Can you hold them like a baby?

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Every cat that I've had I've held them like a baby and then kiss them on the nose...


If you just have one cat like me just vote (yes all of them) or No all of them.
 

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Merlin loves it - I used to carry him in my baby sling, the others - no way!
 

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Pickle loves being held like a baby, she's always grabbing my legs like a child does when he wants to be held.
 

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Wickett doesn't care HOW you hold him as long as your petting him!

Frankie doesn't like being held, period.
 

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Cindy -- absolutely
Fawn -- she'll be held, preferably by Daddy, but never like a baby
Suzy -- being held is the most totally abhorrent thing in the world, and to be tolerated only when one clearly has no choice -- she's enough of a realist to recognize the times when it will be over more quickly if you cooperate.
 

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Ummm there was no answer that fit my situation
CAN I hold them like a baby? Yes but do they LIKE it? No. All our cats can't stand it. Tosh meows at us and complains. Oreo will fight to get up right again. Snickers...well she takes it but puts her paw on your face and gives that look of "Does this LOOK like I am enjoying this?"
My husband loves to hold all the cats like this but they so hate it.
 

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That picture is creepy!


Anyway, Maisie will sometimes tolerate it but I wouldn`t kiss her nose. She slapped me round the head yesterday so I`m not gonna put my face in hers.



There is no way on Gods earth I could do it with Kitty. I`m not ready to die!
 

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My boys don't care how they're held.
Over a shoulder, around my neck, over an arm (in the instances where I have to carry both cats at the same time), ...upside down -DH does this, and like a baby.

Tomas didn't like being held so much when I first found him, I now think that he might have been a feral or semi feral kitten, but I was able to break him of the habit of struggling. He learned that I wouldn't hurt him and that I would put him back down again.
 

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I don't so much anymore cuz Popsie's bony in his old age and I'm afraid it would make him uncomfortable.
 

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Cairo loves it. Paris tolerates it for 1 or 2 kisses, and then I either have to switch her to the swing position or put her down. The swing position is where you lock your fingers together and hold a baby belly down. Paris loves that and will lay her head on my arm and knead her paws in the air forever like that.
 

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Max- yes

Trouble- yes but she will growl the whole time.

Simon- nope he's an over the shoulder baby

Vanna- yes

Sampson-no too stiff another over the shoulder boy

Pooh- yes

Tigger- yes

Mia- sometimes

Mocha- NO, he doesn't like to be picked up period

Takoda- no, he prefers to be tucked up under your arm and carried like a
football.

Magnum- if you are quick you can hold him like a baby but you won't be
strong enough to hold him there. He prefers the football hold too.
 

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Gracie loves it, after all she does believe that she's a human

Elliott also likes it, but he always manages to squirm around so that he's over my shoulder with his front legs wrapped around my neck.
Annabelle...NO WAY...if I got her that close to my face she'd claw my eyes out!
I rescued her about 5 years ago and she's just within the past few months even allowed me to pick her up for about 2 seconds at a time.
 

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Asher likes to be held like a baby and he rubs heads with me. Jack, the new one, doesn't let me hold him like that!
 

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Trent loves being held like a baby when I'm sitting and watching TV. He'll put his head down and go to sleep if I'm rubbing his tummy while holding him like that.


Mojo will let us hold her like that for a while, but she's easily distracted and as soon as something "interesting" happens she gets really squirmey.

Ginger prefers to be ON my shoulders, either as a kitty-parrot or a kitty-scarf.

Ophelia would likely kill us if we tried...
 

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Radar loves to be picked up and carried around on his back, he goes all floppy and just relaxes, purring. Sonic however goes stiff as a board when we pick him up like that! He prefers to be carried over a shoulder if it has to happen, but he'd prefer not to be picked up at all really. Odd that Sonic is the really cuddly one and Radar is fussy about cuddles. Maybe he gets all the cuddles he needs from being carried around
 
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