r/cats • u/AverageOne0710 • 7h ago

Advice Weird behavior from my cat recently. Anyone know what's going on

At first I thought she was gonna show me something inside the box, but there's nothing other than a nylon bag. She also runs to it when I get near it as well, and also keeps biting my hand and tries to drag me into it. What's going on? Never in my life have I seen my cat doing this.

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u/meow4352 6h ago

She wants him to play in the box with her and she can’t understand why he won’t get in the flipping box already!

The hand drag is like what a kid does when they want to show you something really cool

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u/joalheagney 6h ago

Either that or she's pregnant and wants him to build her a nest.

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u/AfternoonCritical972 2h ago

This was my first thought -- is she spayed?

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u/scarystuff 1h ago

My first thought, but she don't look pregnant..

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u/eclecticartchic 1h ago

How to tell if my cat is perganet?

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u/TheCeaselessWheel 44m ago

Pregananant??!

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u/KillAllLawyers 16m ago

How cat get cat babby?

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u/MsDucky42 6m ago

pegant

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u/Saubande 5h ago

I’d like to place the “Hop in” Simpsons meme where Mr. Burns draws a revolver on Mr.Smithers when he hesitates getting into the Sprooce Goose aeroplane.

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u/PuzzleheadedTale4769 4h ago

Yeah, the kitty has found big fun in that box, and wants you to join,- can't quite figure out that you won't fit it. They are not geniuses- but soooo lovable!!

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u/Winjin 3h ago

I've read that

1) Bears have insane smell that has dedicated receptors to sensing stuff like noradrenaline in the air, so they can literally smell fear

2) Cats have very bad sense of "scale". They have trouble understanding when something is "big" or "small" they only understand "danger" and "no danger"

(that's why a 3-kilo cat is comfortable around 700-kilo horses and is so chill that horses, nervous and skittish animals on average, are so chill with cats)

3) And that is why you see videos of cats attacking bears and bears retreating, because they see this little furry ball of fury squaring up to attack them, and their senses are like "Oh. Oh wait. This small thing. It is Not Afraid of me. AT ALL. This fight could end with injuries. Better retreat"

Not sure how true is the pp 1 and 3, the bears could just prefer retreat to confrontation and those cats could be scared out of their minds, but I love this image, and it would also explain to me why she's like "What do you mean you can't FIT in the box. Is simple. You squeeze and you in box. Humans, I swear..."

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u/RainaElf 5h ago

this is what I think.

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u/rachelwildx 4h ago

about time the owner gets a bigger box so both of them can fit 😂 i always love it when kitties exhibit kid/baby behaviors