
(DIR) Post #AnQhy8fCwlPzzmKAca by dedicto@mastodon.social
2024-10-27T11:10:47Z
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@futurebird With another kind of animal, I wouldn't have any idea. With a cat, I'm betting on game-playing.Our cat Callista always starts swatting and snapping when petted. But she keeps right on purring the whole time! She isn't upset. She just thinks she has to swat and snap because that's what cats do.
(DIR) Post #AnQiGT8DaPcCgidNYW by LockEx@ioc.exchange
2024-10-27T11:14:08Z
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@futurebird It may be instinctual behavior. I have two feral cats that are now inside cats due to age and health. They both are very weary of being touched, the same way as Pica avoids being picked up, but purr happily when eventually petted. They also get quite vocal if you don't pet them.
(DIR) Post #AnQiHf86SlUcBn9KeO by asthargf@retro.pizza
2024-10-27T11:14:13Z
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@futurebird 💖💖💖
(DIR) Post #AnQiMKlnaTxqUawc9A by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-27T11:15:12Z
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@dedicto Maybe it's just a matter of some cat notion of "dignity" being picked up ought to be hard, because she is a cat and fast and only "let" me catch her. "oh no I've been caught, now I will HAVE TO be petted and told how beautiful I am... my life is so hard and unfair" - Pica, probably.
(DIR) Post #AnQiVr9yX1s3YQnFk8 by dedicto@mastodon.social
2024-10-27T11:16:54Z
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@futurebird That is TOTALLY cat logic!
(DIR) Post #AnQiZEdHiWV3Dr76wa by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-27T11:17:32Z
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@LockEx This is "no take, only throw" all over again isn't it?"no grab, only hold"
(DIR) Post #AnQkO75FdwxYX61G6K by Gobabu@mastodon.social
2024-10-27T11:37:55Z
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@futurebird @dedicto Meh. If you see mice at home, even a picture in a book, even just a red panted one: Don't Feed The Cat!
(DIR) Post #AnQp4KDta603GNRj84 by isotope239@mastodon.online
2024-10-27T12:30:21Z
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@futurebird @dedicto My favorite puss, Ms. Mertz, had a skin allergy to grasses. When the itching would get bad enough, she'd hang around the cat carrier nonchalantly, sort of "Oh my. Look, the door is open and I might fall in accidentally and get taken to the vet for a shot, but it wouldn't be my fault, oh no..." Her pride insisted that she not go to the vet willingly, but if it was all an accident, her pride was saved!
(DIR) Post #AnQpFMIUD65osgr3FQ by rejinl@masto.nyc
2024-10-27T12:32:21Z
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@futurebird @dedicto "I'm a pwedator, not a baby! ... Oh ok, ah, well yes, I'm a baby too purr purr"
(DIR) Post #AnQqEuyFuOuA5HkI9A by IzabelaKaramia@writing.exchange
2024-10-27T12:43:29Z
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@futurebird Pica is probably playing a game. Cats love playing games.I had a cat who loved cuddling and sitting in my lap. But when he got old, he began to be unable to make the jump from the floor up into my lap. The two of us ending up developing a game where he would come meowing and circling around me, staying just out of reach. I would drop one of my hands and look away from him, waiting til he would brush against my hand. Then I'd reach over with the other hand, pick him up, put on lap.
(DIR) Post #AnQwUgSIFCfpQJhFC4 by xsk8rat@mastodon.world
2024-10-27T13:53:34Z
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@futurebird Even more evidence that our Maltese is really a cat!
(DIR) Post #AnR72AViWHJJjgu4Yq by timcoffman@wandering.shop
2024-10-27T15:51:39Z
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@futurebird Our Jiji runs out the back door the minute it’s opened for any reason.It used to be that he wanted to eat grass.Nowadays he just pauses after his 5-10’ dash and surveys the yard, waiting to be picked up and carried back into the house like naughty royalty.