Cat question! :O)

[~max~]

Hi all!
I was just wondering something....When Jessie, my 2 yr old kitty, comes back from her gallivanting outside, I always greet her by asking if she had fun (I know, I know...I'm a weirdo). She ALWAYS responds by rolling on the floor on her back. Any other cats do that?
I know she's not asking for a belly rub, because she doesn't like them. :O(
She's a VERY affectionate cat, so could it be that she is "talking" to me, and saying "hi"? lol

She also does it whenever she comes back from a nap and I talk to her.

[ELVIS68]

Max don`t let the tom in again, chances are if he pees everywhere your cat will probably try and out pee him

And you`ll spend the next 5 years smelling "Cat`a dore"

ie a cheap perfume

[lindapinda]

You'll know all about it if he sprays lol...and even if he has been neutered,it doesnt actually stop him doing it..just takes away the intention most times..but not always!!

[lindapinda]

Elvis is soo right;-) Pheeew:-(

[~max~]

Mallam...again..wow!

Elvis, thanks mate! But it goes totally against my philosophy!! I'll see what happens in the next few days. I guess if he has been in once, he'll be back! lol I quite fancy my place as being a "cat heaven"...lol
Unless they start peeing!!!!

[~max~]

So, basically, the "spraying" would smell like cat's pee?
Nothing of the sort here, so I hope it's a good sign!

[ELVIS68]

The smell of cats pee is horendous, my son went to a friends house last week and the cat peed on his trainers, whether it could smell the scent of our dog on them heaven knows but they fooking stank, even after putting them in the washing machine they still have the tang of cats pee

[~max~]

I know what cat's pee smells like, I have one! lol Although she has her litter changed everyday, and "anti-smell" stuff sprinkled on it...lol

I thought it was more like a "gland" thing, like skunks!

[ELVIS68]

Cats pee in a litter tray is nothing like cats pee on a carpet or furniture


Infact I can smell it now just typing about it...fluuuuuuurch

[~max~]

Well, I only have the experience of the litter tray...none of my cats have ever had an "accident"....They were all girls though, that might explain it! :-P

[mallam]

I know all about that, having once in an emergency had to manage without a cat box to carry a loudly protesting hormonally enhanced tom to my car and drive it to the vet. He too was declaiming at the top of his lungs a terrible story of the outrage that had been done to him. I was only sitting him, and he didn't trust me a scrap, but when we got back and he realised he had got me wrong (which he undoubtedly did, I suppose as the painkillers kicked in), he was all over me. I never did get the stink out of the car.

I hope you dont think I intended my screed of a few minutes ago as a scare story. It all worked out quite well really, even in that respect, as out of respect for his etiquette and elocution teacher, the interloper didnt spray, although he wasn't neutered and populated the whole neighbourhood over a few years. Ergo he didnt come home much, and we built him quite a classy little kennel so that when he did, his territory was beyond dispute. He liked his kennel.

I would hate to add to the generally alarmist posts on here and encourage you to demur at this possible dream of love without playing it by ear first.

[~max~]

Mallam, you're scaring me a bit now! lol

[lindapinda]

Spraying is much worse than peeing!! Its soo strong you can almost taste it :-(

[ELVIS68]

Black tom will soon change that, he`ll p!ss everywhere, including the toilet seat lol

[~max~]

No no noooooooooo! This is a GIRL's flat! No peeing anywhere but the toilet bowl! lol

[mallam]

Theyre winding you up, max. Can't imagine what I</> said to scare you. Perhaps my caveats that there is a lot of smooth with the rough got drowned out by the wind-ups.

Just read my posts through again in sequence, and try to keep calm for long enoungh to see if the course of true love does perhaps run smooth.

[~max~]

Or the litter tray, for the feline members!

[mallam]

It might have helped my case for a more hands-off approach if I had managed to spell it right. I meant of course 'the previous principals concerned had simply had to sort out for themselves."

[wolf63]

Boy cat wee is stronger even if they are neutered - it should have a chemical warning on it.

If he isn't neutered it would be obvious - two dangly ba11s at his rear end. Maybe 'he' is really a 'she' - it really isn't easy to tell.

A neutered tom cat doesn't usually spray though. But should you really be encouraging your young 'daughter' to allow her boyfriend to stay overnight? Are you going to sell her story to the newspapers?

Sticking a bum in a human's face is also a sign of trust - my little Princess Merlin, however, does this as I settle down to sleep for the night - just after she has been to the litter tray. The smell of cat cr4p on a hairy bum is not a pleasant odour.

I was wakened at about 0315 hrs so that I could feed the little lion pack. :-(

[zebra]

My little Katie used to love bringing prey into the downstairs toilet and watch it swim if it wasn't left in a mess on the doorstep.

Then she got runover on one of her night time endeavours. Never had a cat since...........................

[eash]

It was Jenna's link in the question below where I read about cats exposing their bellies being a sign of trust :-)

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Animals-and-Nat ure/Question672388.html