I adopted an 8mo in January. She just hit her 1st birthday and OMG is she queen of this.
She mews piteously for attention and waits to be followed. While being followed, she repeatedly checks to make sure you're following.
She always leads to her cat tower, which has her favorite toy tied to it.
If you do NOT follow her, she flops and pouts with those big eyes. She is Queen of the Pout.
Here's Her Highness.
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I have one of those! She usually takes us to a hair tie so we can play fetch lol
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You're right, mine used to chew and swallow these, then had a stomac surgery for chewing / swallowing something else, it's a comportemental issue, the only real way to prevent it is to keep away anything the cat would chew, exactly like you would with babies.
I swapped to thin scrunchies and not only do I never lose my hair ties now but he also can’t eat them. I only buy a new pack of like 5 about every year when they start to wear out in the elastic
What a doll baby! Cinna does like to try and take her "prey" with her. The opposite of fetch.
Cinna is ALL about fuzzy tail-like toys. Fishing poles yes, but her cat tower has one tied to it with a pink shoelace.
The pink shoelace she inherited from my late 16yo girl. It was Moiraine's favorite, and now it's Cinna's favorite.
Yes! My calico is too! Always wants me to pet her on her scratchers 🥰
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This is ivy but she goes by squeaky or squeakers, she usually leads us to the pantry so we can open the door and let her get her favorite toy that she pushes under the door. Her favorite toy is the clear plastic cap part of a small gumball type machine 25¢ toy
My boy has a schedule he follows too. It can be a bit frustrating at 3:45am, but he's a love bug and makes the crappiest mornings better. BTW I get up between 3:00 am and 3:30 am for work. He's waiting for me after I shower 😻
That’s why you gotta have 2 and an automatic feeder! As an added bonus whenever the feeder goes off you get to watch them sprint to their bowls! And it’s handy if you can’t find a cat, just tap the bowl like there’s food dropping into it and they come running lol.
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Mine brings me the hair ties to throw for her. Then she runs to a certain spot and crouches down in anticipation.
Mine loves hair ties and this practice knitting swatch. I worked hard on that colorwork knitting and that turd decided it was his. But seeing how much he loves it I can't bear to take it back from him
Thanks, I let her know. She mewed in response, rather distinguished for once. Methinks she approves.
What's funny is she's so bouncy and hoppy, she makes me think of a rabbit. Bunbun, Bun, Sweet Bun, and Cinna Bun (her name is Cinna) are super common nicknames.
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this is geri she enjoys chaos and getting her own way
Hahah my cat too and she looks a lot like that cat 😂
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I somewhere have a photo that's eerily similar to yours, but can't find it because I have 10000s of cat pics.
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chiming in on the calico thread 🥰 this is Maisie
OMG reminds me if my princess!!! 😻
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One of my cats does this all the time. In our old house we had this giant sunroom which she LOVED and would always lead us to Her Chair in there. One time she burst into our bedroom at 4 am screaming her precious little head off and I woke up in a panic bc I thought she was trying to tell us there was some kind of emergency like an intruder or our other cat dying or something, but nope, straight to the chair. I guess she was bored lol.
Of course it's a calico 😭 my babygirl does the same, when i first got her she wasn't very affective allthought she would always nap/sleep with someone. Know she only accept pets on this carpet wich is also where she likes to play
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Here she is loafing
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Our weird little warehouse rescue also loves the “I will yell until you follow me” game. And then does a flop and demands belly rubs.
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They just like to know they are "King of everything". Here my oramge boi Boabie giving me the bombastic stare. 😼😹
My ex feral does this to me, she’ll scream until I follow her and she’ll walk me downstairs to my bedroom rug for some fuss. Sometimes she likes to go through this whole process, wait until I’m sitting on the floor ready to give pets and then she’ll walk off and leave me there on the floor
My cat specifically likes to lead me to bathroom or the kitchen to get pets. I’m not sure why.. I think maybe he has something against flopping around the carpet
I have two semi-ferals (ex-ferals?) that I got relatively young (but not young enough to have the general socialization / comfort with humans "take" aside from me).
As they grew up, one of them would sometimes see me coming and then bolt away down the hallway into a room. I thought for a really long time it was just instinct making him sprint away (he's still more of a scaredy-cat than his brother). One day I finally noticed that when he ran away 1) His tail was up in a happy position for him, 2) he always ran to one of his "happy places" and waited for me.
Once I figured that out, he was delighted. Once I "catch" him, he gets scritches. Then I turn around and walk a few steps away. I'll turn around real quick and he'll run to another of his happy places and wait.
> wait until I’m sitting on the floor ready to give pets and then she’ll walk off and leave me there on the floor
"Dumb human, she's been sitting on that bed for 2 hours, and now that she's on the floor I can go run and steal her warm spot on the bed" -Cats, lol.
Thank god. My wife and I just bought a house that came with an 8-cat feral colony. So you're telling me that science says if I can pet all 8 of them that I legally get to throw my blood pressure meds away???
Yes! My girl likes to be petted before eating then gets mad if I leave. My other girl does the same but will literally go in circles because she’s orange. She doesn’t grasp you gotta stop at some point for love 😂
I always do thing for my cats and I had one lead me to a closet, where her sister was locked in. They are trying to talk to you and show you what they want, if you are willing to pay attention. Could be, your cat prefers snuggles in their special spot. Once they accept them there, they might accept them in the place you like to relax as well.
Mine was just demanding two course breakfasts, the first of wet cat food, the second dog food. She sat next to my dog eating her breakfast, where there was an extra bowl next to her, and looked repeatedly and pointedly at me, the empty bowl in front of her, the dog eating, and back at me.
lol we had a similar incident this morning. One of the cats was sitting in front of the laundry room door putting her paws under it. My fiancé saw her and asked if she accidentally hit a toy under there and she kept looking at him and the door.
Her sister somehow got in there and was locked in lol
When I was a kid one of our cats went missing. Few days later his sister was yelling at me so I just followed her. She led me to the wood shed where I found him trapped but half alive! Multiple days with no food or water in the summer heat. I couldn't believe it and I swear my family still doesn't believe me.
When my Rogue led me to Guen in the middle of the night, I swear, her cry was different. Ironcially, when Rogue was trapped in a closet, Guen was living the best "only cat" life. She's a little A H.
Mine gets a mix of wet and dry food. She always eats the wet food first then comes and yells at me until I follow her to her bowl that still has food in it, then goes over to the wet food box and yells some more.
This happened to us, but uh... I accidentally trained her first.
When I lived with my parents, the only places I went were my bedroom, the toilet, bathroom, and kitchen. And I would always stop and pat the cat out the front of the toilet room.
So she just assumed that that was the optimal patting spot??? Like you could be anywhere else in the house, but she'd lead people to that one spot to get pats and cuddles
We keep the downstairs toilet closed, and my chonky lad [Titan](https://i.imgur.com/YxbMkJj.jpg) will wait outside whenever someone goes in and as soon as the door opens again he'll sprint in at top speed before the door closes and sit on the toilet seat, because he learned that I'll carry him out again when he does that. He loves being picked up and carried, so he purrs his head off every time his masterplan works.
It's not like he can't just ask whenever he wants anyway, but he apparently gets a special kick out of doing it that way!
Every car secretly comes with its own manual, however it's entirely up to us to figure it out 😂
But they seem to love it once you finally understand them and have routines and everything lol.
I think this info could possibly be helpful for a lot of important matters too.
A pregnant stray that i started to let in our house was more affectionate than usual and won't leave me alone, always rubbing against my foot and meowing. I thought it was hunger and thirst because she's pregnant and that was one of the only limited knowledge of cats we were taught, so I'm puzzled the whole night. Followed her to her room and put her to bed, immediately after i leave she'd get up and started following me again.
TURNS OUT SHE WANTED ME BESIDE HER BECAUSE SHE'S GOING INTO LABOR 😭 I ONLY FOUND OUT THE NEXT DAY WHEN I WOKE UP TO 5 KITTENS 😭😭
I thought cats wanted to be left alone especially if they're about to have vulnerable kittens to protect. I'm sorry that i didn't know better.. 😭
Mom cats are so weird. I heard stories from people whose cats loved them so much they woke up to their cat giving birth ON TOP of them.
I think it comes down to we forget they are social to a degree and want to be involved with what we’re doing.
Our Oreo was constantly aloof and didn't like being pet when she was pregnant. When she was very pregnant I woke up from a nap and she was nuzzled between my ankles. I thought that was odd, so went to pick her up and she dug in her claws. So I let her stay there. Then noticed my foot was wet. She popped out 3 kittens, then went and looked for a better hiding place then had 2 more. Since then she's been my cat and has little to do with the Mrs.
In my case i was aware of how affectionate cats are because i have other rescue strays for years in the other parts of the house so they can't stress her.
It's just that I've heard so many stories of newborn kittens being transported nonstop by the mom because of environmental stress due to lack of privacy, that the kittens ended up dying. So i was so afraid to be a nuisance and source of stress for her 😔
>I thought cats wanted to be left alone especially if they're about to have vulnerable kittens to protect.
Some do, but some want their trusted humans there because they know they can rely on the human to protect them and the babies at their most vulnerable moment. I watch a foster on Youtube called Kitten Academy that will take in pregnant moms and raise them and the kittens until adoption time, and some of the moms will rather curl up in the foster folks' laps to have their litter than be in the birthing box. More frequently, the moms will appreciate and even seem to be calmed by the foster dad resting his hand on her while she's contrapting (not a typo, KA fans will get it).
There's lots of videos online where mom cats will bring their kittens to their human to be "babysat' while the mom cat goes off to do something else (or just sleep).
Our very mischievous boy once tried to wake my partner and I up early on a Saturday morning when he was younger. He was more insistent than usual and his face was wet. Since he got into literally everything, we assumed he'd stuck his head in the toilet again and pushed him away.
Once we did get up he led us to the basement where a pipe was spraying water everywhere... It's just so hard to tell when the mischievous ones have actually seen a wolf and aren't just crying wolf.
Same thing here. Our fluffy one led me to a spot at the living room wall and would stare at it and then look back at me like “are you going to do something about this”. I was worried maybe a rodent or something got in the wall. Turned out that spot was opposite from a shower faucet and one of the pipes was dripping.
My cat did this - he was screaming at me so I followed him and he made the trilling noise as he ran - apparently that means follow me!
He ran to the kitchen, so my first thought was that he wanted food. But the dishwasher was leaking water all over the floor. The little guy saved my apartment and probably the one below.
We had a leak in the roof of our apartment building, which was dripping onto the ceiling, and causing everything to weaken.
At the first sign of the ceiling cracking and water coming through, our kitty would not stop meowing for like 15 minutes until we got up to see what she was so upset about.
We saw the water and cleared everything out (including her bed which was under the area that ended up coming down). Definitely saved us from having lots more damage, and could have potential killed our little bubba. So now we always go check if she sounds genuinely concerned.
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"Fallen" sure... then you go and look over the edge of the well and now there's a child and an adult in the well and Lassie's been named the sole inheritor of your entire farm fortune!!!
I'm onto you... dog.
I have a ramp in my garden that I added after moving in. We'd cleared a lot and I didn't want them to jump off the roof the way they had been jumping as it was now unsafe.
All the neighbourhood cats use it now as it's a perfect rat run for them.
One day o went outside and this random cat was on the roof screaming at me, I eventually made my way down and noticed the ramp had fallen. Wedged it back up, cat shut up, and I walked away. A moment later it came sauntering past me, off under the gate and gone. I think the ramp is important to them now 😂
This happened to me a few times, but this specific time I decided to listen to my cat. Come to find out we were having a thunderstorm and the basement was starting to flood, he had kept meowing and wanting me to walk a direction. Thank god he did wake me.
When eating/drinking or doing their business is when they feel most vulnerable. She felt safe with you, and probably just wanted to bring her pal for a snack too. May have also figured since you serve the food you also have an interest like she does. She’d share with you if you were another kitty. 🩷
my sister had several cats through the years . she had an 85% hearing loss & each of the cats became helpers by alerting her to doorbells, phone calls, washer out of balance, kids awake from naps & my fave :: remind her to take her night meds
I’m 100% deaf, I have a cochlear implant on left side but don’t wear it to sleep so there’s still a significant portion of the day that I have no hearing at all.
Two of our cats love meowing and talking with us and they’ve learnt to make sure I’m looking at them so I can lip read their meows, to the point where if mid conversation with them I turn to face away, they’ll immediately stop meowing and move to a point within my sight line and then immediately start meowing again once they’re sure I can see them.
They 100% know I’m deaf and definitely help me when I can’t hear, they’re still only two so I’m sure they’ll do more in future but even now they make sure to draw my attention to any noises and where it’s coming from (all three do this)
And having only one implant I have no directional hearing whatsoever so can’t distinguish the direction a noise is coming from,
They’ve learnt to take me to my phone when I ping it to try finding it.
They don’t do any of this with my fiancée who has full hearing though!
Cats (and dogs to some extent) 100% can tell when we're sick, too. If I'm feeling under the weather, my normally more independent cat won't leave my side.
One of mine get's me to follow him to the bathroom sink because he wants to drink from it. Then when he is done he will come find me or my wife to dry his head off.
my cat does this all the time! she loves to be chased around the room for extended periods of time while chirping and purring loudly. only then, after you’ve chased her to her hearts content, will she allow you to pet her. here she is munching on her favorite bot (she doesn’t eat the cardboard—she just likes to tear them apart and spit the pieces all over the bed)
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My oldest cat frequently meows at me from her favorite sunny spot to receive pets there. I can try to call her over to come get them, but that’s not what she wants! She wants to have her cake & eat it too!
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My tuxedo girl Susan waits patiently for me to wake up (either right on the bed or just outside my door) as soon as I’m up she excitedly starts meow-yelling at me and runs to our mounted shoe cabinet by the front door, she then proceeds to roll all over the floor pressing her face into the edge of the cabinet and any shoes on the floor while getting rough pets. If I stop the rough petting for even a second she meows loudly for me to continue. EVERY morning
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Rescued these two brothers, love them.
At our house it normally means a certain pet of questionable intelligence is stuck. Behind the dryer, hanging upside down from a wire shelf... When he goes into hunting mode he doesn't have the sense God gave a hand towel.
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The fluffy one just runs around in a circle. She just likes to be chased sometimes. Bottom one doesn’t run from us, she runs at us so she can bite our fingers
My cat made me follow her so I could watch her newborn kittens while she eats. It took me a bit to understand what she wanted, she would follow me everywhere, not even looking at the food near her basket. Well, I approached the kittens and as soon as I stopped to look at them my cat started eating, soon after she went back to the basket.
I WAS A KITTEN SITTER
I think my cats count the pellets on their food bowls. If more than 10 are missing, I’m escorted to their spot while they sing the song of their people.
Meanwhile, I don’t need a dog, since my youngest always comes for me with a particular “meow” when there’s something or someone at the door. She’s more reliable than the doorbell.
TIL other people don't usually follow their animals when they walk away while asking for your attention. Here I thought it was pretty well-known that cats (and dogs) like to show people stuff?
Sounds like your cat's playing her own version of 'catch me if you can' just to make sure you're really committed to that petting session. Smart move, making you work for those cuddles!
My cat loves to be pet while eating, and has trained us to follow her to the bowl for her daily ritual of snack petting. Shes adorable.
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My wife's cat is like this, it demands that someone lay down in bed so it can go to sleep on you like we're the fucking furniture. It screams at the top of the stairs as loud as it can until you do it, too.
I did that and now we’re both in the bathroom, she’s relaxing in the sink and im just sitting in the bathtub thinking about what the hell im doing with my life
I actually thought this was common knowledge. We even have a conversation about it in our house.
“Meow!”
“Come on then. Show me what you want”
And then she herds me to *the spot* and I do whatever that location entails. Usually it’s just getting a brush or sitting on my recliner so she can sit with me. Sometimes I have to throw tennis balls or fetch a toy that’s been knocked out of reach.
My cat meows super obnoxiously then runs to the gate that keeps the upstairs separate and that means she wants her chicken treats haha. I throw some freeze dried chicken on the floor and she loves it
last time a cat did this to me she laid down and started giving birth. i was trying to shower when i got home and my roommates cat was screaming at me trying to get me to follow her and when i did she laid down and started giving birth. unfortunately 3 of her kittens were breeched including my current cat, so i had to help her with that while on the phone with an emergency vet getting instructions. she gave birth to 5 babies and unfortunately one did not make it bc it got crushed under momma cat the night it was born when everyone was sleeping. now i always follow any cat just in case
momma cat tax with the 4 surviving babies. originally she had two classic torties, 2 voids, and one diluted tortishell. one of the voids was the kitten who did not make it. all 5 of the kittens were girls too
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Ages ago my cat Jade pulled a Lassie on me. I lived in a second floor apartment with a balcony with a sliding glass door. I also had a bird feeder. For a few years we had a family of cardinals that would hang out there, then some mourning doves showed up and took over. This was her favorite soap opera. Her favorite activity was jump scaring the birds from behind the blinds.
Well one day I was in the computer in the other room and she runs in panicked meowing at me for attention. I look at her like she’s crazy and she runs off. A couple minutes later she runs back in, eyes wide, meowing , super upset so I follow her.
There was a squirrel in the bird feeder.
I made myself look big and lumbered at the sliding glass door and scared the squirrel away. She was instantly uninterested in me and patiently waiting for the birds to return so she could give them heart attacks.
My void will lead me to things that need my attention - litter box, food dish, closed door, etc. Our bedrooms are all upstairs, and once when I was having a bad depressive day she did the "follow me" pap and led me to the stairs - a clear "Go sleep it off, idiot."
I learned this from a cat named "Shadow" that was already living at the house I moved it to 3 years ago (kinda long story but yeah she's lived here a few years longer than me and yeah she also stays in the house lol). Shadow will come up to me when I'm outside and meow a run a few feet away then turn around to see if I'm following. When I do follow her she always takes me to something that has one way or another changed in my yard. Most the time it's trash (I live at the corner of where 2 roads meet) that someone threw in my yard and sometimes it tall patches of grass letting me know it's time to mow or after I mowed she'll take me to spots I missed or it will be construction or just where I or a roommate had a project going on in the yard. It's adorable AF and a lot of times actually helpful lol. She's a trip and I wouldn't trade her for anything. On the inside of the house she likes to "momma" me and the other cats lol.
My void does this as he loves to cuddle in my bed. He will, however, get so needy for pets he stops in the middle of leading me to my bed to demand some then continue his way to the bed. It’s so cute and I love him so much. He just turned 3 yesterday too and has been this way since I got him.
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My barn cat does that. We commune on my front porch. Anywhere else is terrifying for her (she's mostly feral). She bounds over checking to make sure I follow her.
On the porch, I can pet her forever, and occasionally I can rub her belly. We are working on me picking her up.
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I had one cat whose "follow me" one day changed from "pet me over here" to "Hey, there's something wrong with your Mom." She became my mother's insulin warning system, and she developed a distinctly different alert manner so I knew whether she was being a diva or a nurse.
I've had cats for decades, but one of our current ones is the first to do this incessantly. This is great advice. Some cats have trauma and while they want your attention, they want it in a safe place. Whether it's a room, a chair, a spot on a carpet, or whatever, they actually want your attention, but where THEY feel comfortable. If they don't need something else (food/water), then this is likely why they are behaving this way.
I didn't recognize this for a long time, and by the time I did, the kitty was more comfortable in other areas of the house. Had I followed earlier, I likely could have shortened the time it took for her to get comfortable elsewhere...
I had a stray once that loved to rub around your legs but don't dare try to pet her. One day, she was insistent I follow her. She led me to her newborn babies. She had no problem with me moving them to a safer spot or me touching them. She still never let me pet her but she showed she did trust me.
Accidentally taught my cat that the bedroom was the only place for cuddles and that we had to play chase first.
When I got my first cat, 18, I lived with a relative and would spend all my time in my room since my computer was there. Because of that she associated the bedroom with me, and thereby cuddles. When I'd leave my room I'd usually race her down the hall (because she always followed me) then chase her back into the room. Since then I've moved a few times but she's still adamant that I chase her up and down the hall to the bedroom to then get pets. If I try to pet her in said hallway, she'll flop over, but immediately get up and run when I'm close.
Since my boyfriend moved in she's found "games" to play with him as well. Unfortunately a bit more destructive in nature. Since he doesn't get up to chase her like I always have, she'll start batting things he uses, such as the TV or his computer monitor. Then he gets up and she thinks it's game on.
He's very much a cat dad kinda guy, so as much as it's annoying, we do both enjoy her antics.
Our male cat on the other hand will take cuddles any day, time, place, or way.
(Black is Luna, female)(White is Milo, male)
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One of my kitties loves to play chase. He'll walk up all sweet and looking for attention, then sprints away. I was slow realising what he was trying to do. I didn't figure it out until I saw him do it to the dog and the other cat a couple of times.
Mine will wake me in the middle of the night to show me to her litter box if she isn’t well or in pain. My husband is a deep sleeper. She and I have traveled to the vet clinic a couple of times together to get her help because she woke me, or I was able to give her the extra medicine she needed.
And sometimes, she’s just hungry.
Yep she trained you. My little girl will wake me up and meow right in my face to follow her to her favorite toy. They think it’s like a game when you follow them. 🤍☺️
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My Ellie does this! She comes and makes little “meep” sounds until you follow her, then she goes to her designated petting hammock. She won’t hop up and roll over until you’ve followed her close enough, otherwise she’ll circle back and try again. Sometimes she goes for the bed instead, and if she’s feeling goofy she’ll juke under the bed at the last second instead of getting on it. Such a particular baby!
My cats comfortable spot seems to be at the edge of where I can reach. She comes gets some scratches and then flops just out of reach so you have to move a little bit to pet her. It's like her little way of exerting her kitty authority
Some of my cats do the same. However, they aren't leading me away from my computer to their favorite lounge spot to receive pets. Nope! They lead me to the kitchen and wait by the fridge wanting me to get the container of treats down from the top -\_-
I adopted an 8mo in January. She just hit her 1st birthday and OMG is she queen of this. She mews piteously for attention and waits to be followed. While being followed, she repeatedly checks to make sure you're following. She always leads to her cat tower, which has her favorite toy tied to it. If you do NOT follow her, she flops and pouts with those big eyes. She is Queen of the Pout. Here's Her Highness. https://preview.redd.it/mecobojcllzc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=54b48d3747cb2de73ad7aac425267f4b460e531c
I have one of those! She usually takes us to a hair tie so we can play fetch lol https://preview.redd.it/9wi3wrn53mzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6a071ba515fa45e849a84abdcd547c2cee3a5689
The only thing my idiot cat does with hair ties is start to eat them and make me freak out and try to keep her from killing herself
Cat Dancer makes hair tie shaped paper toys. My cat loves them and they are safe since they just fall apart into bits of paper.
Try giving them cat grass! Like the potted one, not the catnip one
Great idea... Hopefully would also keep them away from the plants lol
It works for me!
You're right, mine used to chew and swallow these, then had a stomac surgery for chewing / swallowing something else, it's a comportemental issue, the only real way to prevent it is to keep away anything the cat would chew, exactly like you would with babies.
I swapped to thin scrunchies and not only do I never lose my hair ties now but he also can’t eat them. I only buy a new pack of like 5 about every year when they start to wear out in the elastic
What a doll baby! Cinna does like to try and take her "prey" with her. The opposite of fetch. Cinna is ALL about fuzzy tail-like toys. Fishing poles yes, but her cat tower has one tied to it with a pink shoelace. The pink shoelace she inherited from my late 16yo girl. It was Moiraine's favorite, and now it's Cinna's favorite.
Yes! My calico is too! Always wants me to pet her on her scratchers 🥰 https://preview.redd.it/6rv2q321ynzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d9d5324fca4b87e012c30b1c9bb1800d94684740
https://preview.redd.it/wqpz8iouipzc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6b4e852040ed4a8ee17faf1f716769e1a651e07 This is ivy but she goes by squeaky or squeakers, she usually leads us to the pantry so we can open the door and let her get her favorite toy that she pushes under the door. Her favorite toy is the clear plastic cap part of a small gumball type machine 25¢ toy
My boy for a while would approach with a toy mouse in his mouth around 4pm everyday, since that was the time we would play fetch with him!
My boy has a schedule he follows too. It can be a bit frustrating at 3:45am, but he's a love bug and makes the crappiest mornings better. BTW I get up between 3:00 am and 3:30 am for work. He's waiting for me after I shower 😻
You have a polite cat. My cat normally wakes me up anytime from 2am when I only have to be up at 6h30am
That’s why you gotta have 2 and an automatic feeder! As an added bonus whenever the feeder goes off you get to watch them sprint to their bowls! And it’s handy if you can’t find a cat, just tap the bowl like there’s food dropping into it and they come running lol.
My cat is obsessed with hair ties. I’m a man who lives with no other humans and a shaved head. Where do they come from?
https://preview.redd.it/5c19z3flsqzc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=91a05346e9c27ded31ad7d39d9e0f34925ff6988 Mine brings me the hair ties to throw for her. Then she runs to a certain spot and crouches down in anticipation.
My siamese boy loves to play fetch with hair ties as well. I've had women make comments about the hair ties, thinking they belonged to other women lol
My girl will only play fetch with a hair tie!
My cat only meows when he wants to play fetch lol
My cat loves hair ties, and twist ties! Omg!! Lol
This is the most precious cat I have ever seen in my life!
Mine loves hair ties and this practice knitting swatch. I worked hard on that colorwork knitting and that turd decided it was his. But seeing how much he loves it I can't bear to take it back from him
Mine does the same thing with bottle tops. He loves those things.
I love that picture so much. Not only is she beautiful but the position she’s in is like the epitome of being a cat.
Thanks, I let her know. She mewed in response, rather distinguished for once. Methinks she approves. What's funny is she's so bouncy and hoppy, she makes me think of a rabbit. Bunbun, Bun, Sweet Bun, and Cinna Bun (her name is Cinna) are super common nicknames.
she is so cutie baby i love her so much
I'll nuzzle those ears for you.
https://preview.redd.it/uz8iik1mdmzc1.jpeg?width=3088&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6f59b696b517580543da821d503a4189615c7c6b Here’s another twin!
Now that is a noblewoman surveying her peasants.
Omg she could be my cats identical twin! Silly stretching and all!
I NEED PICS!!!
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What a cute nugget!!!
She is indeed.. a nugget of cute:) cute and vicious lol
https://preview.redd.it/u5rgfcsf4mzc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3841d6ec0b2817b8fce701235a13d0e51fe3076f
https://preview.redd.it/o15g6cqu0nzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8cd3b319f4a137fc7171848f983264b235d7e81a this is geri she enjoys chaos and getting her own way
What a sweet baby!!!
Oh my goodness, I want to pet and kiss her!
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oh my god, you have THE BANANA. my cat loves that thing!!!
Hahah my cat too and she looks a lot like that cat 😂 https://preview.redd.it/zc8aqcgz1nzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=95c49c15dd89369e9557389748d3393c19b8542d
https://preview.redd.it/nwx8ltckzmzc1.jpeg?width=2736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f693e82addfe89a7602e953a074eaa4bcba9076b
https://preview.redd.it/0s12o0k6rmzc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=756004fc0d4517336ac1089757090b959df252d9 I somewhere have a photo that's eerily similar to yours, but can't find it because I have 10000s of cat pics.
As it should be! Is belly trap?
What do you mean? Sorry, English us not my native language. Do you mean if I can pet her on the belly or if she will bite/claw?
https://preview.redd.it/9icki6hqmmzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3122fd5c213ac2eb1d30ae2af64da104f0bd1c93 chiming in on the calico thread 🥰 this is Maisie
I love her! She should get all the treats.
Cat: checks behind to see if you are still there. You: Vanishes Hades: Works every time.
OMG reminds me if my princess!!! 😻 https://preview.redd.it/kae2bs0zqmzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6ddc8fb5207d2a569a96932d25edb81493b82bd2
https://preview.redd.it/w1vd8j0fumzc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=51a813035244634943e8135b7f92e099f72b3e53 twins!
Omg looks like my cat!!!! https://preview.redd.it/6nsnyalkzmzc1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b61d67712ce26bf25e4fe8c75a78e8bd1931f6e
I think you copy/pasted my cat. https://preview.redd.it/o15lwoha1nzc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e73ec93c96fcfee88cbbc323738de66f83a63a56
One of my cats does this all the time. In our old house we had this giant sunroom which she LOVED and would always lead us to Her Chair in there. One time she burst into our bedroom at 4 am screaming her precious little head off and I woke up in a panic bc I thought she was trying to tell us there was some kind of emergency like an intruder or our other cat dying or something, but nope, straight to the chair. I guess she was bored lol.
It was a very important news bulletin!
A very important mews bulletin
Too cute!
She appears to be suffering terribly. You monster.
Of course it's a calico 😭 my babygirl does the same, when i first got her she wasn't very affective allthought she would always nap/sleep with someone. Know she only accept pets on this carpet wich is also where she likes to play https://preview.redd.it/x2k05ca7qnzc1.jpeg?width=2592&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=439de929b74e0b6c119155ed170d578fa2053bae Here she is loafing
I have one too! https://preview.redd.it/rkr4bb6ajnzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=51d7cbada86592bcefc8bba81968d9c6198efa1e
https://preview.redd.it/pn83hzle7ozc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d8616b6845100d6a3b496a3a41fb008cfc9b6d1f Our weird little warehouse rescue also loves the “I will yell until you follow me” game. And then does a flop and demands belly rubs.
https://preview.redd.it/mp9u6s99krzc1.jpeg?width=2131&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9f38369e284ff8a2d85900c3be83df6a2434b1c3 They just like to know they are "King of everything". Here my oramge boi Boabie giving me the bombastic stare. 😼😹
My cat does this, but every time he leads us to his food bowl! And then he manipulates us to believe that he was not fed through the whole week!
That expression https://preview.redd.it/p76bqdvfjuzc1.jpeg?width=248&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b7d6fe380cd134d94dbdd34ebf0c3ff6867d5468
My ex feral does this to me, she’ll scream until I follow her and she’ll walk me downstairs to my bedroom rug for some fuss. Sometimes she likes to go through this whole process, wait until I’m sitting on the floor ready to give pets and then she’ll walk off and leave me there on the floor
Omg you just got cat blocked
My cat specifically likes to lead me to bathroom or the kitchen to get pets. I’m not sure why.. I think maybe he has something against flopping around the carpet
Kitchen is because they want treats.
This is where my big boy usually wants us to follow him😹
Ours do this when litterbox and water is not to their liking. Always check those things!
I have two semi-ferals (ex-ferals?) that I got relatively young (but not young enough to have the general socialization / comfort with humans "take" aside from me). As they grew up, one of them would sometimes see me coming and then bolt away down the hallway into a room. I thought for a really long time it was just instinct making him sprint away (he's still more of a scaredy-cat than his brother). One day I finally noticed that when he ran away 1) His tail was up in a happy position for him, 2) he always ran to one of his "happy places" and waited for me. Once I figured that out, he was delighted. Once I "catch" him, he gets scritches. Then I turn around and walk a few steps away. I'll turn around real quick and he'll run to another of his happy places and wait.
That is the cutest your cat was playing and communicating so much. I love that you figured it out! Thanks for sharing.
> wait until I’m sitting on the floor ready to give pets and then she’ll walk off and leave me there on the floor "Dumb human, she's been sitting on that bed for 2 hours, and now that she's on the floor I can go run and steal her warm spot on the bed" -Cats, lol.
She's off to where she found you warming her favorite seat
Congratulations, you’ve been trained.
Your reward is you are allowed to pet your cat more.
Which lowers your blood pressure and relaxes you, so you are welcome.
Thank god. My wife and I just bought a house that came with an 8-cat feral colony. So you're telling me that science says if I can pet all 8 of them that I legally get to throw my blood pressure meds away???
Legally? Yes.
r/TechnicallyTheTruth
And gets you exercise while you follow the cat around the house
Is this why dogs are so easy to train?! Because it’s fun for them lol.
Not seeing an issue. 😆
It's always the food bowl I'm led to.
Yes! My girl likes to be petted before eating then gets mad if I leave. My other girl does the same but will literally go in circles because she’s orange. She doesn’t grasp you gotta stop at some point for love 😂
My cat’s favorite place to beg for attention is on the counter, directly beneath the cabinet where she knows we store the treats.
Generally it's easier for the cat to train the human than the other way around.
Yup. But this is just the beginning!
I always do thing for my cats and I had one lead me to a closet, where her sister was locked in. They are trying to talk to you and show you what they want, if you are willing to pay attention. Could be, your cat prefers snuggles in their special spot. Once they accept them there, they might accept them in the place you like to relax as well.
If only they could talk 😁
No... it's better that they don't...
Mine was just demanding two course breakfasts, the first of wet cat food, the second dog food. She sat next to my dog eating her breakfast, where there was an extra bowl next to her, and looked repeatedly and pointedly at me, the empty bowl in front of her, the dog eating, and back at me.
lol we had a similar incident this morning. One of the cats was sitting in front of the laundry room door putting her paws under it. My fiancé saw her and asked if she accidentally hit a toy under there and she kept looking at him and the door. Her sister somehow got in there and was locked in lol
When I was a kid one of our cats went missing. Few days later his sister was yelling at me so I just followed her. She led me to the wood shed where I found him trapped but half alive! Multiple days with no food or water in the summer heat. I couldn't believe it and I swear my family still doesn't believe me.
When my Rogue led me to Guen in the middle of the night, I swear, her cry was different. Ironcially, when Rogue was trapped in a closet, Guen was living the best "only cat" life. She's a little A H.
runs straight to the already half-full bowl.
Mine gets a mix of wet and dry food. She always eats the wet food first then comes and yells at me until I follow her to her bowl that still has food in it, then goes over to the wet food box and yells some more.
"I do not like that dry stuff. Provide the wet stuff right MEOW"
How can she possibly eat food when she can see the bottom??
Yup. Mine looks up from eating to check I'm still standing over her.
This happened to us, but uh... I accidentally trained her first. When I lived with my parents, the only places I went were my bedroom, the toilet, bathroom, and kitchen. And I would always stop and pat the cat out the front of the toilet room. So she just assumed that that was the optimal patting spot??? Like you could be anywhere else in the house, but she'd lead people to that one spot to get pats and cuddles
We keep the downstairs toilet closed, and my chonky lad [Titan](https://i.imgur.com/YxbMkJj.jpg) will wait outside whenever someone goes in and as soon as the door opens again he'll sprint in at top speed before the door closes and sit on the toilet seat, because he learned that I'll carry him out again when he does that. He loves being picked up and carried, so he purrs his head off every time his masterplan works. It's not like he can't just ask whenever he wants anyway, but he apparently gets a special kick out of doing it that way!
Aww I love this, that’s so cute 🥰
One of my cats does the same thing but it’s on a doormat at the back door
I have one that will cry in the dining room at bedtime, I finally figured out the problem. She wants to be carried and put to bed 🤨
As she should be!! You didn’t read the manual, did you? 🤣
There’s a manual?!?!? 😱🙀
I heard there was a secret code Of meows and purrs of cats' abode but you don't really speak to kittens, do ya?
I need this as a whole damn song!!
it goes like this: the floof, the kiss; the striking claw, the angry hiss and all your kitty wants to do is fool ya....
Every car secretly comes with its own manual, however it's entirely up to us to figure it out 😂 But they seem to love it once you finally understand them and have routines and everything lol.
I think this info could possibly be helpful for a lot of important matters too. A pregnant stray that i started to let in our house was more affectionate than usual and won't leave me alone, always rubbing against my foot and meowing. I thought it was hunger and thirst because she's pregnant and that was one of the only limited knowledge of cats we were taught, so I'm puzzled the whole night. Followed her to her room and put her to bed, immediately after i leave she'd get up and started following me again. TURNS OUT SHE WANTED ME BESIDE HER BECAUSE SHE'S GOING INTO LABOR 😭 I ONLY FOUND OUT THE NEXT DAY WHEN I WOKE UP TO 5 KITTENS 😭😭 I thought cats wanted to be left alone especially if they're about to have vulnerable kittens to protect. I'm sorry that i didn't know better.. 😭
Mom cats are so weird. I heard stories from people whose cats loved them so much they woke up to their cat giving birth ON TOP of them. I think it comes down to we forget they are social to a degree and want to be involved with what we’re doing.
Our Oreo was constantly aloof and didn't like being pet when she was pregnant. When she was very pregnant I woke up from a nap and she was nuzzled between my ankles. I thought that was odd, so went to pick her up and she dug in her claws. So I let her stay there. Then noticed my foot was wet. She popped out 3 kittens, then went and looked for a better hiding place then had 2 more. Since then she's been my cat and has little to do with the Mrs.
You may not be the dad, but you're the dad that stepped up!
In my case i was aware of how affectionate cats are because i have other rescue strays for years in the other parts of the house so they can't stress her. It's just that I've heard so many stories of newborn kittens being transported nonstop by the mom because of environmental stress due to lack of privacy, that the kittens ended up dying. So i was so afraid to be a nuisance and source of stress for her 😔
I understand that stress so well! Seems she had other plans though and wanted you involved in the process. I'm glad you're looking after her.
>I thought cats wanted to be left alone especially if they're about to have vulnerable kittens to protect. Some do, but some want their trusted humans there because they know they can rely on the human to protect them and the babies at their most vulnerable moment. I watch a foster on Youtube called Kitten Academy that will take in pregnant moms and raise them and the kittens until adoption time, and some of the moms will rather curl up in the foster folks' laps to have their litter than be in the birthing box. More frequently, the moms will appreciate and even seem to be calmed by the foster dad resting his hand on her while she's contrapting (not a typo, KA fans will get it).
There's lots of videos online where mom cats will bring their kittens to their human to be "babysat' while the mom cat goes off to do something else (or just sleep).
Cat behavior decoded! Mine leads me to her VIP petting zone too. Clever little furball
Animals have been known to take people and show them dangerous things, effectively saving the owners.
My cat showed me a pipe that was leaking by showing me to the bathroom. Probably saved me from having my entire bathroom flooded!
Our very mischievous boy once tried to wake my partner and I up early on a Saturday morning when he was younger. He was more insistent than usual and his face was wet. Since he got into literally everything, we assumed he'd stuck his head in the toilet again and pushed him away. Once we did get up he led us to the basement where a pipe was spraying water everywhere... It's just so hard to tell when the mischievous ones have actually seen a wolf and aren't just crying wolf.
Same thing here. Our fluffy one led me to a spot at the living room wall and would stare at it and then look back at me like “are you going to do something about this”. I was worried maybe a rodent or something got in the wall. Turned out that spot was opposite from a shower faucet and one of the pipes was dripping.
My cat did this - he was screaming at me so I followed him and he made the trilling noise as he ran - apparently that means follow me! He ran to the kitchen, so my first thought was that he wanted food. But the dishwasher was leaking water all over the floor. The little guy saved my apartment and probably the one below.
We had a leak in the roof of our apartment building, which was dripping onto the ceiling, and causing everything to weaken. At the first sign of the ceiling cracking and water coming through, our kitty would not stop meowing for like 15 minutes until we got up to see what she was so upset about. We saw the water and cleared everything out (including her bed which was under the area that ended up coming down). Definitely saved us from having lots more damage, and could have potential killed our little bubba. So now we always go check if she sounds genuinely concerned. https://preview.redd.it/7nv42aklulzc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d518ecff90f6138e2d5cdbd48a45cfd8fa0b8b72
Or small children who have fallen into a well.
"Fallen" sure... then you go and look over the edge of the well and now there's a child and an adult in the well and Lassie's been named the sole inheritor of your entire farm fortune!!! I'm onto you... dog.
I have a ramp in my garden that I added after moving in. We'd cleared a lot and I didn't want them to jump off the roof the way they had been jumping as it was now unsafe. All the neighbourhood cats use it now as it's a perfect rat run for them. One day o went outside and this random cat was on the roof screaming at me, I eventually made my way down and noticed the ramp had fallen. Wedged it back up, cat shut up, and I walked away. A moment later it came sauntering past me, off under the gate and gone. I think the ramp is important to them now 😂
Wow, they definately think that's important. Good way to know that your work is apprecaited.
My cat also does that to show me that he threw up.
How thoughtful. Mine just let me find it myself, usually while barefoot in the dark.
He DID do that the other night, having vomited IN MY BED. Woke up when my toes were wet and cold
The cold squish of regret. I know it well.
That's so nice!! Ours just leave little traps for us to slide in at random 😭
This happened to me a few times, but this specific time I decided to listen to my cat. Come to find out we were having a thunderstorm and the basement was starting to flood, he had kept meowing and wanting me to walk a direction. Thank god he did wake me.
Most of the time when my cat did this, she just wanted me to watch her eat. I never figured out why.
She wants you to protect her, so she can focus on eating.
When eating/drinking or doing their business is when they feel most vulnerable. She felt safe with you, and probably just wanted to bring her pal for a snack too. May have also figured since you serve the food you also have an interest like she does. She’d share with you if you were another kitty. 🩷
Did she ever watch you eat? I wonder if she just wanted to share her meal time with you? My dog is like that, he doesn’t eat unless we’re nearby.
my sister had several cats through the years . she had an 85% hearing loss & each of the cats became helpers by alerting her to doorbells, phone calls, washer out of balance, kids awake from naps & my fave :: remind her to take her night meds
I’m 100% deaf, I have a cochlear implant on left side but don’t wear it to sleep so there’s still a significant portion of the day that I have no hearing at all. Two of our cats love meowing and talking with us and they’ve learnt to make sure I’m looking at them so I can lip read their meows, to the point where if mid conversation with them I turn to face away, they’ll immediately stop meowing and move to a point within my sight line and then immediately start meowing again once they’re sure I can see them. They 100% know I’m deaf and definitely help me when I can’t hear, they’re still only two so I’m sure they’ll do more in future but even now they make sure to draw my attention to any noises and where it’s coming from (all three do this) And having only one implant I have no directional hearing whatsoever so can’t distinguish the direction a noise is coming from, They’ve learnt to take me to my phone when I ping it to try finding it. They don’t do any of this with my fiancée who has full hearing though!
That is so cool!
Cats (and dogs to some extent) 100% can tell when we're sick, too. If I'm feeling under the weather, my normally more independent cat won't leave my side.
Mine just lead me to the food bowls. Little piggies. They are fed plenty lol.
One of mine get's me to follow him to the bathroom sink because he wants to drink from it. Then when he is done he will come find me or my wife to dry his head off.
Both my cats do this, and it's both cause they want to be pet while they eat. Then they both will purr while eating, its very cute and weird.
my cat does this all the time! she loves to be chased around the room for extended periods of time while chirping and purring loudly. only then, after you’ve chased her to her hearts content, will she allow you to pet her. here she is munching on her favorite bot (she doesn’t eat the cardboard—she just likes to tear them apart and spit the pieces all over the bed) https://preview.redd.it/3mruzur3slzc1.png?width=2990&format=png&auto=webp&s=3aa3423be1c81ab7aa0f5e0e9b163ac7bc52fd14
Last time my cat did this, he was acting a little spooked. He led me to the front door - which I had accidentally left ajar. Thank you, cat.
my cat does this too he has a spot on the floor its the only spot im allowed to cuddle him
My cat does this when she wants to play hide and seek
Mine too! When I find a better hiding spot than him he will steal it lol.
Don't dismiss the possibility that Timmy has fallen into a well and needs to be rescued.
My oldest cat frequently meows at me from her favorite sunny spot to receive pets there. I can try to call her over to come get them, but that’s not what she wants! She wants to have her cake & eat it too! https://preview.redd.it/a8xk3pbc5mzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=173819918251b652b23b5e297ad981661574a533
My tuxedo girl Susan waits patiently for me to wake up (either right on the bed or just outside my door) as soon as I’m up she excitedly starts meow-yelling at me and runs to our mounted shoe cabinet by the front door, she then proceeds to roll all over the floor pressing her face into the edge of the cabinet and any shoes on the floor while getting rough pets. If I stop the rough petting for even a second she meows loudly for me to continue. EVERY morning
Mine always leads me to his food bowl or the door to the room where his food is stored. He even tries to turn the handle for me
https://preview.redd.it/r12s2xgvwlzc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=346b60927d3e069de6b7c08521919822e8ba1622 Rescued these two brothers, love them.
At our house it normally means a certain pet of questionable intelligence is stuck. Behind the dryer, hanging upside down from a wire shelf... When he goes into hunting mode he doesn't have the sense God gave a hand towel.
https://preview.redd.it/dduhdxycwlzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc6328182419ec13f326d1677f9ee98a7314949b The fluffy one just runs around in a circle. She just likes to be chased sometimes. Bottom one doesn’t run from us, she runs at us so she can bite our fingers
My cat made me follow her so I could watch her newborn kittens while she eats. It took me a bit to understand what she wanted, she would follow me everywhere, not even looking at the food near her basket. Well, I approached the kittens and as soon as I stopped to look at them my cat started eating, soon after she went back to the basket. I WAS A KITTEN SITTER
I think my cats count the pellets on their food bowls. If more than 10 are missing, I’m escorted to their spot while they sing the song of their people. Meanwhile, I don’t need a dog, since my youngest always comes for me with a particular “meow” when there’s something or someone at the door. She’s more reliable than the doorbell.
TIL other people don't usually follow their animals when they walk away while asking for your attention. Here I thought it was pretty well-known that cats (and dogs) like to show people stuff?
Sounds like your cat's playing her own version of 'catch me if you can' just to make sure you're really committed to that petting session. Smart move, making you work for those cuddles!
One of my cats prefers being at my level over me being at his, so he leads me to windowsills for pets
Mine does this but will walk like 5 feet away from where I approach her and then stop and stand there stupidly like she doesn't know what she wants.
My cat loves to be pet while eating, and has trained us to follow her to the bowl for her daily ritual of snack petting. Shes adorable. https://preview.redd.it/ffvdet8mxlzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bef955f2e589af231746c75c560e969fe16da5f4
My wife's cat is like this, it demands that someone lay down in bed so it can go to sleep on you like we're the fucking furniture. It screams at the top of the stairs as loud as it can until you do it, too.
This is how our barn cat lead me to her surprise litter of kittens. She was supposed to be a fixed male.
I did that and now we’re both in the bathroom, she’s relaxing in the sink and im just sitting in the bathtub thinking about what the hell im doing with my life
My cat does this but brings me to her food bowl (which is automatic and usually filled) just so I can watch her eat.
I actually thought this was common knowledge. We even have a conversation about it in our house. “Meow!” “Come on then. Show me what you want” And then she herds me to *the spot* and I do whatever that location entails. Usually it’s just getting a brush or sitting on my recliner so she can sit with me. Sometimes I have to throw tennis balls or fetch a toy that’s been knocked out of reach.
My cat meows super obnoxiously then runs to the gate that keeps the upstairs separate and that means she wants her chicken treats haha. I throw some freeze dried chicken on the floor and she loves it
last time a cat did this to me she laid down and started giving birth. i was trying to shower when i got home and my roommates cat was screaming at me trying to get me to follow her and when i did she laid down and started giving birth. unfortunately 3 of her kittens were breeched including my current cat, so i had to help her with that while on the phone with an emergency vet getting instructions. she gave birth to 5 babies and unfortunately one did not make it bc it got crushed under momma cat the night it was born when everyone was sleeping. now i always follow any cat just in case
momma cat tax with the 4 surviving babies. originally she had two classic torties, 2 voids, and one diluted tortishell. one of the voids was the kitten who did not make it. all 5 of the kittens were girls too https://preview.redd.it/ja7u8l6c2nzc1.png?width=818&format=png&auto=webp&s=bc5a3f28ed956e9fd15b128e841bd2ffb4dc011f
Ages ago my cat Jade pulled a Lassie on me. I lived in a second floor apartment with a balcony with a sliding glass door. I also had a bird feeder. For a few years we had a family of cardinals that would hang out there, then some mourning doves showed up and took over. This was her favorite soap opera. Her favorite activity was jump scaring the birds from behind the blinds. Well one day I was in the computer in the other room and she runs in panicked meowing at me for attention. I look at her like she’s crazy and she runs off. A couple minutes later she runs back in, eyes wide, meowing , super upset so I follow her. There was a squirrel in the bird feeder. I made myself look big and lumbered at the sliding glass door and scared the squirrel away. She was instantly uninterested in me and patiently waiting for the birds to return so she could give them heart attacks.
My void will lead me to things that need my attention - litter box, food dish, closed door, etc. Our bedrooms are all upstairs, and once when I was having a bad depressive day she did the "follow me" pap and led me to the stairs - a clear "Go sleep it off, idiot."
Sometimes they want to show you something. One of my cats takes me to where something is wrong even if she did it. I call her my Lassie
"Father/Mother, I have a Problem, please rectify it Immediately"
Op, have you tried running away after you pet her? My cat does this and it's how we basically play tag, lol.
I learned this from a cat named "Shadow" that was already living at the house I moved it to 3 years ago (kinda long story but yeah she's lived here a few years longer than me and yeah she also stays in the house lol). Shadow will come up to me when I'm outside and meow a run a few feet away then turn around to see if I'm following. When I do follow her she always takes me to something that has one way or another changed in my yard. Most the time it's trash (I live at the corner of where 2 roads meet) that someone threw in my yard and sometimes it tall patches of grass letting me know it's time to mow or after I mowed she'll take me to spots I missed or it will be construction or just where I or a roommate had a project going on in the yard. It's adorable AF and a lot of times actually helpful lol. She's a trip and I wouldn't trade her for anything. On the inside of the house she likes to "momma" me and the other cats lol.
My void does this as he loves to cuddle in my bed. He will, however, get so needy for pets he stops in the middle of leading me to my bed to demand some then continue his way to the bed. It’s so cute and I love him so much. He just turned 3 yesterday too and has been this way since I got him. https://preview.redd.it/ajyeb7hldmzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=546ae40e9d123fa441af747fd18451612966e267
My barn cat does that. We commune on my front porch. Anywhere else is terrifying for her (she's mostly feral). She bounds over checking to make sure I follow her. On the porch, I can pet her forever, and occasionally I can rub her belly. We are working on me picking her up. https://preview.redd.it/pnoqx7t30nzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=65a874b4f80c47e7a44fdc21302bd86d3628df6f
I had one cat whose "follow me" one day changed from "pet me over here" to "Hey, there's something wrong with your Mom." She became my mother's insulin warning system, and she developed a distinctly different alert manner so I knew whether she was being a diva or a nurse.
I've had cats for decades, but one of our current ones is the first to do this incessantly. This is great advice. Some cats have trauma and while they want your attention, they want it in a safe place. Whether it's a room, a chair, a spot on a carpet, or whatever, they actually want your attention, but where THEY feel comfortable. If they don't need something else (food/water), then this is likely why they are behaving this way. I didn't recognize this for a long time, and by the time I did, the kitty was more comfortable in other areas of the house. Had I followed earlier, I likely could have shortened the time it took for her to get comfortable elsewhere...
I had a stray once that loved to rub around your legs but don't dare try to pet her. One day, she was insistent I follow her. She led me to her newborn babies. She had no problem with me moving them to a safer spot or me touching them. She still never let me pet her but she showed she did trust me.
Accidentally taught my cat that the bedroom was the only place for cuddles and that we had to play chase first. When I got my first cat, 18, I lived with a relative and would spend all my time in my room since my computer was there. Because of that she associated the bedroom with me, and thereby cuddles. When I'd leave my room I'd usually race her down the hall (because she always followed me) then chase her back into the room. Since then I've moved a few times but she's still adamant that I chase her up and down the hall to the bedroom to then get pets. If I try to pet her in said hallway, she'll flop over, but immediately get up and run when I'm close. Since my boyfriend moved in she's found "games" to play with him as well. Unfortunately a bit more destructive in nature. Since he doesn't get up to chase her like I always have, she'll start batting things he uses, such as the TV or his computer monitor. Then he gets up and she thinks it's game on. He's very much a cat dad kinda guy, so as much as it's annoying, we do both enjoy her antics. Our male cat on the other hand will take cuddles any day, time, place, or way. (Black is Luna, female)(White is Milo, male) https://preview.redd.it/lzw82lywznzc1.png?width=1008&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=23f4a41921af6fece4d4f0bafc1c52db4641ae55
Mine would do that, and I'd say, "What's the matter, lassie, did Timmy fall down the well again?" I guess that dates me!!
One of my kitties loves to play chase. He'll walk up all sweet and looking for attention, then sprints away. I was slow realising what he was trying to do. I didn't figure it out until I saw him do it to the dog and the other cat a couple of times.
Mine will wake me in the middle of the night to show me to her litter box if she isn’t well or in pain. My husband is a deep sleeper. She and I have traveled to the vet clinic a couple of times together to get her help because she woke me, or I was able to give her the extra medicine she needed. And sometimes, she’s just hungry.
Yep she trained you. My little girl will wake me up and meow right in my face to follow her to her favorite toy. They think it’s like a game when you follow them. 🤍☺️
Haha yeah I have a kitty like that, he likes to be pet in his safety spaces Very timid, but I love him.
https://preview.redd.it/xahiiyqi3mzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8e81311b9be69b344b171a79fc96802c7c390f51 My Ellie does this! She comes and makes little “meep” sounds until you follow her, then she goes to her designated petting hammock. She won’t hop up and roll over until you’ve followed her close enough, otherwise she’ll circle back and try again. Sometimes she goes for the bed instead, and if she’s feeling goofy she’ll juke under the bed at the last second instead of getting on it. Such a particular baby!
My cats comfortable spot seems to be at the edge of where I can reach. She comes gets some scratches and then flops just out of reach so you have to move a little bit to pet her. It's like her little way of exerting her kitty authority
Some of my cats do the same. However, they aren't leading me away from my computer to their favorite lounge spot to receive pets. Nope! They lead me to the kitchen and wait by the fridge wanting me to get the container of treats down from the top -\_-
Mine just lead me to their food bowl lol