April, I've noticed the same thing. Bottle brush tail. Actually, I don't think it has anything at all to do with them being annoyed. Quite the opposite in fact. One of my girls will even poof her tail just from being petted, if she's really in the mood. Any of them are prone to bottle brush tail when I scritch them in a particularly good spot at a particularly good time. And they ALL poof them out while playing. It seems to me it is a symptom of pure enjoyment. And she probably war danced down the hall because you stopped, not because you scritched. ;-) These days, if I see a bottle brush tail, I know I'm doing something right, and I better not stop unless I want a pissed off weasel on my hands. Melissa Kuzara Mira, Robin, Samurai, Nietsche and O'Dell Missing Cael, Booboo and Tasha always [Posted in FML issue 3924]