With me, they like to be held with front paws over my left shoulder so they can look behind me, my right hand supporting their butt and hind legs and my left hand around their shoulders. My kitties prefer to be held in different ways by me and my husband.
Posted by Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The at 4:20 PM on She always gets put down immediately when she starts to squirm, which is helping with building trust. She'll let me hold her, but she refuses to purr even if I give her the nicest scritches in her favorite places. Overall though she's quite the little rag doll as long as she's in my room, and will let me pick her up and flop her around pretty much however since she's learned that A) it never hurts B) she always gets put down gently and C) she gets lots and lots of scritches before, during, and after.Īnywhere else in the house, if I pick her up she'll emit a perfunctory Protest Squawk just to make sure that anyone nearby knows that this was Not Her Idea and that her dignity has been injured. She has eosinophilic dermatitis and it's pretty much controlled but she still has a tendency to scratch her ears to bloody ribbons if I let her back claws get sharp. Right now we're working on getting her comfy with being cradled like a baby, because that seems to be the easiest way to trim her back claws. My cat is nearly that patient when she's in her Safe Zone (the bedroom) and will let me pretty much manhandle (cathandle?) her however I want.