# Neutered cat behavior
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neutered-cat-behavior/390442
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [February 1, 2007, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neutered-cat-behavior/390442 "2007-02-01T18:54:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2007, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neutered-cat-behavior/390442/1 "2007-02-01T18:54:22Z")
Recently, I stayed over at my Aunt’s house. She has a cat, neutered since kittenhood, who dosen’t do much else than sleep, eat, and occasionally walk across the room to meow at his mommy.
While taking a shower, my aunt noticed that the cat had discovered my dirty clothes at the foot of the bed. The cat began to vigorously play with and roll around in the underwear shorts which…umm…emitted the high testosterone odor of ball sweat. 😛
Has any other dopers witnessed such behavior from pets-sans-goodies interacting with testosterone-laden clothing?
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### Author:  [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2007, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neutered-cat-behavior/390442/2 "2007-02-01T18:57:52Z")
All four of our cats are fixed. One of them does the same thing. I don’t know why he likes it, and maybe I don’t want to know! He also likes to sleep in the laundry pile. I’ve always figured it was because our clothes smell like us.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neutered-cat-behavior/390442/3 "2007-02-01T18:59:11Z")
Might not be the testosterone. It might just be the stank. Our cats just love to slobber all over my socks when I take them off after a hot day. Havoc will grab them, hug them to her chest and bunny-kick them until they are adequately dead.
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### Author:  [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2007, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neutered-cat-behavior/390442/4 "2007-02-01T20:56:00Z")
Our cat loves nothing more then sticking her head right in my husband’s stinky shoes. They love the stink.
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### Author:  [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2007, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neutered-cat-behavior/390442/5 "2007-02-02T03:13:07Z")
I have to check the laundry pile in the closet before closing the door. Daniel has spent the day in there at least once. 😛
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### Author:  [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2007, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neutered-cat-behavior/390442/6 "2007-02-02T12:49:34Z")
Yeah, Squiggy rolls around in sweaty clothes. Lenny does not. Amd Squiggy seems to like my girlfriend’s sorts-bra best of all.
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### Author:  [@Aangelica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aangelica)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2007, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neutered-cat-behavior/390442/7 "2007-02-02T16:14:05Z")
Our male cat has a panty fetish. Although, his panty fetish has broken me of leaving laundry anywhere other than the laundry basket - because he _will_ steal my panties and drag them all over the house, only to abandon them in random locations (like the entryway). Also he chews and rabbit kicks them - which leaves holes in my panties.
Our female cat has a foot fetish. She sleeps with her head inside the shoes and loves nothing better than to love all over feet that have just stepped out of shoes. The stanker your feet are, the more she must get her love on immediately.
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### Author:  [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2007, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neutered-cat-behavior/390442/8 "2007-02-02T20:06:16Z")
Yeah, as prissy as cats seem to be, they do like stinky things.