My moggy Thursday was a shoulder kitten, but grew up to absolutely hate being picked up. But in the last few months a change has come over her - she wants to be held against my chest like a baby when I'm sitting down being petted and her neck being scratched. This can't happen at all if I'm standing or moving, I can only be sitting down, and there's a brief moment of panic everytime when she jumps up onto my lap and I have to half pick her up to get her against my chest.
When she's there, she's quite happy for some time, and blisses out on pets and neck scratches, but leave her there long enough and this compulsion comes over her - she must get up onto my shoulder right now. She doesn't seem sure of why she wants to be there, and doesn't know what to do when she gets there, and I have to wrestle her back down to hold her against my chest again or she starts to panic and tries climbing down my back. It's just weird because it's been at least three years since she was a shoulder kitten.
I can't let her sit up there though, because as you say, the balance thing. She's got sharp claws! I wonder what inspires them to want the shoulder after so much time?
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Date: 2007-06-11 02:32 pm (UTC)When she's there, she's quite happy for some time, and blisses out on pets and neck scratches, but leave her there long enough and this compulsion comes over her - she must get up onto my shoulder right now. She doesn't seem sure of why she wants to be there, and doesn't know what to do when she gets there, and I have to wrestle her back down to hold her against my chest again or she starts to panic and tries climbing down my back. It's just weird because it's been at least three years since she was a shoulder kitten.
I can't let her sit up there though, because as you say, the balance thing. She's got sharp claws! I wonder what inspires them to want the shoulder after so much time?