Does your cat like to be picked up?

My two boys love being held but each is a little different about it. Bodhi likes to be held a lot, but sometimes I pick him up and it's like he's just not in the mood for it so he kinda pushes himself away from my chest. He's never done anything aggressive though. I usually just set him down and later on, he'll come to me and sit up like a praire dog and reach his front paws out for me to pick him up.

Siddha on the other hand is a total cuddler. He loves to be as close to my face and neck as possible. He loves to be cradled like a baby and for me to scratch his tummy. I've never picked him up that he didn't just go limp and melt into my arms. I think maybe he's got some Ragdoll in him or something!

Pip refuses to let me pick him up and can be blaise about even liking me at times but my fiance can do as he pleases to him - pick him up, lay him on his back, scritch his tummy while holding him up in the air (Pip just chills out and hangs there looking about and blinking!)... but he will sleep touching me (and not my partner!)

Milly never leaves me alone... she spent her first 2 days in our house in the pouch of my hooded jumper... she sleeps on me (anywhere on me but as long as her entire body is touching me!) and she'll follow me around everywhere I go in the house with whatever I am doing just so she can be near me and the second I sit down... she's either on my lap or dozing on my chest (oh yes... she sleeps vertical!)

Zane likes me to pick him up and let him lie on my extended forearm as though it were a tree-branch, with his legs hanging down. As he weighs 18 lbs., even though I'm fairly strong it is not easy to do this for very long.

Fungo loves being picked up and held like a baby, as long as you don't rub or tickle his belly.




Corteo

Forrest - Absolutely loves to be held.

Lilly - Will tolerate being carried a short distance.

Zachary - Just bring me the box of bandages, cause there is no way!!

Larry loves it!

When I first got him, he had been a Brooklyn feral, so was freaked out, even though they had spent lots of time socializing him and trying to hold him after he was trapped. He just put up with it and went into his "I'm in la-la land and this isn't happening" zone.

Once I got him, I started small, just lifting him up a couple of inches, and talking to him, then increasing the distance, until now, he'll plop down when he sees me coming and becomes a dishrag and lets me pick him up and he snuggles and purrs. Mush-bug.

Xander will sit on your lap but he doesn't like to be held up in the air.


Riley hates to be touched most of the time and gets completely offended if you pick him up (He does allow me to carry him up to bed each night though, lol)

Originally Posted by firedancer722

Siddha on the other hand is a total cuddler. He loves to be as close to my face and neck as possible. He loves to be cradled like a baby and for me to scratch his tummy. I've never picked him up that he didn't just go limp and melt into my arms. I think maybe he's got some Ragdoll in him or something!

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Oh that sounds so sweet! I'm jealous!

I'm not sure that Genever really likes to be held, but she deals with it. I pick her up almost everyday though just for less than a minute and then put her down so she doesn't freak out. 2 days ago though I picked her up and she actually was purring! So maybe she is starting to like it after all...

Polly, on the other hand, will scratch and squirm immediately if you pick her up. And she was raised by people since she was a few days old (mom was hit by a car) so early cuddling doesn't translate to loving it later in life with this cat. She's a fat lady though so if she did like to be held, it'd be hard on the back anyway.. hehe.

Cammy doesn't love it, but she'll let me for a little bit.

I like to pick my cats up and pretend like we're dancing. They HATE it. I can see it in their eyes. But I feed them and clean their poop so I get to do what I want.