? The surprise attack

He stands on his back in front of me, lets himself caress his belly purring and, suddenly, he gives me a claw, turns around and runs away.

What's taking him?

At one point, he's tired of your caresses, even if it's him who came to get them! He can feel them as an "aggression". He may have already made you understand before, wagging his tail in a more and more rhythmic movement, a sign that he gets angry! The position on the back is ambivalent in a cat, it is both a vulnerable position, which can worry him, and an attitude of attack where he can show all his weapons, the claws of the front legs and those of the legs back.

? The "kneading"

Strange, this way that he sometimes has to settle on me and to knead me with his two paws before ...

It is an infantile behavior that he kept adulthood. Remembering when he pressed his mother's belly at the level of the udder to get the milk. He considers you his mother! A message of affection and confidence.

? The game of the predator

Sometimes, when I walk, he jumps on my legs and clings to it with his paws, even pretending to nibble them.

It's aggressive?

No. The cat, even domestic and even raised in apartment, keeps his instinct of hunter even in the games! It's a way to get in touch to invite you to have fun with him.

Thank you to Dr. Anne Morel, veterinarian.

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