My cat thinks his left paw is the "sneaky paw." If he tries to get something with his right paw and I stop him, he'll wait a couple of beats then reach for it with his left paw because I'll never see That coming! ha
My son, now 22 years old, did a science fair project in 1st grade about this. We found out that our cat, Princess, is left pawed. She is now 16 years old and still going strong.
I had a cat, Pandora, who would do a trick: I'd hold up a treat and say "shake please" and she would pat my hand with her paw. When she was around 15, she had a stroke. While examining her, the vet mentioned paw preference. I said I knew she was right-pawed (the side affected by the stroke) and explained how I knew by demonstrating the trick, not expecting her to respond---I didn't even have a treat. Pandora made a herculean effort and managed to fling/topple her right paw toward my hand . . . yeah, we totally found a treat for her. The cute thing was, when I tried again a couple of days later, she'd adapted: she switched to using her left paw 🙂
My dog favors her left side and has had scar tissue on her front wrist since before we adopted her. We kinda wonder if she got hit by a car or something and has adapted since. It's adorable that your cat is probably better trained after a stroke than my foxhound. (She will sit pretty for treats, but only after she's tried just about every other trick...)
my cat is right pawed and I know this because she points at her food measuring cup, then her food, and then her dish when she's hungry with her right paw ( like these are the steps hurry up). She also always slaps the other cat with that paw.
I have a right-pawed cat - it’s the one she begs with, “excuse me, churu?” - and an ambidextrous cat. Not surprisingly, lil miss ambidextrous is an agent of chaos and terror. 😂
left handed scissors aren't a scam! if a left hand person uses standard right handed scissors the curve of the blades and edge of the blades will be in the wrong position and be much harder to get a clean cut especially if trying to cut on a line or specific measurement coming from a left handed person who likes to sew
I found this out when I injured a tendon in my right hand and thought I could just flip my scissors over to cut left-handed while I was recovering. Nope! The order of the blades matters and it takes much more effort to cut and makes a ragged edge.
left handed scissors are quite nice when you have to use scissors for long periods of time, or repeatedly, since the torsion you put on them (yes, it IS important) is in the same direction the blades press together. you CAN use right handed scissors in your left hand, but it's a lot less natural to be twisting one way and squeezing a different way, than to just squeeze in one direction only
As a lefty, my thumb went numb for months from using righty scissors, due to the molded ridge hitting the nerve channel on top of the big knuckle. Minus that ridge you're correct.
I hated going to get my hair cut, so i bought professional grade left-handed scissors and cut it in my tub. Been doing it for years now, but it was so different cutting with them compared to regular scissors. You need to put pressure in different areas, and there's a lot less hand fatigue even after cutting for over an hour. That's when I realized right handed ppl have it easy 😂
@@Killer_Turnip You're right in more ways than that, us lefties have a 60% greater chance of dying in an accident than righties. It's due to having to do something right-handed. Yikes!
One of our cats is left pawed but because of severe eye infections as a kitten only has one eye, his right eye. This makes playing with string and such a bit challenging for him. He reaches from his left side for what he sees on his right side. His aim and depth perception are usually off. Good thing he’s a real trooper, it never gets him down!
Left-handed scissors are very helpful to left-handed school children. It's a little safer to use them until they figure out how to use both of their hands.
@@Dr.BozelkaERVet1No, left-handed scissors has the shears the other way around so that one can cut properly following a drawn line. But I mostly use right-handed scissors anyway because the're easier to find and less expensive. Left-handed cork screws and can openers are a scam though.
@@torbjornbernhardson3634 No way, I still struggle with both of those things while I learned cutting with scissors young and use right handed ones with my right hand. Baking and to some extent cooking are difficult if you are left handed.
I can use right-handed scissors when they are new, but what I've found is that over time they stop cutting for me much quicker than for my right-handed family. There is an intermediate period where I can still get them to cut if I hold them upside-down or use my right hand (if I don't need to cut in a straight line). Left-handed scissors cost more, but I can use them for longer and it offsets that initial cost for me. I just wish I could find left-handed kitchen shears.
I nearly did a spit take with my coffee when I saw the text on the screen about cats at 0:21. 😂🤣I just put stuff on the counter for them to push off and see which paw they use most often. Or which one they like to splash water with.
When you train a flyball dog you put a ball in a corner to see which way the dog turn to pick up the ball. That way you know which side of the flyball box to load the tennis ball for each dog. You write the names of the dogs on paper taped to the top of the box for the box loader. Is a sport in itself. 😊
My cat is left pawed. She knows how to to shake, high five, and wave; but does all three with her left paw. If I try to angle myself to encourage her to attempt the same trick with her right paw she will get up and move to offer me the left.
Had wondered about this as two of my dobermanns have been lefties, and one is right pawed. Realised when teaching them to shake a paw as puppy's. As it would also be the paw they put out to take first step with each time.
My cat is definitely right pawed. She almost always uses that right paw first, unless her arthritis is bugging her. Then, it's whichever paw is more convenient.
Scissors often have unidirectional molding on the handle, which makes it very uncomfortable (even painful, after a minute) for a lefty to use right handed scissors. The two blades of the scissors can also be pressed a tiny bit further apart, rather than closer together, when held by the left hand, which forces lefties to hold the scissors differently, which can also make holding some scissors much less comfortable/painful for lefties. If a righty wants to understand it, they can try using a left handed pair of scissors.
What bothers me more than the scissors thing is that paper coffee cups are wrapped for right handed people. If you stir with your left hand, the stick catches on the seam. I use coffee cups more often than scissors. Also, I think my cat is ambidextrous.
I'm so triggered by the left-handed scissors comment lol as someone who's been using regular scissors for years and just got a left-handed set, it's an amazing difference! I don't get pain in my hand if I use them after a couple of minutes, my neck doesn't hurt because I'm looking to the side to see exactly where the cut is happening (like if I have to cut on a specific line) and they actually cut them instead of just bend the paper!
My dog had a clear paw preference for her right side, I could tell because I trained her to give me each paw when putting her harness on and the left side was always more of a struggle. A couple years ago, she injured that leg and ended up needing an amputation, so now she's a permanent rightie by default.
Not true! The blade profiles in _truly_ lefty scissors are reversed, so a lefty can see the cutting line clearly and doesn't have to crane their neck or twist the scissors to see what they're cutting. Other than that, well done on the engagement-bait!
When I was a kid, my little dogs could dance. One was right pawed going in a circle, another was left pawed, and another was ambi-pawed (could easily dance in either direction).
I started life as left pawed, but it was frowned upon way back in the dinosaur age, so i was forced to use my right paw. Didnt work the way they expected. I woukd turn my paper almost upside down when writing. Sports type stuff was lefty. My cat Larry was an equal opportunity paw type. At 3 am he would sneak up and whap my face, claws out, with both paws. Had to sleep with glasses on. 😂
My tuxedo kitty is definitely left pawed, he uses it to get my attention, tap my head and scratch the piss out of me. My tortie is right pawed, she uses it to try and get into cabinets she shouldn’t be in, turn over pictures of my grandma and attack her favorite stuffed otter. Remy feels inadequate in his left-pawedness, so he gangs up on Amelia before she can put him in his place. Tsk.
I think most of my cats are right-pawed. I know my polydactyl girl is since she uses the right paw to yank food bowls towards her if she decides she doesn't want to eat out of her own bowl and would rather steal from someone else's. My chaotic tortie doesn't seem to have a preference; same for my idiot orange boy. I love that cat, but he's pretty stupid. My old orange man (he'll be 17 this Spring if he makes it) is right pawed for sure and he's much smarter than the young orange boy (he'll be 5 this summer, I think).
Scissors have, or used to have, handles that reshaped for the right hand. The left hand could not get a comfortable grip. Don't believe me? Try left handed Scissors and see how it feels.
Hey, stop beating up on the left-handed people. The funniest thing is in Washington State, where I live, we have more Left-handed vet tech's and veterinarians out here😂😂😂😂. Lived in Southern California and worked with 2 Left-handed vets, but that was it. We all moved to Washington State. Trust me when I say, most scissors don't like me. Never tried left-handed scissors so don't know if that works, but the veterinarians never complained about scissor kind of instruments, so it's got to be a gimmick to make money off of the Lefty's out there 😂😂😂😂😂
@@trixietrx2346 The fact you have to cut with your less dexterous hand to use righty scissors properly proves that left handed scissors are not a gimmick.
One of our cats is left pawed but because of severe eye infections as a kitten only has one eye, his right eye. This makes playing with string and such a bit challenging for him. He reaches from his left side for what he sees on his right side. His aim and depth perception are usually off. Good thing he’s a real trooper, it never gets him down!
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My cat thinks his left paw is the "sneaky paw." If he tries to get something with his right paw and I stop him, he'll wait a couple of beats then reach for it with his left paw because I'll never see That coming! ha
My son, now 22 years old, did a science fair project in 1st grade about this. We found out that our cat, Princess, is left pawed. She is now 16 years old and still going strong.
I had a cat, Pandora, who would do a trick: I'd hold up a treat and say "shake please" and she would pat my hand with her paw. When she was around 15, she had a stroke. While examining her, the vet mentioned paw preference. I said I knew she was right-pawed (the side affected by the stroke) and explained how I knew by demonstrating the trick, not expecting her to respond---I didn't even have a treat. Pandora made a herculean effort and managed to fling/topple her right paw toward my hand . . . yeah, we totally found a treat for her. The cute thing was, when I tried again a couple of days later, she'd adapted: she switched to using her left paw 🙂
My dog favors her left side and has had scar tissue on her front wrist since before we adopted her. We kinda wonder if she got hit by a car or something and has adapted since. It's adorable that your cat is probably better trained after a stroke than my foxhound. (She will sit pretty for treats, but only after she's tried just about every other trick...)
My then 5 year old niece, "I'm right handed. Hailey is no pawed, she's mouthed."
my cat is right pawed and I know this because she points at her food measuring cup, then her food, and then her dish when she's hungry with her right paw ( like these are the steps hurry up). She also always slaps the other cat with that paw.
My cat don't point to shit if she's hungry. She just meows and doesnt shut her pie hole until the food is in her face.
I have a right-pawed cat - it’s the one she begs with, “excuse me, churu?” - and an ambidextrous cat. Not surprisingly, lil miss ambidextrous is an agent of chaos and terror. 😂
left handed scissors aren't a scam! if a left hand person uses standard right handed scissors the curve of the blades and edge of the blades will be in the wrong position and be much harder to get a clean cut especially if trying to cut on a line or specific measurement coming from a left handed person who likes to sew
I found this out when I injured a tendon in my right hand and thought I could just flip my scissors over to cut left-handed while I was recovering. Nope! The order of the blades matters and it takes much more effort to cut and makes a ragged edge.
left handed scissors are quite nice when you have to use scissors for long periods of time, or repeatedly, since the torsion you put on them (yes, it IS important) is in the same direction the blades press together. you CAN use right handed scissors in your left hand, but it's a lot less natural to be twisting one way and squeezing a different way, than to just squeeze in one direction only
As a lefty, my thumb went numb for months from using righty scissors, due to the molded ridge hitting the nerve channel on top of the big knuckle. Minus that ridge you're correct.
Left hand solidarity. Mine didn't go numb, but I did end up with a spectacular ring-shaped bruise for a month.
I was gonna say, as a left handed person, it depend on the molding. some of them are pretty uncomfortable, if not outright painful, to use left-handed
I hated going to get my hair cut, so i bought professional grade left-handed scissors and cut it in my tub. Been doing it for years now, but it was so different cutting with them compared to regular scissors. You need to put pressure in different areas, and there's a lot less hand fatigue even after cutting for over an hour. That's when I realized right handed ppl have it easy 😂
@@Killer_Turnip You're right in more ways than that, us lefties have a 60% greater chance of dying in an accident than righties. It's due to having to do something right-handed. Yikes!
One of our cats is left pawed but because of severe eye infections as a kitten only has one eye, his right eye. This makes playing with string and such a bit challenging for him. He reaches from his left side for what he sees on his right side. His aim and depth perception are usually off. Good thing he’s a real trooper, it never gets him down!
Left-handed scissors are very helpful to left-handed school children. It's a little safer to use them until they figure out how to use both of their hands.
This is the only good purpose for left handed scissors! Teaching left handed children.
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@@Dr.BozelkaERVet1No, left-handed scissors has the shears the other way around so that one can cut properly following a drawn line. But I mostly use right-handed scissors anyway because the're easier to find and less expensive. Left-handed cork screws and can openers are a scam though.
@@torbjornbernhardson3634 No way, I still struggle with both of those things while I learned cutting with scissors young and use right handed ones with my right hand. Baking and to some extent cooking are difficult if you are left handed.
I can use right-handed scissors when they are new, but what I've found is that over time they stop cutting for me much quicker than for my right-handed family. There is an intermediate period where I can still get them to cut if I hold them upside-down or use my right hand (if I don't need to cut in a straight line). Left-handed scissors cost more, but I can use them for longer and it offsets that initial cost for me. I just wish I could find left-handed kitchen shears.
I nearly did a spit take with my coffee when I saw the text on the screen about cats at 0:21. 😂🤣I just put stuff on the counter for them to push off and see which paw they use most often. Or which one they like to splash water with.
When you train a flyball dog you put a ball in a corner to see which way the dog turn to pick up the ball. That way you know which side of the flyball box to load the tennis ball for each dog. You write the names of the dogs on paper taped to the top of the box for the box loader. Is a sport in itself. 😊
My ferret is trained to play a toy piano. He always uses his left paw!
That is a new sentence. Congratulations!
that's so cute ❤
My cat is left pawed. She knows how to to shake, high five, and wave; but does all three with her left paw. If I try to angle myself to encourage her to attempt the same trick with her right paw she will get up and move to offer me the left.
We have had a couple of left pawed kitties, a couple ambidextrous and many right pawed.
Had wondered about this as two of my dobermanns have been lefties, and one is right pawed. Realised when teaching them to shake a paw as puppy's. As it would also be the paw they put out to take first step with each time.
Hmm maybe drawing blood or setting iv from their non preferred paw could be useful to them feeling less impaired by the discomfort?
My cat is definitely right pawed. She almost always uses that right paw first, unless her arthritis is bugging her. Then, it's whichever paw is more convenient.
Scissors often have unidirectional molding on the handle, which makes it very uncomfortable (even painful, after a minute) for a lefty to use right handed scissors. The two blades of the scissors can also be pressed a tiny bit further apart, rather than closer together, when held by the left hand, which forces lefties to hold the scissors differently, which can also make holding some scissors much less comfortable/painful for lefties. If a righty wants to understand it, they can try using a left handed pair of scissors.
My dog starts walking and paws at things and holds with her left :)
I love the actions... stretching for a treat, attempting to remove tape from nose etc. Brilliant.
What bothers me more than the scissors thing is that paper coffee cups are wrapped for right handed people. If you stir with your left hand, the stick catches on the seam. I use coffee cups more often than scissors. Also, I think my cat is ambidextrous.
I'm a lefty and I can't cut with right handed scissors. Well, I can make them go up and down, but the cuts are circular.
0:53 you have excellent taste in trail mix, sir!
Random find at Costco. I love peanut butter cups, and I regret not my decision to get that trail mix!
I'm so triggered by the left-handed scissors comment lol as someone who's been using regular scissors for years and just got a left-handed set, it's an amazing difference! I don't get pain in my hand if I use them after a couple of minutes, my neck doesn't hurt because I'm looking to the side to see exactly where the cut is happening (like if I have to cut on a specific line) and they actually cut them instead of just bend the paper!
My tortie was almost ambidextrous, but had a slight preference for her right paw. My dilute tortie has a right paw preference.
I have a pair of left handed scissors that would give you blisters very quickly if you used them right handed. 😊
My dog had a clear paw preference for her right side, I could tell because I trained her to give me each paw when putting her harness on and the left side was always more of a struggle.
A couple years ago, she injured that leg and ended up needing an amputation, so now she's a permanent rightie by default.
Not true! The blade profiles in _truly_ lefty scissors are reversed, so a lefty can see the cutting line clearly and doesn't have to crane their neck or twist the scissors to see what they're cutting.
Other than that, well done on the engagement-bait!
When I was a kid, my little dogs could dance. One was right pawed going in a circle, another was left pawed, and another was ambi-pawed (could easily dance in either direction).
If the scissor design is ciral, they will suit one handed more than the other. Same for all hand tools.
I started life as left pawed, but it was frowned upon way back in the dinosaur age, so i was forced to use my right paw. Didnt work the way they expected. I woukd turn my paper almost upside down when writing. Sports type stuff was lefty. My cat Larry was an equal opportunity paw type. At 3 am he would sneak up and whap my face, claws out, with both paws. Had to sleep with glasses on. 😂
My tuxedo kitty is definitely left pawed, he uses it to get my attention, tap my head and scratch the piss out of me. My tortie is right pawed, she uses it to try and get into cabinets she shouldn’t be in, turn over pictures of my grandma and attack her favorite stuffed otter. Remy feels inadequate in his left-pawedness, so he gangs up on Amelia before she can put him in his place. Tsk.
I think I heard somewhere that cats can also be ambidextrous (as on both a righty and a lefty.) Is that also true?
I think most of my cats are right-pawed. I know my polydactyl girl is since she uses the right paw to yank food bowls towards her if she decides she doesn't want to eat out of her own bowl and would rather steal from someone else's. My chaotic tortie doesn't seem to have a preference; same for my idiot orange boy. I love that cat, but he's pretty stupid. My old orange man (he'll be 17 this Spring if he makes it) is right pawed for sure and he's much smarter than the young orange boy (he'll be 5 this summer, I think).
Scissors have, or used to have, handles that reshaped for the right hand. The left hand could not get a comfortable grip. Don't believe me? Try left handed Scissors and see how it feels.
Do doyy. They are mammals like us. Why should it be surprising?
Hey, stop beating up on the left-handed people. The funniest thing is in Washington State, where I live, we have more Left-handed vet tech's and veterinarians out here😂😂😂😂. Lived in Southern California and worked with 2 Left-handed vets, but that was it. We all moved to Washington State. Trust me when I say, most scissors don't like me. Never tried left-handed scissors so don't know if that works, but the veterinarians never complained about scissor kind of instruments, so it's got to be a gimmick to make money off of the Lefty's out there 😂😂😂😂😂
They are a gimmick, we all just had to learn to cut with our right hands ;)
@@trixietrx2346 The fact you have to cut with your less dexterous hand to use righty scissors properly proves that left handed scissors are not a gimmick.
@@spacecaptain9188 But lefty scissors never worked well, from what I remember. They'd probably be made better now, though lol.
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I know that sulphur-crested cockatoos are predominantly left-footed. 😊
One of our cats is left pawed but because of severe eye infections as a kitten only has one eye, his right eye. This makes playing with string and such a bit challenging for him. He reaches from his left side for what he sees on his right side. His aim and depth perception are usually off. Good thing he’s a real trooper, it never gets him down!