Do your cats ever give themselves "big tail"?

[kedrys]

Quark just blew through my office, made a u-turn in the veranda and blew right back out - with a huge bottle brush tail. I'm pretty sure he freaked himself out without any help from the other cats. :rofl:

Anyone else's cats get big tail for no reason? :D

[zanana1]

1. Mine get great big fat tail when...

They're either angry with another animal or afraid of another animal. For example, our neighbor's dog once had one of my cats cornered. By the time I interceded, my cats' tail was about four times it's width. It took about thirty minutes for it to go down.

[kedrys]

2. I've seen mine get big tail from fear or anger, but

it's pretty hilarious when it happens for no obvious reason. :D

[zanana1]

19. Cats are little clowns. nt

[Withywindle]

3. Yes. If my girl is in one of her Crazy Time moods....

...and you can tell she's in them because her eyes dilate so much they're all black, none of her usual yellow visible. She looks like one of the demon-possessed people on Supernatural.

Anyway, she's hyper-sensitive then, and when she's in that mode, anytime she's stalking around and happens to step on something she's not expecting, she'll jump about three feet backwards and get big tail.

[kedrys]

13. Evie does the giant backward jump from time to time, but with no big tail

The other thing she does, when she's really involved in something, is half-jump - her front half stays on the floor and her back half freaks out, jumps up 4 inches and lands back down without the front half ever paying attention. Then she straightens herself out and goes on about her business. :rofl:

[JBoy]

4. All the time! We call it "puffy tail".

There's usually a reason, not necessarily one that makes logical sense to humans.

[sammytko]

5. we call it going "halloween" nt

[kedrys]

11. Evie excels at that, being black and all

When she was little, she used to practice the sideways boing-boing-boing with her back arched and her tail puffed up. She doesn't do that anymore - she weighs 13 pounds, has no fat on her and is faster than you - but it was funny to watch. :D

[applegrove]

6. Once in a while some dogs will walk by my basement apartment and 'attack' my cats in the window sill

They get a 'big tail'. But never for no reason.

[kedrys]

10. I think mine see Martians

Quark gets big tail for no reason most often. I can't remember the last time Socrates got big tail. :D

[Skittles]

7. you want I should kick some bottle brush-tailed feline ass, kedrys?

LEMME AT HIM

[kedrys]

9. Nah, he calmed down eventually

Thanks for offering, though. :hi:

[IMATB]

8. Yes

Mine do when they're scared or when they fake attack.

It makes me laugh.

[kedrys]

12. Quark's eyes get completely black from dilated pupils

And since they're crystal blue when he's not chasing Martians, it makes him look completely different. :D

[Crystal Clarity]

14. I once had a Maine Coon cat whose tail was huge to begin with.

So when something freaked him out, that tail became ginormous! He was such a character. I still miss him :-(

[TZ]

15. Yeah for no reason *I* can see that happens frequently

usually when one of my girls is looking at another..must be something I can't see..and they love each other to bits but for some reasons sometimes all it takes is one look and POOF...

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. Mine don't much anymore. They are 16 now and too lazy to be bothered. LOL

[charlie and algernon]

17. More so now then when my cat was the only cat

now I'm in a new house with a roommate who has a cat, so occasionally the roommate's cat will chase mine, or the two cats will get into an argument, and the tails get big.

When I was living in my old apartment and my cat was the only one, she would get the big tail if I walked into the room and startled her, lol!

[Sabriel]

18. We don't call her "Puff Kitty" for nothing

Or P-Kitty, for short.

She squirts around the house at times with her tail puffed up for no reason.

Her co-kitty, on the other hand, has never puffed in the whole two years we've had her, even though (I'm embarrassed to admit) we sometimes try to make it happen.

[barb162]

20. Every one of them, whether exuberant play or being scared

If they see a big dog walking near by, the big tail bit starts.

[Arugula Latte]

21. Yes, and we all start squealing in unison: "Poofy tail! Poofy tail!"

I tell ya, we rely WAAAY too heavily on our felines to entertain us around here. :rofl:

[nolabear]

22. Yep, we call it "Living in Cat Land."

In Cat Land, imaginary foes are everywhere, waiting to pop out at you, and you are constantly on call to save Catkind by ripping around and jumping the stuffed mousie (and occasional dog) and disemboweling them with your razor sharp Claws of Doom. Our cat Bunny has no tail (hence the name) but I'm sure if she did it would be fat as all get-out.

[zen_bohemian]

23. my little baby gets the big tail when she is on a rampage

no reason for it, she just decides the house is too quiet and it's time to make some noise :)
she runs thru the house, bouncing off of the walls, uses the couch, chairs, window sills, tables and the other cats as springboards.

[Skittles]

24. "the crazies"

pretty normal feline behavior :hi:

[krispos42]

25. My cat's tail is so fuffy it's hard to tell.

But around a dog... yeah. Oh yeah.

[yellerpup]

26. My skinny kitty would puff up his tail

when I sang to him. I miss that darling baby! He was the Barney Fife of cats.