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  5 0 Actually, I'm pretty sure my cat loves me the way dogs love their owners -- and I'm not a sentimental person. She knows my moods, she knows when to push me and get me to be active when I need it. If I'm upset, she tries to make me feel better. I've only had one or two other pets do this, but she and I have been together for nine years and have a good bond. Other people can say what they will about cats, but I think my cat and I love each other pretty well. Miss Foxtrot answered in Pets about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  3 0 Yes. Having a cat is like being in a long marriage. They know your habits, put up with you, often act irritated with you, and expect you to hold up your end of the deal. In return, they give you that kind of casual, absent affection that you might get from an old husband or wife, like purring in your general direction or curling up next to you on the couch. And occasionally, when you really need it, they'll put a paw out or stare into your eyes to remind you that they're yours for life. Irena answered in Pets about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  2 0 One of our cats wakes me up every morning with ridiculous snuggling. I had always assumed it was just her means of waking me up so I'd feed her (I still believe that for the most part). HOWEVER- my boyfriend accidentally locked her out on the patio one night, and when I let her in in the morning the very first thing she did (even though I had just put food in her bowl) was to follow me back to bed and snuggle for a solid five minutes. THEN she ate. I think it's love. RM answered in Pets about 1 year ago | Report 1 comment by Sacrelicious… 0 0 This happens to me too. My husband feeds our cat at 5 PM. If he's not home, I'll put food in the kitty bowl, but the cat won't touch it until my husband gets home and they have a cuddlefest. Then the cat sprints to the kitchen and gobbles it all down. Sacrelicious commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  2 0 I think my cat considers me a big, hairless cat. So I guess she loves me as much as she could love one of her peers. keshmeshi answered in Pets about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  3 1 Yes, but you probably won't like the answer. Karla Pacheco answered in Pets about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 We quite often make jokes about "standoffish" "aloof" "independent" cats. You see, we have Maine Coons, and they are anything BUT any of those things. They are the Golden Retrievers of catdom. Here's our little test. The two of us go quietly into a different room of the house, leaving the cats sleeping in the first room. Within a minute or two, one cat will casually saunter in. Then, shortly thereafter, the second. The third will follow within a few more minutes. You can't go anywhere in our house without all three of them trailing after you, wanting in your lap, wanting to be part of whatever you're doing. There's no question in my mind that they vary just as much in intelligence as humans do. The brightest of our three gets VERY upset if one of us is depressed or unhappy. He does everything short of bringing us a Valium. We don't really know what's going on in their heads, any more than they really know what's going on in ours. But can they have an affectionate bond with you? Anyone who says otherwise has never known a companion animal. Geni answered in Pets about 1 year ago | Report 1 comment by CleverScreenName… 0 0 The true test of an affectionate bond: I've known two cats who liked me who peed in the shoes of someone whom they knew had upset me. This wasn't characteristic behavior for either cat. In one case it wasn't that person's fault, but I appreciated that the cat had my back. CleverScreenName commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 My cat is on my desk right now, getting in the way of my keyboard. When I get up and go lie on the bed, he will go lie on the bed with me. If I go into the bathroom for more than two minutes, he will go lie on the clean folded towels. Since I put out the cat food hours ago, and it isn't cold enough for him to be seeking warmth, I have to assume that this behavior is directed by love. CrazyCatLady answered in Pets about 1 year ago | Report 1 comment by O my captain… 0 0 It's not necessary love....just attention getting behavior. Note how they lay right in the middle of your work...how the follow you around... lay in the same room as you are in, etc. O my captain commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 My husband rescued a cat off the street (well, out of a dumpster) near the campus of the school at which he used to work. She was terribly thin--5 pounds--and covered in hot pink dye, probably from some failed tie-dye project she was using as a bed. We got her FLV tested (thankfully negative), vaccinated, flea and tick treated, bathed (which she hated, but needed) and fed. When she was spayed, we learned this poor cat had both pyometria and endometriosis and after the surgery she weighed 4.5 pounds. This cat is now much better, although she's had a lot of "upgrades," as my husband calls it. She's at a healthy 9 pounds and shows no inclination to ever set paw outside again. I know she loves my husband because she 1) comes running to see him whenever he comes home, 2) lies on his chest purring and kneading for a minimum of 2 hours a day if he'll let her, and 3) grooms his beard. Me, well, she tolerates because I feed her. Griffin answered in Pets about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 I've always thought so. Pets are very communicative animals, by their very nature as domesticated critters. Cats wrap tails around your legs and "knead" their owners to let them know they love. That, and relaxed and pointedly aimed eye -blinks. (slow eye blinks mean they trust you enough to close their eyes / lower their best defense/radar near you: that's a big deal to a cat). Also they might bring you 'dinner'. Yum. Rev.Enant answered in Pets about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 1 Is it ever possible to know if a PERSON really loves you? No, you just have to trust they do. It's the same with a cat, but the proper assumption is that they're just waiting for you to leave the house so they can enjoy their true love...themselves. Arsenic7 answered in Pets about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  4 4 Yes. Cats never REALLY love anyone. Urgutha Forka answered in Pets about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  2 4 If your cat hasn't tried to kill you then your cat tolerates you. That is the closest a cat will come to love....toleration. Cato the Younger Younger answered in Pets about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 4 Cats are not people, and do not have people emotions. They have been bred to simulate human emotions to gratify human self-regard, that's all. Fnarf answered in Pets about 1 year ago | Report 5 comments by Rev.Enant, Fnarf, and Cato the Younger Younger … 0 0 1st sentence: thumbs up, because, yes, true indeed. 2nd sentence: That's a cold, cold calculated and unemotional worldview, fnarf. ...Perhaps some humans have also been bred to simulate human emotions. ;) Rev.Enant commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 Yes, of course they have. Our evolutionary niche is largely emotional, not habitat-related (since we thrive in virtually all land habitats). Fnarf commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 True, the emotions that they have, they control.....obviously they have pointed ears..... My GOD Jim!! They're VULCANS!!! Cato the Younger Younger commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 green-blooded hobgoblins ...of snuggling Rev.Enant commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 "why you green-blooded, in-human, ill-tempered, unfeeling logic machine..." O my captain commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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