Ladies and Gentlemen, prepare to be amazed! Yes, it moves! I know most of you don’t believe the Dougy exhibit moves, but here is rare footage proving it so!
What? You think this is a spurious wagging tail, maybe off the Andy exhibit? I offer up definitive proof this is Dougy’s tail: The “exhibit” is stretched out on the ottoman that Dougy won’t let Andy or Doug (the human) approach! Of course that’s Dougy’s tail!
For guests at the exhibit, you are being unusually, um, obstreperous today. Is it a Dougy thing??
“Tail as sensory tentacle”. I hadn’t thought of tails as serving that function, but it does make sense.
It’s uncanny. I suppose I noticed it because Dougy was upset with me for putting my feet on his ottoman. After he scratched it to let me know it was his. his, his, he sprawled, looking away from me, and his tail brushed back and forth and up and down on my legs. That’s probably the first time I thought of a tail as a part of their sensory equipment.
His tail is like a sensory tentacle to explore around him when he sleeps. Cats do not ever completely. Who knows if he does not have an eye at the end of his tail ? 🙂
In friendship
Michel
Actually, I think you are correct about cats using their tails as sensory tentacles. When Dougy, for example, is facing away from me on his ottoman, his tail touches on one side of my leg, then the next. It makes little tapping motions up and down my leg before going to the other side. It’s like his tail is being used to tell Dougy how big the object behind him is and where it is. When Andy is above my head on the recliner back, his tail does a similar exploration of my head.
You are explored :!! 🙂
The best part (from the kitty boys’ point of view) they can do it and your don’t realize you are being “looked over”! LOL!
I am ashamed to admit that I had to look that word up ,
I wrote the first word that came to mind. I thought maybe I should come up with a more reader-friendly word, then I decided there is no shame in looking up a word if you don’t have it banging around in your vocabulary. Most people who write blogs are more glib, too, than the average bear, so can use new words, aren’t embarrassed if they don’t know a word.
I have had so many comments about “obstreperous”, however, that I decided to up date the post by adding a link from the word to the definition of the word. You came here for light kitty humor, not an English vocabulary quiz after all!
I like to learn new things too so I didn’t mind looking it up. 🙂
That’s how I am. It’s easy enough to do on a computer, too.
That’s why he is so happy i think
LOL! He is a pushy kitty boy sometimes, but basically a happy one.
Bravo ! A TOUR de Force by Doug (the Human) to get this tour on video !
You know it, Mary! All that movement was so confusing, a blur before my eyes!
Aww sweet boys and we know that when they are laying still they are thinking over how to change the world.
And how! They pretty much rule one home at minimum, and some go out on missions to prosyletize non-cat people. The missionaries typically are dog-like tabby cats that win over those who think cats are fickle. You can’t win!!
Hey Doug this is Ruth and I am sorry that idiot attacked for expressing your opinion on my face book. I got a blog started here using Tims computer to will be here more.
It isn’t a first time, and it is one reason I usually skip making comments on Facebook it=f they are about politics. His comment was so ignorant, however, I couldn’t let it go without “tossing pearls before swine” so to speak. We all have friends like that, and American politics these days have brought them out in the open where we can see them in their true light for the first time!
Bless em!
How’s your sister’s kitty doing?
Jane had Fooey put down last Saturday, Doug. She let me know Monday.
I sobbed for her and Fooey. He was one of most loving cats I’ve ever known.
TTFN.
Oh. I feel very sorry and sad for her and you, too. The way you described Fooey in your blog told me he was a much beloved kitty and a joy to your sister for decades. Tell your sister I send hugs and my love from Nebraska. It never is easy to lose a beloved pet to age, but the decision to have the veterinarian put that pet down is the worst decision you ever have to make about that pet. If I recall correctly, he lived over 20 years, further proof that he had a great life, that your sister is special in the world of people with cats.
Thanks Doug.
I’ll pass on your kind words to her when I see her next. Ta, mate.
Thanks. I an only imagine her deep sorrow.
I am sorry. It is hard to lose a kitty.
I believe Fooey was 20 years old or thought to be that. On one hand, one can celebrate such a long kitty life. On the other, that’s a long time to have a cat in your life. You get incredibly attached to them, and their routines are yours. I really feel sad about Fooey, and it must have been incredibly difficult to decide he was at a place where his condition was so bad he was better off put down. I hope I never have to make that decision for wither of my kitty boys.
Thanks Lavinia. I’ll let Sister Jane know. X
Cats are very emotional creatures, very sensitive to the seasons. Might I add, especially those who are running the show… Dougy, the most spoiled.
That’s for sure! Andy controls the wet food, and Dougy control most of the rest of kitty boy activities.
LOL… Via pictorial gazes, I have it so right!!
Yes, that you do! Good observational skills….
Well Dougy you gots floofiness just likes me!! We founded you at Noir Kitty Mewz and you am now in our Kitty Blog List – Toby the floofy boy who shoud blog more often… I just went to the vets last week to gets my floofy rump trim.
The kitty boys are going through a race against floofiness. Their groomer keeps scheduling them on dialysis days, which means I can”t take them in because health trumps cat hairdos. It looks like they will go at least six-seven months before they get their next haircut. I am not happy about that and may have to talk brusquely with their groomer to bring them back to reality. Or I may have to learn how to deal with unwanted floof! (Thanks for bringing us on to the blog list.)
Their legendary tails, it makes them look so cute!
Yes, that is so true~!
Dougy is so funny! I think he’s feeling a bit under the weather! Probably the holiday feel that is annoying him.
I know if gets me, though I generally don’t observe it with lots of people.
Dougy is sensitive to that fact. A full holiday is what Dougy wants – the whole kitten and caboodle! LOL! He will be ok!😄💕
LOL! And he took it, as did Andy.
He’s moving in high gear!
Such as that is in kitty boys!
Ha! LOL!
You ask for it, I’ll try to give it to you, World except Antarctica since no one down there seems to be interested in pussycats….
Definitely a real live Dougy !
Equal time for Dougy!
It is always a Dougy thing ;o) and that was an amazing Monday-tail ;O)
Glad you enjoyed it Phenny! Dogs, of course, are Masters of the Tail, with a body language vocabulary in the hundreds of thousands of words and expressions!