# Peanutter!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanutter/434214>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 20, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanutter/434214 "2008-01-20T01:40:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanutter/434214/21 "2008-01-24T05:28:03Z")

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I emailed a vet/researcher at the Tufts veterinary school’s behavioral clinic, describing Peanut’s behavior and linking to the two-minute YouTube video.

She liked it, she really really liked it!

As in:

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> Thank you for sending the video of Peanut. It does appear to be OCD..like phantom furniture scratching. I shared the video with Nick Dodman and like me, he’s never seem an OCD present in this manner in cats. So it was very interesting for us to see.

A couple of email exchanges later, after some more discussion of the behavior’s development and so forth, I’d agreed to burn and send her a CD with a higher-quality file of the video to use in lectures.

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> I would LOVE to have the actual video to use for my lectures. You are right that cats do tend to alternate when scratching. I’ll have to view the video again. Anyway, phantom furniture scratching was our first guess. On first viewing it didn’t strike me as an attenuated predatory behavior though in retrospect it might appear like a cat playing with a string toy. Interesting the developmental progress of his behavior.

Peanut is a STAR! 😃

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**Author:** ![SomeUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@SomeUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SomeUserName)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanutter/434214/22 "2008-01-24T11:20:53Z")

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That is so cute and strange. I have never seen a cat do that for that long. At most a second or two but he really seem to be in a trance.

Funky.

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**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanutter/434214/23 "2008-01-24T13:25:17Z")

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That’s what kept trying to come up as I was watching him. [Maneki Neko](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneki_Neko), that’ what he is! 😉😃

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**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanutter/434214/24 "2008-01-24T14:52:15Z")

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[QUOTE=Zabali\_Clawbane]  
That’s what kept trying to come up as I was watching him. [Maneki Neko](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneki_Neko), that’ what he is! 😉😃  
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Huh. Well, he certainly gets reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaallllllllllllyy into his job, huh? 😃

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