To think there is no kind of rejection quite like..

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Being rejected by a cat who doesn't want to be stroked or held?

The way they go all folded up and backwards if you have hold of them and then duck so your hand misses their back as you try and stroke them.

They're basically just telling us to Fuck The Fuck Off.

Aw I know! I have a lovely Siamese who rejects all but me. The disappointment on visitors faces is sad! They go up to him all "OH aren't you BEEOOOTIYFUL!" and he's all "Fuck you...don't touch me."

I can't explain to them the right way to approach him which is never to admire his beauty but always to talk to him as though he is a human and allow him to come to you.

If you say "Morning Winni Cat, how are you this morning?" he will meow in response....then there's a short conversation in which you reply to his questions, THEN he will come and sit on you all day.

My cat barely tolerates me. I bought her, I feed her, I clean the litter tray. She stalks right past me.

Dh never wanted a cat, never feeds her or cleans up after her. She adores him. Bitch.

One of my cats is a rude bastard. If im sat next to DP having a cuddle she'll come up, put her arse in my face then squeeze in the middle of us! If i try to stroke her she moves away, if DP strokes her she cuddles right up to him and trys to cuddle his neck. Ive had her since a kitten and the only time shes nics to me is when i feed her :/ she uses me!

My other cat is the compkete opposite and is a cuddle monster lol. But she has no preference and will cuddle anyone!

This is why I have no time for cats. Too aloof for my liking

This is why I have no time for cats. Too aloof for my liking

Actually the worst is when a cat comes running over all friendly like, takes one sniff of your proffered hand and then turns around and flounces off with a look of disgust on its face.

They are very good at the manipulation, aren't they? It just makes you want to try harder.

I have one cat that's like this - physically shrinks away from your hand. We think she might have been taken from her mum too soon. Aloof is not the word! She's proper miserable.

We got a kitten at xmas who LOVES us, particularly DH. It's really nice to have a cat who actually likes you!

Aloofcat hates him with a passion

Sometimes I wish mine were a bit more like this, as I type I've got one wrapped around my neck trying to lick my hair they're always trying to snuggle with me and the rest of the family, which is lovely but sometimes you just want them to leave you in peace for five minutes

My cat ignores me, I do everything for her but she only loves DS who is away at uni most of the year. However my dog adores me and sadly anyone else who offers him food.

We have 2 cats. One is you bog standard moggy who was a dog in a former life. Follows me round, comes when called, eats scraps of food DS drops on the kitchen floor and is generally more dog than cat.

The other is a Norwegian forest cat and really thinks she's something special. We're never allowed to touch her. As soon as I enter a room with her in it she ups and leaves, with a look that says 'fuck off and leave me alone pleb'. I try not to take it too personally as I've seen her with the neighbours and random passersby. She seems to hate everyone equally.

I remember taking my beauuuuuutiful new kittens to the vets for sexing and first checks.

Kitten one: aw, a tortie- she'll be a girl. Lucky, too, she's got a lot of white on her so should be fairly personable. All-dark torties are grumpy bastards. (His words.)

Kitten two: haaaahahahahahhaaaaaaaaahaha (his words) an all-dark tortie. Good luck.

He was right though. (Still love the miserable sod!- cat, not vet!)

Oh that's interesting - I once had an all-dark tortie and she was a right miserable cow. Hated us all with a passion.

One of my cats (PsychoCat) can only be touched on the top of the head. He quite likes a bit of a stroke there. But touch any other part of his body and he will bite you - he's a bastard, and I struggle to like him.

Oh dear you haven't got that that cat owns you not the other way around.

I have a cat that sleeps with me every night and runs away from me during the day. He was born here and has never been mistreated, but you would think he had suffered terrible abuse.

We had a dark Tortie who was evil. She hated everyone and had a face like nothing made her happy. I luffed her tho

My cat will follow me around the house, out of the house and down the street (she got lost doing this once). She even gets in the car as we're getting ready to go out and as soon as we pull up outside the house she appears on the garden wall because we clearly Almost Left Her Behind!

But despite not being allowed out of her sight, I'm also not allowed to touch her unless it's to let her use my limbs as prey.

ooh I have a kitten, he hasn't yet realised that he is a cat and therefore obliged to flip me the bird to keep me in my place. I'm making the most of the affectionate cuddle before he gets outdoors and talks to the big boys.

Oh no, I really want a cat, but if we end up with one who doesn't do lap sitting and purring I'll be so disappointed - if we get one from a rescue who seems friendly is that any way to guarantee continued cuddles or will they get their foot in the door and assume aloofness?

We had an all dark tortoishell who moved herself in to our house having been a stray. She was surprisingly sweet natured for a tortie.

My mum longed for a cat for years, my father, a dog person, was vocally unimpressed...guess who she adored? Guess whose neck she massaged and whose beard stubble she scratched her face on? (Easy guess, mum is beardless).

He used to chew chicken for her 'because she only has a little mouth' (unless killing rodents or biting dogs in the face), and walked about with her draped round his neck like a fur stole, purring delightedly. Apparently she sounded like a two stroke engine. When she had to be PTS there was no talking to Dad for a week.

Cats like who they like and there is no negotiation.

Thankfully the replacement cats are prepared to acknowledge mum's existence, and her slavish devotion.

flocc sorry to disappoint but my current cat was a gorgeous playful cuddly almost year old kitten when we went to see her in the rescue centre. Perfect family cat I thought. She'd been home a week when we realised playful meant she will take any opportunity to kill you as though you were no different to a mouse or small bird. Ds has learned quickly that when the cat says no she means no.

This was a bit of a shock as our previous cat (who passed away at the beginning of the year) was a snarling vicious ball of teeth and claws when we rescued her and yet turned out to be the most laid back, lovely, cuddly cat you've ever known (hence why ds never learned what it meant when a cat says no, because she never said no to him).

Oh they wait until you have been sucked I Floccina...

Sly sneaky things that they are.

Mine are like John McEnroe.

You open the door to chivvy them out, they take a look, then if the weather isn't to their liking they're all "You cannot be serious!"

Sucked in

Silent mad! There's a tortie with white on her that comes to visit me in my garden. She comes over and says "Bree!" in the cutest voice! Then she sits on me for a bit and goes off about her business. SHe never expects food or anything!

She also shits in the neighbour's garden as she now considers mine to be hers.

Ha ha op

My old boy purrs constantly but he is on the constant hunt for food, he forgets he's been fed and meows loudly on my lap.

The baby sleeps between me and dh and cuddles him paws found his neck and loves while smirking at me who does everything for her

I luffs my cats.