How to Show Affection Like Cats

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You can also help them understand by mixing kisses with rubbing your cheek/nose/forehead over the top of their head, their cheek, or down their shoulders, just like cats rub against each other and humans to show affection. Also gently bonking foreheads to imitate the ‘I love you please pet me’ headbutt. Brushing & scratching at itchy spots for them imitates the grooming that cats who live together in colonies do for each other. Basically just try to find hygienic ways of imitating cat social behaviors, short of actual licking, lol.

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A humorous text post explains how to show affection to cats by mimicking their social behaviors, such as rubbing faces, headbutting, and grooming itchy spots. The joke is that human affection should imitate cat communication while stopping just short of literally licking the cat, making it a playful guide for cat lovers and a reaction to intense feline affection.

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