Talk:Cat body language

message: Let us not allow it to creep into this article.
:: Also my first thought. I think this article needs credible citations. Marc K 05:48, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Anthropomorphism]]

message: Ultimately, depending on how this article turns out, it could be a candidate for merging back into the main cat article.
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This article's title does not follow the Wikipedia:naming conventions. Things in parens should be used for disambiguation, not for subpaging. I will move this article from Cat (Body Language) to Cat body language. Nohat 06:38, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eventual Merge? 

message: Added a minor note: a cat lying on its side/back may also be defensive, with all four claws in readiness to strike. It is possible to disambiguate this from a relaxed cat by looking at other body language signs, but it is pretty dangerous to assume that a bared belly is a sign of submission. Four cat claws and sharp teeth can hurt quite a lot if you mistake the cat's intentions.
I have never been in the position where a cat (or indeed any other animal) lying on its back, has been and indication of defense - nor a precursor to a defensive attack.  My experience is that cats tends to defend themselves in a manner that also will allow them to flea should their defense strategy fail.  Patrick Bayer 12:51, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: To clarify: dropping on your back to defend with all four claws is the defence of the last resort in a cat fight. It is a tactic used by the losing cat to create a standoff. As anyone who has ever played with a kitten knows (see the other remark in this thread), cats do grab an opponent with the front paws in order to hold them while raking with the rear claws. Mvdwege 22:28, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ambiguous behaviour (cat lying on its back) 

message: "In particular, 'dog people' who are accustomed to the outward signs of dog 'language' seem slow in detecting what a cat is telling them in its body language..."
This is badly written and slanting towards POV. Suggest someone reworks it... or gets rid of it. --Pellet 03:53, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV 

message: Also an impending sign for an attack, playful or otherwise.  Not sure how this benefits the cat(s) in the wild but it certainly provide the alert human with vital information.  E.g. which cat is about to be bowled over :) Patrick Bayer 12:54, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tail twitching 

message: This is a nice essay, and I enjoyed reading it, but without sources it doesn't belong. Can we find some citations for some of this stuff? -- cmhTC 15:16, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  No sources 

message: Ahahahahahahahaha!
I lol'd. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 90.193.147.40 (talk) 18:20, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Longcat! 

message: Isn't this page extremely similar to Cat behavior? Surely these two pages can't coexist, it's pointless. One paragraph in the page is almost exactly the same as in the aforementioned page. Ashnard talk 19:36, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's the difference? 

message: I'd like to know how they discovered everything it says here. How can they tell the cat's irritated when it twitches its tail if it doesn't say so? Siúnrá (talk) 10:19, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You should ask that at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Science. :) -- Quiddity (talk) 19:01, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Scientists use the Babel Fish, it even translates cat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JynBEX_kg8 lol  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.169.178.118 (talk) 20:52, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  How did they discover it all?...