My cat is super affectionate and always wants me to pet him and he is always rubbing on me. I figure that means he loves me very much but do they really feel love or is it just that I am warm and I feed him? Would be love someone else just as much?
2006-08-04 09:21:45 · 23 answers · asked by Nicolleta 2 in Pets ➔ Cats
I have 1 out of 3 cats that is just like yours. I rescued him after someone stabbed him and left him to die in some hedges. I really do believe that he appreciates the fact that he is cared for, loved and fed. I think he recognizes that he has it good now, and loves me as much as I love him.
2006-08-04 09:26:38 · answer #1 · answered by buggsnme2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe cats can feel love. I have one cat in particular who adores me, and I'm not the one who usually feeds her -- she has always just loved me, ever since we adopted her. When she cries to be let into our room at night, my wife always says, "Your girlfriend wants in." This cat will sit on my lap with her paws up on my chest and her head resting on my shoulder, and if I am not paying enough attention to her, she reaches a paw up to my chin and turns my face to look at her. She's a big red bullseye tabby, my favorite color, but it's mainly the way she clearly feels about me that melts my heart. She shows affection to everyone in the family, but she is IN LOVE with me.
We have other cats who are affectionate, including another rescue cat who is sweet to everyone in the family (and visitors, when we have them). And there's another cat who isn't a lap-cat, but she will follow us from room to room because she's only really happy when she's in the same room as us. We have a fourth kitty who IS a lap-cat, and likes to sleep curled up against us. And then there's the Big Pain, who lives to be let in and out the patio door. But even he is very sweet in the evenings, loves to sit next to us on the couch while we watch television.
So yes -- I believe that all our cats exhibit love of some kind or another. Would they love someone else as much? Most of them, yes -- but "my girlfriend" clearly has something special going on for me.
2006-08-04 11:14:17 · answer #2 · answered by Scott F 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Such behavior passes for love in a cat; but I suspect that the cat's emotions towards you are a little bit more intense than mere fondness. To the cat, you are its human; its possession; its territory; its pleasure machine; its food bowl; its mate; its security - ALL ROLLED INTO ONE. It will fight to the death to keep threats away. It will lie down and refuse to eat and drink if you go away never to be seen again. Pretty awesome, ah? I have had cats like that and I have two with me now.
2006-08-04 09:53:15 · answer #3 · answered by Phoebhart 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that cats can feel love and they can feel more than humans. My gentleman friend has two cats. These two cats are from the same litter, but they are totally opposites. One cat named "Peppy" is a runner in the apartment. Tiger cat who's named "Tiger" is a more of a louging cat.
I must give off a bad vibe with the cat "Peppy". He is very afraid of me. I was told to have catnip on my body and maybe he would come around to me.
I tried it and he is coming around to me more often.
But cats have very keen senses.
2006-08-04 09:35:09 · answer #4 · answered by michelegokey2002 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that cats can love. They can feel fear so why not love? My cat loves me a whole bunch. One time I was crying and she came into my lap and licked me (kinda gross) to try and comfort me. She sleeps with me every single night. She will come up and rub me and purr in my face. She is the best. I knw that she loves me and that she knows I love her.
2006-08-04 10:04:56 · answer #5 · answered by lily 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would like to think he loves you. I had a dog once that was human in almost every aspect but speech and form. How alone would the human race be if we could be the only ones to feel?
Sorry about the philisophical approach to the answer.
2006-08-04 09:27:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, cats really love you. My cat gets really protective, especially over family and territory and gets furious when it seems other cats walking on the yard. pretty amusing, so cats really do love. He could love someone else though when givien attention. I wouldn't worry about it though. YAY fur CATS!
2006-08-04 09:28:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL he probablly only likes you becasue your warm and you feed ihm.. I have a cat too.. but he doesn't like being held, and sometimes he doesn't like to be pet, ut sometimes he follows me around the house and purrs... but it could possibly be because i remnewed his supply of cat grass.
2006-08-04 09:28:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cats are very mysterious... Nobody really knows... unless they're a cat of course.
2006-08-04 11:54:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes cats feel love, i love my kittens soo much, i've rasied them without their mother since the were 3 weeks old because their mother my cat angel died, the kittens think of me as their mother and i think they love me as much as i love them
~kitty girl~
~becky~
2006-08-04 09:51:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋