# What do you call it when your cat kneads?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 5, 2010, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-it-when-your-cat-kneads/552668 "2010-09-05T05:18:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![conurepete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@conurepete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conurepete)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-it-when-your-cat-kneads/552668/61 "2010-11-03T02:28:50Z")

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“the Barbie dance”, because Barbara Cat is the champion at it. He kneads with all four paws.

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**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-it-when-your-cat-kneads/552668/62 "2010-11-03T05:16:37Z")

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I use to call it “kneading”, but got tired of people who don’t know what knead means, thinking I was saying “needing.” My husband always said “making dough,” and I’ve picked it up. The first time I heard him talk about a cat making dough on him, I thought the cat had pooped on him. And when I heard a friend say something about her cat “making biscuits”, I confused it with “air biscuits.”

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**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-it-when-your-cat-kneads/552668/63 "2010-11-03T05:46:55Z")

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Wow, I guess I have a new one: My wife calls it ‘minky minky’. No idea why.

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**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-it-when-your-cat-kneads/552668/64 "2010-11-06T02:52:11Z")

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> [@Dag\_Otto](#):
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> Wow, I guess I have a new one: My wife calls it ‘minky minky’. No idea why.

Turns out that she picked it up from her mother, who is from Lithuania.

So, minky minky in the Baltics.

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