Yeah but that one time it comes over and you get to pet the cat gives you all the dopamine you need for an entire day
Right?! I have little dignity anyway; losing what’s left to pet an unknown, outdoor cat is totally worth it.
I went psst psssst pssst to a cute cat in a garden I was passing, not noticing a woman walking towards me. She thought I was hissing at her, gave me such a LOOK. She was wearing hijab, I’m an old lady, who knows what was going through her head.
No dopamine for me that day.
Exactly. If you‘re a grown up with a job I recon a whole week.
least dignified
You have never seen me half-jog across a crosswalk.
Do you need to hold your boobs, like I do?
Why do you need to hold their boobs though?
Speaking from my own experience: it’s fun to hold boobs, even moreso if they’re not your own.
That has been my experience as well.
asking the same question. Maybe because they bounce too much they run and it hurts or something idk i don’t have boobs
That would necessitate holding their OWN boobs.
I was commenting on the fact that a deliberately wrong but technically valid way to read the question would be that the asker needed to hold the boobs of the asked rather than their own 😉
Wait omfg i missed it completely (and your comments meaning)
No worries, it’s subtle enough that only an experienced pedant would be guaranteed to spot it 😉
Lol its also the morning where I live so my brain hasn’t turned on since i just woke up (from sleeping 10 hours lol)
If you want to entice a cat to come closer, don’t look at it! Direct eye contact is seen as threatening.
Put out your hand, point your face away from the cat, and put your hand out while gently calling it over. Your success rate will be much higher!
Also, a good cat-noise to attract them is a light trill with an upward inflection. It’s my go-to when assuring nervous/unsure cats.
Psssp pssp pssssp
What. I was in the middle of something. What do you want? You know what? Nevermind, I’m just going to go back to what I was doing.
Never understood the dumbass pspsps thing. It’s annoying and I’ve pretty much never seen it work. What always has worked for me is to chill just a little ways away and completely ignore them. Just as non-threatening as you can make yourself if you were a piece of furniture left out on the sidewalk.
From personal experience, cats hate being made to do things and don’t come when called unless they already know you and like you a lot. But they also loathe being ignored and will snoof right over shortly to the one person being completely indifferent to them.
This would be the same reason they seem to mercilessly hunt anyone with a cat allergy. Your perceived dislike of them shall not stand!
Pspsps is essential. It draws the cat’s attention to you. Then you extend a hand and look at how the cat’s reacting to it. You can tell with great accuracy how interested the cat is in being pet by you, just by watching that. Works great for me. And believe me, as a resident of İstanbul for more than two decades, I have considerable experience with stray cats. I have honed my stray cat petting skills by going out of my way to interact with most of the cats I see on the streets, which is of course a rather large number of cats because İstanbul.
Agreed. I live in a European country where it’s very normal to let your cats outside, and I was a mail carrier for 4 years, so I got to pet so many cats 5 days a week. You do the pspsps, then crouch a bit and extend the hand. They either ignore you and move or on they’re interested and come to you and bam you’re petting a sweet kitty.
The psssppsssp thing just gets their attention. It may not get them to come over they may act like they’re ignoring you, but it absolutely gets them to notice you- especially if it’s quiet.
It doesn’t change how the cat is going to behave after noticing, though and it’s best to play it off as not meant for them.
Another way I’ve had good luck is in creating some kind of toy to entice them to play- anything similar to those feather toys, for example. Rather than trying to play directly, flip it around in an open space… make it twitch… trigger their predatory instincts.
It’s also regional. Most people around here click their tongues at cats. In Quebec I’ve heard people whisper “ici” at cats.
Oh, that’s interesting. It never occurred to me to think the sound might vary. Does ici mean anything, or is it just a noise?
It’s means “here” in French
So, in short, cats are tsunderes?
My girlfriend is a cat whisperer. When she meows, the random cat comes over to her 90% of the time.
I don’t care. I know they are all better than me.
This post reminded me of that cat from azumanga daioh
Sometimes it works though
Not possible. She is no random person as she is in fact the queen of thyme. Quit the BS, we all know what’s up.
