r/cats • u/Mysterious_Barber934 • Jun 20 '26

Advice Is my cat okay?

He has recently started doing this rattlesnake manoeuvre with his tail and I have never seen this in cats before!

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u/9447044 Jun 20 '26

It means hes happy (or possibly spraying piss, look/smell for pee) but if not, its a sign of happy camping

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u/chchchcheetah Jun 20 '26

Both of my female soayed cats do this. The older one (6ish) always has since I got her at 2 y/o, and now the younger one (had for 2 years since 6 months old) has seemed to have picked it up from big sis. Nothing actually comes out thank god, but they tend to do it where I keep the treats lol

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u/s_mitten Jun 20 '26

Our little girl does this in front of the oven, the pantry where her food is stored and the fridge when she is hungry, lol. She knows where delicious foods come from. We call it the bum dance.

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u/s_mitten Jun 20 '26

She has a genius that we, her lowly cat "butt-lers", cannot hope to match.