Does your cat smurgle?
Jay Fenton
gets very purry, starts kneeding with his paws, and then starts sucking
on you. His favorite places to smurgle are the back of the neck and on
your arm. We try and discourage this behavior, which seems related to
nursing as a kitten. He still wants to do it. Sometimes he smurgles a
blanket when we won't let him smurgle us.
Do other cat owners own smurgle cats? What do you do about it?
Deanna J. Deeds
: Do other cat owners own smurgle cats? What do you do about it?
Oh, geez. This is embarrassing, but...Cleo sucks on my earlobe if
it's exposed and I'm lying on my back in bed. Well, actually it's
like lapping with the tongue. Usually I just turn my head and she
loses interest and goes back to sit with Tuppence by the window.
Other times Tuppence comes to join the purr fest, stands on my
chest and kneads. At least she doesn't do the sucking thing. :)
Glad to know someone's given it a name. 'Smurgle', huh?
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Nancy P. Milligan
a morning ritual that involves him hunting down my ear-lobe and rasping
it a few times with his tongue. Fortunately he doesn't obsess on it
and it makes me giggle. Leaves us both feeling great and ready
to take on the day!
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Monica Cellio
a week and a half. The other day I awoke to someone licking my eyelid.
Monica
Jean Suplick
every morning as the sun pops up over the horizon. It used to drive me crazy
to watch Screach to this, but it's their little bonding ritual.
Glad to have a name for this activity now!
Sandra Loosemore
within the past few months -- he sits on my lap and jams his face into
the crook of my elbow. He's not sucking or licking, just pushing and
drooling against my arm. He does it both when my arms are bare and when
I'm wearing long sleeves, so it can't be either sweat smell or fuzzy
cloth that's attracting him. Weird.
-Sandra
cam...@yang.earlham.edu
semi-smurgles. He attaches himself to some one (like one of those sucker
fish on sharks) and rubs his slimy wet nose all over your neck as you
giggle and squirm. And if that was not enough he sometimes tries to stick
his nose up yours. It is almost as funny as it is gross. Did I mention
that this cat seems to always have a cold and his nose is _always_ _slimy_?
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Ruth Colby
>Oh, geez. This is embarrassing, but...Cleo sucks on my earlobe if
>it's exposed and I'm lying on my back in bed. Well, actually it's
>like lapping with the tongue.
my Norton will lick my lips right off if I let him. I call him
my french-kissing kitty, sometimes. I tried blowing in his face
to discourage it, but he doesn't care, he keeps on licking. I've
been known to catch his tongue between my lips and he says, "ehh!
ehh!" and pulls away. now-a-days, when I want to "show off" this
strange behavior, I have only to blow in his face & he'll start
kissing me -- but only if he's in the mood (and I suppose if my
breath is pleasing, I know he doesn't like it if I've had some
wine).
>Glad to know someone's given it a name. 'Smurgle', huh?
when I was growing up, my parent's cat -- they always called her
"Baby" or "'tupid", even tho I'd named her "Patches" -- whenever
she'd knead and drool, they called it "yoi-yoi'ing". Baby had a
blanket, called her 'yoi-yoi blanket' which she'd knead and drool
on when there weren't people sitting around to be yoi-yoi'd.
-r
J.D. Frazer
> <snip>
> I've been known to catch his tongue between my lips and he says, "ehh!
> ehh!" and pulls away. now-a-days, when I want to "show off" this strange
> behavior, I have only to blow in his face & he'll start kissing me -- but
> only if he's in the mood (and I suppose if my breath is pleasing, I know he
> doesn't like it if I've had some wine).
Doesn't the cat have bad breath? Good grief, how can you *stand* it? Both
Pixie and Champ have fish breath, although Pixie's is much milder.
Champ has this habit of lying on my SO's chest and licking her nose. When my
SO dozed off once, Champ gave her nose a nice bite -- his bottom fangs went
right up both nostrils, and he clamped down. Not hard enough to draw blood,
but enough for it to hurt and make my SO shriek and freak out.
Champ was upset too. He had no idea what my SO was so freaked out about.
I love my cats. But I can't handle loads of cat drool.
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sucker. Every morning when my husband gets up to shower he lets the cats
in. Jordana's first destination is my ear where she 'smurgles' until it's
my turn in the shower.......She's quite persistent, and will not give up
until she gets some ear..
-Karen Jagolinzer
Vince Kub
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kind of enjoy it (would never admit this to anyone other than cat lovers) :)
Dawn Kub
Ruth Colby
>> Ruth Colby writes:
>> <snip>
>> I've been known to catch his tongue between my lips and he says, "ehh!
>> ehh!" and pulls away. now-a-days, when I want to "show off" this strange
>> behavior, I have only to blow in his face & he'll start kissing me -- but
>> only if he's in the mood (and I suppose if my breath is pleasing, I know he
>> doesn't like it if I've had some wine).
>
>Doesn't the cat have bad breath? Good grief, how can you *stand* it? Both
>Pixie and Champ have fish breath, although Pixie's is much milder.
Norton's breath is very clean, unless he's eaten quite recently. and
my other cat, Cici, while she doesn't usually get as 'close' as Norton,
also has clean breath. they eat science diet feline maintenance dry
99% of the time. they are sleek and healthy and have clean breath.
bad breath can be the sign of dental problems or other health probems,
ask your vet.
>Champ has this habit of lying on my SO's chest and licking her nose. When my
>SO dozed off once, Champ gave her nose a nice bite -- his bottom fangs went
>right up both nostrils, and he clamped down. Not hard enough to draw blood,
>but enough for it to hurt and make my SO shriek and freak out.
heh! that reminds me of a cat I used to live with (2 couples in the
house, Cici was my cat, Isaac their's), Isaac -- he had a nickname,
Mr. Nose Biter, and he'd do the 'pretend to pierce your nose' trick
almost every morning to wake us up. he always bit in a gentle way, and
would tug gently sometimes. we got used to it.
>Champ was upset too. He had no idea what my SO was so freaked out about.
understandible!
>I love my cats. But I can't handle loads of cat drool.
again, excessive drool can be a sign of dental problems. then again, there
are plenty of cats that just drool a lot...
-r
Kate McLaughlin
the realms of Bubastis' Catnip Fields in 1987, first smurgled me when
I was forced to board her out for a month when I was living in L.A.
When I would come to visit her, she jumped up on my lap and began
kneading and drooling me as I held her close to me. Thereafter she
would do it if she felt insecure or just wanted intense loving and
petting.
My present cat, Peeper, smurgles a soft blanket that I
have on my bed, and she smurgles me if I'm under it, sometimes
kneading me all over, especially in the most ticklish spots, of
course! I've read (in a wonderful book called "Cat Magic")
that siamese cats (P. is half-siamese) like to chew on and even eat
wool and other soft, furry cloths.
She also loves to lick the Q-tips I use to clean earwax out of my
ears! YUMMM!
Leon Jackson
under different guises....when a cat does this it is recalling kneading
its mother's nipples to aid suckling: many cats do this even when grown
up as a sign of contentment or regression to kittenhood. Others have
argued that it is a frankly sexual gesture. I don't know. It might be
interesting to see the different names this cute behavior has accrued.
For example:
Marching
Paws 'n Claws
Patty paws
Kneading
Any others ?
Glenn Nelson
> Hmmm, "smurgling" sounds like a good word for a habit Nerf has picked up
> within the past few months -- he sits on my lap and jams his face into
My cat only "smurgles" on herself - those sucking noises sound gross to me,
but I guess she likes it. However, she will "clean" my arm or hand, sometimes
for minutes at a time (I have to check my skin to make sure it's still there).
Then there's this really great trick - I stick my foot in front of her and gently
pat her rump - her head starts twitching spasmodically, her tongue begins to
lash out uncontrollably, and she licks the nearest thing to her - my toes.
As long as I pat her she can't stop!
Glenn Nelson, Megatest, San Jose
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Phone: 408-441-3014
The Bean
>For example:
>Any others ?
How 'bout "Making Biscuits"?
My kitty does this too--one drawback: her favorite time to do it is at 6 AM,
and it generally involves a lot of kitty-slober. She used to be addicted to
earlobes. now she kind of digs my lips and chin. :)
-The Bean
Deanna J. Deeds
: *smurgling* ?! I think that we have seen this thread many times before
: under different guises...
: Marching
: Paws 'n Claws
: Patty paws
: Kneading
Yes, but 'smurgling' includes the actual sucking or licking of the
object of the smurgler's activity. :-)
By the way, I agree that these funny behaviors are FAQs. I love all
the cute stories, though. Maybe we could start a more trivial FAQ
that includes kneading, 'pretend burying' of food, paper sitting,
soap eating, plastic chewing,... ?
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Hunter
Jay Fenton <Fen...@Kaleida.Com> writes:
My Snow Princess, when she deigns to do it (maybe two or
three times a month), goes for my armpit -- nowhere else!
John Vinson
wants attention she'll get up on something and meow at me. If I lean down
with my face near hers and say "Rub noses!" she'll touch her nose to mine;
if I say instead "Chomp chins!" she'll give my chin a (gentle) nip. She
seems to know which action goes with which request - even if I'm presnting
my chin when I say "rub noses" she'll reach up to rub noses.
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Rumpleteazer
Yes! Steve smurgles me quite often according to your definition. At
night I have to read before going to sleep. It's at this time that he
will crawl up and start kneading into my armpit and start purring. In
the mornings he bugs me for food and I turn my head away in a desperate
attempt to catch more sleep. He then starts "smurgling" my hair.
Of course, he does more than just this at times. As Krissie Griffiths
and I have both attested to, sometimes he goes at it on the blanket or
some available soft something and gets all four paws going at it and
starts trying to have sex with the object of his desires. I call this
X-rated kneading and it's quite embarrassing.
My boyfriend sleeps over quite a bit as he lives forty minutes from my
apartment and works two minutes from my place -- each morning I leave him
and Steve at the apt. and go to work. Each day when I talk to him I
ask him if Steve's "tried to have sex" with him yet. He doesn't know
what I'm talking about -- I think Steve'll warm up to him soon enough.
:) Hopefully I won't have to start looking for a new boyfriend.
For those of you with little X-rated kneaders on your hands, what do
you do to stop em? I just have to shove steve off the bed and talk to
him till that glazed dirty old man look leaves his face.
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