7 Signs Your Cat Has Imprinted On You

Have you officially won your cat over? Has your pet given in and granted you their total affection and trust?

In this material we’ll talk about imprinting and some positive signs to look for as your ownership journey continues.

Enjoy the video! We hope you find it beneficial.

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[koalatheworld]

Without watching this video, I already know I am a cat servant.

[lanygeldenhuys]

This was so needed!! Our neighbours cat decided it wants to move in with us a few months ago. He visits them daily but lives and eats here. Yesterday she told us she is moving 😥 I held my breath…she said it’s obvious he has chosen us and we have a meeting planned to discuss the adoption ❤️🎉🙌🏽

[Ann]

1 the cat approaches you for attention
2 exposing the belly to you
3 unique verbalization with you
4 yawning, closing eyes, stretching
5 kneading, rubbing, head-butting
6 your shadow
7 walking and laying on you

[MuscleBandit]

So, I'm a 36yr old straight single male with an 8yr old female cat. Had her since she was a baby.
I'm pleased and relieved to have been able to relate to every one of these and some.
I know what all of her meows mean and she knows my little language to her too.
She's like a daughter. We're both very lucky to have one another.
Thanks.

[Erinselysion]

I'm a pro 🥰 My parents had 2 cats when I was born, and my mom's morning routine was to make coffee and feed the cats. She'd carry me through the house and meow back to the cats, so my first word ended up being "meow." Those 2 cats would sleep in my crib and come running whenever they heard me cry, looking at my parents like, HELLO THE BABY IS CRYING!! I'm 24 now and can't imagine life without cats.

Once you learn the ways cats express their feelings and needs, it becomes easy to pick up when they're showing affection. A lot of the time it revolves around safety; they trust you not to harm them, or you make them feel safe. Most of my cats I've raised from kittens, so not only was I the person socializing them, but I was able to acclimate them to having their bellies and paws touched. Most cats don't like you doing that, but that's because as adults they don't feel safe or comfortable with it. With a kitten you have the opportunity to introduce gently rubbing their belly or paws as a loving gesture. So all of my cats are not only okay with it, but enjoy and seek it out when my family rub their bellies or hold their paws. (Again, very gently and watching their body language to make sure they're okay with it. Most cats don't like this if they weren't introduced to it young and WILL scratch if you try it!)

In January I got covid and it took a while to recover from feeling sick and weak. My cat Smokey always goes to the bathroom with me but after having covid, if I take longer than usual brushing my teeth or hair, she'll start to walk out in of the bathroom, turn around to look back, and meow in an unusually high pitch. It took me a few months to realize that she probably associates me going slower with me being sick, and the high pitched meow is most likely her voicing concern. Like saying, "Mommy, are you okay?"

Currently I'm house-sitting for my next door neighbors, who use strongly scented fabric softener and candles. It's overwhelming for me so I know it's even worse for my pets with much more sensitive noses. Cats are especially notorious for distrusting smells and finding them off-putting, but nonetheless when I come home my cats all still purr, rub against me, and seek out cuddles. It's really really heart-warming because even with my weaker human nose I can tell I smell like a candle store and hurry to shower at the end of the day. *I'd* avoid me if I were my cats!

This is a very long comment but I wanted to put it here to say that if you give your cats your love and protection, they'll show you their love in millions of big and small ways. Receiving their devotion in return is worth all of the energy you spend giving them a good life. 💗

[nicolecraig]

I just got my first ever cat in April and my boy has been done all these things from the beginning. He’s just the sweetest and most loving boy.

[May-qbvx]

I lost my 19-year-old kitty just last week and I was definitely her human. She was my first and only cat I’d ever had and she was so much my shadow, heat pack, and conversationalist that it’s been difficult to see the world just move on without her.

[morganwilliams]

My sweet orange Nala who I had for 11 years and I had a special, deep bond. She loved and trusted me far above anyone else. She wasn't a lap cat and wasn't particularly cuddly, and she could be a bit prickly sometimes, but she was never far from me and let me do practically anything to her because she trusted I would never do anything to hurt her. I always did my best to live up to that trust. I always knew she was loyal but I only truly realized the depths of her trust several years ago when she had to stay at a vet clinic overnight for a bad fever so they could keep an eye on her. When I returned to pick her up the next day she seemed upset and anxious but not too bad, with a cone on her head and an IV in her leg. When the vet techs came in to remove the IV they seemed apprehensive and skeptical when I offered to hold her for it. She remained still and cooperative as I held onto her and the techs were amazed. That's when I learned that once I had left she went into survival mode, biting and scratching and fighting for her life in a frenzy. Yet when I returned, those same humans she was certain were trying to kill her the night before, she let fiddle with her IV without any fighting or struggling, just because I was there with her. She passed away almost exactly a year ago from old age. I miss her every day. I have a new kitty now, Seraya, and she's incredibly sweet and already very trusting and checks off all the boxes in this video, but I hope someday I can reach that same level of unconditional trust with her that Nala had for me. ❤

[rachelg]

Love how I wake up to my Sylvester cuddled up against me under the blanket cozy purring

[europeanconfidence]

My cat not only loves my lap better than anything else and my patting him, but he looks at me in a half dreamy state purring away, trying to tell me - this is just absolute heaven!

[hollymcmillin]

I've won the trust of my indoor cats, as well as feral cats outside. The trust relationship is strong with all. I feel so blessed to have all my feline friends share their lives with me! 💗

[gwenstevens]

We’ve got 7 for 7, but we got a head start as we hand raised two kittens when their mother, a elderly couples cat, died of Congenital Heart Disease. They are the sweetest cats EVER. #8 Brings you gifts.

[BassGirlSusan]

Recently adopted a stray after nearly 40 years of not owning a cat. She was fending for herself around my block for at least a month, so gentle and loving though. She has been the best thing to happen to me for a long time. x Here's to you Cathy, I look forward to many years of companionship x

[hazevthewolf]

Pro. I can tick all the boxes for all 3 of my kitties, an enormous Tom (grey tabby) who somehow grew from a kitten that I could once hold in the palm of my hand into into something like the size of a Maine Coon (20 something inches (~ 1/2 metre) from the tip of his nose to his butt). The other two are his "step aunties", 14 and 15 years old. Both of them are showing signs that they are approaching the end of their lives and I'm just glad that they can trust me to do what I can to make the end of their lives comfortable.

Weirdly enough, my giant boy's name is Chaton (say SHAW-toe, French for 'kitten '). I took him away from his less than devoted mother when he was barely weaned and got his name off of a bag of fancy kitten food that I bought at Pets' Mart.

[Ladybug]

Murphy the Orange Tabby and I have been besties for 16 1/2 years now and if left up to him, we’d be glued together! One behavior I find fascinating is his batting and nipping at my ankles as we walk together. I truly feel accepted as his litter mate as well as his mother. I’ve never had a relationship with a cat quite like this!

[tiffanyhaddox]

We’re still working on the last one, but he has to have his head in or on my hand all night or he can’t sleep unless he’s in his cardboard box. It’s taken over a year to get this far because of the abuse he suffered in his first 6 weeks. He was nearly a year old before he was able to meow for the first time, but he’s been a loud purrer since he was about 3 months old and figured out he was safe and loved.

[juliestevens]

My daughter's cat bonded with her very early in their relationship - her cat would have turned 19 today, but we had to say good bye almost 7 weeks ago. (She even bonded to me after they moved in 10 years ago.)

[hkschubert]

As usual my cat waited until I had just dozed off.
Then he jumped on me with all four feet and then curled up in bed next to me kneading the blanket.
We love us.

[Imagodfollower]

I love this video & think all cat owners are cat servants lol my cat completely trusts me I've had him since he was a new born baby he walks on me & kneads on me & sleeps with me & head butts me & slobbers on me & etc. He is my buddy & my shadow.

[anitaslack]

Of the six cats I've owned in my life, I've been able to tick every box on this list for all but one of them. And she was an abused stray that I adopted from a shelter when she was almost six years old. I worked with her for five years trying to bring her around and she was just starting to tick some of the major boxes when she died from surgical complications last fall. She would try to trip me, give me the slow blinks, even nap in my vicinity for most of the time I had her. She behaved like a happy, comfortable cat as long as I wasn't trying to touch her. That and some other behaviors are what made the shelter staff believe she was abused and dumped, rather than born a stray. But right before she died she was starting to initiate cuddles and would actually get up on the bed to sleep next to me. It makes me so sad that I lost her just when we were starting to make some real progress.

My current cat, who I adopted two years ago, was 11 when I got her and she's all the way there. Biscuits? Check. Belly? Check. Blinking? Check. Coming to me instead of me going to her? Check. Using my limbs as pillows/backrest? Quadruple check. Following me through the house? Check. Meowing imperiously when I forget to eat or am late to bed? Yes, mom.