Is the cat stressed or happy?
She's lying next to me, with a free spot on the sofa between us. She stares at me without blinking. I look back, but blink to show I'm peaceful. She continues staring, straightening up. I look away intermittently, take a drink, etc., but when I look into her eyes again, her pupils suddenly dilate and the cat jumps at me, butts her head against my jaw, stays there for a moment, and then jumps away.
The body language was otherwise quite meaningless, tail was still, posture neutral.
Did she feel stress, was it a display of dominance, or was it a gesture of affection?
Later, by the way, she lay down next to me and cuddled up close and really wanted to be stroked, even on the head, which is all quite unusual for her.
So that sounds like affection, right? But this constant staring without blinking, sudden jumps and slow runs away doesn't seem so loving to me…
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I don’t want to judge because I didn’t see it. Something contradictory sounds the description already.
But I do not suspect any evil intentions. My cat always urges his attention – unfortunately he feels that it would be always his time as soon as you sit on the sofa 😅 He sits next to me and stares at me too (for me the look says something like “Hello?! Don’t you see me?! I’m here! I play the first violin!”). If this look does not draw, he uses every movement on my side to push me (partly even quite strong) with his head. This has already led to some glass bottle-tooth collisions when he caught the elbow 😂
😂😂
I think in the last life he was bull or so 😂
😂😂
My probably a mule 😁
it could also be a game challenge
How long have you got him?
if he does what, what are you doing?
How often does he do what?
I’ve had him for a year. If he does what he does several times a day, I’ll call no very seriously, but he doesn’t listen, but he’ll stare at me and keep going. I used to take him up, and he was happy, and he cuddled to me loudly. But I don’t want him to show cuddly needs through destruction, so I’m sending him to another room.
I try to play, but if no eating is involved, he refuses. I tried everything possible. He doesn’t want to kiss when I get to him. Only with the other cat he plays sometimes.
that with playing against food I still know
okay, but he’s also getting to feel like this
did he blink you?
with my hangover, it took a long time before he showed his affection free, it was also the one or the other holding or feeling strangely.
when he jumps at me he spins straight and is playful, which does not necessarily mean that he wants to play in a human way and he just doesn’t understand that you don’t get what exactly he wants
if he doesn’t bite or scratch, let him go and do what feels right
with time you understand
if you’re insecure if he may have pain, ask better veterinarian, otherwise I would keep watching, with time falling on more subtleties
😅😅😅😅😁
Now I have pictures in my head…
naja, cock communication is hard for us
Good idea, thanks
If we had at least the same body language…
then it is also an act of affection
put on his comode
I always want to go down in the wardrobe, cuckoo, jump to the higher level, cuckoo and go back
he then maunzt even before the cabinet
well, he doesn’t understand you, you just have to get closer 🙂
Yeah, he’s doing it all the time. And when I answer it, he also resonates with such a sudden head bump. Only then will he keep idR to cuddle.
Presumably he thinks me mentally restricted 😂 He sits on the dresser every evening and mimicked, always again. But he doesn’t want to play and don’t cuddle. I’m totally futile, but he looks like he’s desperate, because I don’t understand him.
No, I don’t suspect pain. Just as he looks so bad and his needs seem so funny, I never know what he feels or wants.