Perhaps to you it seems the strangest thing in the world to see your cat running like crazy through the living room at home in the wee hours of the morning. Everyone sleeps, the environment is silent … and the cat is going at a hundred revolutions per minute! But what is wrong with him?! Is he having a fit? Have you really gone crazy?
This situation is very typical and perfectly exemplifies the fact that cats, although with thousands of years of domestication behind them (less than the dogs that were the first animals to be domesticated), keep their natural instincts in full shape . It does not matter that now they live in a city apartment and not in the middle of nature, that they do not need to hunt to eat and that in their sweet home, of which they are masters and lords, the situation in which a predator can attack them will never arise. , their genes have changed little since their origin as wild cats .
Many of the behaviors that humans call strange are precisely due to the need to hunt (that is why they are with their batteries full at night) and that predators do not discover them (hence they hide clues of their presence such as feces and food scraps). Others are properly marked. Let it be clear to you that your kitten loves you (he even adores you!) But when he rubs with you what he does is mark you , just like he marks household objects. And with this what does it achieve? Very simple, he is telling the world that you are his property , in the same way as your house (which he understands is his, eye), other pets that live in the home and all the objects that he considers. Finally, there are other types of behaviors such as kneading that obey behaviors learned as a puppy. What does your kitty do not seem so strange to you anymore?
As we want you to understand the signals of your pet perfectly and stop looking like a freak, we reveal the meaning of 15 very common behaviors in domestic felines.
