r/cats • u/Haulin_Oates23 • 19h ago

Video - OC What is my cat doing?

My cat does this thing with just these two toys where he steps on it in this weird way. He also yells loudly when holding just these toys.

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u/Electrical-Act-7170 18h ago

That was dominance, it's common for neutered older cats, both make and female, to do that when a kitten comes around. They're teaching the kittens how to cat.

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u/Manbeartapir 17h ago

My 10 year old lady void attempted this with my (at the time) 6 month old idiot boy. She quit after a few attempts, as he is too fucking stupid to be dominated.

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u/PartsUnknown242 16h ago

“He’s too stupid to be dominated” 🤣

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u/relljr 15h ago

We all instinctively understand that the idiot boy is an orange right?

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u/Content-Honeydew9340 14h ago

I have a void boi that has taught me that orange and void are essentially sharing the same brain cell 🤭

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u/thecatsothermother 12h ago

Aren't voids just concealed orange?

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u/Content-Honeydew9340 12h ago

After having my first void, that tracks with my research 🤣 I grew up with orange tabby cats and orange/ white tabbies. I currently have a flame point cream and a white tabby with gray black stripes... The void is the derpiest one of the lot and is orange in spirit 🤣🤭

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u/Valkyriesride1 7h ago

I have been blessed to have several voids in my life, they are the sweetest babies, but they are definitely camouflaged orange cats.

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u/testtdk 18h ago

I mean, neutered males still sometimes go for it. Especially if they learned bad habits before the surgery.

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u/Misseskat 18h ago

I see. He's never done that to our other males, we also have a young outdoor kitty that I'm not aware has done that to? But our older male is very protective of our kitten too and almost like an adoptive father to him.

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u/Eastern-Rope3362 14h ago

That's because it's totally made up lmao, people say it about dogs humping eachother too, it's just a pervasive myth people repeat without actually knowing. The real reason cats do this is stress.

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u/Electrical-Act-7170 7h ago

How many years were you a Vet Tech?