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Cat behavior facts
Cat behavior facts: Cats have their own welcoming meow which they will use only for his or her owner. Other people, even companion cats, will hear a different meow as their greeting. The cat will then rub against the owner's legs and may accompany this with a chirruping noise of greeting. He may bounce on stiff front legs, back slightly arched, with ears pricked up and tail held high. Cats rub like this because they have scent glands around their chins and lips (and also anus), and when they rub they transfer this scent onto whatever they have touched, making the object or person smell more familiar. An owner who has been outside for a time will have lost some of his cat's scent, so the cat renews it. Good cat behavior facts
When greeting a returning owner, your cat may be in such a hurry to say hello, that he does not use any of his scent glands. He simply rubs his side along the owner's legs.
When you observe the bouncing cat behavior, the cat is trying to reach higher, and he would probably like his owner to come down to his level so that faces can be rubbed together.
When a human is invited to sniff back at a cat's face, this should be considered an honor! This invitation is usually acompanied with a raised tail and sometimes a little tail shake also A cat's sense of smell is much more developed than ours, and one of its uses is to identify other cats. With practice, we can distinguish between different cats by smell alone, too. Cat behavior and sniffing
Cats living in one household develop a scent which is different from that of a group living in another household. And within their own household scent, each cat has his own individual scent. Most cat owners could probably identify their own cat just by sniffing at his nose.
Each breed of cat probably has his own scent, and it is possible that each color of cat may smell different. Certain breeds and certain colors of cat appear to get on better than do others. When cats greet each other they sniff faces first, then rub along one another's bodies and sniff at the base of the tail. From this, each can tell if the other is a cat they know, if he has been close to unfamiliar cats, where he has been, and what his sexual status is. Often cats from the same household will hiss at a companion on his return from a visit to the vet because of the unfamiliar smell which still attaches to him. Cat facts
Cat grooming behavior by licking not only settles the fur neatly and keeps it clean, it also gives it the right smell.
Cat behavior facts, several cats in one household usually eat the same food, their saliva might be expected to smell similar, and this could help mark the fur with a scent familiar to all. Unfamiliar cats will be shown they are unwelcome by a range of cat behavior and body language, beginning with the hiss and the swooshing tail. Cat behavior facts, Cats will fight only when a fight is inevitable, and they have a range of body postures and noises designed to frighten off an opponent. If a hiss, followed by a short sharp spitting noise, does not see the other cat off, the cat will turn sideways to his opponent with his back arched and his tail upright. The hair on the body may fluff out, and so will the tail fur until the tail looks like a bottle brush. This is designed to make the cat look bigger and more threatening; and if he is not sufficiently frightening, he will execute a sideway skipping dance, stiff-legged in front of his opponent, growling or making a high-pitched yowling sound. Cat Article courtesy of http://www.i-love-cats.com/ If you liked this article please
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