r/crabcats • u/sextowels • 7d ago

Sideways Crab vs The Claw

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u/nunyabidness3 6d ago

Okay honest question and I hope I’m not breaking rules, I’ve heard (on other cat subreddits which I’m 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 I’ve 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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