When I get some pix, I'll post the links here. :)
I am not on the binaries group.

Interesting.  When Francis was about 2-3 months old, I started
increasing the number of "tussle buddies" he had available.  These were
needed because he was growing up in isolation from the adults and needed
someone to fight with.  I would deflect him onto one of them when he
went for my hands.

Anyway... back to the subject at hand.  All of the stuffed animals I got
for him were immediately adopted for wrestling, except for one.  That
one was a black Hallowe'en wizard bear with a distinctive coat, sort of
flat and curly, not soft and buzz-cut.  When Francis first "met" him, he
groomed him!  Very cute.  He did go on to use him as a tussle buddy, but
that was not his first response.  Come to think of it, that bear was the
only *black* buddy, and Francis is mostly black.  Hmmm.

Priscilla

Sorta similiar.....

One of the mementoes I wanted after my mum died was a kitten sized
statuette of a cat (another story). Well for various reasons I only
finally brought it home just after Xmas. I put it in the TV stand....

Sarrasine spotted it first and she stared at it for a couple of
minutes and then she walked off....and returned carrying her favourite
toy of the moment- a catnip Santa which she put on the floor in front
of this new "cat". After a while, when this new "cat" didn't respond,
she threw the toy in the air several times and played with it then put
it back down and looked at the new "cat" as if to say "That's how you
do it." When she still didn't get a response, she got bored, picked
her toy up and walked off.

Enter Redunzel......

She stalked toward the new "cat" as if she were hunting. Tail fluffed
up, crouching down, pausing every few steps....until finally she
reached it. She then gave it a good whack with her paws and ran for
it!

Lesley

Slave of the fabulous furballs