There’s a cat that lives up the street from us, named Oscar (but we call him Ponti because he used to fall into our pond when leaping at birds), and he’s slimmed down a lot as he gets older (for a while there he was built like an ottoman - with a tail) but he’s always had this interesting tic: When you scratch his back near the tail to the right side he starts compulsively gnawing at his left fore leg. Not gnawing like he’s trying to eat himself - just digging at it like he’s got an itch. When you stop scratching he immediately stops doing that and looks around with a bewildered expression of: “What the fuck just happened?”. Don’t know why that happens but that and a laser pointer makes Ponti hours of fun.
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