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That’s where the term “catatonic” comes from, or so I’ve heard, and it’s a reflex because mother cats carry their babies by the scruff of their neck. From what I understand it’s totally harmless.

Someone who actually knows these things can correct me if I’m wrong of course.

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As the owner of various cats over 50 years it does nothing to adult cats. It will hurt an adult cat because their weight is too much for the skin to hold. As a kid I tried it many times because I heard the myth and it only made my cat more angry.

I don’t believe kittens are affected other than being physically unable to do anything. Sort of like if you were put in a half-Nelson hold. You wouldn’t be catatonic, just unable to fight back.

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You don’t pick an adult cat up by the scruff! But – at least for some videogenic cats – they will instinctively relax.

My cat relaxes, but then my cat gets all loungy anytime I interact with him.

Pet tax: He is one with the universe in a box.

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As an owner of a less cats over less years, this is absolutely a thing and is sometimes referred to as “disabling” or “deactivating” the cat. You can do it at home with a clothes pin.

You don’t pick them up.

Here’s an example from what looks like a professional setting. https://youtu.be/T9TmmF79Rw0

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A clamp (padded, preferably) on the scruff of the neck will temporarily brick a cat.

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You’re wrong.

Catatonic syndrome was a diagnosis first used by a German psychiatrist in the 1800’s. Before that it was described by ancient Greeks.

It’s a category (also a word that has nothing to do with cats) of major depression and schizophrenia.

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Scruffing a cat poisons it into a coma?

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