Pets!

Tori

Piggy and Lizzy (most often referred to as the baby). Piggy is the remaining brother from a pair of rescue kittens we got in 2007. The baby was one of four kittens born in the golf cart barn at my former job about a year ago that my coworker ended up fostering. I did not want another cat, but she kept asking so I was like, I will ask my son. Thinking, of course, that he would say no. Instead he texted that he WOULD LOVE A KITTEN and here we are.

Duke Whisky

The chunky potato Seymour

Sweet little Boleyn

Narson

@Whisky said in Pets!:

The chunky potato Seymour

That’s an invitation to the danger zone.

Duke Whisky

@Narson I can’t resist the floofy belly.

Every time I fall for the trap. Every time it was worth it.

KarmaBum

@Narson said in Pets!:

That’s an invitation to the danger zone.

Not an invitation. It is a trap. They all do it.

BloodAngel

This thread makes me hate my apt complex. I WANT no I NEED a cat but they charge more rent for one. I’ll have to adopt three when I get my house soon!

Roz

just want to say that my very fluffy kitty loves belly rubs

Narson

@Roz said in Pets!:

just want to say that my very fluffy kitty loves belly rubs

Does Cinna though? She asks for them. She asks for them so much.

GF

@KarmaBum said in Pets!:

Not an invitation. It is a trap. They all do it.

When you reach for your cat’s belly, are your fingers out, or do you curl them in a bit like you’re making a fist?

Roz

@Narson said in Pets!:

@Roz said in Pets!:

just want to say that my very fluffy kitty loves belly rubs

Does Cinna though? She asks for them. She asks for them so much.

Cinna has a danger belly. But Cinna has a whole danger BODY when she’s activated.

Sansa is a perfect princess who never attacks or claws anyone. She lets you BURY YOUR FINGERS in her FLUFF.

sao

@Roz she also jumps up for your hand for pets in a way no cat of mine has ever done

KarmaBum

@GF said in Pets!:

When you reach for your cat’s belly, are your fingers out, or do you curl them in a bit like you’re making a fist?

I pick him up and pet him and he has to suffer that because he is a ragdoll cat.

Tez

@Narson said in Pets!:

Does Cinna though? She asks for them. She asks for them so much.

I present to you the Cinna bowl:

In which I go around with my hand under Cinna’s butt, making a bowl of her, and go around asking people if they want any pudding, as they rub her belly.

This ends in less claw marks than you’d think.

Snackness

@Tez want pudding

Tez

@Snackness She’s very soft and silky. Just sink your fingers into her belly and smush gently.

And beware the moment when her eyes dilate.

KarmaBum

@Tez said in Pets!:

I present to you the Cinna bowl

her eyes are screaming no

Narson

@Tez Also perfectly positioned for launching at certain basement dwelling people.

Tez

@KarmaBum said in Pets!:

@Tez said in Pets!:

I present to you the Cinna bowl

her eyes are screaming no

I did say LESS clawmarks, not NO clawmarks.

GF

@KarmaBum If you want to rub a cat’s belly, try doing it with a fist instead of your palm. I’ve heard cats can’t tell the difference between a hand with fingers out and a paw with claws out.

Meowmi might still not like bellytouchins, but it might get you a hit of that sweet sweet floof.

tsar

one time Ozma was lying stretched out in the warm sun. I walked in the room, she looked at me, stretched out MORE. She yawned. She was so cute. So soft looking.

I reached down.

I pet the belly.

She wrapped her legs around my arm and kicked me without mercy.