*Fluff* Making biscuits as cats do.

[Sunny]

[robotgirl]

I call it "making biscuits" or "happy feet" as in, "aw, Henry's got happy feet!"

[dybbuk]

I had a friend who called it "making kitty muffin's". Now I find myself using that all the time. It's one of my favorite things that kitties do.

Plopping their hairy butts in the middle of my newspaper while I'm reading, however.......

[Guest]

My cat does that too, so frustrating yet funny.

It's far cuter if I am sat reading a book and he clambers on my lap and pokes his head up under the book in front of the page

[xuli]

[soapandwater]

This reminds me... I think my cat is beginning to understand me. Like, if she broke out into English, I wouldn't be surprised.

I was lying on the couch, not feeling very well, and I usually enjoy feline comfort when I don't feel well. I put the cat's favorite blanket over me to keep warm, and I announced, "Molly, you can sit on my lap now."

A couple of seconds later she appeared and got on my lap.

Now I'm going to teach her to answer the phone and make bread for real.
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[sincerelyme]

Lolita Contrar, I love your signature line. I hope I can use it some day in company that would be shocked.

I was under the impression that 'making biscuits' was more well-known. Now that I think of it, it's likely that my step-father or his step-father made it up. It would be just like either one of them. My step-father calls the bunions on my mother's feet barnacles. That's just he kind of guy he is.

As for dogs, we could harken back to that old racist story of little black sambo and call it making butter. The story had a tiger chasing Sambo and Sambo started running around a tree in circles until he could slip out without the tiger knowing it. The tiger just kept running 'round and 'round the tree until he turned into butter. How...why...don't ask me. Some of you may not remember Sambo, but I'm that old, yes, I am. I even remember when Denny's restaurants were called Sambo's and they had a mural-like-thing depicting the story in all of their restaurants.

Doing doughnuts?
Making a Q? That could be one of those that we just can't remember where it came from, but it seems appropriate. "Oh, look, friendly neighbor, my dog's makin' a Q. " The dogs tail could be represented by the Q's tail. hee hee.

I think I could go for any of those, Making butter, Doing doughnuts or Making a Q. but the last is my fav.

Any takers?
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[JediEmpressMel]

I call it knitting...so does everyone I know.

I would never get a cat declawed for that. It seems pretty mean to do that when they're just doing what cats do.
I just grab a blanket, or something thicker to put over the part they are knitting on, and then it doesn't hurt.

[LolitaContrer]

one of my kitties also purrs so loud all the time. He'll be sitting in the middles of the floor alone and purring so loud i can hear him across the room. Also in the morn while making bread in my hair, he drools a litle while he purrs. so funny.
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[soapandwater]

I wonder if cat drool is good for the hair. :)
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[CraftinFool]

I had heard somewhere that cats do the "knesding" thing if they were taken away from their mothers too early. Had anyone else heard that?

But I have to wonder if that's a big fat myth, since it seems like so many people's cats do it.

[sincerelyme]

[stprcsm]

We had a cat that was taken from it mother WAY too young (the mother was killed) and it couldnt even lap, we had to bottle feed it. anyway that cat would suckle on t-shirts.
my present cat was with its mother the proper amount of time and doesnt suckle but droooools. big blobs of drool all over. If Im awake I will touch her nose which makes her lick her nose which causes her to swallow the drool. its like an "abort" button. If I dont get to it in time Im drenched.

[karikazo]

one of our vets called it "making bread," and my sisters invented the term "kritching" (or maybe "critching"). Especially effective when you say "criiiitch criiiitch criiiiitch criiiitch" as the cat is doing it.

My sister's cat *really* gets into it and kneads really hard for a long time (with very long claws), so she gets all kinds of phrases thrown at her ("The Critchter from the black lagoon," and "You're messin' with a son of a CRITCH!")

yes, we have boring lives

[sewing stars]