I grew up with cats and it was like that. I'm now on my second dog and whenever I randomly get down on my knees he comes up, buries his head under my chest, breathes a heavy breath of calmness and relaxation and wags his tail a bit. When I leave home he accompanies me to the door and we say goodbye, when I get back he basically attempts to crawl right through me while wagging everything off the shelves left and right. Very cuddly that one.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Most of our cats act that way. It's largely about how they're raised.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

One of mine will climb on me when I sit on the couch and yell until I cradle her like a baby

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

One of ours will try to suicide under my feet until I pick him up and hold him like a baby.

I had to get a baby sling for when I'm trying to clean.

But, for some reason all of our 7 cats are, according to the vets, the best behaved cats they've seen. We recently had to get one of their eyes looked at, and they spent the whole time talking about how they wished all cats were chill like her (they had to stain her eyes)

I'm pretty sure it's because we constantly fuck with them, so they're used to it.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Yep we had the same philosophy, played with them all day as kittens. Now when I’m watching tv they like to hop up and nap either laying on or sitting next to me with one paw out to stay touching me.

It’s interesting to see the effect the nurture aspect can have, we currently have a foster who was a rescue stray and she loves head scratches but any time you pick her up you get about 3 seconds before she bails.