So what starts your cat's purr engine

[LynneSin]

All I need to do is start rubbing his front leg um....arm pits, leg pits - whatever. But when I do that Abbie's engine will start purring.

What does it take to get your cat purring???

[proud patriot]

1. kissing sounds

Well Jake is dead but when he was alive that's what worked .

I'm not sure when I'll be ready for a new cat . Jake's
been gone a year now .

[liberalitch]

4. not only that...

I'm sure that someone new is waiting for you.... at your local shelter.... Also google Meower power.

[ET Awful]

2. air :)

Seems like he's always purring for the most part, unless he just got smacked around by one of the other cats.

Quinn is on auto-purr most of the time :)

[lovedems]

3. Disco is usually purring when he jumps on my lap

That means he intends for me to rub the heck out his face. That is his bag.

[Cannikin]

5. Mine likes to be held upside down like an infant...

She purrs and goes to sleep real fast.

[liberalitch]

6. sweet talk....

biscuit making time on the couch (montana)
pick me up dance (spooky)

[zbdent]

7. Me being asleep, and my alarm not going of for at least another

half hour.

You know, that point in which you twitch in your sleep and roll over. The cat thinks that I'm awake and comes up beside my head, purring.

My wife is what kept that cat from becoming "one with the wall".

[Bertha Venation]

8. many things!

Mrs. V. starts reading the paper -- cat jumps up already purring

or, patting his butt (Richard)

or, scratching his face (Petey)

or, rubbing his ears (Harry & Daddy)

or, speaking the words "treats," "dinner," "mouse," or, "are you hungry?"

[Mrs. Venation]

16. Also, Daddy Loves To Have His Chin Scratched

Richard loves to be talked to; he squeezes his eyes and purrs like crazy.
Cocoa purrs when she wants some lobe time.
Petey, our darling boy, purrs, licks and bites when he's being petted.

We love our furry kids; Bertha and I are blessed.

Mrs. Venation

[Blue-Jay]

9. Looking at him starts it.

He's easy.

[thom1102]

13. My Calvin is the same way...

Tucker is a little harder. He needs a tickle under the chin.

[Blue-Jay]

14. What can I say? He takes after "dad".

purrr

[commander bunnypants]

10. When the Cattbutt was with me

gently pulling on his ears!!!


DDQM

[DK666]

11. Whiskers Cat treats

She starts drooling and "barking" and "clicking". And if she wants one really bad she intrupts my artistic endevors and demands them. She drools so much she leaves a slober trail across the countertop in my studio.

[Qanisqineq]

12. My three cats are all different

My little girl just by letting her sit on my lap
One of my boys by rubbing his chin
The other boy by rubbing his ears

[SoCalDem]

15. All I have to do is look at them or say their name

Some of my "babies" knead in syllables when I say their names :)

They love their Mommie... what can I say ??

[ironflange]

17. Nicki won't purr for me under any circumstances

Amber will sit in my lap and purr, but it has to be her idea

Cleo will purr when being scratched, petted, brushed, or vaccuumed

My recently deceased Charlotte would purr loudly if you so much as walked into the room

Edit: added the names

[Cuban_Liberal]

18. Pick him up and hold him like a baby!

Hold him in the crook of your arm on his back and rub his throat and chest--- Purr City! :)

[TrogL]

19. Getting a bath from another cat

Other than that, nothing.

What do you have to do get a lap kitty that purrs instead of my psychotic monsters?

[Throckmorton]

20. Nothing

Try as I might, neither Bob, nor Andrew purr worth a damn.

[TXlib]

21. Nothing STOPS it.

Our black cat purrs continually, except when asleep. Even when 6 small children pile on him, he purrs loudly.

Our orange auxiliary back-up cat purrs quite a bit, too, but generally not if there are any small children around.

[VOX]

22. Just saying "howdy" gets my boy Dobbs up and running...

He's a cheerful guy with nary a mean bone in his body.

And if I give him a tiny taste of my Vaseline Lip Therapy when I'm lying in bed, he goes into overdrive -- a major, window-rattling in-out purr.

Mrs. rezmutt and I keep a sheepskin at the foot of our bed for the cats, and Dobbs will march up and down on that thing with his Orgasmatron running -- total pleasure!

Our Rosie, however, will not purr for me at all. She purrs all the time for my wife (and is very attached to her).