It is so interesting how animals react, and I have enjoyed reading the different stories of how the different cats responded to being petted.
I think that most of the cats that I have had did enjoy being petted, at least when they wanted to be petted.
The one that was the least friendly was a beautiful silver chinchilla Persian named Lord Byron. He was given to us because he bit the people who had him, and he was named when we got him.
He had belonged to a friend's girlfriend, and Byron seemed to not like any of them. Rodney (the friend who had brought us the cat) would sometimes stay at our house, and one morning he came down from the bedroom and informed us that Byron had left a poo-poo in his tennis shoe.
When we went up to see, he had certainly done just that, and since it was all right inside of the shoe; Byron obviously was showing his dislike for Rodney.
He was the only cat we had right then; so it had to be Byron who did it.
I have never had a cat to show his dislike of someone in such a dramatic way as this cat did, and with everyone in the family, he was still tempramental about being petted, but not anything else, and was fine even with my kids petting him.
