I love how their mindset is basically, we don't play for fun, we play because we have to!

My cat and I slow blink back and forth to each other all the time 😊

I've noticed that cats like it when you sing sweet love songs to them. Anything that is emotional and light. They will usually stop and listen.

The tell tale tail tells all.

Patience and letting them come to you is key.

My cat doesn't let me work on computer - she walks all over the keyboard. Or fold the laundry. I guess she trusts me.

My kitty sees a treat as something to play with and subdue--she'll bat at it and pounce on it for a while 'til she finally eats it, lol.

Took in two cats last year in August and hit a few bumps along the way, one cat actually got into a daily thing where i would pick her up and when i put her down she would get brushed. This worked until the start of this year when she decided to just avoid human contact. Her sister decided to find a hole in the ceiling of our basement and lived there for 7 months until this past weekend when we developed an idea to trap her from where she went, now she is living in a small cage but is so happy w/ the attention she gets.

My little girl slow blinks to me all the time. She's the only one that does, out of all 3 of my fur babies

I speak out loud to my cats with everything I do. And I know they understand a few words and the tones I use with them. Kitty Chow means dinner time. I sing that. When I call them I call them like you would your child to come in. Kitten kisses means treats. If I say that I do not even have to rattle the container. They have their own communication with me too. A paw scrape in front of me on a flat surface means they do not want whatever I am offering them. If they do it in the bathroom while I am in it, they want me to check their litter boxes. When I give them treats they will all point with their nose to where they want me to put it and if they meow, they want to eat it out of my hand. I have a special song with a different tune that I sing to each of them and they know the sound and seem to know what it means. They can tell when I am sad and I can tell when they are sad or disappointed. My Calico is a female and I am her everything. Had her since she was a kitten. She gets VERY jealous of other females and even my youngest, my male Persian. She even gets jealous of women that come in. No matter who they are. She will follow me and sit by me and stare them down. It's so adorable and I love that she is so protective of me. My male will sit by open doors, and windows in a room that I am in and do rounds around the house to make sure we are all safe too. So many different behaviors. We all do the slow blink to each other to tell each other we are comfortable and love each other. I love seeing them so it to one another as none of them are litter mates. We all also do the neck baring thing with the slow blink. I know I am missing a few but this is a wall-o-text as it is.

Yeah

I read T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats to my kitty when she was only a few weeks old, but I was trying to match my voice with the poetry so it wasn't very soothing but more on the perky side, lol, and she was just whatever about it. I'll have to try again in a soothing voice :). I talk to her a lot and she recognizes her name and will often vocalize an answer that goes up a note at the end, like the human equivalent of answering "Yes?"

At 7:24 in the vid, there is a purple & silver apparatus on the table . If that is an oil diffuser, it is slowly killing that cat. This is seriously dangerous. Look it up.

My Hopper always slow blink at me

I want to become a powerful cat psycologist

as someone who is autistic i always felt that looking peaople into eyes is "fighting words", i wonder if autism is apartialy some the anchient traits of humans reactivated?

When you play hunting games with them they take you in as part of their little pack.

Hi, to the narrator:Maybe you can help me. I adopted a feral cat 7 months ago when she was 9 months old. ( i have another cat here, around 7 years old, been here 6 years). New cat Lola hated me for 3 months. Would literally walk out of a room if i entered. Would not eat if i walked into the kitchen. Spent her first 3 months mostly in a closet. Gradually she fell in love with the other cat, and remained in a room i was in. Eats if i walk into the kitchen. And i am getting slow blinks now, all day long! Lola will eat a treat from my hands now too, and often lays next to me when i am in bed. But i have never touched her. Not once. She will withdraw if i try. I let her watch me pet and brush the other cat every day. The other cat loves it. Is there any hope Lola will ever let me touch her?

Great info, but "psychology" only applies to humans. 😬

people really spend a lot of time on this stuff. just feed your cat, give it water, let it out the house once a day. animals are worried about food and shelter. that's trust to them. the cat is not your child.

This video is made by a a cat