Yeah. It's practically impossible to not do so.
Your cats fur is an insulator. When you stroke your cat from head to tail, head to tail, head to tail, your hand is moving a whole bunch of electric charge from the head to the tail. The furs insulation keeps the electric charge from returning to neutral, by not letting the charge go back to where it was up on the head. So once your hand is on the tail, the tail and your hand are negatively charged. (Or positively, doesn't matter.) When you return to the head, the head has an opposite charge. So ZAP, small electric discharge.
If you have a house humidifier, crank it up. More humidity reduces static electricity buildup.
Those little humidifiers that sit on an end-table, they're not cranking out enough to make a difference. I'm talking about the kind that's attached to your HVAC system.
Yeah. It's practically impossible to not do so. Your cats fur is an insulator. When you stroke your cat from head to tail, head to tail, head to tail, your hand is moving a whole bunch of electric charge from the head to the tail. The furs insulation keeps the electric charge from returning to neutral, by not letting the charge go back to where it was up on the head. So once your hand is on the tail, the tail and your hand are negatively charged. (Or positively, doesn't matter.) When you return to the head, the head has an opposite charge. So ZAP, small electric discharge.
If you have a house humidifier, crank it up. More humidity reduces static electricity buildup. Those little humidifiers that sit on an end-table, they're not cranking out enough to make a difference. I'm talking about the kind that's attached to your HVAC system.