- cross-posted to:
- exocomics
- cross-posted to:
- exocomics
cross-posted from: https://lemmus.org/post/23117191
Source: Li Chen on Mastodon
Transcript
Panel 1: (Cat is laying on a blanket, being pet by an unseen person’s hand.) Cat:Stop! I need to smell your hand. Panel 2: (Cat sniffs the hand.) Sniff, sniff… SNIIIIFF. Panel 3: Cat: Yep. Smells like hand. Panel 4: (Cat, now looking relaxed, allowing the person to give pets.) Cat: Proceed.


Might have something to do with cats having problems focusing on objects closer than 30 cm (unlike ~10cm in humans), so from their perspective there is a hand shaped blur approaching them and smell might confirm that it is in fact, a hand?
Dogs do the same thing sometimes, but I am pretty sure they just like the smell.
they recognize you by smell