affiliative: the urge to form friendships and attachments, typically prompting a person to attend social gatherings and join organizations as a way of preventing loneliness and gaining emotional security.Kathie, my Bookmobile co-worker, is on the Board of the Sauk County Humane Society, and she refers to affiliative animals as those that quickly bond with owners and sometimes act needy for attention and affection, even to the point of becoming a nuisance.
Although Cassidy is the more typical cat, quite happy to take what we hand out and ignore us the rest of the time, Sundance is most affiliative.
This morning, in particular, she is all over the place, following me around, whining and staring. She has been given her morning snack, her food dish and water supply are full, she has been picked up and stroked and had her belly rubbed and canoodled and fussed over.All to no avail.
Do you think she wants some tuna with that whine?
2 comments:
I love that photo. She is like all up in your biz!
Uh-huh...in her mind there is absolutely nothing more important for you to be doing than paying attention to her. All. The. Time.
Typical. Female. Mindset.....not to mention Feline Mindset.
;-)
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