Very often Chris will poke my legs with his claws because he wants me to pick him up and put him on my lap while I am sitting at the computer. If I am on the sofa he will do the same thing so I will pick him up and put him on the sofa. I know he is pretending to be feeble because when nobody is around he has no trouble getting up on his cat perch.
Bad Cat Chris 
Yep – they always enjoy playing the “I can’t do it myself I need help” thing just to keep us on our toes!
Hugs, Pam
Yes. They like being spoiled.
Are they not so, so good at manipulation …
They try.
Chris–you are not only handsome, but very smart, too. 😸
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Seriously, why jump up on your own when there’s someone there to do it for you? Makes sense to me! ~Ernie
It works for him.
He just likes to be babied. 🙂
Yes, he does.
A little extra attention is a good thing!
If you say so. 😀
Roary does that with our baby gate A LOT! He is perfectly capable of jumping over it (and has a zillion times!), but if I am in the vicinity, he will sit outside the gate and stare at me for however long it takes me to open the gate door to let him through. He’s soooooooo lazy!
That is not lazy, I call that energy efficient 😉
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Maybe he is just practicing his powers of manipulation. 😀
My parents had a Norwegian Forest cat. When Bear stretched to be picked up, she was already past my dad’s lap.
That’s a big cat.
She was. And I’ve never seen anything that furry