Pavlov's cat's Mommy
My cat has worked out yet another way to get me to pick him up.
He knows I love to hold him and hear him purr. The other day, he came up to the computer desk where I was working on stuff, sat on his haunches, looked at me with those big, sad eyes, and started purring loudly enough to be heard a block a way. I couldn't resist: of course I picked him up and held him for a while, petting him and talking to him.
Now, when he wants to be picked up, he comes up to me and starts purring. A behavioral psychologist would have fits over this.
He knows I love to hold him and hear him purr. The other day, he came up to the computer desk where I was working on stuff, sat on his haunches, looked at me with those big, sad eyes, and started purring loudly enough to be heard a block a way. I couldn't resist: of course I picked him up and held him for a while, petting him and talking to him.
Now, when he wants to be picked up, he comes up to me and starts purring. A behavioral psychologist would have fits over this.