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Are cats just naturally perverse creatures?
If I go into a room and close the door, my black cat starts yowling. If I open the door to let her in, she just looks at me like I'm stupid and won't come in. Then, when I close the door again, she starts yowling again. Her sister, my tortie, isn't like that. If she yowls at a closed door, she runs right in when I open it.
My tortie loves messing with me, too. If I'm not busy and I try to pet her, she sticks her tail up and walks away, but when I'm busy, she demands my attention. When I stop what I'm doing in order to pet her and play with her, she decides she can't be bothered and walks away. She only allows me to love on her when she decides the time is right, but even when she doesn't want my attention, she asks anyway just to prove she COULD have it. But her sister, my black cat, wants to be loved and petted every minute of the day.
I think my beloved cats get some perverse joy from messing with my head. Has anyone else experienced this?
Gerhard, you are confusing "perverse" with "perverted." Those words do not have the same meaning. Thanks anyway.
Ariane,
I laughed so hard when you described your cat playing "chicken" with your keyboard! LMAO! That's exactly the kind of behavior I was talking about. How funny!
When my tortie asks for attention, she does it by staring at me and yowling until I pay attention to her. The minute I give her my attention, she no longer wants it. Occasionally, she will rub herself on my leg. That usually means I'm allowed to pet her.
What you said about the alpha cat makes sense. My alpha cat is the one that refuses to allow any door to be shut whether she wants in the room or not.
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- Ariane deRLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Only anyone who has cats. =]
Re: the door thing: Cats often hate closed doors. They are highly territorial and they like to be able to get to everywhere that they see as being part of their territory - -this is especially true for dominant cats. Sometimes you will see a cat sit in a place it can see 2 rooms, "guard" a passageway, or perch high up on a piece of furniture and survey their "kingdom".
When it is an indoor/ outdoor cat, and they ask to go outside and you open the door and they just sit there..... in that case, cats are often smelling and listening to find out what is going on out there and whether they really want to go out.
(Another one is that they go out and then in 2 min. they want back in. In that case they may have just felt a need to do a quick patrol of their territory and leave some scent marks (like rubbing, scratching, or for some cats, spraying - - hopefully not on the house! Or maybe to use their outdoor bathroom wherever it is.)
The demanding attention, I have had a few Siamese who are notorious about that. One of my cat's many ways of getting attention is that he jumps on the desk when I am on the computer and reaches his slender paw at the keyboard, "threatening" to touch a key! He extends then withdraws then extends his paw - -just like he is playing "chicken" !
The capriciousness....asking for attention then not wanting it: You don't mention how she "asks"... If she rubs on you, she is of course mingling your scents - - she is marking you, but also picking up some of your scent. Or maybe she just wants to reassure herself that you love her..
Or.......maybe you are totally right and she DOES get a kick out of messing with your head!
- Bart SLv 71 decade ago
Cats' thinking and emotional systems are supposed to be similar to ours, but like you say, they can be just plain awkward at times!
- 1 decade ago
it isnt exactly "perverse". they're just cats anyway. they just love to play around or be petted.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
There doesn't exist any naturally perverse creature. God created everything and saw that it was good.
