My wacky cat is licking my keyboard!

it's a "grimace". our black cat raises his lip when he's doing the sniffing.we call it elvis face,cause it's just the one side that cat has to smell EVERYTHING. if he's never seen it,it must be smelled.

Hey I like how you have a cat named big man since my cats name is little man . Sadly , he is big though I have a cat Caesar who actually will come over and lick you . Late at night he likes to lick my fiances head . I dont wanna say this but I think he likes sweat. My cats sometimes make that face too and I have no idea what it means . I will be curious to see what people post .

I don't recall ever seeing the cat licking or sniffing the keyboard. My cat is pretty lazy though. He has been know to give me a dirty look a few times when I am trying to take something from him that he is interested in. He got really mad at me the other day when I stopped the baby from feeding him. She was offering him a whole slice of american cheese.

i never thought that a cat will lick the keyboard its a bit funny to hear this as i heard it for the first time. anyways i never had a cat so i don't know if cats can smell keys of the keyboard i feel that its not possible (before reading this of course)

My cat doesn't lick the key board, but she has to smell everything. Sometimes when I've been working in the yard, and sit down to rest, she'll come smell the soles of my shoes, lick them tentatively and then do the "snarl" thing. I think they smell something that's either unfamiliar to them or they know exactly what it is and see it as a threat. The material the key board is made of may be a "mystery" smell Big Man is trying to place. It occurs to me that in the case of the cat licking the CD racks that these are stored in a warehouse before sale. Most warehouses no matter how clean they're kept are plagued with mice and/or rats. Their urine scent will penetrate cardboard and even plastic. That may be what's making the cat go crazy over the racks.

That is so funny! Just as I read your comment about your cat my cat stretched up to the arm of my chair, looked up at me, and let out a loud meow! It was like...hey..pay attention to me. One of my cats always jumps in my lap while I am typing and tries to pull my hands away from the keyboard. It is adorable! Thanks for sharing....at least I know that my cat is not alone in her weirdness!!

i never have a cat as a pet ever... i only have a dog before... so i don't really know about cat... but when i did have a dog in the past, my dog also like to smell and lick at everything in my house... including licking me... :-) i think that is the way she expressed her love and showed that she likes me by licking me... :-) it is very cute though... take care and have a nice day...

My cats did when they were younger, but now that they are 10 and 12, they do not do things like that anymore.

My cat does that all the time. I can' remember what that's called, but my sister the cat lady probably would. My cat licks everything, including my when I'm asleep. haha He also takes a running start at me and knocks the laptop right off of my lap, when I'm using it at home.

Our cat has a similar strange behavior. My eldest son bought CD racks for each of my two youngest children for Christmas a few years back. The CD racks are made of a hard plastic material. They swivel around such that the CD can be pulled out from any side and are triangular in shape. Our crazy cat will find those CD racks no matter where we move them and he will sit and lick them incessently! My daughter put hers up on her desk and he hops up to the desktop and licks the CD rack! She then moved it to a corner of her room where he found it and continues to lick it! If he tires of licking hers he goes to my other son's room and begins to lick his CD rack. Strange!!!

I prefer dogs over cats. The are a nuisance to my existence. Unfortunately there are many wild cats coming in to my house. They ran all over the place, they sh-t and pee wherever they like. Thats the thing i hate most about this feline creature. The smell of their sh-t is so stinky and vomit inducing.

I was going to say you must've eaten something while at the computer but you said your daughter does that so that's probably what it is he's smelling. However, if he's snarling, then some other cat may have done something not so nice which is marked it's territory, which is normal for them to do but still, on your keyboard? YUCK!! Might be a wise idea to clean it and clean it really good!!

I have one kitty who does that all the time she actually looks mean when she does it like she is ready to attack we laugh at her when she is like that! My other kitty I have never seen do that though.