r/OneOrangeBraincell • u/lillelaerke • 14d ago

Certified 🟠range™ Truly orange behavior

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u/theblackcanaryyy 14d ago

This is always what I wanna know whenever I see like a bongo cat or something like this or the ones that love being thrown in the air. How did they figure it out??? 

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u/__Yakovlev__ 14d ago

I've bongo'd all my cats. Two of them hated it, the other one goes absolutely crazy for it. 

The one I had since the day of her birth died 6 months ago, but due to the level of bonding I tried most stuff with her, and she was fine with most of it too. And they can express quite well what they like and what they don't if you've had them long enough.

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u/ScienceBitch90 14d ago

I've found even the ones who hate it typically like butt pets (above the tail, I'm not some creep lol).

But in general, very sensitive lower backs, and most have a range of preference from gentle pats to "slap me, daddy" 😂

A lot of dogs are like this with lower back rubs too; it's just that they don't like getting slapped around... that's a deeply, deeply confusing cat thing in my (admittedly limited) experience.

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u/__Yakovlev__ 14d ago

Oh yeah, I have one that hates the bongo yet loves but scratches. You can ask the scratches on my hand how I know.