Have you wondered what your cat is feeling? Or maybe if it trusts you? If you monitor the movements of a cat's ears, whiskers, tail and other body parts, you might get a clue about what a cat is thinking or feeling and how it will react to you.
A cat is telling you that it is content when it is sitting sphinx like with their toes tucked under their chest.
Your cat is at its most trusting position when it is lying on its back, relaxed, showing its belly. It's one of the things a cat that does that shows you its feeling very trusting and secure. A contented cat may purr, knead with its paws like it did when it was a kitten and take on the posture of a relaxed cat, stretched out or in a sphinx position.
Your cat's ears and whiskers can tell you many different things. When a cat's ears are facing forwards, with straight and relaxed whiskers, it is feeling contented. When a cat is unsure or alarmed its ears will be facing backwards and flattened, its whiskers will be straight and pupils will grow very large. When a cat is hunting, it will have a mixture of alarmed and contented expressions with its ears facing forward, whiskers straight and its pupils dilated.
A cat's tail can have many different movements each meaning different things. A cats tail is essential when it is balancing so that the cat can walk across a narrow fence without falling. When a cat is walking towards someone with its tail straight up it is showing that it trusts the person very much. If your cats tail is wagging or waving side to side, it could mean many different things. When a cat is hunting its tail will wave with excitement or if your cat is faced with a decision it will wag its tail.
Scent transferring is very common for a cat because the scent that it leaves behind claims anything that it touches as its. A cats scent glands are located on its head, under its chin, on the edges of lips, on the side of the forehead between eye and ear, on the base of tail and in between the toes. If a cat rubs up against you with its head or tail it is marking you as "mine".
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Kiki is rubbing against the wall, transferring her scent. Notice her trusting tail position.
Bibliography
1. Understanding Cats Their History, Nature and Behavior. Robert Tabor. David and Charles Publishers 1997
2. 101 questions your cat would ask, What's bothering your cat and how to solve it. Honor Head. Quarto Publishing Plc 1999
3. Good Owners Great Cats A guide book for humans and their Feline companions Authors Brian Kilcommons Sarah Wilson Warner Books Inc. Nov 1995.
