[Magdalen] Cat belly rubs (was: Re: Hope for joy)

[Grace Cangialosi]

Interesting, Molly. Until now I'd always had female cats, all of whom liked belly rubs. Now I have two hugely affectionate male cats who do the ripping of the hand that tries a belly rub! Exceptions, as you say...

> On Nov 10, 2015, at 10:41 AM, Molly Wolf <lupa at kos.net> wrote:
> 
> Tummy rubs are generally okay with boy cats, but every girl cat I've lived with would strip the flesh off your hand if you touched her belly.  Lots of exceptions both ways, of course.
> 
> Molly
> 
> The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain
> 
>> On Nov 10, 2015, at 1:18 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> My wife has lunch regularly with a lady who is a writer and poet, and is
>> what you might call a free spirit.
>> She was dealing with her failing mother for some time, and her mother very
>> recently died.
>> She told Christine that the two of them had talked about death, and it was
>> agreed that whoever died first would come back to the other as an orange
>> cat.
>> 
>> The lady was surprised and delighted as she returned home one day to find a
>> beautiful orange cat sitting on the steps of her house.  The cat allowed
>> her to pet it, but when she went to pet its tummy, the cat would not allow
>> it.
>> She said she knew it was her mother, because in life, her mother would not
>> pet cats on their tummy.
>> 
>> I don't think anyone knows how it works, but it would seem that our friend
>> got the sign she was looking for, and we are happy for her, and we also
>> take hope in this event.
>> 
>> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
>> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
>> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy