The way cats think can be described as strange, even if humans have domesticated them for so many years, they still can’t fully figure out the cat’s thoughts. You say it’s smart, sometimes it’s stupid to make people laugh so much that it hurts, you say it’s stupid, sometimes the cat’s double quotient is really high. For example, we humans sometimes encounter embarrassing things and find ways to hide the embarrassment, and cats seem to have this behavior too.
But from a scientific point of view, embarrassment should only be a psychological feeling that humans with strict logical thinking skills and complex social skills have. However, from the experience of living with cats for a long time, I feel that they really seem to have some conscious embarrassment and try to cover up, so here are a few real examples to share with you.
Everyone knows that I have a few very skinny cats in my family, especially male cats, who feel very stubborn! For example, the big head, he has a better face, if he falls because of carelessness, or is found hiding toys, the big head will immediately use some actions that have nothing to do with the current behavior, such as looking around, playing with other things, or licking his mouth, etc., to hide his embarrassment.
Once I took a video of changing the quilt, asking the big head to get off the bed, he may have felt that he had lost face in front of other cats, and he was lying on the bed, and his eyes were still looking elsewhere: I don’t listen, I don’t listen! What do you say, I’m too fat to hear! He also played track ball, bullying the kitten, blocking the track with his big paws to prevent the ball from moving, and after being scolded by me, his eyes immediately turned to other places, as if he was very busy and couldn’t take care of the obedient look, but his paws were still blocked in the track!
There is also a similar picture in the video of Lele running wild: I was teaching him a lesson, in order to show that he was not fighting, he scratched the ground casually twice, the action was like playing with a small bug, and then looked up at me, but there was actually nothing in that place, I felt that Lele was like a child who couldn’t lie, and the battle of wits and courage with the air was purely to hide the embarrassment in his heart!
When it comes to my leather cat, Niufsky definitely can’t run away. Niu Niu once fought with Tangtang, a second ago he was fierce to death, suddenly turned around and found me standing behind me, and changed his painting style in a second, pretending to be lame in an instant, and making a grieved voice to hide himself: Oh my God, I was wronged, obviously she was the one who did it first! This kind of behavior will make new fans who are not familiar with Niu Niu feel that he is super pitiful, but old fans know that he really did it on purpose! It can be regarded as the doctoral supervisor of Meow Star Drama University!
In fact, I also know that cats are subject to IQ and evolution, and it is impossible to have the same complex logical thinking as humans, maybe I wishful thinking to interpret their behavior from a human perspective, but I personally really think that this little emotion of cats is very cute, at least I know that they are communicating with me, it seems to understand what I am thinking, this feeling is really happy and satisfying!
The new father of the pastoral cat Huang Huang said that Huang Huang had a period of time every afternoon as if he had chicken blood, and he was on a rampage in the house, and sometimes he would hit the cabinet headlong without braking, and at this time Huang Huang would immediately sit down and lick his paws, and then turn his head to lick his back, and at the same time calmly raised his eyes to look at the shoveling officer, wondering if her embarrassment was seen in the moment. If he sees that Huang’s father is not looking at her (in fact, he pretends not to see it), Huang Huang will run at full speed again and jump all over the house, and if he finds that he has been noticed, he will meow while wagging his tail, as if threatening the shoveling officer not to say it (but still say it).
I believe that many of the people reading the article are shoveling officers with cats at home, and they should be able to understand my feelings. All cats have their own little emotions, and there will be some behaviors similar to humans to cover up embarrassment, so have your cats ever had such a time?
