Pepper very readily puffs her tail if she’s startled, more so than any other cat I’ve seen. Sometimes she puffs at us when she’s in play mode and sometimes she puffs at us if we’re down the hall and she doesn’t know who we are.

Example: here she is after seeing Nate at the end of the hallway and not knowing who he was immediately.

Look at how fat that tail is! She’s such a sweetie.