On Wednesday, December 25, 2019 at 8:52:51 AM UTC-6, Nemo wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Dec 2019 16:35:23 -0500, Dave Smith wrote:
>
> > On 2019-12-24 12:51 p.m., dsi1 wrote:
> >> On Tuesday, December 24, 2019 at 7:30:16 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
> >
> >>> I have seen this behavior. Wrapping a cat's body seems to stun them.
> >>> They adopt a subservient position.
> >>>
> >>> ===
> >>>
> >>> Aww the wee soul))
> >>
> >> It's kind of funny at first but then you feel sorry for them. It's like
> >> a cat depression suit.
> >
> > Different animals find different things calming. Most birds, even wild
> > ones, can be sort of hypnotized by holding them on their backs.
> > Massaging their necks will make it work even faster. We used to do it
> > too pigeons in learning experiments. They seem to like it. It can be
> > hard to get a hold of them and get started, but after you do it a
> > couple times they are almost asking for it.
>
> When I was a kid, we'd wrap cats in a towel to move them by car, sort of
> like a strait-jacket. In Vietnam, I saw a Moped going down the road with
> a pig wrapped in a rug and tied across the seat behind the driver. Only
> the pig's head was sticking out of the rug.

Lizards are calmed by stroking their bellies!

I used to own Anole Lizards as a kid, and they loved that!

John Kuthe...