What do you think? I’ll be kind and say this is not as bad as the title portrays and I don’t won’t to be a grumpy old man today if I can help it so I’ll just say this animated gif shows a slightly (very?) disrespectful attitude towards a cat. However, this cat appears to feel comfortable with this person so I’ll presume that they get along well or the cat is very laid back.
If I am honest, there is a playful side to this animated gif. There is an amusing element to it for many people and the cat seems to be alright. However, if you watch it a few times on the loop it becomes extremely boring.
The thing I don’t like about it is that it encapsulates, for me, what is not quite right about the attitude of some young people towards the domestic cat. I don’t want to go on and on about it because it is boring. However, boring though it is, it is disrespectful of the cat. Don’t do this, just let your cat be themselves rather being part of some human culture.
I would never do it. I am going to guess and say that the PoCers wouldn’t dream about doing this sort of thing. It is totally alien to them. They just like their cats to behave as naturally as possible. I am guessing but they’ll probably will be harsher than me in criticising it. I would certainly not make a little film out of it to amuse people. Perhaps it is that element of the process that is the worst thing about it.
Monty appreciates exuberance, so long as it does not last too long. He is like that with most affection, except foot petting. He will roll on the floor while you pet him with your foot for 15 minutes at a crack if you are willing to stand there that long and give him attention.
I am the same. I have to curb my desire to be overexuberant in cuddling Charlie because I don’t think cats like it too much.
6 days must feel like 6 weeks Dorothy, I miss our boyz even if I’m only out a few hours.
You’d love Jozef because he loves being kissed on his head, on his tummy, on his paws, anywhere in fact. He lies stretched out and purring for as long as one of us is willing to kiss him lol