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Slow Blinky Eyes
We all know about cats and their humans and slow blinky eyes as a mutual
sign of contentment, love and affection. Buffy is a total love bug. When I'm stretched out on the couch, reading, she creeps up up on my chest, rubs against the book. Then worms her way around it. She stares into my eyes and purrs. I give her scritches and tell her how much I love her. I blink slowly as I talk to her. She rubs her face on my hand and chest and revs up the purrs. Buffy has never quite mastered the slow blinky eyes thing. Since I adopted her, I've slowly blinked my eyes at her in the above situation. She was not familiar with the slow blink. She came from a multi-cat household where she barely ever came out of hiding. So, the best she can do is close her eyes about halfway, still looking at me, but without doing the slow blink. I know it's her "I'm happy and content and thanks for the scritches" look. Jill |
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Slow Blinky Eyes
On 5/4/2019 9:53 AM, Judith Latham wrote:
In article , jmcquown wrote: We all know about cats and their humans and slow blinky eyes as a mutual sign of contentment, love and affection. Buffy is a total love bug. When I'm stretched out on the couch, reading, she creeps up up on my chest, rubs against the book. Then worms her way around it. She stares into my eyes and purrs. I give her scritches and tell her how much I love her. I blink slowly as I talk to her. She rubs her face on my hand and chest and revs up the purrs. Buffy has never quite mastered the slow blinky eyes thing. Since I adopted her, I've slowly blinked my eyes at her in the above situation. She was not familiar with the slow blink. She came from a multi-cat household where she barely ever came out of hiding. So, the best she can do is close her eyes about halfway, still looking at me, but without doing the slow blink. I know it's her "I'm happy and content and thanks for the scritches" look. Jill She's got the gist of the eye blink though, even if she puts her own take on it. Exactly. That's her version. I know she's comfortable and feels happy look. That, and the purrs. I found myself doing the slow eye blink to a dog the other day. Judith Did the dog slowly blink back? That's only happened with me with my small mutt, Sampson (RB 1999). He was still a pup. He'd get up on the bed next to the pillow and watch me get ready to go to work in the morning. I'd talk very softly to him all the while. I'd do slow blinky eyes. His head would start to droop. He'd jerk himself awake. I kept talking to him softly. He fell asleep. I was able to leave the house without him whining or crying. I guess I sort of hypnotized him. Of course I have no idea what he did around the house when I wasn't home. Jill |
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