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welcome today we explore the very essence of what is love between cat and human
today we explore hedbunk
what is head bunk sounds violent but yet loving to find out let us consult the cat daddy dictionary
yeah head bonk also known as head bunt head butt head bop bang bash
bam bank it goes on forever the word bonk is well and illy defined at the same time something that
they should work on the next time they write the dictionary anyway head bonk when a cat
with velocity pushes their head against the head face or mouth of another a sign of affection often
winding up with cat hair and mouth or sometimes missing tooth to be used in a sentence it is so
adorable when i settle into my couch and my cat polly crawls onto my chest and gives me a nice
head bunk i love her oh love well that is a basic definition but yet there is so much that is not
explored so much that cannot be explained without the use of visuals and with that roland
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please my friends i am not crying from sadness
i'm crying because love is so beautiful even if those outside of the cat community
cannot see how beautiful their head bulk is i can't i can't somebody else take it please
love it's all about love people that's right now my compadre was overcome by the emotions of love
you know let's just i don't think i could do this whole thing in rose-colored glasses
you know there's there's no better word than the intimacy of a head bunk there are scent
glands in a cat's forehead right here but there's also scent glands all over their body
scent is such an important thing to a cat's life scent identification being able to walk into a
room and know that you belong there vis-a-vis your own scent so to be able to to leave scent on you
by the act of the bonk or as we've seen before rubbing up against your leg having this their
flank rub up against you or a place that you've been they'll rub their face on a chair they'll
claw on a chair and i know that everybody you guys think it's like totally just destructive behavior
which it is obviously if your chair gets all clawed up but what they're doing then is taking
something that smells like you complementing it with both visual marker and scent markers since
they have scent glands also between their little pads and that's why when you think about it the
place where your your house or your apartment gets messed up the most by the cats in terms of
scratching is either the couch or your bed and that's what scent soaking is all about that's
you know not to get too far off on a tangent but that's why when i tell you guys get stuff
around the house that you can share scent with so let's say you have a carrier a cad carry and
you want your cat to feel safe in that carrier well one of the things that you can do is take
a t-shirt that you've been wearing and put that in the the cat carrier that sense of community
scent is really pretty holy to cats you know and that's why you'll see them walk up to each other
and for instance they'll do the little nose to nose but that of course is a greeting that's not
just a bigger expression but what we're talking about is aloe rubbing spelled like this and
so it's not aloe the plant it's aloe and that means the rubbing of one's body against another as
scent marking but it's done from the same member of species so it's that's reserved for cat to cat
the head bunk and also the flank mark and the scratching all those things i've been talking
about that is usually from one species to another cat to human now those of you who
have cats and dogs you might have seen your cat head bonk your dog which is really funny because
dogs are most of the time totally baffled by it and they could get angry or they could back up or
they could you know but there's rarely a time that they get all uh like we do when the cat does that
but that's just again a sign of affection what is it about the head bunk that connotates love
honestly let's think about what i always talk about with cats out there the raw cat the idea of
allowing one in as close as a head bunk would be a suicide mission you know if it was another animal
another being that the cat didn't know very well there's something about putting one's face into
another one's face especially when this one's face this is a cat right here that this one's face is a
prey slash predator animal and to be able to come here defenses completely down close eyes and bunk
is an act of vulnerability of ultimate trust and that equals love another example is what i call
the cat hug and that's when a cat lays on the floor when you come in and the cat rolls over
on their back and does what i call the sea otter position right just right on their back like that
exposing their entire midline to you the most vulnerable part of their body in fact anyone's
body besides our ribs nothing is protecting our vital organs i keep coming up with all of these
examples but but think of it this way when you meet somebody that you don't know
and yet you want to show affection you might hug right but when you do it you're probably not going
to completely open yourself that kind of hug the hug that you reserve for those really close to you
you might do the sort of the side hug maybe the one the one armed hug you might even do sort of a
bro handshake into the thing obviously i don't do that all that often but but these are ways
of of showing affection but with a little bit of reservation affection and reservation but with the
head bonk or a big sort of all-in hug or something like that then we have no reservations we have no
protection we have no boundaries that's what your cat is showing to you by doing the head bonk they
leave scent on you they could rub up onto your head or your cheek meet your cheeks with theirs
it is absolutely in my experience one of the most loving gestures that you'll get from from a cat
now does that say that all cats head bonk no not at all i mean cats will do different things
because they're different cats not all cats will bonk not all cats will purse some cats will bonk
totally inappropriate times just because they've seen it done before we know plenty of cats who
hiss because they don't know what else to do they don't mean it they don't mean like yes you know
it's just that when they were kittens they didn't have enough exposure to other cats they didn't
speak cat all that well you know growing up so they have sort of inappropriate ways of expressing
themselves same goes with head bonk i i guess what i'm trying to say is that it's about the
circumstances it could be in a time where they need to be soothed or it could be a time where
they're just trying to express affection so it it is a little subjective based on your relationship
with your cat and the cat themselves one thing that i think is really important to point out
is there's a difference between the head bonk and head pressing if you've ever seen a cat who
will walk up to a wall and just press their head into the wall or a piece of furniture or something
like that that's actually a sign that the cat is not well they could have a headache you know
there could be a bad tooth something like that that's just causing them to do that so that's not
in this realm it's not this it's this it's just the constant press and in that case i
would tell you to get to the vet and just make sure everything's checked out so you know the
words whether they're head butting or the more scientifically appropriate head bunting which you
know that's fine that's fine that that it's called head bunting i then looked up the word bunting and
there's like a hundred definitions not one of which uh pertains i mean maybe the baseball one
maybe it's like i'm bunting i'm hitting something with something else i'm hitting my baseball bat to
the ball in a gentle way i don't know but i and and this is me i love head bonk i think it's the
cutest term and i will stick with it so head bonk it is and with that let me just remind you again
it's all about love you guys it's all about love at this time at this place on this planet love is
a very important thing so that's just a reminder to love all the cats and all the animals in your
life and all the humans in your life because it's going to go a long way and that said if
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that you'd like to see in the cat daddy dictionary so it's time for me to take my leave of you my
gentle subscribers until the next time we see each other all light all love all mojo to you and funk
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