What do you call it when your dog or cat suddenly turns into a blur of fur, racing through the house? Trainers and behaviorists call those frenetic random activity periods or FRAPs. Other people just call them zoomies. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Animal Zoomies”
Grant, you live with cats.
Yep.
And so I’m sure that you’ve had the experience where you’re just standing there minding your own business.
And all of a sudden there’s this whoosh going past your ankles, right?
Just a blur of fur.
Do you call that anything?
No, they just zoom around, get nuts.
Funny that you say zoom because a lot of people call that zoomies or the zoomies.
I did see that recently.
Yeah, but there is a technical term for those movements among cats and dogs, and that is FRAP.
F-R-A-P?
Yes, that is an acronym for frenetic random activity periods, and that’s what trainers and behaviorists and veterinarians use to describe that phenomenon.
It’s not the Zoomies.
Zoomies is better.
Zoomies.
FRAP is okay.
Zoomies is cute, right?
The acronym is okay, but the longer form is meh.
