<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><a rel="nofollow" class="outbound_link" target="_blank" href="http://www.fark.com/goto/8700026/https://www.thedodo.com/why-cats-go-bonkers-after-pooping-1127100220.html" style="max-height: 1000000px; text-decoration: none; height: 38px; vertical-align: middle; display: block !important;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ever wonder why your cat goes bonkers after taking a dump? Well, here comes the science . . . just in time for Caturday.</span></font></a></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><br></div><div>Courtesy of <i>The Dodo</i> at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.thedodo.com/why-cats-go-bonkers-after-pooping-1127100220.html">https://www.thedodo.com/why-cats-go-bonkers-after-pooping-1127100220.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><h1 class="headline" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; position: static; background-image: none; width: auto; padding: 25px 0px 0px; word-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; -webkit-line-clamp: 3; -webkit-box-orient: vertical;"><font size="3"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Why Do Cats Go Completely Bonkers After Pooping?</span></font></h1><p style="margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cat lovers know that their feline family members can have very peculiar bathroom habits.</span></p><p class="selectionSharer" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; transition: -webkit-transform 0.6s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: -webkit-transform 0.6s ease-in-out;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Arguably, the greatest mystery of these behaviors is when cats LOSE THEIR SH*T, figuratively, after losing their sh*t, literally.</span></p><p class="selectionSharer" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; transition: -webkit-transform 0.6s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: -webkit-transform 0.6s ease-in-out;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bolting out of the litter box is a bizarre phenomenon, and the theories aiming to explain it are quite varied.</span></p><p class="selectionSharer" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; transition: -webkit-transform 0.6s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: -webkit-transform 0.6s ease-in-out;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Some say post-poop freak-outs, or "<a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/Pets/comments/265bfc/my_cat_goes_crazy_after_he_poops/" style="text-decoration: none;">zoomies</a>," are <a href="http://pets.thenest.com/indoor-cats-run-house-9429.html" style="text-decoration: none;">a carryover survival instinct</a>, so that predators can't trace the smell back to the kitty responsible for it.</span></p><p class="selectionSharer" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; transition: -webkit-transform 0.6s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: -webkit-transform 0.6s ease-in-out;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Others, including a veterinarian, say that it can be <a href="http://www.quora.com/Why-does-my-cat-freak-out-after-she-poops" style="text-decoration: none;">a sign of discomfort</a> stemming from food allergies or even an infection.</span></p><p class="selectionSharer" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; transition: -webkit-transform 0.6s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: -webkit-transform 0.6s ease-in-out;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Still others, including <em>another </em>veterinarian, say that using the litter box might lend some fresh energy to cats, and they burn off the high with a <a href="http://www.quora.com/Why-does-my-cat-freak-out-after-she-poops" style="text-decoration: none;">favorite exercise</a>: running frantically around the house.</span></p><p class="selectionSharer" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; transition: -webkit-transform 0.6s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: -webkit-transform 0.6s ease-in-out;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It could also be that cats run <a href="http://crappypictures.com/crappy-cat-post-poop-run/" style="text-decoration: none;">to cast off any remnants of waste</a>. Or perhaps kitties sprint, some cat lovers speculate, because they <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/Pets/comments/265bfc/my_cat_goes_crazy_after_he_poops/" style="text-decoration: none;">can't stand the smell</a> of their own droppings.</span></p><p class="selectionSharer" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; transition: -webkit-transform 0.6s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: -webkit-transform 0.6s ease-in-out;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Or maybe it is just exactly what it often looks like: a sign of happiness and exhilaration.</span></p><p class="selectionSharer" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; transition: -webkit-transform 0.6s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: -webkit-transform 0.6s ease-in-out;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In humans, the vagus nerve, which descends from the brainstem to the colon and is stimulated during defecation, can cause all kinds of reactions, even feelings of exhilaration, according to gastroenterologist Dr. Anish Sheth, who wrote "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Whats-Your-Poo-Telling-You/dp/0811857824" style="text-decoration: none;">What's Your Poo Telling You.</a>"</span></p><p class="selectionSharer" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; transition: -webkit-transform 0.6s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: -webkit-transform 0.6s ease-in-out;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A similar phenomenon could be occurring in cats and could explain why cats seem elated and happy, running around and scratching their scratching posts with joy, Erin Willis, animal physiologist at Oklahoma State University, told The Dodo.</span></p><p class="selectionSharer" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; transition: -webkit-transform 0.6s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: -webkit-transform 0.6s ease-in-out;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Dr. Sheth calls the pleasurable sensation with defecation 'poo-phoria.' Good name for humans I guess, but the term 'poop crazies' is much better for cats, in my opinion, since they essentially run around like crazy cats afterwards," Willis said, adding that there is very little research on the matter.</span></p><p class="selectionSharer" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; transition: -webkit-transform 0.6s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: -webkit-transform 0.6s ease-in-out;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Whatever the reasons are, we just keep scooping — and sweeping up the litter.</span></p></div><div>--------------------</div><div><br></div><div><b>Videos</b></div><div><br></div><div>Running cat</div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://youtu.be/umT8ywjtCVc">http://youtu.be/umT8ywjtCVc</a></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cat running (or trying to)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://youtu.be/RdTuv2lOLn0">http://youtu.be/RdTuv2lOLn0</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>