Head Nudges and Cuddles Log
Hi, I’m Azmi from Meknes! Think of this as a field guide to four gestures I see at home: the nose press, the chin rest, the leg flop, and the purr sit. Each entry below has its look, its usual hour, and what precedes it in my notes. No claims, just observations and sweet photos. This is not behavior advice, rabbits speak individually, and anything sudden or paired with appetite change goes to a vet, not a blog. Here: my catalog, built over a month of evening sits.
Entry 1, Nose press (the question mark)
Look: dry nose pushed into my knee, ankle, or elbow for 1 to 3 seconds, then a pause with ears up. Usual hour: 19:00 to 20:00, after tidy time, 14 of 22 logged presses fall in that window. Preceded by: me sitting still 5+ minutes (12 cases), fresh hay top-up (6), nothing I can see (4). My answer: a calm two-minute sit, hand resting on the floor palm-down, no petting unless he pushes in twice. Double-press days (press, pause, press again) preceded the longest sits in my log, 15+ minutes three times. Photo tip: nearly impossible, he moves too fast; my only good frame is a blurred nose at my slipper, timestamp 19:42. I note head nudges, flops against my leg, and quiet sitting together, each with one line of context like after play or evening calm.
Entry 2, Chin rest (the paperweight)
Look: chin laid flat on my foot, shin, or forearm, body loafed, eyes half closed. Weight real enough to feel. Usual hour: 20:00 to 21:00, the latest gesture of the evening, 9 of 11 chin rests came after 20:00. Preceded by: a flop nearby first (8 cases), then a scoot closer. My answer: freeze completely. Chin rests break if I shift; three broke when I reached for tea. Sessions after a chin rest average 12 minutes of stillness, the calmest data in the whole log. My log shows nudges cluster in the evening after tidy time, and chin rests cluster even later, like a second wave. Keep entries short so you keep going: my line reads 20:15 chin foot 12 min.
Entry 3, Leg flop (the comma)
Look: full side flop with shoulder or back touching my leg, sometimes a soft exhale on the way down. Usual hour: 19:00 to 19:30, right after zoomies, 10 of 13 leg flops follow a run within 20 minutes. Preceded by: zoomies (10), long play (3). My answer: continue my routine, I mean it, I keep reading and let the flop be background. Reacting with petting woke him twice and ended the flop; ignoring it lets it run 20 to 40 minutes. I answer a nudge with a calm two-minute sit, then continue my routine, that sentence covers entries 1 and 2, while entry 3 gets no answer at all, just shared floor.
Entry 4, Purr sit (the engine)
Look: loafed or half-flopped against me, rhythmic tooth grinding felt through my leg more than heard. Usual hour: scattered, 7 logged from 17:00 to 21:00. Preceded by: jaw rubs from me (4 cases, the only entry where my action comes first), long sits (3). My answer: slow jaw rubs continue, breathing slow. Longest purr sit: 18 minutes on a rainy Thursday, my personal record and the photo I show everyone. Over a month the cuddle log becomes a lovely album: 22 presses, 11 chin rests, 13 leg flops, 7 purr sits, 53 entries, each one line, each with its context word. Evening calm dominates the context column; after-play runs second. Morning entries: exactly one, a sleepy 7:40 chin rest I still don’t understand. Outliers stay in the log with question marks, the guide has honest gaps and I like them.
Gesture photos taken quietly mid-evening, flash never used. Not vet advice. Observation notes only, sudden behavior change plus appetite change means vet first.
How the guide gets used, monthly census
End of month I census the guide like a birdwatcher: presses 22, chin rests 11, leg flops 13, purr sits 7. Next month: presses 19, chins 14, flops 12, purrs 9, chins and purrs climbing as evenings lengthened into spring. The census fits on an index card taped opposite the flop diary, and comparing the two cards is my Sunday ritual: high-flop weeks are high-press weeks, always. New entry pending: twice this month a slow blink held three seconds during purr sits, too few to catalog, noted as blink? with a question mark. The guide stays open-ended by design; entry 5 arrives when it earns six sightings. Until then the four entries cover 53 of 55 logged moments, and the two mysteries keep me humble. That humility is the entire ethic of the catalog: name what repeats, flag what doesn’t, never translate.
One last margin note: the guide changed my evenings more than his. Knowing the four shapes, I stopped misreading presses as demands and started answering with stillness, and stillness gets more visits than any lure. Month three’s census will tell whether spring keeps climbing. Until then: sit down, stay flat, let the nose decide.
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