pangur-and-grim:why-animals-do-the-thing:xdixonxgrimesx:tastefullyoffensive:thenatsdorf:Hero cat sav
pangur-and-grim:why-animals-do-the-thing:xdixonxgrimesx:tastefullyoffensive:thenatsdorf:Hero cat saves his friend from the vet. [full video]“Come with me if you want to live!”@followthebluebell @why-animals-do-the-thingI watched the video and it seems kinda iffy? Like it didn’t really look like “a cat trying to save his friend?” Idk much about cat behavior but from the little bit I do know it seemed p offI’ve been puzzling over this for days, and after watching the full video the best I can say is that that cat really wants the other cat to go somewhere else. It’s very unusual for an adult cat to try to move another cat by the scruff, but that’s what he’s doing in this video. Originally it just seems to be movement away - after the tech tries to separate them the first time, the owner appears to open the carrier and move it to the edge, at which point the cat doing the dragging reorients to it. Honestly? This looks to me like an extremely stressed cat trying to move the other cat away from what is the probable stressor (either the vet tech or the vet’s office in it’s entirety). Since they’re separated multiple times, it’s easy to see that as they come back together his goal really is to get the other cat to move. The only reason I can think of for the scruffing and dragging behavior is that the first cat does not think his companion will move appropriately and is trying to force it. So… as silly and anthropomorphic as it seems, I think the original caption is probably fairly correct. I don’t know why, exactly, the first cat is trying to remove the second from the situation - obviously we can extrapolate about the horrors of the vet, but we don’t know for sure - but he wants his companion to move. Grim used to do this to Pangur (drag her by the scruff of the neck)it’s a misplaced mothering behaviour! a momma cat would of course take her kitten out of a stressful place, into a safer venue (the carrier). it looks super goofy when it’s two grown cats, but I’ve seen this behaviour with my girlsEDIT: it’s been pointed out that this could be a breed trait (since both Grim & the cat above are Bengals) -- source link