ss_blog_claim=4079d6def1eb3506940afc491a88a95f

Open-mouth-cat-stink has a name. That name is Flehmen.

Thoughts Add comments

In doing some research on my bacon scented air freshener post i stumbled on the Wikipedia entry about flehmen. People with cats have probably seen this when their pet sniffs something particularly odd. In my case that would be my toe jam. The cat would take a whiff and then sort of sit back and open their lips and make what a friend of mine once called open-mouth-cat-stink. Since i grew up on Furman Road i should be able to remember “flehmen” but open-mouth-cat-stink is so much more fun to say.



Related Posts

6 Responses to “Open-mouth-cat-stink has a name. That name is Flehmen.”

  1. iain iain Says:

    so, its the animal version of (a human reaction) gasface. a close relative to stinkeye, and a neighbor of crookeye.

  2. MikeDawg MikeDawg Says:

    That is really funny, my girlfriend and I call it our cat’s “stink-face”, and we sometimes (for amusement) try and get her to smell things that would cause her to make that face.

  3. MikeDawg’s Blog » Blog Archive » Flehmen MikeDawg’s Blog » Blog Archive » Flehmen Says:

    […] Just a couple days ago, he posted this blog entry.  I found it awesomely amusing, becuase my girlfriend and I refer to that face our cat makes (only one of them does it) as her “stink-face”.  Often times, for our own amusement, we force the cat to smell something, in hopes that our cat will make that face, becuase it is so funny.               […]

  4. melement melement Says:

    Thank you for clearing up the mystery of my cats “stink-Face” My boyfriend and I thought our cat was just weird.

  5. cece cece Says:

    Joe and I call it “spunk-butt face” because Charlie used to make that face after licking his dirty bits or smelling his spunk.

    But then, Charlie is the only cat I’ve heard of who continued to hump and spunk AFTER being “fixed.”

  6. MOnique MOnique Says:

    HAhahahah…..duuude i thought my cat was the only cat that did that wierd face, til i got another one….but i still dont get why they do it..is it cause they are trying to process the smell??

    but watever it is its funny as hell

Leave a Reply

Entries RSS Comments RSS Log in