Hi gang, thanks for all of the great comments. I think I need to clarify something re smurgling, because I didn't explain it well in the video. So... yes, smurgling IS very common with cats who were weaned too early or were bottle-fed, but no, it's not limited to those cats. Smurgling is, in the critical early life of a kitten, one of the first actions (if not THE first) that they accomplish on their own. Minutes old, they get nourishment, warmth and maternal identification - in other words, “the thing on the other end of my paw is the most important thing in the world.” So, yes, although very common in the early-weaned and bottle babies, smurgling can stick around in ANY cat to some extent later in life when that primal sense of comfort, safety, and love are present. Sorry for not clarifying this in the video. Either way, one thing for sure is that the behavior is your cat bringing themselves back to that blissful moment because they feel... blissful!

@aahswizard

4 жыл бұрын

I have two cats and they both smurgle. One is very gentle while the other digs in with her "talons of terror". Any advice on how to get my girl to take it easy with the claws?

@isiriscasiano3719

4 жыл бұрын

I had a Maine Coon that I found on the street & as soon as I brought him home, he started smurgling my shirt! It was so sweet! He outgrew it as he got older.

@jifi-0178

4 жыл бұрын

i have a lovey cat who is my first lap kitty. She is now a cat smurgler, too, and she steals my heart every day.

@megawho12

4 жыл бұрын

Neither one of my kittens make biscuits but 2 of my older cats do.

@jendubay3782

4 жыл бұрын

So I didn't mean my bottle kitten too early if she smurgles as an adult?

Smurgle.... ha love it. We've always just called it kneading. Just found a stray who is a passionate smurgler

@giovanna722

4 жыл бұрын

Mm, I've heard of a cat burglar, but a cat smurgler? Lol.

@Annie1962

4 жыл бұрын

we call it 'puddins'

@Chrysanthemum808

4 жыл бұрын

I always called it kneading, too. Or Squishing. 😍 I love when cats do this.

@ChristineInNornia

4 жыл бұрын

Me too, my (ex) stray Felix constantly kneads and purrs🥰

@josephdurham4950

4 жыл бұрын

We call them kitty biscuits!😸

My cat mochi was found when she was very young and very sickly. Now she is a healthy lump who is a professional baker. She must first feel around the blanket for the perfect dough consistency, finally finding the right spot, taking a little chomp, and gets to work. She gets into a trance while baking and can not be disturbed, and will only bake on my lap. A great baker indeed to makes top quality biscuits.

@gabrialblair5882

3 ай бұрын

So beautifully put!! Ty

@NCfrost82

3 ай бұрын

😂😂

Miu killed me with that little active tongue! Laughed a lot!

Oh my, all the cozy kitties smurgling to lovely fairy music--it's so pure! ☺ As a dog person, I wasn't prepared for all the feels!

@blackdogbrown

4 ай бұрын

Aww. That's so sweet that you came on a cat video. Did you end up adopting a cat, too?

My foster car snurred. Yep. She purred loudly while snoring. It got her adopted into the best family. She’s still trying to teach them all.

I could honestly watch a whole hour of cats smurgleing - it was so relaxing

When not accompanied by the suckling motion, we call kneading "Happy Feets". We adopted a cat who was likely weaned too early and she did Happy Feets with the suckling motion, often on our chests, and she would get our shirts sopping wet. This suckling always happened during snuggle times, so we called it "Snuckles" or "Snucks" 😻😽

My foster girl just started smurgling out of nowhere😂 she’s a snuggler but has never made biscuits before. Just now she came up to my foot and lay on it, so I picked her up and the baking began. She wouldn’t stop. Purrs and baking. Felt awesome😋 I looked up this video whilst the baking was ongoing and she sat to watch her fellow felines and fell asleep😴

My cat kneads all the time. Especially when he’s tired. He’ll come up to me and I’ll lift up the blankets and he’ll go right underneath it and start kneading and purring. It’s so cute.

I am an accidental cat owner...many cats, most are feral. The momma is in my house after being abandoned by a woman down the street who abandoned 3 total. I got the female with all the baby making. She was found in my garage with a few kittens. Got almost all fixed including Mamma. She kept sneaking into my house and eventually, I just gave up and let her stay inside which is no small trick since I also have two rescue dogs and two parrots. She stalks the parrots so I have to be very careful. She is a kneader also..but she has scratched the dickens out of me doing her "bisquit making". I wondered why she was doing that and now I know.

So many different biscuits 😻

I got my kitten two to three days ago. She only needed a little bit of time to warm up to us. She loves smurgling a lot. She will often knead on my thighs or on my chest. She’s so cute but also super energetic and hyper. 😂🧡

Thanks for this. I’m trying to convince my husband that this is OK. Thanks to your video (and another telling him NOT to punish a cat for this, he may actually be learning.

@calliew311

Жыл бұрын

Punish? How do you punish a cat?

I’m so glad my Seba isn’t the only cat who smurgles while having a mouth full of fabric. She’s 15 and we both love cuddles that end up with this. I always know she’s happy, and her joy means the world to me.

If I sing " you are my sunshine" to my kitty Samantha, she immediately does this & we enjoy a snuggle, er, smurgle! I love her ♡

I call it nuzzling and I love it when both my cats do it, it's almost like a massage and they both purr while doing it lol its adorable ❤️.

Oh, how she kneads me ! 💞 My sweet furbaby will occasionally push her head against my side at cuddletime as if to say move over- When she first did this yrs ago, I was amazed at her strength & perseverance to "nudge" me to tell me how much she "kneads me" ! 😂😻😁

This whole video is perfection!!!!

Man, you put so much work into your videos! They are incredible fun to watch even for someone who doesn't have any cats lol

I love. Thank you for posting

You just answered my question right as I was writing again. You're too good bro.

My kitty Hunter did that for a long time after I got him. We adopted him from our local shelter at 8-9 weeks old and he did the kneading and suckling thing for almost a year. Now he just kneads.

Hah! That fluffy cat Smurgling while rep-blepping 2:12 ...adorably derpy!

🤣❤️that was awesome 😊❤️ love you man ❤️💪 he's good catlicks 😜

Haha awesome episode

This was a super fun and imformative video! Thank you!

Awe that makes me feel even better about my two fur babies🥰

Aw it is so sweet how much my cat loves smurgling. Especially my inner arms, which being a woman of a certain age, are very soft and moveable. Especially at 2 am, 3 am, 4 am and the 5 am smurgles. 😬 we are working on it 😊

Mine did that on the back of my neck while I was laying down and it felt like a neck massage from an angel

Loved your show brother

I've noticed every time I come home from work, my cat jumps up on my bed and does this for like 5 minutes on my fluffy blanket before coming onto my lap. I think it's adorable when she does it and she has her happy purring too. She also gives me kisses after doing this

Gotta love a smurgle❤️❤️

My cat Keaton doesn’t smurgle very often but she was born at a veterinarian clinic to a rescue feral mom and the mom/litter were fostered there. I’m sure, then, that she wasn’t weaned too early, so that supports the theory about weaning. She cuddles a lot and loves physical contact but not with the frenetic kneading associated. Very confident with other animals and people I think because she had such a great start and early exposure.

My Foster Kitty loves to make air Biscuits while cuddling my arm while nursing her newborns♡♡♡

Aww so sweet my cat goes crazy making her biscuits when I'm gone out the house for literally just an hour 😂❤ I left for two days and wouldn't stop and could tell I'm the most important thing to her and means the world to me

Had a little tomcat rescue who did this and I recognized the behavior right away. Glad someone has named it

All your videos are top notch. This one's like watching a Disney movie.

New favorite word alert!!

We have 2 kitties we've taken in... Katie, a 7 lb Calico, was abt 2 wks. I bottle fed her until she turned it away. She was abt 10 wks old. She 7 yo now and my hubby always has wet spots on his shirts. Lol My boy Opie was discovered at abt 3 wks old one cold and rainy Nov night by our nephew on his father's farm. I also bottle fed him. He's 4 now and a 23 lb ginger and white bi-color lovey who can't go to sleep at night without a 30 min smurgling session with my neck. He's the best cuddler! My heart breaks for these babies, however, for us, it has been our greatest reward. ❤️🙏✌️

We love our 17+ year old BARN CATS. They used to snuggle in hot water cabinet when cold. Now they won’t get off our porch. We are letting them sleep in warm house. One old guy is throwing up a lot. Hoping for a DIY treatment. They were feral and a trip to Vet hugely traumatic to all of us. Thanks for all your good advice!

Lovely 😻

I've just called it kneading and after watching KittenLady I've started to say to my kittens, they're making muffins or baking bread or squishing the spaghetti. Mine were taken a little too early from momma so they also suckle (and loudly!!) at the same time. They're so cute. I love my boys so much.

My husband said “why do they make biscuits on my belly and not yours?” I told him it’s because he has fluffy material! 😂

@bigjedimullet

3 жыл бұрын

Now you can confidently tell people when they see your cats making biscuits on him that they also know he’s husband material. 😉

hey everyone - I'm loving all of these other words for Smurgle - from kneading to "playing piano," "Fluffing pillows," etc... bring it on - tell me what *you* call it!

@tiff2106

4 жыл бұрын

Jackson Galaxy in german it is called treteln which is a cutiefied Version of treten =kicking. 😊

@pacjentPS

4 жыл бұрын

We like to call it "paw massage" and it's one of the cutest things our cat does.

@thereaperswoons

4 жыл бұрын

Mashing potatoes!

@nevar23

4 жыл бұрын

Making muffins!

@leaillex

4 жыл бұрын

Baking cakes

Yeah, making biscuits or kneading. When they're relaxed, happy, feeling the oneness of contentment. Accompanied by purring.

@paulacorreia6307

4 жыл бұрын

I'm from Portugal 🇵🇹 we call it "amassar" meening "doing Bread" 😻😻😻 I love when my 3 😸 does that ❤️❤️❤️

@itsjeninMass

4 жыл бұрын

And drooling.

@RosheenQuynh

4 жыл бұрын

@@itsjeninMass Mine doesn't drool

@kerryann9851

3 жыл бұрын

No making biscuits paired with blanket sucking

I was confused at first because it is called kneading where I am from. I hear that the term came about because that action that the cats do resembles kneading bread dough.

@lankytor6396

4 жыл бұрын

Mapledrop I’ve always heard it’s called kneading also (California here)

@Catzooa

4 жыл бұрын

Same here

@masterbeats6939

4 жыл бұрын

I’ve always thought that it was kneading too, and everyone I know says kneading as well. (Australia)

@grobanite4ever85

4 жыл бұрын

I called it kneading also

@Thorned_Rose

4 жыл бұрын

Same here in New Zealand

After being raised by cats my pug smurgles along with them.

@RosheenQuynh

4 жыл бұрын

ARE YOU SERIOUS?! THAT'S AMAZING :D

@dp2404

3 жыл бұрын

We want video proof! 😉

I call it "padding". It's usually accompanied by loud purring which is the best lullaby in the world 😻

@glittercatstudios

4 жыл бұрын

I agree! My Playdoh's (RIP) purr was so loud and wonderful I named it *"the fundering purr"*; funder, as in thunder, but in cat dialect. I got him to the point where he would allow me to lay on his hind flank/leg/hip at night and if he wasn't there, purring, then I just couldn't sleep. That cat carved out a piece of my heart that will never, ever be filled. I lost my precious Bengal, Chairman Meow, on March 20, 2017 to Diabetes, then Playdoh on October 16, 2017.to Anaplastic Sarcoma. Chairman was my absolute best friend in the world and would actually talk back to me and understood me when I talked to him. Playdoh lived through hell and back with me. He was my 20-pound linebacker with no neck and everyone called him a dog. He even barked a few times. I'm not kidding! He loved to ride in my car with me and would even go to work with me when I was an Event Coordinator at Michael's for a time. He lived in my car with me for 2-1/2 years when I became homeless and was there with me when I was accepted back to University and moved into my on-campus housing. i'm still grieving for my two boys, and I don't think it's ever going to end. Plus, I've been looking for another Bengal but can't seem to find any. Every single time I find one that is compatible with my house, someone with 14 cats already thinks they need another one and snags him out from under me! Every. single. time. I'm losing hope I've ever going to find my boy. :'(

@Pythonaria

4 жыл бұрын

@@glittercatstudios Don't lose hope. The right boy for you is out there. You just haven't met him yet.

@Trund27

4 жыл бұрын

Pythonaria Awww!! I love how your described that!!

@Trund27

4 жыл бұрын

Carla René omg, that’s adorable!

@MK-ih6wp

4 жыл бұрын

@@glittercatstudios hang in there, friend. Your cat-mate is out there looking for you, too!

Didn't Fergie write a song about this? Smurgalicious, wasn't it?

@grobanite4ever85

4 жыл бұрын

It was Fergalicious

@sindalari

4 жыл бұрын

@@grobanite4ever85 woosh.

@ZETTINGZinc

2 жыл бұрын

@@grobanite4ever85 wrinkle free brain

Please please please publish your dictionary one day. We need it! Hugs from Norway.

@lapislazuli06

4 жыл бұрын

I'd buy it!

@ClementineThorns

4 жыл бұрын

@@lapislazuli06 same

@user-bh6kb5kj6b

4 жыл бұрын

What a great idea! Hugs from Greece!

@parsifal40002

3 жыл бұрын

I'd buy it and don't even own a cat. Wife doesn't like cats!

When my kitty do it I say that she "pierze" in Polish it means doing laundry. It reminds me of doing laundry by your hands, like in old times😁 sorry for my english☹️ Greetings from Poland!

@MK-ih6wp

4 жыл бұрын

Love it!

@catreader9733

4 жыл бұрын

Your English was perfect, and your story is charming. Greetings in return from the United States.

@tulafloyd2892

4 жыл бұрын

@@catreader9733 thank you!

my cats knead but don't nurse. they normally knead for a bit before laying down on me.

@sips4296

4 жыл бұрын

Sameee

@waterandafter

4 жыл бұрын

Mine too, but they are old. I have one that will pet me back.

@litchtheshinigami8936

4 жыл бұрын

same

@MK-ih6wp

4 жыл бұрын

They're just trying to knead you to the perfect consistency before they plop down on you!

@MK-ih6wp

4 жыл бұрын

@@waterandafter pet you back? That's adorable

I dont have a cat, and I prefer dogs to cats. But watching this dude's love for cats just puts me in a better mood, every time.

@sarahque7797

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve always had dogs my entire life and thought I preferred dogs. Anyway fast forward I got a kitten because of this guy lol and I love her. Cats are a hoot!!! Love playing with her!!! So different from dogs love her! She’s fun and curious to totally independent.

Watching clips of kitties smurgling is the cutest thing ever. 😻

I once babysit my friend's cat. She barely knows me, in an unfamiliar place, but she sat on my chest, smurgling and purring. She was the friendliest and sweetest kitty.

my cat, seeing any blanket: M O T H E R

That's - 'Paddy Pawing'. My boy does it but he was not taken way from his mother to soon! He lived with her all his life until she passed away when he was 7 years old.

@giovanna722

4 жыл бұрын

I like that expression better, I think.

@Missfenyxx

4 жыл бұрын

we called it pitty -patting

@TheSuburban15

4 жыл бұрын

My girl cat kneads my bed. She nursed until she had teeth, and then Mom said, "No more!" This is normal, I think.

@gingerkid1048

4 жыл бұрын

Same. Two of my girls have one of their kids each around and they all do it. The one was waaaay too old when it’s mom decided no more nursing.

We always call it "Kitty Love" she's giving mommy some kitty love. Because to me that's the best way fur them to show us how they feel....

My cat's name is Biskit. Guess why? Lol

It is so funny my cats will run to me when they hear your voice

*Greetings from Turkey Jackson Galaxy. I'm taking videos of stray cats. I have 242 videos. I take them to the vet and build cat houses :)*

@h.calvert3165

4 жыл бұрын

What a good person you are! Thank you for your kindness! 💖

@macariusfreestyle8521

4 жыл бұрын

I do that on the winter with some abandoned cats I feed at our old land every night I head to work. They stay under our old trailer.

@h.calvert3165

4 жыл бұрын

@@macariusfreestyle8521 How kind you are, too! 🤗

@gordontheengineswifedr.nirmal

4 жыл бұрын

Love ur vids honey! U r awesome n so r ur cottons!

@marypoppins5154

3 жыл бұрын

You don’t just talk about helping, you “walk the talk”. You are my hero. May God bless you for your compassion and generosity! 😺😺😺

i call it “making muffins” to be cute, but i always heard it be officially referred to as kneading

Dawwww. My cat does this when she's on soft blankets or beds. And when she's being brushed. She loves being brushed. Being brushed is her catnip. She's one of the cats who doesn't react to catnip at all. But she acts completely strung out when she's being brushed. It is completely adorable. She'll need our stomachs and purr and even make moaning sounds.

I refer to it as kneading in English but in German one way to call it is 'Milch treten' or milk kicking if you translate it directly

This is so sweet! The first time I met my kitty we instantly bonded. I noticed she was "smurgling" right away. The first time I held her... same thing. The lady who sat in on our first meeting said "I hope she can go home with you it's clear you've already bonded". It's a beautiful thing when a cat chooses you... aaaand hearing scientific facts to back it up is awesome

the best bakers of the century 🥺

Neither of my cats does this, but we all love each other madly. The closest thing to smurgling around here is the cats cleaning each other : )

@minwellitsanicknamebegrate2531

4 жыл бұрын

That’s a good sigh that they were weened properly. a lot of the time they are separated from their mother too soon

What’s next? A bumper sticker “Has your cat 🐈 smurgled you today?”

@tinybunny1332

4 жыл бұрын

Bruce Smith I hope so tbh

@Hattori75

4 жыл бұрын

If not already, there should be.

@wild.berryz

4 жыл бұрын

i need that in my life

@HerLeenest

3 жыл бұрын

YES!!

Aww! My big baby Hunni Bun (was bottle raised) and he does "air smurgles." It is adorable! He'll be laying on his back feet in the air just smurgling away.

@huawietelcom4516

3 жыл бұрын

adorable

@elainehelmont4647

2 жыл бұрын

What is bottle raised? 😅 It's probably silly I am thinking of you raising a cat in a bottle lol. Hmmm probably talking about a milk feeder or something...

@ninazada

2 жыл бұрын

@@elainehelmont4647 yes, bottle-feeding a kitten instead of mama milk

When my late cat Indy used to do it to my ex he called it 'squashing the kiwifruits'. Because my cat would almost always Smurgle him in his groin area.

@s_rofbear

4 жыл бұрын

Amethyst - 😂😂😂😂

Not convinced about the parental figure thing, but surely deep comfort, trust and contentness.

This made me cry watching all the smurgling... My orange tabby, Fyodor, used to smurgle only when he was really 100% comfortable (only ever with me, not my boyfriend) and he would suck on his back toe while he did it. It was the cutest sound ever, it was like he was sucking his thumb. He died in June from Leukemia, it came on suddenly after I’d had him for 12 years with zero symptoms and the only cat he ever interacted with is my other little girl who was brought in the family at about a year old, so if she had the Leukemia she wouldn’t still be alive now (at least, that’s my understanding of how it works I could be wrong). It was sudden and heartbreaking, I have never been closer with any other organism period than I was with him. I’ll have a big orange tabby shaped hole in my heart for the rest of my life. Now my other cat and I have been inseparable, because she was super dependent on him. Sorry I puked my heart up a bit over this video, but watching it made me sad/happy - remembering him but heartbroken that we’ll never smurgle again.

2:12 that cat is smurgling and derping at the same time

@asrianugerahgustini9648

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha I love that expression, so different than any cat in this video🤣

In Greece we call it "Patusakia" aka little paws 🐱❤

It's funny cause I found a stray kitten and when he was older he would always want to nibble on my ear 😂❤🐱

The cuteness factor was off of the charts honestly. Ya gotta love cats and all of there quirks!

The accent...the fake MGM lion...and the cats. Smiled and laughed for good measure, too!

How proper. I tell my cat "Time to make the donuts" when he is kneading.

@apsarasangreal84

4 жыл бұрын

I loved that commercial

@leiram8833

3 жыл бұрын

My mom always says that to our cats!

Meow. I used to meow so convincing to strange cats. They would stop in their tracks. I am having trouble, with my Meow, mirrrrow etc, because I have been learning how to fight Parkinson's syndrome that affects my voice. My hand tremor also hampers me from safely and comfortably bottle feed very young orphans.

While I was watching this vid my cat came up and started doing just that, such an adorable boy!

Love it! Yet another secret word to confuse non-cat people moohaha!

It’s “making muffins” as my 7 yr old daughter says everynight 😻😻

My kneads (or smuggles, apparently) his favorite blanket.

I also just love how this series is essentially just an excuse to play cute cat videos lmao

My cat usually does it when she's hungry and I've been ignoring her other cues ;)

Watching cats smurgle is the most therapeutic thing for me 😴

I always call it "kneading". Adorable kitties! Loved it! Thanks Jackson!

I like the new "sense of humor" Jackson! Very entertaining! 😊

so cute i had a couple of cats did that :) its so cute we called it making his bed

I always called it milking or massaging. Though it often makes me sad because I deal with many abandoned kittens, I'm also very happy that they have me and their soft blankets to smurkle endlessly on.

We call it "lovey paws"! But "smurgle " works.....gets that slobber mouth thing into the combined action, lol.😺

Aweee. I'm happy crying. I love finding out that my beautiful kitty baby loves me. I sometimes feel like I'm not doing enough. I love your videos Jackson. I am so thankful for your knowledge.

My sweet boy has a particular blanket he loves to knead. Laying down for bed, pulling my cat against me under the blanket with his black kneading blanket in reach is the best recipe for making biscuits.

It's knitting! I ask him if he is making me a sweater when he does it.

We say “making dough” our tortie will hump the blanket while she makes dough on she’s always done that! 😹

We call it the classic "Makin Biscuits" but since I'm from Kentucky my family always puts on a comically country accent when we say it

My Bruce is the only cat I've shared my home with who doesn't do this. We took him from mama at like 8 weeks rather than 6. I'm Scottish and we called it sponging, or padding. Scratching is cooking. Derived from crook as cats claws resemble a Shepherds crook. Great video

One of my cats came up to smurgle me as I was watching this video 😂

My cat did this! I didn't know what it was called, since he was the only cat I've known that would 'nurse' (on his tail).