today's random pet poll

[ratcreature]

I once again failed to convince my rats of the merits of being still to let me cuddle them for longer than three or four scritches...

Poll #5584 rate your pets' cuddliness...

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 35

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How willing to cuddle is (are) your pet(s)?

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It is not the kind you cuddle (e.g. racing cockroaches or fish or the like).
1 (2.9%)

It won't tolerate petting or cuddling at all.
1 (2.9%)

It lets me pet it sometimes. If I'm lucky.
5 (14.3%)

I can bribe it with food to let itself be petted.
2 (5.7%)

If I force-cuddle it, it usually holds still and endures it.
4 (11.4%)

It voluntarily lets me cuddle and pet it for a short while, if I initiate.
7 (20.0%)

It sometimes voluntarily comes to me and initiates cuddling itself, but not for long.
9 (25.7%)

It initiates or even demands lengthy cuddles, but only on its own terms.
18 (51.4%)

My pet loves to cuddle at almost all times.
11 (31.4%)

It's not so much that it likes cuddles, as that it likes to sleep in a warm and soft spot that happens to be me.
16 (45.7%)

I dislike cuddling my pet, so this is avoided from my end, and I couldn't say what its preferences are.
0 (0.0%)

Comments

My kitties

[marinarusalka]

Tara loves to curl up in my lap, but she's fussy about being petted when she hasn't asked for it, and she won't tolerate being picked up. Hurricane Simba is less of a lap cat (though he'll often curl up on my chest when I'm in the recliner), but you can pick him up, pet him, use him for a pillow, juggle him, whatever. He just flops over and purrs.

Re: My kitties

[ratcreature]

My rats are very good-natured about being handled, though the two dumbo rats sometimes squeak on principle in protest, an odd habit they developed in early infancy, when according to the breeder some older rat who was not their mother had fixated on that litter and constantly grabbed them to lug them around like a security blanket or something. But you can even grab them suddenly from above (which small rodents in general aren't fond of, probably because the "omg I'm about to be eaten!" reflex is very ingrained).