Saturday, April 12, 2025

The shoulder lick - I am self-calming after stress


The shoulder lick. Does your human understand this? Or even notice it? this is me saying to myself: "Calm down." My friend Toby illustrates this in a video.The photo on the right below shows the lick, demonstrated by Boomer.

It is a quick short lick. It is short very short. The fur is only lightly licked and it is not followed by any further grooming. Toby was being groomed too roughly and felt a little upset by it.

Poor dumb humans cannot understand feline body language, so this is another attempt by me to help them wise up a bit. My secretary, Celia, is posting them on Youtube, if she has a video.

One or two bits of body language she still doesn't have a video for, so they will be in photo form. Stay tuned.

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