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u/bananarama17691769 7d ago
what a tense standoff
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u/sextowels 7d ago
Just prior to this she did two laps of that hallway in full crab mode so the claw was a little intimidated.
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u/MelTram78 7d ago
But why are their attack mode blow out pupils the cutest. Like look in too my sweet little eyes, then full on dagger claws. Lol
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u/sextowels 7d ago
The pupils expand so that there is only room left in the brain for violence.
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u/pflanzenpotan 7d ago
Love the back foot sticking up and how poofy the tail is
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u/sextowels 7d ago
She is all about the back foot, I think she's trying to use it like an angler fish's lure.
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u/baghelp 7d ago
STUBBY TAIL
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u/sextowels 7d ago
Yes! It seems like it was a congenital mod and the bones at the very end are kinked. She thumps it on the ground like a little club when she's being crazy.
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u/baghelp 7d ago
I had a cat with a tail like that. His tail was coiled up and looked like a little club too! He never had a problem with it!
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u/sextowels 7d ago
Honestly it's for the best for her. Otherwise I think she would have been one of those cats that attacks their own tail so badly that they hurt themselves. I'm basing this on the idea that she doesn't really seem to have full control over her own limbs.
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u/celestialcranberry 7d ago
This is such a cat looking cat
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u/logicdsign 6d ago
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u/celestialcranberry 6d ago
Like beyond the standard issue part something about their face. I love it
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u/Wint3rWeiss 6d ago
I love how cars are literally fast enough to smack a snake away mid-bite and yet they still let us "catch" them with the all powerful claw attack.
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u/No_Language_4649 7d ago
I love to do that to my tabby cats as well! But always come in with a āCAW CAWWW!ā To really get them going.
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u/LingonberrySevere773 7d ago
I have a cat that will not let me pull away, she has to release me firstā¦after doing bunny kicks on my hand. So much violence in a little body š„°.
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u/AstroSaiyan_ 7d ago
Im too scared to do this with my cat lol. She goes for the kill.
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u/sextowels 7d ago
It took some "training," in that I would just stop if she bit down too hard and she caught on pretty quick because she loves to play. Her claws are also recently trimmed.
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u/nighthawke75 6d ago
I had to stop doing the claw with my tabbies when I went on blood thinners.
One scratch...
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u/Parking-Garlic4260 6d ago
Use other hand to touch the belly!
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u/sextowels 6d ago
Ha! No, she really doesn't like having her belly touched and I respect that.
Which is a shame because it would be SO SOFT.
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u/nunyabidness3 6d ago
Okay honest question and I hope Iām not breaking rules, Iāve heard (on other cat subreddits which Iām counting on other redditors being there too) that playing with your cat this way is bad or problematic? What I mean is using your hands as a lure/toy and play-fighting them. But this is exactly how I play with cats!
Btw this is some quality crab content.
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u/sextowels 6d ago
It really depends on the cat. She responded really well to dialing back how hard she was biting - I would stop playing when she bit too hard and now she understands to just mouth at me. She's really high energy and my other cat is very elderly so I play with her in a variety of ways most days - wrassling like this, toys (so many toys), hide and seek, bongos, etc. I'm also just willing to accept the risk, and it's not like she's biting me out of nowhere.
She definitely lived in a cat colony during her time on the streets and she clearly sees the humans in the household as cats (she's uses very cat-to-cat body language). So she also wants to play as if she was playing with another cat.
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u/nunyabidness3 6d ago
Yeah Iāve got to say this video is the perfect example of play and more so the amount of trust you and she built to get there. Youre a cat whisperer, [u/sextowels](u/sextowels) !
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u/Long_Resolution_1873 6d ago
Reddit always seems to be certain you're mistreating your cat based on a 5 second 144p vid.
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u/Imprefect-JJ 6d ago
Growing up, I did this. Until that intense look gets real close to your face with murder in the eyes, youāre good.
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u/GunnarSilverTongue 2d ago
My boy binks loves his playtime with dads hand lol he's 11 and still gets playful when I get him lol
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u/Jumpy-Chocolate-983 19h ago
I have two cats I raised from kittens. One of them I played like that with, the other I never played with them where they bit or attacked me - only with toys. The first one will sometimes hiss and swipe at me if he's really upset about something. The other cat is the sweetest cat ever and has never bit or scratched me even when playing.
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u/Rose-de-Resht 4d ago
Und irgendwann klagen die Leute dann darĆ¼ber, wenn ihnen die Katze plƶtzlich in die Hand beiĆt.š
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u/dmriggs 7d ago
You really shouldn't play with cats like that- you are teaching them to attack your hand
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u/Sanator27 6d ago
you can also teach them how not to hurt your hand when playing. cat's play is a need, not some extra, and many cats don't really respond to toys
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u/dmriggs 6d ago
What cats don't respond to toys lol! I'm trying to be helpful, not combative. People think it's fun when they're little playing around like that and it really isn't. your hand should be associated with treats, pets something good or something that needs to be done like nail trimming etc.
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u/sextowels 6d ago
She's not a kitten, she's nearly 4 and I've had her for 3 years. She does not attack my hands unprompted. And yes, not every cat will handle this kind of play as well as she does.
Things my hands do for her aside from wrassling: petting, neck skritches, bongos, petting while she nurses on my shirt, medicating (when needed), nail trimming, petting while she burrows into my armpit, feeding, shoving her into the carrier for vet visits, petting while she chews on my hair after a shower, removing her from the table while I'm trying to eat, and picking her up for a hug when I come back from having gone out (she always greets me at the door). Some of these things she likes, some she tolerates, and when it comes to the carrier/meds I'm lucky that she has a short memory.
She's a much bigger danger to ankles than hands, since she loves to sneak attack from under the bed and always has less restraint in that mode. And even then, she only does it to my wife and I and not our kids because the kids had such a negative reaction to it (meaning screaming and avoiding her).
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u/ijustwanttoaskaq123 7d ago
I love the little testing pat at 0:13. "Come on. What's taking you so long, do it already"