What's up, cat Mojotears, your cat, daddy Jackson Galaxy here again with you
a few weeks back, we did a video about things cats love. This week we're talking about.
And let's have a really menacing drum roll here.
Is there such a thing as a menacing drum roll?
OK, there you go. Things cats hate. Now, I will give you that same sort of preamble I
gave you last time, which is no matter what I say, all cats are individuals.
Yes. But there are some things that I feel comfortable saying that
most cats really don't dig. Without further ado, because I've been doing for quite a bit
right now. Let's go into it right now. So the first thing that cats hate, a dirty litter box.
It's true. That dirty or that litter box, the more the chance that your cat is just going to be like,
I will just go someplace else. Thank you very much. The idea of a litter
box has only been around for a relatively short amount of time.
Before that, cats were going all over their territory and they would poop where they wanted
to poop and they would pee to mark certain areas. They would bury if they felt like it or not,
if they wanted to alert other predators like you don't want to be around here right about now.
Then we just squeeze them into a smaller and smaller space inside
our homes. And then we said this here is a box and you will go right here
and only here. Then we're like, you know what? I'm too lazy to scoop the box this week.
I'll be back on Tuesday. No, it doesn't work that way. They have done us a favor.
We got to do them a favor back and make sure that those boxes are scooped every single day.
What? Oh, wait. I know you're going to fall.
You're going to fall. You're going to fall.
You haven't figured that part of your life. Oh. So, folks, do your cats a favor,
scoop their litter boxes on a continual basis, make sure it's clean in there, make sure that
they've got enough room in there to go in, turn around and not have to dodge cat poop shaped
bullets in order to just eliminate the next day that cats don't like.
Loud noises analysis shows that cats have one of the largest ranges of hearing of any land mammal.
Whereas humans and cats can hear about the same in the low end of the spectrum, about 20 herse.
Once you get to the top end, the difference is vast. We top out at about 20000 hertz, cats about
65000. So once you have those high whining noises, fire engines, smoke alarms, loud music, a lot of
the times because of the overtones involved in that, cats are incredibly sensitive hearers.
Yes, there are sensitive hearer's. That's the scientific term.
They're natural prey like mice and crickets, et cetera, are so small. And the sounds they make
so high pitched that they evolved in order to better hear their prey. So just be aware
of the fact that cats have an incredibly sensitive set of ears and we just have to
be maybe a little more aware than we're being. And I'll remember that
next time I make a smoothie, because those Victa mixes, man, that's heavy.
And next, in the hit parade of things, cats hate really strong smells. Really the most important
senses for cats, not so much their eyes, much more so their nose and their ears saw
their nose is concerned. Here we go, that human to cat comparison. So humans have about
five million olfactory receptors in their nose. That's the thing that detects smell between
20 to 80 to 200 million olfactory scent receptors in a cat's nose.
So when we present them with really strong smells and including vinegar, onion,
garlic, citrus, menthol, different types of mint gasoline, really just overwhelming smell
smells that to us fill our noses. You can just know that that blasts a cat's scent receptors.
Which is why I just beg you guys not to get scented cat litter. It's an
aversive to most cats. That's why one of the hints I give you guys when it comes to
keeping your cat away from your Christmas tree, for example,
is, I'll tell you, to create little ornaments, which are little baggies with holes in them
that have existed, lemon or grapefruit in them. And that scent will,
for most cats, keep them away. We've talked about loud sounds.
Cats also really hate loud smells. The next thing that cats hate, cats hate chaos. Cats do not like
when the order that their life is built around is completely altered.
Cats are slaves to routine. And if we mess up that routine, your cats will some way or another let
you know if suddenly and this is an important one. You guys go away for a two, three day vacation.
You leave an automatic feeder and some water out for your cats and you're like cats are
self-sufficient. Not so much from the moment that humans wake up and the energy of our day of waking
up and then maybe we go away to work and then we come home and up it goes again and dinner.
And then we come down and then up we go again, go to bed and everything
that comes in between and their meals and the sunlight and all of that. And if we are just
messed that up for a couple of days, it's almost funny to me when clients tell me, I don't know.
We got back. We were gone for just two days and the place was just wrecked or
we couldn't find the cat and he was under the bed. It's just a reaction to chaos. It's just
I'm not saying that you have to like live every day like a robot, like the day before.
It's time to get up for the sake of the cats. It's just when that whole world
explodes to some degree or another, then we're bound to have some issues. So. Chaos disorder,
unorganized time. Well, how else can I put this?
Chaos, anarchy. You know, cats are not a fan. All right. Next up, cats hate the cold.
Yeah, cats hate cold. Their body temperature actually runs
higher than than we do. They're generally. Ours is about ninety eight point six.
That's regular for us. Regular for a cat is about one oh one five. They derive from desert animals,
their ancestors. The raw cats were first found in the desert. So they are used to
higher temperatures and they seek out those warm temperatures, especially in the winter.
You guys, even even on those short days where the sun only makes an appearance for five, six hours,
your cats are sure to find that sun in some window in your house and sit right underneath that sunny
spot on top of the TV, on top of your computer monitor, on top of anything that generates heat.
You're bound to find a cat there at some point or another. I mean, fortunately,
cats are really good at creating the heat around them, conducting their own body heat and creating
a little shield around them, which is why you'll see them sleep in those little tight donuts,
you know, where they just curl into themselves or.
And we've got a video on this, by the way. There should be when we talk about why cats love boxes
or other small spaces, it's in part because when they get into those boxes are small
spaces. They can control their body heat and it just warms them up all the way around
just by getting into that box
. There's plenty of videos out there of cats stepping in snow for the first time,
and they're like shooting up to the ceiling. The only place where a cat can
regulate their temperature, really, I mean, where they sweat from is just on there, their pads.
They don't sweat like we do. They don't have sweat glands everywhere. That's just here.
So when a hole blast, a cold hits them here, it just shoots their
body temperature down completely. So it's great if they got a fever, but not great.
Normally cats really, by and large, don't like the cold. Now, here's one
that has been propagated throughout time. And I think instead of saying the cats hate this thing,
I would say it is my opportunity to bust a myth.
So this one is cats hate dogs. And now if you think about what cats do not like about dogs,
is this is going back to the whole chaos thing. I mean,
cats really are if you think about cats really are control freaks.
Dogs represent that lack of control. A dog will will just go up to a cat and
just suddenly start smelling their butt as if that's fine, you know,
just looking at them while they're using a litter box. And they think that's fine.
Or that kind of just like. You know, come on, let's run around and do whatever and the cancer,
I got to get out of here. And really the thing that makes the cat's craziest about
the dogs is that they just don't have that personal bubble with them.
They're just always up in the grill. They're always like trying to steal
sleeping spots and that kind of thing. And they just move at a very different speed
to a certain degree, kind of an irritating slash, scary speed if they're introduced properly.
If we introduce a cat to a dog and the dog can actually sit and stay while the cat walks around
the room a little bit. That's respect. That's territorial respect. And I think if there's
really one element that cats really don't like about dogs, it's that lack of territorial respect.
You know, respect my territory.
If you don't know Cartman, you have no idea what I just said. Respect my guy.
Do cats hate riding in cars over all?
Yes. Cats do not like cars very much. But it's not the car itself that the cat hates.
There's a double whammy here. Number one, we've talked about how cats do not like
being out of control. You can't get more out of control than being in a carrier
inside of a moving vehicle that's sort of going all over the place
and making sounds and whatever, and they're trapped in that box.
So that makes sense, really. I mean, strange smells, strange visuals, lots of noise,
chaos as far as they're concerned. I just hit on a whole bunch of my other points
about what cats hate, and it's all wrapped up in the car experience.
And here's the kicker, is that most of the time when a cat gets in the car where they go in, they
go to the vet. So that all adds up to a bad time if we expose our cats when they're really young
to going for car rides, knowing that it ends in good things, having it repeat over
and over again, they will learn that it's not a terrible thing. So that's why I love especially
cats who are now adventure cats, cats who go in backpacks. If they go on walks and they go
out into the park and whatever, they still have to go in the car usually to get to that spot.
And so they learn how to not just accept those things,
but thrive through those things as well. Do you see him right now
somehow managed to curl himself into the very smallest little piece of arm that he could find?
And just to add a little pet peeve in here, get a pet peeve anyway, because I think cats hate this.
Cats hate being put in costumes. Dressing your cat up like Rudolph the red nosed freakin reindeer
is not something that's fun for your cat, because, again, it's about lack of control.
They don't like it because they're feeling of something around their body that they can't
get rid of is not something cats are crazy about. Again, it's about lack of control.
It's about loss of control, control of their own body being fight or flight animals.
You know, anything that constricts them in any way where they can't make decisions based
on their own well-being. You know, you can extrapolate based thinking about the raw cat,
what cats would not like now. And I'm sure you'll tell me about it and tell me about it.
I want to see in the comments, just tell me what your cats hate
and what you know. Jackson, you're full of it because my cat loves vinegar or
whatever that is. I'd love to see it in the comments and we'll talk about it next time.
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Man, I'm telling you, if you want to know what cats hate,
cats hate being ignored. He's been down here this whole time, gnawing on my toes,
knocking things over and climbing up the chair, trying to eat my microphone.
This is bramble, by the way. He's not mine. He's just a guest in the house
right now because he's he's going to be adopted any minute now. Right.
Because you're adorable. All right. Anyway, until next time, you guys,
on behalf of the cutest foster kitten you ever did see, until I get another foster kid and all lide
and all love and all cat mojo joti you can you say bye.
There it is. You want to steal the chair, do you want to steal the whole show?
I mean, you are, by your very nature, a scene stealer.
Listen, I'm going to talk to my agent. I can have to share the screen with a cute
kitten because people are just not paying enough attention to me. Where's my agent?