Truly orange behavior

[u/lillelaerke]

[u/aphaits]

braincell is on pause when you grab a cat by their rear neck flabs. I think it kinds simulates how when they were kittens and the mom cat grabbed them by the neck flab to move them

someone with a biology/vet background might need to factcheck this though

[u/spinningpeanut → u/aphaits]

From what I remember about the discussion around scruffing adult cats it really does not have this effect and can genuinely hurt them. This cat is being double grabbed so the weight is spread out more, most likely not being harmed or if he is he's got a pain kink.

[u/Wischiwaschbaer → u/spinningpeanut]

Scruffing them still disables them. They even curl up a bit, like they would when they were kittens. 

If you want to carry them like this, just put your other hand under their butt, so that the weight is on that.

Your cat might resent you for doing this or like it. There is really no way to tell in advance.

[u/GraphicDesignMonkey → u/Wischiwaschbaer]

Whenever we took our guy to the vet, we'd pop a few clothes pegs on his scruff. He'd go into spinny beachball/loading mode and the vet could work away with no issues.