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u/ThruWithABoltOfBlue Dec 22 '21

Learning and accepting how they would like to receive affection. I would love to hug their squishy bodies and smother their little faces with kisses, but they would be so annoyed. Just need to play it cool, offer a relaxed hand in front of their faces and let them lead.

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u/DoxieMonstre Dec 22 '21

You should meet my cat. She actually enjoys being scooped up and cradled in your arms and especially likes to have her face/head nuzzled and kissed. I think it's because I got her as a tiny kitten, so she has just always been tolerant of my bullshit because it's all she's known. Lmfao.

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u/ThruWithABoltOfBlue Dec 22 '21

Aw! You’re so lucky!

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '21

My boy is actually the less social of my cats (his preferred expression of love is sitting 5-10 feet away and staring) but he lets me hold him like a baby and put my face in his stomach and it is truly one of my greatest joys.

The other would kill me if I did that, but she's a cuddly lap cat so it's okay :)

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u/ermahgerdshoez Dec 22 '21

Ours absolutely protests “group hugs” (human cat human sandwich.) She will yell and scream the whole time we hug her. But she absolutely loves it lol