What does the strange behavior of cats mean?

NO.1Why do cats sneer?   

Every once in a while, you may notice your cat making a sneering face. The upper lip draws back the nose, wrinkles, the mouth opens, and remains a little open for some time. This phenomenon has a scientific name called the Fleeman response. This behavior is not limited to domestic cats, but many other mammals, including lions and horses, also perform this action. When a cat displays the Fleeman response, they’re analyzing a particular scent. This response lets the scent travel along the roof of the mouth, where a specialized sensory structure known as the vomeronasal organ is located. Cats use this organ when they come across any scent they feel requires more in-depth analysis. It’s usually used by unneutered males reacting to the pheromones in the urine of females in heat.

NO.2 Why do cats hate closed doors?   

Perhaps you’re in the bathroom minding your own business, and you hear scratching or meowing outside the door. If you have ever closed a door behind your cat, you may know that a closed room is something that cats hate.     Cats may be attracted to closed doors because they want to know what is happening on the other side of it, especially if they hear or smell something that piques their curiosity.

       Even though cats live solitary lives in the wild, they are still social creatures. Falling at your closed door indicates that your pet enjoys your company and wants to hang out with you, and keep in mind that some cats don’t like closed doors because of their territorial nature. Cats believe they own your house and get confused when part of their territory is closed off from them.

NO.3 Why do cats blep?   

Every once in a while, you may see your cat sticking out its tongue. This cartoonish expression is called blep. Experts say bleeping is a way cats investigate their surroundings using their sense of taste to understand what’s going on around them, and it is how a cat smells the environment with its tongue.     Interestingly enough bleeping may also happen when the cat forgets to put their tongue back in. It may happen when someone distracts them in the middle of an eating or grooming section. The cat may have looked up at it and failed to retract its tongue completely. 

       A blip may also occur when a cat has been sedated. Whenever the cat is relaxed, they might loosen their jaw, which is just enough for the slight tip of their tongue to start to stick out. We often see this with Persian cats, since these felines have flat faces and dangle their tongues, so they lack the real estate to store it.

NO.4 Why cat sit on anything you’re reading?   

You probably have noticed that cats love to sit or walk over anything you’re looking at, whether it’s a book, laptop, or newspaper. Believe it or not, it has been happening for centuries. There are cat paw prints even on a manuscript from the 15th century. Why do they do it? Well, there are a few reasons why a cat likes to position themselves on items like books.  

       First of all, those items have your scent on them. Cats are mainly guided by their sense of smell, like many animals. If an object smells like you, they want to be near it because it makes them feel safe and content. You have probably noticed that your cat only likes to sit on the book you were reading and not any others. It is because they want the one that smells like you.     Another reason cats like to sit on your items is that they’re very territorial. When cats walk over your stuff, they transfer their pheromones, which mainly come from their face and paws to the object, giving it a scent that’s uniquely theirs. 

   This is a cat’s way to establish its ownership. Your feline sees you reading those books for a long time, and thinks there’s something so important there, so, they choose to leave their scent on that object and mark it as their territory.     Cats are intelligent animals, so they know that whatever you’re reading is taking up all your attention, and that’s the very attention they want for themselves, so they’ll sit or walk right over your stuff so that you’ll have to focus on them.

NO.5 Why do cat pee outside the litter box?

    A cat may pee outside the litter box for several reasons. More often than not, the state or quality of the litter in the box is the reason for out-of-box urination. Cats are very clean animals, and they don’t like visiting a litter box that is not regularly cleaned.    If the cat can not reach the litter box like it is too far away or on a different floor, it will also pee outside the box. The proper litter box setup will offer your feline peace and privacy, but it must be easy for your cat to access. 

    Urine marking is another reason cats may urinate out of the litter box. In this case, the cat strategically chooses the location of the urine mark. They may pee on the edge of the house or form a perfect circle around their litter box, which is a cat’s way to send a signal to other animals or visitors in the house to keep out.    Stress is also a huge factor when it comes to house soiling issues. In cats, stress comes in ways you would not expect. Environmental changes, visitors, or even arguing in front of them are some possible anxiety triggers in cats.    

Underlying medical conditions can also be a cause of a cat urinating outside the litter box, a likely culprit is a urinary tract infection. In this case, you need to go to the hospital for treatment in time.

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