Originally Posted by coaster
CATS UNDERSTAND AFFECTION!!
That being a firmly established fact beyond all disupte,, you can show your cat affection two ways: human ways and feline ways. And I'm convinced they understand human ways as well as feline ways. For the feline ways, just do what your cats do to you that you interpret as affection: head butts, side rubbing, blinkies, nose bumps, whatever. I do all that with my cats; I do back to the cat what the cat does to me, and they understand it and they love it.
I can't believe this is even being debated.
I give my babies so much love and affection and they give just as much back to me in kitty ways and in human ways.