Why the nip on the nose?

Every time I'm having a love-fest with Basho (our smallest cat, a
Tonkinese), he *insists* on nipping at my nose. He's the only one of our
seven cats who does this. What does it mean? I don't mind it, usually.
Sometimes he manages to snatch a fang inside the nose, and that kinda
hurts, but other than that it's just playful.
Crazy cat.

Waffle used to do that when she was a kitten - it was part of her procedure to
wake me up of a morning. A good game of "See how far I can get a fang up a
human nostril" to the accompanying roar of the purr motor at full speed. I
often wondered, as she did this when she was a kitten, if somehow in the feline
brain, she thought my nose was a nipple.... and she was trying to nurse... But
who are we to figure out the thought patterns of the species higher than us on
the evolutionary scale ;-)

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Every time I'm having a love-fest with Basho (our smallest cat, a
Tonkinese), he *insists* on nipping at my nose. He's the only one of our
seven cats who does this. What does it mean? I don't mind it, usually.
Sometimes he manages to snatch a fang inside the nose, and that kinda
hurts, but other than that it's just playful.
Crazy cat.

Waffle used to do that when she was a kitten - it was part of her procedure to
wake me up of a morning. A good game of "See how far I can get a fang up a
human nostril" to the accompanying roar of the purr motor at full speed. I
often wondered, as she did this when she was a kitten, if somehow in the feline
brain, she thought my nose was a nipple.... and she was trying to nurse... But
who are we to figure out the thought patterns of the species higher than us on
the evolutionary scale ;-)

Cheers, helen s

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Every time I'm having a love-fest with Basho (our smallest cat, a
Tonkinese), he *insists* on nipping at my nose. He's the only one of our
seven cats who does this. What does it mean? I don't mind it, usually.
Sometimes he manages to snatch a fang inside the nose, and that kinda
hurts, but other than that it's just playful.
Crazy cat.

Waffle used to do that when she was a kitten - it was part of her procedure to
wake me up of a morning. A good game of "See how far I can get a fang up a
human nostril" to the accompanying roar of the purr motor at full speed. I
often wondered, as she did this when she was a kitten, if somehow in the feline
brain, she thought my nose was a nipple.... and she was trying to nurse... But
who are we to figure out the thought patterns of the species higher than us on
the evolutionary scale ;-)

Cheers, helen s

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On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 04:12:07 GMT, Victor Martinez
wrote:

Every time I'm having a love-fest with Basho (our smallest cat, a
Tonkinese), he *insists* on nipping at my nose. He's the only one of our
seven cats who does this. What does it mean? I don't mind it, usually.
Sometimes he manages to snatch a fang inside the nose, and that kinda
hurts, but other than that it's just playful.
Crazy cat.

Why? Probably because it is there.

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 04:12:07 GMT, Victor Martinez
wrote:

Every time I'm having a love-fest with Basho (our smallest cat, a
Tonkinese), he *insists* on nipping at my nose. He's the only one of our
seven cats who does this. What does it mean? I don't mind it, usually.
Sometimes he manages to snatch a fang inside the nose, and that kinda
hurts, but other than that it's just playful.
Crazy cat.

Why? Probably because it is there.

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 04:12:07 GMT, Victor Martinez
wrote:

Every time I'm having a love-fest with Basho (our smallest cat, a
Tonkinese), he *insists* on nipping at my nose. He's the only one of our
seven cats who does this. What does it mean? I don't mind it, usually.
Sometimes he manages to snatch a fang inside the nose, and that kinda
hurts, but other than that it's just playful.
Crazy cat.

Why? Probably because it is there.

jmcquown wrote:
Same reason Persia nips my knee when I'm sitting on the toilet It's
LOVE.

Hmmm... should I nip him back then?

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jmcquown wrote:
Same reason Persia nips my knee when I'm sitting on the toilet It's
LOVE.

Hmmm... should I nip him back then?

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jmcquown wrote:
Same reason Persia nips my knee when I'm sitting on the toilet It's
LOVE.

Hmmm... should I nip him back then?

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| Every time I'm having a love-fest with Basho (our smallest cat, a
| Tonkinese), he *insists* on nipping at my nose. He's the only one of our
| seven cats who does this. What does it mean? I don't mind it, usually.
| Sometimes he manages to snatch a fang inside the nose, and that kinda
| hurts, but other than that it's just playful.
| Crazy cat.

sounds like a lovebite.
I know many cats to do this. Thea does it most frequently of my two, that is
she doesn't really nip just opens her mouth and touches her teeth to my
face. "Katten" in Cyprus also always did this, especially if she thought I
wasn't in the best of moods and needing comforting.

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