For a Pessimist, I am Pretty Optimistic

I’m watching as once again my fat cat has his nose shoved up the rear of my poor older cat.

I started to notice these attacks on my two other cats just a few months ago. The cats will be sitting or sleeping, just minding their own business. Suddenly the pudgester will run up behind them and shove his nose under their tail. The poor victim will freeze in shock for a moment and then try to run away, all the while with the butt sniffer still attached to them.

At first I chalked it up to him being a weird animal that likes the smell of poo. But that’s not the case with this fluff ball. In fact, he’s constantly crying for us to clean the litter boxes, even after they’ve just been cleaned.

To make this all weirder, after he gets a nice deep whiff he’ll spend the next half hour with his mouth hanging open!

Sometimes I find him just sniffing the floor. One of the cats would have just walked away after sleeping in one spot for hours. Nutso will have his nose glued to the now vacated spot on my hardwood floor. This time he’ll spend a while sniffing around, always with his mouth hanging open afterwards.

I know that dogs are constantly sniffing each others butts; it’s like a greeting and a dominance thing to them. But I’ve never heard of cats doing that. All my cats have been neutered so they don’t secrete any of the hormones or whatever that cats use to spray and stain your furniture. So just what is it that attracts him to their behinds so?

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