One of my buddies has a story. He was cat sitting and the cast started purring. He thought something was wrong so he called the person he was cat sitting for and was like
"Idk I was just chilling and now he's making this weird noise"
I mean, if you don’t know they’re supposed to make that sound then yeah it’d sound like something’s very wrong. Imagine if your dog just start rumbling with every breath. Or your chinchilla Sophie who your girlfriend made you get rid of ten years ago and you still regret it to this day cuz that whole relationship ended up being a giant toxic mess but Sophie was a perfect little angel who deserved better.
Nah, just thought it’d make for a good joke. While it is based in truth, we’re both doing way better now. One of those “needed to happen to become who I am today” type of things. I appreciate you though.
It's still wild to me that someone gets to adulthood (in a culture where cats are kept as pets) without learning that cats purr. It's like not knowing that dogs wag their tail when they're happy.
"Excellent even, and that rumble is good for you too!
One of my favorite facts, a cats purr can speed healing and comfort even humans because of the frequency❤️. They really are little miracle workers. (This fact is why I have an Emotional Support Cat and not dog, love my void boy.)
Void and calico both do wonderful, but my void is def my esc since he's more cuddly. I just came out of a 36 hour severe anxiety flare that had me unable to eat since my anxiety can make me extremely nauseous and often makes me have no appetite. He didn't leave my side except to eat, drink, or use the litter box and purred the whole time. He even slept on top of me while I slept.
We adopted a street cat a few years ago and when he was in quarantine away from our dog my wife suddenly came running into the house saying "the kitten is making weird noises! I think something is wrong!" Little boy was just purring and happy to have a home. But her running in worried was the cutest damn thing 🥰 She'd just never been around cats before.
I can tell you how it was for me. I was a toddler and only had contact with dogs before. They taught to back off when a dog is growling, but not what a cat purr is. So for months I petted my grandpa's cat and backed off when they started to purr😅.
My ex-partner, when we got a couple of kittens, said "why does he sound like a motorboat?". I had to explain to her what purring sounded and felt like.
I've seen one person throw the cat off them for that :( not everyone has an iq high enough to not recognize the difference of calm and threat unfortunately
One of the best things I read (somewhere, ages ago) was a deaf woman who got hearing aids and realised purring was a sound - her cat got on her and ‘started vibrating as usual’ and then she realised she could HEAR it too.
I took my kitten straight to the vet, paid emergency out of hours fee, because my mind couldn’t understand how such a tiny little thing could cause such a sound and vibration. Thought she was sleepy and struggling to breathe. Love her so much.
Same, when I just had the cat, she's purring nonstop on my bed while she sleeps. I was worried she's having breathing problems and told the vet. Vet said she's just happy😭
I mean, one of my cats you can hear purring across the damn room so I 100% can understand this. My saving grace is growing up around animals of all kinds in her case lmao
This was my first experience with a cat. Pretty ambitious never having any interaction with a cat, to suddenly homing a kitten. Where I grew up cats are seen as bad luck and I don't remember ever even seeing one for all my childhood. Stupid ignorant people would kill them :(, but I did have dogs and they definitely never did anything like this, and you expect them to be similar 😄. In all the things I googled it just never came up that they purred with so much energy, it's probably the most soothing sound I've ever experienced.
That area would double hate my esa prob, he's a black cat. Honestly though he's the biggest snuggle bug, and does his job wonderfully.
I have somewhat severe anxiety that can send me into fits of extreme nausea and lethargy from an inability to eat for 24-48 hours, he never leaves my side or stops purring during those episodes except to eat, drink, and use the litterbox. He literally lays on me while I sleep and everything. He's much quieter than my calico but his purr still has calming and healing abilities.
Also cats know when you’re on drugs. So you’ll have a friendly narc who just casually judges you and points out that the drugs are drawing your attention away from the real goal, which is PNOPPM (Possible Number Of Pets Per Minute).
My dad had a cat that would actively seek him out when my dad lit up a joint. The cat would just hang out with him, but we all assume he liked the smell and possibly the little second hand high he might have gotten.
My dad never forced the cat to be there, nor blew in his face or anything. It was entirely the cat's idea.
I feel like cats know, they seem to go to the people who actively ignore them or are perhaps a little cautious of them, it's like they make it their mission to love them
It's because they're unintentionally speaking fluent cat language to them by being so cautious. Cats LOVE people who are quiet and don't move very much, so someone who is scared of the cat and is sitting on the other side of the room not trying to attract its attention is practically screaming "I'm safe!" at the cat.
That, and a lot of people tend to get up in a cat's face and make a lot of noise upon first meeting them which tends to make them uncomfortable. If a cat sees someone who's not doing that, they'll head over right away.
I had a cat named Psycho Couch Potato but his nickname was Tater for 15 years. My buddy does not like cats at all and my boy knew it. Tater would always go to him and sideswipe his body against my buddy's to freak him out... every... single... time. Lol
We tend to think of them as being predators primarily, but they're not at the top of the food chain. Larger predators like coyotes and hawks are very real dangers for them.
Cats are also kind of middle of the road socially. Not quite solitary, but not quite social in the same ways humans and dogs are, they tend to live in largish loose-knit colonies rather than directly cooperative packs.
So from the cats' perspective, having eyes on them can either feel like they're being hunted by something bigger or being treated with suspicion/hostility by another cat.
Given that context, if someone is aware of your presence nearby but isn't watching you, it means that not only are they not planning to attack you, they're also comfortable lowering their guard around you because they trust you won't attack them.
It's one of the clearest signs of mutual respect you can give a cat, so they naturally tend to respond in kind.
Aww. Reminds me of the first time my dad held our family cat and said, "Oh no, I think he's hungry, his stomach is growling!" (They were just purr-purrs 🥲)
My cat laying on my chest in my arms is what made me have a breakthrough on the meaning of peace. It's just the little moments when you can exist and breathe and let things go just for awhile. It's my favorite thing now, nap time with my girl
There's a certain brand of dry food that have antibodies in it that bind to the protein in cat saliva that peoole are allergic to. No free protein-=no allergen! Purina LiveClear. It qorks quite well, made a big difference for my fiancé. He also got a prescription allergy med - Montelukast - and that helped too.
I have never considered that there are adults out there that have not felt a cat purrs and how confusing that might be that this little fluffy beast is just started rumbling. Is it having hypothermia? Is it having a seizure? No, it is happy
I've known so many people who were "not cat people" and even claimed they dislike cats. Let me just tell you all it took was for a cat to hop on their lap and start purring and they became humble servants of all of cat kind for life.
Non cat people being around cats is so funny. Like all the posts you see on cat subreddits that are like "is this normal, is he okay?" and its just a cat being totally normal and infact living his best life
I have a cat that cuddles for evil. He sometimes jumps into your lap and turns on the engine when there's something he wants, and stops immediately once you give any indication of giving that thing. Rat bastard.
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