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What, if anything, is the meaning of my cat's new behavior (see details)?

Asked by wildpotato (15224points) April 7th, 2013 from iPhone

He is eight years old. In the last three days he’s begun licking his front paws and legs furiously whenever I scratch his back by the base of his tail. He’s always loved being scratched at that spot, and has always done the bow-down, but this frantic and seemingly compulsive paw-licking is new and quite weird. Is it just a cat thing, as this board suggests? Or is he trying to tell me he needs his anal glands expressed, or something?

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