[pmarreck]

With cats you have to learn nonverbal communication.

The slow blink while looking into their eyes means "it's cool, we're cool"

I taught our cats to recognize a double-tap on the butt as "get up, I gotta get up"

gotta read their body language... and yeah, sometimes it DOES say "I'm not currently interested, no offense"... but the thing to know is, they also read YOUR body language. They might not understand too many words, but intonation matters, posture matters, movement matters

random cat trivia: They can't taste sweet tastes at all because a crucial gene for it got knocked out by a mutation a long time ago