Your cat's petting threshhold?

[Beware the Beast Man]

Poll question: Your cat's petting threshhold?

Poll result (34 votes)
Extremely long- total lap kitty, loves to be petted	(13 votes, 38%)	Vote
Long- Loves petting, but leaves when it wants	(8 votes, 24%)	Vote
Medium- Likes the occasional snuggle, but gets annoyed after a while	(9 votes, 26%)	Vote
Short- Bites after a few seconds of petting	(4 votes, 12%)	Vote
None- hisses uncontrollably like a demon cat	(0 votes, 0%)	Vote

[fairfaxvadem]

1. In between Medium and Short

Likes to be petted when HE wants to, but then after a good petting, CHOMP! Let the biting begin!!!

The 2 year old never bites, ever. Just licks me to death, but he won't sit still for serious petting like the older cat. He does roll over on his back like a dog, though, with that "Rub my Belly" pose.

[jedicord]

2. How many times can I vote?

I have 5 cats and they are all different in this regard. The girls are the lap cats, the boys vary from loving petting for a while to liking play instead.

[Beaverhausen]

3. My cats like belly rubs

very unusual for cats but there you go.

My older cat Geneva would let me do it for hours.

Annie, the younger tolerates it for a while then lets me know when she's had enough.

[MissMillie]

6. Millie does too, but

she doesn't want to be "held". She comes to me when I go to bed, and if I didn't push her away after a while, I'd never get any sleep--she just wants me to rub her belly.

[fairfaxvadem]

7. Is it unusual?

I wondered about that. It's as though he lived w/dogs before coming to live with me. It's the darndest thing.

If I ever figure out how to post a photo here, I will.

I love DU's cat posts.

[Beware the Beast Man]

4. Eleanor, my oldest,

Can't get enough loveins. Coleman, on the other hand, goes after the fingers after a few seconds, so I'm split down the middle.

[Cobalt Violet]

5. I've got 2 very different cats.

One loves to be babied even though he is a huge 20lb. ocicat. And the other is petable but never for long and just a few pats and is overwhelmed very easily.

So I didn't vote. But you can just add one more to each catagory in your head.

[ET Awful]

8. Quinn is an absolute attention sponge for . . . .

the first 20 minutes or so after I get home from work, then he just wants to play.

[sybylla]

9. My Mickey is a little kitty ho

If you'll rub, scratch, poke or play, he not only loves it but will put up with anything for you to do it. But when the new kitten is around, he's like Garfield with Nermal, sticking his nose up in the air and walking off as if being cute for attention is beneath him.

[ok222]

10. I really wish I could answer that,

He has his own schedual for me... GRRRR I misplaced my reply, bare with me while I get used to this forum set up....lol.

[sybylla]

12. Welcome

Don't worry about it. We've all done it at one point or another.

[ok222]

15. Thanks for the welcome

The real funny thing is.....all cats that I have had were either abandoned, runt of litter, or the only one that survived hmmmm I must be a cat sympathetic and the cat Gods see me as a foster home LOL

[Cybergata]

11. How Can I vote....

I have five cats. Actually I had three, but I couldn't marry anyone who wasn't a cat lover, so when I got married my household became a five cat house hold. Talk about tension in the house for the first three years. Finally, they have sort of accepted each other.


My husband's cats, one of whom I have emotional stolen from him, could be petted and have their bellies rubbed all day long. My cats were all strays that found me. The one that found me while it was a kitten can hang around for over an hour, but the other two....well living on the street can be rough. My cats are survivors, but they still carry the emotional scars of life as a homeless being.

[sybylla]

13. And another big Welcome

I know what you mean about strays. Some cats never get over being abandoned, for what ever reason, by their mothers or their caregivers.

[NorthernSpy]

14. my cat never seems to get tired of attention

... whether we're playing games or I'm holding him, he never really wants to stop or go do something else. When I have to go somewhere, he cries loudly if he can't come too. I don't think he has the solitary, 'aloof' gene.


Mary

[Guaranteed]

16. LOL great poll

I find that my cats' petting threshhold is the point where I'm pulling their top eyelids up to the top of their skull.

[More Than A Feeling]

17. My cats, Ginger and Andy

Ginger: sometimes I can't get rid of her because she is following me around in hopes that I will sit down so she can jump on my lap. Other times, she will run if I make a move toward her

Andy: He will let me pet him for awhile, then bite. But he will let me scratch him, especially his face and belly, for all eternity.

[TrogL]

18. Stupid cats

One likes to be lap kitty for five minutes when I get home, ignores me the rest of the time.

The other one was auditioned to be a lap kitty. Problem was, it had just been fixed and wasn't feeling well. As soon as that wore off it's ignored me ever since. Between that and pissing fucking everywhere, he's going back to kitty jail if he doesn't smarten up.