‘Over time I have gotten good at anticipating his needs’ = Your cat has trained you properly

I was my Cat’s favorite person, she chose me! ❤Sadly she passed away in February at eleven years old! 😿 I miss her terribly!

Thanks for the new video! Until recently, I thought that my cat did not have a favourite human. He finds time to pay attention to all family members during the day. But recently I needed to go on a journey for 5 days, leaving the cat at home with the rest of the family. This wasn't the first time someone in the family was away, we never leave our cat alone. And I knew that, even if not the whole family was together, then the cat will be feeling well, his behavior will not change in any way. But not at this time. This was the first time that I left home. And he refused to eat, he refused to go outside (we go for a walk with him every day), he stopped playing, and experienced great anxiety. I think now I know who my cat chose as his human. Love your cats as much as they love you🫶🐱

Teaching them to ring that bell is adorable!

I grew up with many cats at my home (sometimes 10-15 of them at once). What I noticed over the several decades of experience is that the usual connection with providing food is less relevant (although not nil) for cats. So in my home, each cat had their own minds to choose the favorite human in our family (from around 7-8 people). It typically had to do with how much one played with them, or did nice things to them, and less with who provided them with food. Once a cat decided who their favorite human is, it is a long term decision for them, and they would behave far more like command obeying dogs with respect to their favorite human. We also had many dogs, and unlike cats their choice was more dictated by the food provider.

I adopted Norman a little over 4 months ago from the shelter. He picked me out within 2 min of entering his condo. I thought for sure with how fast he warmed up to me he'd be a social kitty. but nope! He runs and hides whenever he sees someone else. He's becoming a very cuddly kitty who asks to be picked up.

There are 7 in my family and I’m both my cats favorite person. I call them their mama. Lol They follow me everywhere and slow blink at me constantly. My one always cuddles on the bed with me and makes biscuits and purrs. It’s so sweet. She will let me hold her like a baby. While the other one doesn’t want to be held, she will always want to be with me. They both wait for me outside the bathroom too.😂 My one comes to me every time I call her! She’s like a little dog. I just love them so much!

My cats defy norms. Our Tawny Tabby is my shadow all day, but the person he actively chooses to cuddle with is my husband. Our orange tabby harasses me for attention all day but then regularly sleeps on my husband's side of the bed or sleeps by him when I go to bed. They both scuffle over his side of the bed even though he tosses and turns more than I do. Its funny, and I've stopped caring. They're happy, comfortable and safe.

Pretty cats.😊 Your home is very clean with 2 cats.

I've been our cat's favorite person since day one, and I think it makes my husband a little jealous, haha. He's home with her all day, soothes her when she has bad dreams (sometimes she'll start growling or whining in her sleep), and gives her her favorite treats, but I'm the one she begs for meals, plays with, and who she curls up with at night for bed. She's almost two, and we adopted her a year ago. When we were "interviewing" shelter cats, we didn't even see her at first. She was curled up way in the back of her kennel, hiding behind a partition as far away from the door as she could get, so we thought that one was empty. My husband wasn't quite finding anyone he bonded with, and that was my chief concern, since he'd be the one at home, but he took one last look and noticed her, and asked if we could sit with her in the little visiting area. I was on the floor in there, waiting for them to coax her out, and she managed to wiggle away from the volunteer, and hid under the big rack of kennels. With three different volunteers, they were able to get her to run out, and she dashed into my lap and buried herself in my arms. The whole 20 minutes we sat with her, she wouldn't leave my lap! She's still wary of strangers, but she's super friendly and relaxed for a tortie. Not very into the idea of cuddling directly in either of our laps, but she likes to lay on the leg rest of the recliner when I'm in it, or between me and my husband (with some buffer space) on the bed. I learned early on that her love language is biting my fingers and arms gently, and she's very keen to use her paws to bring my hands down to her face so she can do just that.

I'm my cat's favorite person! When he was a kitten he was afraid of everyone and everything except for me because I was the one who cared for him and kept him safe in my room until he felt comfortable to come out. :)

I’m so blessed that I’m the fave for my three kitties ❤ This video is so cute 🥰

I just adopted 2 bonded medium length flame point kittens. They’re so adorable and yours are gorgeous

You are a very caring cat dad ❤

very cute kitties

This video made me smile. I love watching Teemo and Arya running around and playing and meowing 💗 Plus also the fact that your channel is so informative and helpful! I remember how I discovered your channel on your video on how to bathe cats and make them less afraid of water. I know more about how to care for my beloved kitten, and it's so funny and true how I've figured out his needs! Like how he likes to have his fur brushed first thing in the morning and get pets before I feed him lol. Thank you, Cat Butler! Really enjoy your vidoes and looking forward to seeing more of Teemo and Arya! ❤

One cat was a few years old, and he just loved me right away. Maybe he just likes males and had always primarily been with females, but I also took a huge interest in getting to know him. The other cat we started to babysit at a couple of months old before adopting him. He’s happiest when my partner and I are both home, but I think I’m also his favorite. I try not to push affection on them, but I’m also more receptive when they are in the mood. I also can usually figure out what they want faster, and I’m nicer when they get restless.

Between my wife and i …i am always the favourite over several cats. She feed them more often than i did also

Omg i love these cuties

They looks cute today 💕💕

WHAT ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS FELINES !!! I just love Ragdolls! They are very blessed to have someone who is "part cat" to love them. 😁 P. S. I read in the comments here that that INCREDIBLE cat tree was custom made. Oh, how I want one! Does whomever made it accept orders?

Your Rag Doll “kiddens” as you call them, are charming.

I love your floors and the tree like cat tree. Do you know what type of wood the floor is made of? Also where is the cat tree from? Thank you

I get up early; my wife sleeps in. I'm the food person. I've always been the favorite.

OMG I am so happy to see what you are feeding to your cats! Please let us know how long they live, and how healthy they live. I think a lot of cat illnesses, and short lives, are due to too much processed foods.

Your cats are beautiful ❤

I miss my cattt

Those bells must ring all day long.

I love ur vids i'm gonna get a ragdoll soon!!!

I want to train my new kitty to ring a bell lol

this is so funny

I'm all my cats favorite person lol

Our 2 5mo. old females only meows when they are hungry or want a pet/cuddle 😛 Birmans are SO QUIET as they would wait at our bedroom door without any noise for an hour or so in the morning 🙂 Our babies are almost as big as Teemo and Aria LOL

Cats are safe indoors

About your first point… kittens shouldn’t really be taken from their mother and littermates at the age of 8 weeks - it’s much better for a variety of reasons (health, developmental, social, etc) to wait until the kitten is 12-14 weeks old before being rehomed with their new family! Even though it might sound like a nice idea for you to come into their lives as their “new parent” while they’re still in that sensitive period for development, it will generally be much better for the cat (and also your relationship with them!) long term for them to spend that foundational time learning from their mother and littermates to give them the best start in life. I met my kittens for the first time on their 12 week birthday (coincidentally!), and while the breeder was ready for them to come home with me at 13 weeks, for a couple of reasons not important here (mostly logistical) I ended up not getting them home until they were 14 weeks old. I was desperate to get them home as soon as physically possible tbh, and I had a terrible sense of FOMO for that extra week I missed out on with them when they were little (and it was amazing just how much they had grown just in that 2 week period!), but I was at least consoled by the fact that them spending that extra time with their mum and most of their littermates would be no bad thing (though I do wonder what they must have been thinking and feeling as about half of their littermates were leaving one by one that week to go off to their new families, and their kitten-family was steadily shrinking 🥺), and maybe give them an extra boost to their development 😊 Definitely wasn’t foolproof in ironing out problematic behaviours early though! Harvey is a very boisterous bitey boy (despite being a massive scaredy-cat when it comes to new people or situations, while his sister Nikita is much more outgoing and adventurous! Very funny to me considering part of my self-justification for also getting her bolder brother was to give her a brave role model and buddy in life to help boost her confidence because she was a lot more focused on her littermates than us humans when we visited! 😹). He’s not bitey in a nasty way (and is very affectionate and sweet - almost every night I find him curled up sleeping next to my pillow or near my feet, and he doesn’t let me go to the bathroom on my own or be far away from him at all 😸), and it’s mostly when he’s overexcited or impatient, e.g. when it’s food time and I’m getting the food into their bowls, or when he thinks I’ve been working too long and need to go play with him or feed him, and he’ll nip at my ankles or around my legs (sometimes hard! Those teeth are sharp! 🙀). He’s got a very high hunting drive (not necessarily just a high food drive, though his favourite game does happen to be hunting biscuits that I throw for him…) and often if I don’t immediately give him what he wants he’ll redirect that energy to pouncing on his sister. She’s not a fan of it either! Though sometimes she’s still the chase instigator, and definitely used to be the chaser rather than the chase-ee about half the time when they were little (and more or less the same size, instead of 8kg vs 5kg now they’re 1.5 years old!) Harvey always wins now he’s so much bigger and stronger, and she squeaks and yips at him, and will often have to get to all out hissing before he gets the idea and retreats… he gets very carried away! Lord only knows what a terror he’d be if I got him at a younger age! 😬 (I’m going to stop typing and go back to actually watching the rest of this now!)

The real key is to live alone and be their only human so there isn’t a choice heheheh! A family I know had a senior cat on her last leg and they added a kitten “they just couldn’t pass up!” Seriously? I thought that was a terrible way to say goodbye to an 18 year old cat. Fast forward a year and they adopted two more cats from a rescue. The one they “couldn’t pass up” instantly dropped all the humans for his new cat buddies. The female constantly urinated on their owners’ bed (for nearly four years!) and was bullied by the middle cat. Three people in the family and each cat picked the person that didn’t choose, feed or name them!!! The people-dropper eventually warmed up somewhat when the bed-urinator was eventually surrendered, but remained basically aloof. I will take my two very people-oriented Siamese any day! Thousands of years of breeding to be….the ultimate companions! I am their sole human, but they also socialize, welcome and enjoy any people and creatures who visit us. Their Dachshund baby sister is loved by all of us. It works pretty well! So stay single and your cats will adore you! Hugs, Michael Albuquerque NM USA

Hello @TheCatButler , My wife and I are thinking of getting a Ragdoll kitten in the future and I came across your channel while doing research on them, great videos BTW!!! Question about this... So I work from home and will be around the kitten basically from the time we wake up until we go to bed. Whereas my wife, who works in an office will only see the kitten for about 5 hours in the evening from the time she get home from work until we go to sleep. Being as I will be spending significantly more time with the kitten, will it start to favor me more than my wife? If so what are some things we can do to ensure my wife and our kitten will be equally as bonded. In a purrrfect world we would like the kitten to favor us both equally the same and not necessarily have a "favorite" - Thanks so much! :)

I have a rag doll 2:17 I was wondering what are you feeding him.looks like it raw food.I’m thinking about incorporating raw food to my cat.

I have a question for all who have or had ragdollkitten. I have taken 2 kittens which are 3 1/2 months old to me. However, I have noticed that they do not like to be petted. They lie next to me but do not like to be touched. one accepts it but never comes by itself and is quickly gone. The other one does not like to be touched at all. Everything else, no problem. I have the two not long but find it strange in this breed. Has anyone experience with this and has it changed? Or do I just have bad luck and have to get along without cuddling. and I know that cats have different characters and I accept this. but with ragdolls unusual. The little ones have grown up well and were socialized by the old owner

Hi... This made me laugh as I've said I'm my adopted cats butler 😅. You know what?. I'd have it no other way.

2:35 what did you feed them ?

May I ask where u got that scratcher? 8:20 8:21

Wow, they’re so beautiful. Are they littermates?

Plz make video on how to treat hairball 😢 and how to call you cat with name training 😅

جميل للغايه اتمنى لك يوم سعيد أنا صديقي جديده في انتظارك احلى لايك تحياتي لحضرتك 🙏

6:06 omg...........

I have a cat I adopted 5 years ago and one I Got a month ago, a ten month old kitten. She doesn’t like me, the new kitten. I’m so good to her. I’m doing everything for her and taking very good care of her but she will not let me touch her or pet her. I haven’t touched her since she arrived here. Any suggestions to get her to let me pet her?

Teemo and Arya are the same age and born in the same litter, but they who is older?

idk, im confused. i respect my cat's personal space, i dont make loud noise or be anooying to him. i ask for his permission when picking him up. i feed play and brush him the most. as a kitten he sleped above my head on my pillow, on my bed, on me on my lap. now his 2 he rarely sleep on my bed or room, if i pick him up want a cuddle in bed he jump off straight way. he now prefers to sleep on my mum's bed instead, sometimes he even go sleep on my sisters bed for a hour. and they both really loud and do anooying things to the cat. :( sometimes i think maybe im still his favourite, since he stay close by my where i go. but he wont sleep and cuddle with me on my bed like when he was little

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Ihave 4 indoor cats and I'm their favorite person over my husband.

All the cats I have had have choose me

*me watching this even though I don’t have a cat

have 6 cats and nobody loves me 😢😢

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It's funny that you think you are their favorite person. Clearly you have never had a person with cat allergies over. If I went to your house I would be their favorite.

Sounds like your talking about a pretty GF…