Other Names for Crab Cats

[u/Azraeddit]

I hope this will be allowed here as I have yet to capture a picture of my son in crab cat form. I was just wondering what everyone calls this particular phenomenon. I for one, call it “Fluffy Puffy” “Fluffy Puffies.” Or “Hissy Puffies.”

[u/arthurdentstowels]

I've always said "uh-oh she's in italic mode!" when my cat crabs.
She's running in italic!

[u/WeAreClouds → u/arthurdentstowels]

Haha I love this.

[u/Express-Stop7830 → u/arthurdentstowels]

This is fabulous and I will now use it. Thank you!

[u/Jdubee03]

Cat rangoons

[u/Azraeddit → u/Jdubee03]

You’re tellin’ me a cat ran this goon?

[u/RickShifty → u/Jdubee03]

Oh, this ones noice

[u/dumplingdoodoo]

I call it Halloween cat mode myself

[u/deejayrareco9 → u/dumplingdoodoo]

Ours is similar, we say Spooky Cat

[u/dumplingdoodoo → u/deejayrareco9]

Spooky cat rolls off the tongue better

[u/Asterion724 → u/dumplingdoodoo]

I use Halloween cat too!

[u/WeAreClouds → u/dumplingdoodoo]

This is what I’ve always called it. Long before I ever heard the term crab cats. And I think Halloween Cat pose works so much better still.

[u/Munchkins_nDragons]

My cat doesn’t really go full crab cat, but ever since he was a baby the fur along his spine would stick straight up when he gets a little wound up. When he was a kitten we called it his stegosaurus ridge and it just kind of stuck. So now, instead of crabbing, we call it ridging.

[u/fearthainne]

I call it goblin mode and also "all fuzzed up"

[u/mischa_is_online]

Sideways cat!

[u/BottomBinchBirdy]

To me, just getting fluffy isn't enough, it's only a crab cat if they're walking sideways. My cat doesn't usually go full fluff, I just smooth down his bottlebrush tail after he's spooked. Which is that I call it, "bottlebrush"

[u/TheSquirrelsHigh]

i call it my cat’s “gollum mode”
especially when he was a kitten omg

[u/TwoOneTwos]

i call it “goobin” mode, he becomes a goober and starts goobing around

[u/Azraeddit → u/TwoOneTwos]

Oh I like this one! Straight up goobin!!

[u/Intelligent_Bench_56]

Witch catting

[u/1more_oddity]

My grandma calls it "running like a Chort". Chorts are devils in Slavic mythology (we're Ukrainian), so my grandma basically jokingly calls her cat possessed.

[u/Eclipse-Raven]

Wiggle walking

[u/reserveds]

When he gets his Mohawk out

[u/ElleAC207]

A friend of mine calls it “big steppin’”

[u/Azraeddit → u/ElleAC207]

This one is one of my top three favorites.

[u/Gemfyre713]

I call it "Spood", as in spooder.

[u/Munneh]

Halloween kitty

[u/cat_selling_souls]

Side winders and 🗯Pooooof🗯 are my favorites for crabbing activities.

[u/Safe-Appointment2950]

I call mine “floofy poofies.”

[u/Gattaca401]

Sideways Halloween Cat

[u/WorthyJellyfish0Doom]

r/poofcats ? Though they're mostly puffy tails, some crabcats

[u/Cant_Blink]

I call it "sideways!" or "maximum sideways!" The exclamation point is a very important part of it.

[u/Streak_Free_Shine]

I call it the hissy-puffies or the hissy-puffy tail

[u/SevroAuShitTalker]

Exorcist kitty

[u/Fshermansfriend]

Side cat

[u/Salty-Programmer1682]

Sideways cat

[u/PartCrazy]

Going "poof"

[u/galaxyeyes47]

Halloween cat

[u/that-Sarah-girl]

Cat used embiggen

[u/ClungeWhisperer]

I call them spicy possums (australian brush-tail possums)

[u/Seaboats]

Poof tart

[u/ednosnomore]

I call it “floofy tail”

[u/Lissa_Marie19]

We called ours ‘Halloween Kitties’.

[u/Sea_Branch_2697]

I call it spidering, because that's what the movement reminds me of lol

[u/heidivonhoop]

We call it side stepping

[u/DocDragon]

I always called it twinkle toes.

[u/whotolduthatt]

Horsing

[u/Kumar_420]

Frisk mode

[u/Japonia7873]

Ahlelele Ahlelas. I call them that way. It's from the Instagram sound they mostly use when cat do the carb pose.

[u/Due_Release5709]

We call it archie back, not very creative. And foofy tail when they puff up

[u/BunkusBunk]

I call it “being clingy” lol