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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / February 2005Huggy Boy
My little Mimi (RB) demanded affection, on her own terms. She loved all kinds of pets and skritches-- the more vigorous the better-- but you could not hold her, and she would never sit in a lap. When she grew older, she would allow me to cradle her in my arms-- actually it only required one arm to cradle her little self. I would walk around with her like that and sing "Shrimp boats is a-comin'" in tribute to her tiny size. ;) But there was no holding Mimi in her prime. ;) Stinky was always a very cuddly cat-- in fact, when I got him, after years of Mimi's straight-paws, I was really caught off guard by how cuddly he was. I think the second evening he was home with me, I was sitting and watching TV, and he was running around the house like his tail was on fire (all this ROOM!), and he entered the room, jumped up on the couch, climbed into my lap, and basically crept up my chest until he was just about under my chin. Where he fell asleep in a little pile of purrs. I think I actually had tears come to my eyes. So he's a lap kitty. That's terrific! But he soon showed me something else that really blew my mind at the time. While I was busy in the house, the (then! ;)) little fella would come trotting up to me, and MEOW! It wasn't food, it wasn't water, it wasn't the litter box? What could it be? After a while of me not getting it, Stinky would get up on his *hind legs*, and rrrrrrrrr and M-E-O-W!!! some more at me. It took some thick, hoomin-type thinking to figure it out. In my own defense, I have to point out that Mimi had *not* trained me in this way. Eventually, I bent over-- and Stinky leaped into my arms! He wanted face-to-face cuddles! And after a long hard day of snoozing, doing upside-downy head, and chasing mousies, Stinky will climb into my lap when I'm watching TV, and give me big, gooshy blinky eyes, most likely trying to brainwash me into doing his bidding. ;) And every night he herds me into bed, so he can get in his very important meatloafing on my chest time. But I am still amazed that the big galoot still comes and signals that he wants to come up and put his silly ol' paws around my neck, and the kinds of off-the-ground hugs and cuddles that he asks for. He's put on some weight since those days. ;) Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com Awwww. How very sweet :) > My little Mimi (RB) demanded affection, on her own terms. She loved > all kinds of pets and skritches-- the more vigorous the better-- but [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh > My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com > My little Mimi (RB) demanded affection, on her own terms. She loved > all kinds of pets and skritches-- the more vigorous the better-- but [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh > My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com Awww! Never having had a cat before Oliver I was also surprised by this behavior. These were the animals who are aloof, right? :-) Oliver runs up and put his paws on my legs making cute little sounds. That is my signal to pick him up and he throws his head on my shoulder and lays like a sleeping baby. I have to carry him around with me until he is finished with me. :-) He also does something similar with my husband but a little different. He stretches in a certain way and that is an indication Steve is supposed to pick him up and fly him around the room. It is a subtle difference but he has us trained to know the difference now. :-)  SignatureMargaret Fine mefine@mindspring.com >> So he's a lap kitty. That's terrific! But he soon showed me >> something else that really blew my mind at the time. While I was [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > Awww! Never having had a cat before Oliver I was also surprised by > this behavior. These were the animals who are aloof, right? :-) Yep, they are totally aloof! I never had a cat before Persia, either. I was shocked the first night she slept on the pillow over my head. She's definitely a snuggly lap cat. Jill > Oliver runs up and put his paws on my legs making cute little sounds. > That is my signal to pick him up and he throws his head on my [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > up and fly him around the room. It is a subtle difference but he > has us trained to know the difference now. :-) runs up and put his paws on my legs making cute little sounds. That is > my signal to pick him up and he throws his head on my shoulder and lays > like a sleeping baby. I have to carry him around with me until he is > finished with me. All but one of my cats over the years have been snuggle pusses. But I've never had one that liked to be carried. I have to be sitting to hold them. If I try to walk around or even stand, they jump down. To all: Do your cats like to be carried? Katz > runs up and put his paws on my legs making cute little sounds. That > is [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Katz Persia will tolerate it (briefly). She puts her paws over my shoulder and it feels like I'm carrying a big furry baby, which of course I am! :) Jill > runs up and put his paws on my legs making cute little sounds. That > is [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Katz None of my current ones do (although Grant isn't too bad if you throw him over your shoulder.) But I"ve had cats that liked it. My mom's Tycho loves to be held like a baby. ---------------------<snip>---------------------- >To all: Do your cats like to be carried? Before we got most of the current residents, our Lady Jane Grey liked to be fed her moist food on the coffee table in the living room. The proper method was to hold the food plate in one hand and sling the cat, upside down, between the other arm and one's body. Regards and Purrs, O J > runs up and put his paws on my legs making cute little sounds. That > is [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Katz I cannot lift or carry TuTu -- she is just to big for me. She, however will jump into my lap for petting and grooming. At night she likes to either sleep by my head or cuddle next to me with her head over my heart (I think weather is a factor here). What gets me is that sometimes when she is all lovey she will lash put at my arm like she would like to kill it. MLB > runs up and put his paws on my legs making cute little sounds. That > is [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Katz Sammy does - I hold her cradled in my arms like a baby, or upright where she's looking over my shoulder. Jessie likes to ride on DH's shoulder and will tolerate being carried, but she doesn't like it as much as Sammy. Demi is scared witless if you try to pick her up, and Bandit will chew your arm off if you dare try to hold her. Hugs, CatNipped > runs up and put his paws on my legs making cute little sounds. That > is [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Katz You mean there are cats who will actually walk someplace under there own power? :-) Seriously, he isn't that bad but Oliver sure loves to be picked up and carried. At bedtime he often will stand in the living room and cry until you come pick him up and snuggle with him on the way into bed. He is a pretty athletic cat and runs around playing and picking on the poor dog all day but he just adores rides. At night my husband has to pick him up and carry him around the room held above his head so Oliver can inspect the things he normally can't get to. No, we're not enslaved. ;-) SignatureMargaret Fine mefine@mindspring.com > To all: Do your cats like to be carried? I don't tend to carry them. If I do, it's to do something they're not fond of. Banishment to the basement for daytime separation (we have some behavior issues here), medication time, checking out skin problems or the healing progress of a procedure that was done, etc. Picking up to cuddle is another story. 2 will submit to being cuddled, one will, but only if he's done playing, the 4th will have no parts of being picked up at all. SignatureCheryl slave to Shamrock (m/3.5 years; former stray, then foster cat) Bonnie (f/2 years old; former feral) Rhett and Scarlett (~5 month old littermates found under a shed at ~5 weeks old) > runs up and put his paws on my legs making cute little sounds. That > is >> my signal to pick him up and he throws his head on my shoulder and >> lays like a sleeping baby. I have to carry him around with me until >> he is > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Katz Yes! Vino loves to be carried. He doesn't like to be held when we're sitting. Oh no. He wants us to put more effort into it than that. He wants to be carried around like a little baby and he wants us to stop at various places so he can sniff and get a good look around from his new vantage point. -- Britta Sandpaper kisses, a cuddle and a purr. I have an alarm clock that's covered in fur! Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album > runs up and put his paws on my legs making cute little sounds. That > is [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Katz Jeeves can only be picked up and held by me for a very short time (less than a minute) but DH being a large guy (and Jeeves being a large cat) can hold him and even walk a very short distance for several minutes at a time. Gossamer likes to picked up and walked around the apartment but, seeing how she tries to climb off onto any tall object we pass, it's probably just because she wants to be up high. She absolutely loves to be lifted onto the shelf in the top of the closet :) SignatureElise (supervised by Gossamer & Jeeves) pics: http://photos.yahoo.com/dragonandthistle@snet.net My cat Henri RB liked to be carried and cuddled, would lay beside me in bed with his arms round my neck, but unfortunately Wilson has straight paws like Mimi most of the time, and these he puts on my chin so I can't get close to his face, occasionally I can outfox him though, and then he'll tolerate a short nurse Jean.P. > runs up and put his paws on my legs making cute little sounds. That > is [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Katz In <1107798229.449846.4650@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, Katz <imkatznbooks@yahoo.com> shouted to everyone in earshot, >To all: Do your cats like to be carried? Jimmer barely tolerates just being held, and only if I hold him sort of belly-up. Buck only tolerates being held if I'm sitting at the computer, and only then for as long as she's interested in looking out the window. She gets really squirmy when she wants down. Grizzly isn't always in the mood for it, but she knows how to ask to get down without squirming and digging her hind claws into me, and she does enjoy a trip around the house once in a while. I used to cradle her, but she's since decided that looking backwards with her front legs over my shoulder is the way to ride. She can rub her face on the wall corners, check out the top of the fridge, and stuff like that. Bonus for me--when she's up like that, I can put my ear to her side and *really* hear her motor. I love that. Jeff > To all: Do your cats like to be carried? My Nikki used to be like Theresa's Mimi when she was younger. She was my wild child who could not tolerate being held and never came into my lap of her own free will. Whenever I picked her up, I would get the icky-human straight-paw treatment. But from a kitten, she liked to ride on my shoulder. It was OK for me, too, as long as she was a kitten, but these days it's a bit much, seeing how 'fluffy' she's become. The good thing is, as she's got older, she's mellowed out and these days she comes and sits by my chair each evening and just looks at me with big imploring eyes. This is my cue to pick her up so she can settle on my chest for some scritching and cuddly nap time. You should hear the rumbles from her then! (If you haven't heard Nikki purr yet, Catnipped kindly posted the file on her website: http://www.possibleplaces.com/Nikki_Purr/) I've told her time and time again that she doesn't have to wait for me to pick her up, she can get up herself, but we're not quite there yet. Frank has always been a cuddly boy, and though he doesn't like the picking up bit (which I try to do as gently as possible), when he is in my arms, he snuggles down and purrs and rubs his face all over mine. He was never a lap cat either when he was younger, but these last few years he's started coming up in my lap. He seldom lays down, though. He usually sits there, bolt upright, looking regal and expecting scritches. SignatureMarina, Frank and Nikki marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki >> To all: Do your cats like to be carried? > >My Nikki used to be like Theresa's Mimi when she was younger. She was my >wild child who could not tolerate being held and never came into my lap >of her own free will. Whenever I picked her up, I would get the >icky-human straight-paw treatment. It's those little tuxedo girls, I tell ya. They're just rebels. ;) Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com >>>To all: Do your cats like to be carried? >> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > It's those little tuxedo girls, I tell ya. They're just rebels. ;) <chuckle> But my little rebel is losing her edge. SignatureMarina, Frank and Nikki marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki (If you haven't heard Nikki purr yet, Catnipped > kindly posted the file on her website: > http://www.possibleplaces.com/Nikki_Purr/) Aww. What a cute pic & a nice sound to hear here at work. I'm surprised no co-worker said they heard it. It's a pretty strong purr! My Moxie doesn't get in my lap either. I can pick her up & hold her for a few seconds when I'm standing. She's gotten so much beter over the years. I could barely touch her when I got her. Now she likes a little petting, scritching & face rubbing. So I hold out hope that some day she'll get in my lap. :) Katz [[He also does something similar with my husband but a little different. He stretches in a certain way and that is an indication Steve is supposed to pick him up and fly him around the room. ]] LOL!!! You do realize we need pics of this, of course. ;o) Not that I'll let Captain or Stanley see said pics until I know if it's OK to give them this sort of idea. Then again, I'm not very tall, so the job of giving the kitties the aerial tour of the house might fall to DH. :o) Donna Rosie was my snuggle cat. I think it was because the breeder spent a lot of time with her. She said whenever she was home she carried her around in a pocket in her apron. Not sure it she was hand raised or the runt of the litter, but she was a tiny cat and she always wanted to be close. Jo > My little Mimi (RB) demanded affection, on her own terms. She loved > all kinds of pets and skritches-- the more vigorous the better-- but [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh > My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com >Rosie was my snuggle cat. I think it was because the breeder spent a lot of >time with her. She said whenever she was home she carried her around in a >pocket in her apron. Not sure it she was hand raised or the runt of the >litter, but she was a tiny cat and she always wanted to be close. > >Jo Well, the remarkable thing for me about Stinky was that I rescued him, in a very literal sense. There seemed to be absolutely no reason why he should have been a little lovebug, or even trusted anybody. I don't know where he spent the first six months of his life, but finding him on the subway tracks didn't exactly speak well for that. :P I took him literally off the subway tracks-- then to the vet-- then home. And that was that, he was HOME. There was no period of adjustment (i.e. Mimi went under the bed and stayed there for a week). He just looked around and said "OK, I like it here, and I like you, too." Even Mimi, who bopped him on the head. He was just busting with sweet, generous good nature from go. ;) Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com [[I would walk around with her like that and sing "Shrimp boats is a-comin'" in tribute to her tiny size. ;) ]] Aww! Hee hee! Long live micro-kitties! :o) Melody was tiny, and I changed the lyrics to "Wild Thing" for her. When I sang it to Melody, it was "Wee Thing". :o) [[And after a long hard day of snoozing, doing upside-downy head, and chasing mousies, Stinky will climb into my lap when I'm watching TV, and give me big, gooshy blinky eyes, most likely trying to brainwash me into doing his bidding. ;) And every night he herds me into bed, so he can get in his very important meatloafing on my chest time. But I am still amazed that the big galoot still comes and signals that he wants to come up and put his silly ol' paws around my neck, and the kinds of off-the-ground hugs and cuddles that he asks for. He's put on some weight since those days. ;) ]] Awww again! What a big sweetie! :o) Give him an extra dote for me. Donna, and the attention sponges, Captain and Stanley > Stinky was always a very cuddly cat-- in fact, when I got him, > after years of Mimi's straight-paws, I was really caught off > guard by how cuddly he was. While you may not have meant to, that was a nice tribute to Mimi, and a good example of just how individual these guys are. :) Stinky sounds like a real sweetie!! SignatureCheryl >> Stinky was always a very cuddly cat-- in fact, when I got him, >> after years of Mimi's straight-paws, I was really caught off [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >a good example of just how individual these guys are. :) Stinky >sounds like a real sweetie!! Oh, I kind of meant that, too. Having both of them was a real education in what a huge range there is in cats-- physically, and personality. It's amazing to me how much I love them both, while they were so different. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com When my friend wanted to get me my next cat after Henri had been RB for a year, I asked her please not to get one like Henri because he was one alone,no more like him, I actually meant not one that looked like him, as it would have torn me apart, and she couldn't have got a cat any more different than Wilson, he is completely the opposite to Henri, so when I love him I love him for himself. Jean.P. > >> Stinky was always a very cuddly cat-- in fact, when I got him, > >> after years of Mimi's straight-paws, I was really caught off [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh > My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com > My little Mimi (RB) demanded affection, on her own terms. She loved > all kinds of pets and skritches-- the more vigorous the better-- but [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > kinds of off-the-ground hugs and cuddles that he asks for. He's put > on some weight since those days. ;) What a sweet boY! When Gossamer was a kitten I had just moved to my apartment and had no furniture. I would lean on a big pillow propped against the wall to read and she would drape her tiny little self across my chest just below my chin and sleep. Eventually she had to learn to sleep on my lap because I couldn't see the book for the fur :) SignatureElise (supervised by Gossamer & Jeeves) pics: http://photos.yahoo.com/dragonandthistle@snet.net Oh so sweet, My Sasha will Meow to be held, and my Pheniox will get close to me and tap me with her Paw. Isabella on the other hand is a very lazy girl and usually just plps down beside you for attention. |
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