Carlos and Jose break down five weird ways cats show they love you, from body language to behaviors that signal trust. Learn what it really means when your cat slow-blinks at you or rubs against your legs.
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May be telling you that he loves you in strange ways, ways that only cats understand. And today we're going to decipher them. Hi, I'm Carlos, and I'm a veterinarian, and this is Alcachofo. Welcome to the Happy Pets and Families Channel, now in its ninth season. Today, we're going to talk about one of the most beautiful feelings in the world, feline love. And no, I'm not going to tell you that your cat tells you that he loves you while purring, while kneading you, and all those things that we've already talked about and that we know perfectly well are signs of love. I will tell you, however, that our feline companions have other ways of telling us in their body language that we are their perfect life companions, that they adore us, and many times we don't know how to interpret them. And the thing is that some of these gestures may seem very strange or even annoying to us, but they all have their explanation, and some of them are scientifically backed. Your cat shows you its butt. Come on, confess it to me. Your cat is one of those who climbs into your bed and in the morning, the first thing you see when you wake up is its rear end. Yes, it does. Well, you may think that's a bit disrespectful to a cat person, but it's completely unrelated. In fact, many cats don't just do it in the morning when they wake us up, but often when we're petting them, they start to lift their rear end and show us their butts. There are several explanations for this. On the one hand, when we touch that area, it gives them quite a thrill because on the underside of their tail, they have little glands that we stimulate when we scratch them, and they like that. And on the other hand, they're showing us a part of their body that is highly vulnerable, a part where they have no defenses whatsoever. If our feline companions are showing us that part, it's because they trust us. They know they can turn their backs on us and have nothing to worry about. Your cat is taking your place. Oh, my gosh. The cat does this a lot. It's not that there's a lack of hierarchy in your home that your cat says, hey, I'm the boss here, and that's why I'm capable of taking your seat. That behavior has a lot to do with a preference for familiar smells. Our cats can identify their humans simply by their smell. In fact, some scientific studies that I'll link below have shown that when our feline companions have to discriminate between the smell of their humans and the smell of strangers. They are clearly able to tell which is which. So it's very clear that when we get up from a place, we leave it full of our smells, even though we may not be able to perceive it, but our cat can. So when we get up, our cat says, I'm going over there because I miss my human companion, and that's why I want to soak up their smells. In fact, we don't only see this type of behavior when we get up from our chairs. Sometimes when our cats miss us, they go and sit in places that remind them of us, that smell like us, and they wait for us there. The cat does this a lot in bed. It digs its claws into you. There are loves that hurt, and your feline companion's love has probably hurt you a lot. Sometimes when our cats are excited, when they want to show us all their affection and love, they can't control their little claws inside their paws. And that's why it's very common for them to greet us by stretching out on our legs and digging their claws into us. Or when, for example, I have the cat on top of me, it's also very common for it to do this to me and dig all its claws into my knees. No, no, no, no. Don't press any harder. Oh, I want you. I love you, kitty. This has a lot to do with.
Kneading its eighth season. Ninth? What season is it? You know, we've been talking about cats for nine years. Well, we're starting in the ninth. I get really confused with these things. There are loves that hurt, loves that kill.
Boom, boom, boom. I don't know why your shoes smell. The H's always have a little something wrong.
The H's, I mean. Yes. Every time it makes an H. How could the H's be? Jose is the only human who pronounces the H's. Well, I'm not kidding, right? Oh, let your cat tell you. Hey, look, I'm the one in charge here. And in the end, I put myself wherever I want. Even where you were human. I'm the one in charge here. Tadikis, Mickey, today, Fernando, Lazzaro, Carter. But with cats, you always have to go further. It also never fails. I mean, put the recorder on for 15 minutes. When the bell doesn't ring, turn it on, and there you have it. That. Okay. That uncontrollable performance. Right. Uh, how can I say it? How can you not do it like that? Because it moves to me. It's not recording, Jose. Well, but let's see if it. Oh, this.
