This has been confusing me and I though someone here might know the answer.

I live in a cold place where the temperature has been around -15 c and quite dry.

I pet my cats quite normally, starting with the head and down the back to the tail, the back to the head again.

But if I touch the cat's ears, zap!  An audible and in the dark quite visible shock.  The cat feels it, too.  

This seems confusing to me.  I would totally understand if I petted one cat and touched another cat's ear and gave it a shock, but on the same cat with the same hand, that don't seem right.

I though of grounding myself with one of those things people use to fix motherboards, but I don't have one.  Of course wetting the cat first would make the shock go away, but the cat doesn't like it.

Seriously though, why does the same cat using the same hand get a shock?  Anyone else experienced this?  

Brrrr,
Lindy



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