{"id":2481,"date":"2018-01-30T05:24:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T13:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=2481"},"modified":"2018-01-30T05:24:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T13:24:36","slug":"newsday-tuesday-the-delicious-mystery-in-a-cats-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=2481","title":{"rendered":"Newsday Tuesday \u2013 The Delicious Mystery in a Cat’s Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A friend sent me this link featuring the cat\u2019s amazingly interesting and mysterious eyes. I mean, there\u2019s nothing quite like the staring of a cat. Some cats will look at you as if they have a pathway into your soul. What does the rigid stare mean? In our house, most often, it means, \u201cGet off your butt or stop what you\u2019re doing NOW and feed me!\u201d Sometimes it seems to mean, \u201cHow dare you sit there with the dog on your lap (or that other cat or your knitting project), when I could be comfortable lying there.\u201d But I like to think that often it means, \u201cI love you. You are my hero. You saved me from certain anguish and I\u2019m so thankful to be here with you. I just love you so much.\u201d Yeah, that\u2019s what we might be saying to the cat, but is that really what she is saying to us?<\/p>\n

What about when a cat avoids eye-contact? Is he feeling guilty about something? Maybe\"\" he\u2019s been secretly chewing on your favorite plant or he brought in a lizard and knows it\u2019s hiding under your bed or he missed the litter box accidentally.<\/p>\n

We all know that a cat can see in the near darkness. And they don\u2019t seem to understand that we can\u2019t. So when you get up in the middle of the night and try to navigate the house without turning on a light, if you\u2019re like most seasoned cat people you\u2019ve learned to shuffle your way slowly to the bathroom, lest you step on or trip over an trusting cat.<\/p>\n

So what do the cat\u2019s expressive eyes tell us? If you\u2019ve lived with your cat for any length of time, you probably recognize how the pupil can change from a mere slit to a large round ball of black inside her eye depending on her level of fear or joy. Here\u2019s a link that discusses the cat\u2019s eyes and helps you to understand what your cat is telling you.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.catster.com\/cat-behavior\/cat-pupils-heres-what-your-cats-eyes-are-telling-you<\/a><\/p>\n

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A friend sent me this link featuring the cat\u2019s amazingly interesting and mysterious eyes. I mean, there\u2019s nothing quite like the staring of a cat. Some cats will look at you as if they have a pathway into your soul. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2482,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions\/2482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}