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Conference misery::feline_v1

Title:Meower Power is Valuing Differences
Notice:FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY
Moderator:MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO
Created:Sun Feb 09 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jan 11 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5089
Total number of notes:60366

524.0. "Does anyone know?" by MED::NEWTON (What's snew?) Tue Mar 24 1987 14:41

    While I was petting Snuggles last night, a little bit of his tongue
    was sticking out.  It looked so cute.
    
    I notice cats do that sometimes.  Does anyone know why?  It's really
    the cutest thing!  
    
    I'd love to know the story behind this strange behavior.  Some cats
    do it just sitting around.  Others I've seen do it while there
    sleeping.  Snuggles was doing it while I was petting his tummy.
    
    Kathy
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524.1PUZZLE::CORDESJATue Mar 24 1987 18:364
    Jesse will let his tongue hang out after he finishes grooming himself.
    I just think he forgets it's out there.  (He is a geriatric cat
    age 14 now)
    Jo Ann
524.2Maybe they want to "taste the air" :-)25175::KALLISHallowe'en should be legal holidayTue Mar 24 1987 18:4515
    Re .1:
    
    Hmmph!  When Angelica was 18, she was hardly geriatric!
    
    General:
    
    Some just do it.  Vivianne (and Nianinne before her) used to do
    it periodically, and a sliverr of pink tongue on a black background
    is extra cute.  However, Morgan, Morlock, and Angelica didn't, Merlin
    doesn't, and Karamaneh does it only very rarely.
    
    It takes all kinds, I suppose.
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.
    
524.3tongue tired ?VIDEO::OSMANEric, dtn 223-6664, weight 146Tue Mar 24 1987 19:323
Cats do it after grooming ?

Perhaps their tongue is tired, so they let it droop and rest.
524.4DONJON::SCHREINERGo ahead, make me PURRR...Wed Mar 25 1987 12:234
    I've had a few that do it, Firecracker always left the tip of her
    tongue sticking out.  
    
    
524.5little rosepetalINK::KALLISHallowe'en should be legal holidayWed Mar 25 1987 17:2610
    Re the "tired tongue" theory:
    
    It takes muscular energy to stick out one's tongue, be you human
    or feline.  Thus, it would be easier for an "exhausted" cat to keep
    his or her tongue inside rather than letting it dangle.
    
    However, it's as cute as Hell!
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.