I’m not the type to create a thread fawning over my kitty, although I love her to death… but…
Often when she’s sleeping I’ll quietly go up to her and kiss her forehead.
Last night I woke up in the middle of the night, but I had my eyes closed and I wasn’t moving at all, so it looked like I was sleeping. She hopped up on one of my legs and walked up to my chest and then put her nose up to my cheek and made sort of a suctiony/clicking sound. I’m 90% sure she was trying to make the kissy noise. There’s not much more adorable than that…
SenorBeef, that was so sweet that I couldn’t possibly leave this thread without saying, “Awwwwwwwww!”
My Norman likes to give me a quick kiss on the nose while he does happy paws on my pillow. He makes sure to kiss me extra fast, like stealing a kiss, because he knows I don’t like my face licked. And Mojo gives me head butts on my lips when he hops up on my chest for snuggles.
We have “adopted” a neighborhood cat, when we go out for a walk he comes along. We found that if we lay down on the grass (yes, we are easily amused), this cat likes to lick our hair. I would say he likes the shampoo, but mr. bw uses some cheap-o stuff while I use the good stuff, so the cat just likes to lick hair. He does that kneading thing on our head, like he’s suckling. When he see us, he will actually dash thru a sprinkler to get to us and then meows incessentanly until we do the hair-lick thing.
I’ve been sick the last couple of weeks, with the usual “waking up in the middle of the night to cough your lungs out” congestion. Whenever I do, Havoc doesn’t even wake up. But if I am sitting on the edge of the bed, Pixel will come over, put her paw on my hand, and give me some sympathy head-bumps. She is also the one that comes over to see if I am awake when the alarm goes off. Good thing she is cute, because I usually wake up with her nose about a millimeter from mine.
I just discovered last night that my “visiting kitty” (I’m cat-sitting for a friend) loves to snuggle under the covers in bed. I got her to pounce on my hand under the covers and then she just cuddled up under there and purred and purred and purred. It was so cute!
I wish my own cat were as snuggly! I’m not going to want to give the visitor back when her family gets home in a month.
When I was a teenager, I worked in a veterinary office. We had a deal with the local humane society that we’d take in a kitten or puppy every month and try to find a good home for it.
One month we had this little grey kitten, and it was in an upper cage. I was having a bad day, and cleaning out the cage just beneath it. It gave me this pittiful little ‘I’m very lonely!’ mew, and I reached up and scritched its nose. Right as I was about to lean down to continue cleaning the cage beneath it, it reached out its little paw and rubbed me on my nose.
I informed it, “You’re far too cute, and must die now.”
It gave me a scared, questioning little ‘mew’.
I had to stop cleaning and just scritch it for a while.
Man, I wish I could afford a kitten!
Ernie - **The Best Cat Ever ** was a huge eye contact kind of cat. We had a game where we’d look at each other, and I’d blink one eye. He’d blink the same one - or opposing one. Then I’d blink both. He’d blink both. I’d switch eyes, and he’d mimic me every time. In the middle of the night he’d wake me up by standing on my chest and nibbling on my nose right betweem the nostrils. He’d just stand there allowing me the priilege of petting him, then he’d start the blinking game.
I always wondered if there was a code to his blinking, like he was the Coco of the cat world.
(Senior Beef - I’m afraid to ask what the original title was, but it looks all fixed to me)
Smokey does something similar - but she does it if I don’t get out of bed after the second snooze-button push, she also deos the kneading thing and it looks like she’s trying to pull the covers off of me
Maybe it’s the name - my Ernie was also The Best Cat Ever. He used to sleep on my chest with his nose pressed up against mine, and he’d sit with his paw over my hand.
His sister, Bert (yeah, I know - when we first got them we thought they were both boys) had her own unique way of getting your attention - she’d headbutt you!
I don’t think cats have thoughts nearly that deep. I love my cats, but I honestly think the deepest thought they have when they look into your eyes is something along the lines of:
“I wonder if he’s thinking of getting up and feeding me, I sure would love me some fine food outta one of those nice pouches. Or tuna, yup some tuna would be good stuff…”
