What do you think about this. I posted this under the CAT forum and a lot of people have read it but not one cat lover has responded. Was I too blunt???? I was just asking about a behavior I have witnessed hundreds of times in my life.

Posted at the CAT forum:

"I've always thought it strange that a cat owner will watch a cat groom itself which generally includes licking its butt, and then let the cat
come up and lick their own face. Are cat owners really that dumb or do they harbor a supressed desire to be able to lick their own butts."

I gotta 'come outta the closet' on this one.
I have a couple of indoor crats myself.To even get them to go outside to the car for a ride to the Vet is harder than pullin' teeth.
I too have watched em lick their butts and wonder why they won't touch their exspensive crat food.
Do they make 'butt-flavor' Kibbles?
Thank God neither ever wants to lick my face,much less have anything to do with me.

OEH, crat people are a weird lot on their best day. Personally I couldn't speak to butt licking fetishes but a few years before his death Lewis Grizzard commented about a conversation by two Georgia fans regarding Uga, that being the U of G mascot, a rather disreputable English Bulldog. Actually, this leads my mind further astray, and I wonder what tear in the English psyche led them to claim the variety as their own. A reasonable person would have let the French do that, or perhaps the Germans.

But I digress. It was halftime, and the overheard conversation went something like this:

Jimbo: (As Uga licked his balls on the 50 yard line) Jimmy, lookit at Uga! I shore wishet I could do that!
Jimmy: Jimbo, that dog'll bite you!

Well, many people live vicariously in many ways. Since Uncle Walt applied the salts of anthropromorphism to the animal kingdom, the world has never been the same! Commie Bastard he was too! I guess some folk just don't have the courage to lick their cat's asses, and think that they are being clever in that they can disguise their whimsey by the crat's proxy. Not unlike the Ron White Theorum about all men being gay. What we do by proxy without knowledge is truly frightening sometimes. As an example, my EX, a certifiable crat lover, never dreamt to what degree she slept with the enemy. Never imagined how many times THAT finger also stroked the trigger during other quests.

I suppose I have morphed this thread to points unintended, and quite likely undesired, so I'll leave it at that. Good hunting to all, there is no vacuum like the perfect vacuum I say!

Dan

Pres., TYHC

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Old Elk Hunter I resolved that question for myself years ago. Most cat owners are not that dumb and do not have a secret desire to lick their own butts. No more so than dog owners or vietnamese pig owners, or even parrot owners. However there are a noticeable few kissy-face cat freaks who who have the a desire to be like a cat: i.e., lick a cat's but, because a cat licks it arse. This is like those diseased humans who are excited by farmyard animals, or those who tattoo their entire bodies in leopard spot patterns.

Mr. Poletax, you take cat to doctor~san for good mear? Li hear you are what eat, think now charge extra for strong hearthy cat at GCII, what you think GI? What time dinner? Maybe Li bring froorshow, dancing ninja! Have numba 1 time!

Li take rong hot shower now, beau bubbres. OOOOAAAHHHH!

I saw your post there too. I'm surprised no one came back swinging also. I garee with you on the licking, I love all dogs but no way is one going to lick my face either

Digital Dan,

Several of my cousins are U Of G alumni. Also some Georgia Tech's. You hear the damndest things at football games. As for Uncle Walt, he set hunting back a long ways when he brought out the Bambi movie. I was one of the first kids through the gate the day Uncle Walt opened Disney Land for the first time. Many times on TV they showed Uncle Walt at his desk. Right behind him on the wall was his framed Dishonorable Discharge. Normal people would have hid that kind of document. When I see pet owners getting face licked I cringe.
I know they like their pets a lot, and I have too, but simple health concerns get ignored. I have heard it said that the human mouth is a lot worse off than the average butt. Even so, I'll pass on the pet licks.

I hope that I got at least one pet owner to think about the problem.

HA HA! Li see movie one time carred "Bambi versus Godzilla". It very short movie. HA HA!