Lucie is particular - some collars she pulls off immediately, and more than once, if I insist on putting it back on again. She is currently wearing a flea collar on which I have hung her bell - she loves her bell. The kittens haven't yet gotten collars, but they all have harnesses and leashes...
All three of my kitties (eight, eight, and nine years old) knead/milk-tread and suckle. They like it, it calms them and makes them happy, and it makes me feel loved, trusted, and accepted as a member of their "colony."
And that, I suspect, is the crux of the matter. It means that they have...
I've always had an instant attraction to spotted brown tabbies, but since my household now includes two calicos (a classic shorthair and a tuxedo-torbie calico with slightly longer, fluffy, short hair) and a dilute red spotted tabby, and my 2 sisters have (1) two Siamese and a calico, and (2) a...