• 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
    35·
    19 days ago

    my cat licked to groom me yesterday, for the first time!!!

    ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

    she’s the best cat in the world. and that’s not for debate. she should be compared with Jesus rather than other cats.

    • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      4·
      19 days ago

      one of our cats licks my arm, when i hold him, to tell me he wants down.

      otherwise he is really into fingers. he cleans our hands and starts chewing on them. not sure if it’s part of the grooming ritual (because they also “chew” on their fur to treat matting) or he has some weird fetish.

        • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          2·
          19 days ago

          this is possible. we got both our cats from a shelter. the one doing this was apparently born in a shelter. don’t know the details. in general he is perfectly fine. he seriously shows affection and trust towards us, but he is terribly simple to spook. each time the door rings, or a person visits, which he doesn’t know well, he is gone into the farthest corner, bit often comes back, when we ask him . the other one used to be a stray and apparently already moved quiet much. he had only one eye, and I’m pretty sure it had to do with him being the typical orange mad cat. first times we used a vacuum, he was charging to it and punching it.

  • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    19·
    19 days ago

    I rub my chin against their heads in the same motion as licking would produce. They seem to interpret it as grooming behavior, as they’ll start grooming me back when I do it, whether or not they know I’m not actually grooming them. Well, the one tries to shove her nose up my nose when I do it, but close enough.