Am loving all these “quirks” - though I wouldn’t use that word in front of a feline!
My dearly departed Simba absolutely LOVED having his paws tickled - for hours on end. As a pp said, he would stretch his toe beans out so that I could get a fingertip right in between them and he’d then curl his paw around my finger so I didn’t stop.
In two different homes, I’ve accidentally shut him in places. Once in a huge storage cupboard and once in a downstairs toilet. Both times were at least an hour (bordering on nearly 2 hours). I have a cat-check policy, I like to check every 2 hours where they are. On both occasions, I couldn’t find him in any of his “usual” spots (these would change, so every few weeks one spot was his favourite and then it would move to somewhere else). On both occasions, when I opened the door to where he’d snuck in he was sitting there, front paws perfectly turned out like a ballerina, and just looking at me like “finally darlings, the dumb idiot in this performance has discovered my plight”. Not a peep out of him to let me know, he just politely waited. I miss him so blooming much .
Simba, and his younger brother, both do/did that weird thing where when they’ve sniffed something their expression just kind of “sticks’. Not explaining it well, but hopefully you know what I mean!
Simba loved feet! He would curl up next to me and try to lick every possible part of my feet. He’d shove his head into slippers, boots, shoes etc and drop off to sleep.
His younger brother (now eleven) is a whole other story, will save that for another time!