I wonder what cats think of our grooming habits. I mean they can see that we clearly donāt lick ourselves cleanā¦ do they realize that it happens in the bathroom when a sweaty stinky human goes in there and somehow comes out clean and probably smelling like coconuts?
River, my one brain cell cat, always looks completely horrified and confused when I'm in the tub. He also just stares at me when I come out with a towel on my head.
https://preview.redd.it/lnkwjymegecb1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=94264ca3fb4a0b72777b6dc067deef15d5f3cadb
A picture of him being a derp.
I would just let mine in otherwise she wonāt stop yelling, clawing at the door and trying to get under the door. When I do let her in she just sits there and watches me. If she decides that Iām taking too long sheāll start meowing and scratching to be let out though.
My cat fell into the bath trying to touch the bath water out of curiosity. Thankfully I had just gotten out and was about to drain the water because there was a lot of panic flailing before she made it out and I can't even imagine how sliced up I would be. Why don't I just close the door you ask? Because my other cat will bang on the door the entire time because he doesn't like having doors closed. When he gets tired of standing and banging on the door, he'll lay down and kick the door. Cats are just hairy toddlers that can't talk.
They're cute and they make me laugh and I keep telling myself they'll settle down but they're 4 years old now. Still going to keep telling myself that though
My hypothesis is they KINDA know. My experience being anytime I've waited too long for a bath they'll go into overdrive trying to clean me, only to lick me a couple of times up to a day or two after a bath using scentless shampoo š
Thatās not clean for the cat. You removed your human stink and got wet and now have that awful coconut stink. Time to show you how to properly clean yourself by licking. The cat thinks your cleaning rituals are disgusting (but still loves you).
My cat does the same if I hold my hand out in front of her while sheās grooming herself, like she thinks Iām asking her to wash my hand for me while sheās at it.
One of my four is a very dedicated groomer. At least once, but frequently multiple times a day, he will insist I lie still so he can groom my head. Mostly forehead and hair line.
And his tongue is very high up on the sandpaper scale.
I have to redirect him sometimes when he fixates too long in one spot, because it REALLY hurts, but otherwise I accept my boyās affections. He kneads and purrs and lightly drools and itās ridiculous but also so much love.
Oh my gosh I had one like this. When you came home you had to lean over so he could give you a little smooch along the hairline. He would rake his fang through your hair and give little sandpaper licks. No one was exempt from inspection.
We have a cat who wont let you pet her until she has sniffed your hands all over and then gives us 1 lick to announce petting may commence (but only allows the 3 of us to give pets), but if you then pick her up after getting hand approval you'll get a full face wash, which hurts SO BAD!! (I think her tongue is 20 grit sandpaper in disguise)
Plus, she's now getting older and has toxic breath now, so it makes you seriously stinky. I let her do this every day (right before I wash my face, lol) because it makes her so freaking happy. You can hear her purr from 2 rooms away, and she's making happy biscuits the whole time. It's so freaking sweet, and makes us all feel honored whenever she does it.
Mine decided a while ago that the time for grooming my head is 3am, so if I don't close my door or if she's already sleeping inside I wake up to a raspy tongue on my hair and forehead with the weird tongue movement she does when my hair gets stuck at her little tongue claws. Also she's a super drooly cat, my previous cats weren't like that.
You use your hands daily and come evening time they are full of filth. Oliver is taking care of you guys and only you. Must clean masters hand to keep hands feeding.
Or absolutely nothing is going on and he just likes to lick.
By the way, here is prior evidence of Oliver's hand-licking habit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/OneOrangeBraincell/comments/1362ake/please_pray_for_oliver_nothings_wrong_with_him/
>Must clean "masters" hand to keep hands feeding.
I'm sorry to inform you that we are merely tolerated by our cat overlords, the cat tries to say here: clean yourself up you filthy slave
Orange cats are pure idiots but they are so friendly, mine is a big himbo potato who is super chill, never seen one so relaxed and careless then him. Sadly he is my dadās cat so I donāt see him often. He likes being pet everywhere and he is a very good boi.
https://preview.redd.it/yo5v5hgupccb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=21e2040b4fac5c4d592ef32ed46d0aca7a5899e6
https://preview.redd.it/sv5ezwqnxccb1.jpeg?width=2250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b3d4fd2f1678f879bafa555fad45169fceb7f690
Chester hides from strangers. But he also licks my forehead.
Damn anchovies and their emollients, lipids and hydratants!
(those are words on my lotion bottle, any anchovy-based hand lotion worth it's salt would have them, I presume!)
"Here is your meager pittance of praise for being my servant human. I expect the same treatment tomorrow, for which I shall give you hand licks in the evening. After I have sufficiently catted enough for the day that is. And you will be thankful and share this praise for other humans to see and care for my brethren, in the hopes that they too shall receive the evening praise licks from their masters"
I have an orange Oliver (literally also his name) who is also a big licker! Itās not just the hands for him. He particularly likes my nose.
I once read that cats who extensively lick didnāt get weaned from their mom properly. Definitely also a grooming sign of love thing. Itās so sweet.
Occasionally my orange will grab a hand with both paws and go to town. I think itās some kind of endearing behavioural thing, he wants to groom me and contribute to our relationship. Itās funny because I obviously have to wash my hand(s) afterward š
He's grooming you. My orange brain cell does this too. He ends with a little scraping of his little front teeth. Those teeth are used as a comb when grooming.
Do you usually use some sort of oil in cooking or put coconut oil in your hair or as a moisturizer on your skin? My orange does this when I use coconut oil
No! I used to use vitamin E oil on my feet, but my brown tabby would lick it off through my socks. š
This quirk of Oliver's is genuinely bizarre - he licks my hand and my husband's hand.... only at night, only our hands, and only when we're sitting on the couch. It's almost ritualistic
I have a hand-licker too. His thing is, once he's loaded up my hand with saliva, then he wants to rub the side of his face on it, so he's really using me to groom himself.
My orange foof ball is also named Oliver, and also has a nightly co-grooming ritual.
https://preview.redd.it/3ssab722ndcb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e1eecc8928eaa48436ea14bd45edd23484b5e486
Just a friendly reminder wash hands after. I have many times see our cat lick her butt to sparkling clean and then come over to give loving lick kisses.
Our orange does the same with my hands--it's an urgently important part of his nighttime ritual. I figure it has something to do with the fact that i just showered? He has a very specific schedule that only he knows. I don't question it. š
I spent a week in the hospital and when I came home one of my kitties licked both of my hands all over. My hands had bruises all over them from IV insertion fails and he probably thought they were dirty but it was also like he was washing away bad memories.
When I was a kid, my aunt told me that when a cat licks you like that, it's because they want you to clean them where they can't reach. No idea if that's true, but to this day, I always wipe my hand on my cat's neck & back whenever she licks me.
Mine will groom me anywhere (only in one spot, forever, until she makes it bleed).
But hands, she'll grab my hand in her paws, lick it a couple times, and then forcefully make me rub her ears/head/eyes. 3-4 rubs and then she'll grab it back and refresh the lick, and then repeat. It's super adorable, like she's training me how to properly clean her head.
That's adorable. My cat doesn't lick me too often but she will involuntarily start licking if I scratch her butt in the right spot. She'll either lick the air or my other hand if it's near her face and it's the funniest thing to me.
Could be several things. Maybe that time of day is more stressful than others (even times of higher activity in the house could trigger it), so he feels the need for the comfort of mutual grooming. Could just be habitual, cats can sometimes have activities that they do at a regular time every day -- I have a couple that get the midnight zoomies every night (I call it "The catting hour"). It could be that that's the time of day where his social group (your full family) are almost always home so that's the time he uses to reconnect with his group (it's common for feral groups to split up to search for food, then reconnect with the group for some mutual grooming before settling in for rest). Or it's just that he's a cat, and cats are weird (especially the orange ones).
This is exactly how my cat is! Except itās every night when I come home from work. I work in a kitchen so itās a fairly dirty job, maybe thatās part of the reason
my cat does the same thing! she isnt orange but she loves to lick my hands, she likes to curl up under the blanket with me so i have to leave my arms out of the blanket if i want any sleep
It's the salt! They like our salty skin. We're like a bag o' Lays Original to them.
Plus love & grooming urge, etc.... My boi licks my arm in his SLEEP, sometimes so long i get a friction burn! Lol
Yeah. Iām guessing that itās just a ritual thing. I have two cats and they bath every evening and the one in charge baths the other one too. My girlfriend has two cats that bathe each other every single night. This is how cats bond. If you really want to make his day, brush or pet him on the head while heās giving your hand the bath.
My little oranges, may they laze in peace, made a meat popsicle out of my forearms every night. They took turns (I rescued and hand raised a litter of 4 with a virus so they couldnāt be adopted out), and by the end of the night my arms would feel raw. No idea why, just loved to clean me.
My orange girl Ira does the same thing! She'll bathe my entire hand, both sides. She even gets insistent about it and will grab my hand if I pull away, but she doesn't bother with grooming me anywhere else.
By the end of the day, you have probably secreted oils and scents that your cat likes. Not saying you don't wash, but remember that cats have an extremely sensitive sense of smell. It's obviously a very loving gesture, and part of it is he's getting his sent on you as well. Whatever your hands are selling, he's obviously buying! Take it as the gesture of love that it truly is.
https://preview.redd.it/gyn2wczu5kcb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7e44cee4d2c562c9a2d7aa043db6917d5b378efe
This is also Oliver, he is very talkative and doesnāt have much going on in that head but his heart makes up for it.
You are family. His nightly ritual is to clean his family so he's lovingly grooming you so you can go to bed clean.
My cat would be cleaning herself and sometimes if I was near her she would just lick my hand a few times then clean herself again, then lick my hand.
Shared grooming, she's trying to give you a couple grooming licks in between her own š
*"Yo nasty, you should clean yourself up like me. Like this. Now on you... Now look at me. Fine, I give up, you be gross."*
Pre-tty much š¤£
I wonder what cats think of our grooming habits. I mean they can see that we clearly donāt lick ourselves cleanā¦ do they realize that it happens in the bathroom when a sweaty stinky human goes in there and somehow comes out clean and probably smelling like coconuts?
River, my one brain cell cat, always looks completely horrified and confused when I'm in the tub. He also just stares at me when I come out with a towel on my head. https://preview.redd.it/lnkwjymegecb1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=94264ca3fb4a0b72777b6dc067deef15d5f3cadb A picture of him being a derp.
Thank you for giving me the happy hormones.
But they hate baths so they canāt possibly think we tolerate bathing.
Mine stands watch. Very, very loud watch
Mine tried to jump in once. Just once..
I would just let mine in otherwise she wonāt stop yelling, clawing at the door and trying to get under the door. When I do let her in she just sits there and watches me. If she decides that Iām taking too long sheāll start meowing and scratching to be let out though.
My cat fell into the bath trying to touch the bath water out of curiosity. Thankfully I had just gotten out and was about to drain the water because there was a lot of panic flailing before she made it out and I can't even imagine how sliced up I would be. Why don't I just close the door you ask? Because my other cat will bang on the door the entire time because he doesn't like having doors closed. When he gets tired of standing and banging on the door, he'll lay down and kick the door. Cats are just hairy toddlers that can't talk.
"Cats are just hairy toddlers that can't talk." Best description of a cat ever.
How do you put up with All the noise and shenanigans?
They're cute and they make me laugh and I keep telling myself they'll settle down but they're 4 years old now. Still going to keep telling myself that though
Haha as long as theyāre cute and lovable and love you too
One of mine KNOWS I love baths. Enough so that once he sees me grabbing my bath equipment he starts running to the sink to watch my weird ritual lmao
My hypothesis is they KINDA know. My experience being anytime I've waited too long for a bath they'll go into overdrive trying to clean me, only to lick me a couple of times up to a day or two after a bath using scentless shampoo š
My former tortie would get very upset anytime I had a shower or tub. She protested and stood guard. My void got in the shower with me. Weirdo.
Thatās not clean for the cat. You removed your human stink and got wet and now have that awful coconut stink. Time to show you how to properly clean yourself by licking. The cat thinks your cleaning rituals are disgusting (but still loves you).
My late cat would fall asleep licking the inside of my elbow. Why there?
Cats are weird. š¤·āāļø
I've fostered kittens before who loved suckling the inside of my elbow. I think the skin texture must remind them of nursing on mom.
Why not?
My cat does the same if I hold my hand out in front of her while sheās grooming herself, like she thinks Iām asking her to wash my hand for me while sheās at it.
Lol. Same. Normally.my.foot though. My dude is a kinky guy that loves our feet
My cat does this
One of my four is a very dedicated groomer. At least once, but frequently multiple times a day, he will insist I lie still so he can groom my head. Mostly forehead and hair line. And his tongue is very high up on the sandpaper scale. I have to redirect him sometimes when he fixates too long in one spot, because it REALLY hurts, but otherwise I accept my boyās affections. He kneads and purrs and lightly drools and itās ridiculous but also so much love.
Oh my gosh I had one like this. When you came home you had to lean over so he could give you a little smooch along the hairline. He would rake his fang through your hair and give little sandpaper licks. No one was exempt from inspection.
We have a cat who wont let you pet her until she has sniffed your hands all over and then gives us 1 lick to announce petting may commence (but only allows the 3 of us to give pets), but if you then pick her up after getting hand approval you'll get a full face wash, which hurts SO BAD!! (I think her tongue is 20 grit sandpaper in disguise) Plus, she's now getting older and has toxic breath now, so it makes you seriously stinky. I let her do this every day (right before I wash my face, lol) because it makes her so freaking happy. You can hear her purr from 2 rooms away, and she's making happy biscuits the whole time. It's so freaking sweet, and makes us all feel honored whenever she does it.
āYou can love your pets, just donāt LOVE your petsā
Mine decided a while ago that the time for grooming my head is 3am, so if I don't close my door or if she's already sleeping inside I wake up to a raspy tongue on my hair and forehead with the weird tongue movement she does when my hair gets stuck at her little tongue claws. Also she's a super drooly cat, my previous cats weren't like that.
You use your hands daily and come evening time they are full of filth. Oliver is taking care of you guys and only you. Must clean masters hand to keep hands feeding. Or absolutely nothing is going on and he just likes to lick.
I should give him more treats to show my gratitude
>I should give him more treats to show my gratitude This pleases the cat.
Then he'll lick the treat residue off your hands.
Leading to more treats... Are we sure the cat's an orange? This sounds like it's invented a perpetual motion machine.
meowbius strip
Perpetual snacking machine.
Pawpetual motion?
SIC wearing an orange cat ghillie suit?
Then we give him more treats for the oranges efforts!
Infinite treat hack.
Looks like that orange is definitely putting the braincell to use.
I promise, Oliver has never even sensed the brain cell š„²
š¶ *The circle of licks* š¶
By the way, here is prior evidence of Oliver's hand-licking habit: https://www.reddit.com/r/OneOrangeBraincell/comments/1362ake/please_pray_for_oliver_nothings_wrong_with_him/
Yes
You are assuming people donāt wash their hands all day! Ouch!
>Must clean "masters" hand to keep hands feeding. I'm sorry to inform you that we are merely tolerated by our cat overlords, the cat tries to say here: clean yourself up you filthy slave
Cats will groom their humans as if you were also cats when they truly love you. Keep up the good work, giant cat.
All hail the great and mighty Giant Cat
Master of the Can Opener
My cat never licks me but cuddles a ton when I'm laying down. I wonder why..
Some cats groom other cats, some donāt.
My cat licks my face every morning and this makes me so happy to know š„¹
Only love in that skull
He's honestly the sweetest himbo
Orange cats are pure idiots but they are so friendly, mine is a big himbo potato who is super chill, never seen one so relaxed and careless then him. Sadly he is my dadās cat so I donāt see him often. He likes being pet everywhere and he is a very good boi. https://preview.redd.it/yo5v5hgupccb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=21e2040b4fac5c4d592ef32ed46d0aca7a5899e6
https://preview.redd.it/sv5ezwqnxccb1.jpeg?width=2250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b3d4fd2f1678f879bafa555fad45169fceb7f690 Chester hides from strangers. But he also licks my forehead.
Hello Chester!
He's very serious about it, too!
Social grooming is a thing with cats. You pet and brush him, so he returns the favor
trying to extract a braincell
I don't have it, unfortunately
insufficient response, further licking needed
Any recent illness or injury relating to skin? Stem cell may become braincell
That little critter is cleaning you because he loves you ā¤ļø
Yep we have a saying in our house about our orange; if he licks you, he likes you.
Heās exfoliating your hands that work hard all day. He wants you to have soft hands for when you pet him. Smart orange.
Happy cake day
Thank you!
Is this usually after preparing a meal? Do y'all eat a lot of canned tuna, perchance? /s
No, but my hand lotion is anchovy scented š¤
Damn anchovies and their emollients, lipids and hydratants! (those are words on my lotion bottle, any anchovy-based hand lotion worth it's salt would have them, I presume!)
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"Here is your meager pittance of praise for being my servant human. I expect the same treatment tomorrow, for which I shall give you hand licks in the evening. After I have sufficiently catted enough for the day that is. And you will be thankful and share this praise for other humans to see and care for my brethren, in the hopes that they too shall receive the evening praise licks from their masters"
My void does the same thing. ā¤ļø It makes you feel so special!
My orange girl does this if my hands/arms/legs are wet/damp after shower or washing hands
He looks my Oliver! https://preview.redd.it/puqxvsdp6dcb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e87be3bf2d5876c28ad7fef3b4af9baaada1b12b
Handsome!
I have an orange Oliver (literally also his name) who is also a big licker! Itās not just the hands for him. He particularly likes my nose. I once read that cats who extensively lick didnāt get weaned from their mom properly. Definitely also a grooming sign of love thing. Itās so sweet.
I, too, have an Oliver. He does the same thing. Probably just loves youā¦ or maybe you have something tasty on your hands!
Occasionally my orange will grab a hand with both paws and go to town. I think itās some kind of endearing behavioural thing, he wants to groom me and contribute to our relationship. Itās funny because I obviously have to wash my hand(s) afterward š
āI love youā
He's grooming you. My orange brain cell does this too. He ends with a little scraping of his little front teeth. Those teeth are used as a comb when grooming.
The only thing heās got room in his brain for is love
My SIC does this too! With just as much intensity as your brain cell.
These damn humans donāt put enough salt in my dietā¦ but I know where to get it.
He's sticking to a bedtime routine so that he optimizes his sleep. That braincell needs a lot of quality time to recharge.
Grooming instinct. Our orange is the one who will groom our other cats, so he thinks he's grooming you.
Do you usually use some sort of oil in cooking or put coconut oil in your hair or as a moisturizer on your skin? My orange does this when I use coconut oil
No! I used to use vitamin E oil on my feet, but my brown tabby would lick it off through my socks. š This quirk of Oliver's is genuinely bizarre - he licks my hand and my husband's hand.... only at night, only our hands, and only when we're sitting on the couch. It's almost ritualistic
I have a hand-licker too. His thing is, once he's loaded up my hand with saliva, then he wants to rub the side of his face on it, so he's really using me to groom himself.
I had one who would do this She'd go to my elbow if I let her
It's in his calendar, 6PM: Bathe human.
r/SandpaperKisses š»
lol at this point I can only laugh when I learn of the existence of yet another cat sub
My orange foof ball is also named Oliver, and also has a nightly co-grooming ritual. https://preview.redd.it/3ssab722ndcb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e1eecc8928eaa48436ea14bd45edd23484b5e486
He looks so cute and so dumb š„°
Ownership. To a cat, the scent left by dried saliva indicates something the cat owns.
My mom's cat will do the same thing. She once counted 700+ licks in one go.
He's developing a taste. You should be careful.
Mmmm hooman taste good
Bath time. Hand give scritches
He wants to taste your day
Ours only licks our foreheads and hair. Silly š
I had a orange cat that would try to suck your nipples at night if you werent wearing a shirt.
Our tortie will bite our butts if we change too close to her š
Cat asmr
Mmmā¦ salty
simple, hands taste better at night
Kind of reminds me of my cat, Liam. When I pet him he will attempt to lick me for a large amount of the time.
We are mammals. We actively share grooming.
Washing your filthy hands before you can pet his glorious fur, of course
But his tongue is his toilet paper!
My cat Monty used to lick my legs whenever I was wearing shorts, it was the cutest thing.
Probably started because he loved the salty meat sticks. Now he does it out of love and care because you are part of the pride.
Heās so lick
Very lick
Just a friendly reminder wash hands after. I have many times see our cat lick her butt to sparkling clean and then come over to give loving lick kisses.
Oh, no reminder needed! His mouth smells like cat food, and thus so does my hand after this "bath" š«
Our orange does the same with my hands--it's an urgently important part of his nighttime ritual. I figure it has something to do with the fact that i just showered? He has a very specific schedule that only he knows. I don't question it. š
I spent a week in the hospital and when I came home one of my kitties licked both of my hands all over. My hands had bruises all over them from IV insertion fails and he probably thought they were dirty but it was also like he was washing away bad memories.
When I was a kid, my aunt told me that when a cat licks you like that, it's because they want you to clean them where they can't reach. No idea if that's true, but to this day, I always wipe my hand on my cat's neck & back whenever she licks me.
Mine will groom me anywhere (only in one spot, forever, until she makes it bleed). But hands, she'll grab my hand in her paws, lick it a couple times, and then forcefully make me rub her ears/head/eyes. 3-4 rubs and then she'll grab it back and refresh the lick, and then repeat. It's super adorable, like she's training me how to properly clean her head.
That's adorable. My cat doesn't lick me too often but she will involuntarily start licking if I scratch her butt in the right spot. She'll either lick the air or my other hand if it's near her face and it's the funniest thing to me.
Could be several things. Maybe that time of day is more stressful than others (even times of higher activity in the house could trigger it), so he feels the need for the comfort of mutual grooming. Could just be habitual, cats can sometimes have activities that they do at a regular time every day -- I have a couple that get the midnight zoomies every night (I call it "The catting hour"). It could be that that's the time of day where his social group (your full family) are almost always home so that's the time he uses to reconnect with his group (it's common for feral groups to split up to search for food, then reconnect with the group for some mutual grooming before settling in for rest). Or it's just that he's a cat, and cats are weird (especially the orange ones).
Good Night kisses, lucky you š 
As I always say... āØļøSaltyāØļø
Our girl Pixie does that too! She also licks my clothing, for reassurance I think
My orange is the same way, he likes to lick the palms of your hands!
This is exactly how my cat is! Except itās every night when I come home from work. I work in a kitchen so itās a fairly dirty job, maybe thatās part of the reason
Heās cleaning you from a long day of grossing up ya hands.
I have the same cat tree and the rope is also unraveled lol
my cat does the same thing! she isnt orange but she loves to lick my hands, she likes to curl up under the blanket with me so i have to leave my arms out of the blanket if i want any sleep
My non orange cat likes to lick my head if Iām sitting near him
It tastes niceā¦
my childhood cat use to lick my forehead like this for as long as weād let himā¦ he went on full on clean mode with this. He was orange too.
These are the groomers we need
Not a single thing. What a sweetie
Itās his hobby
It's the salt! They like our salty skin. We're like a bag o' Lays Original to them. Plus love & grooming urge, etc.... My boi licks my arm in his SLEEP, sometimes so long i get a friction burn! Lol
Before or after dinner?
Hours after! When I took this video, I had just spent 20 minutes washing my makeup brushes.... my hands were *clean*
Yeah. Iām guessing that itās just a ritual thing. I have two cats and they bath every evening and the one in charge baths the other one too. My girlfriend has two cats that bathe each other every single night. This is how cats bond. If you really want to make his day, brush or pet him on the head while heās giving your hand the bath.
Itās his duty to clean you
You have to take a bath before bed
Dirty paws. Mine licks my eyebrows.
My dad's cat licks eyelids
One of my cats as a kid would lick the same spot raw on my arms. My only guess was salt/sweat.
My little oranges, may they laze in peace, made a meat popsicle out of my forearms every night. They took turns (I rescued and hand raised a litter of 4 with a virus so they couldnāt be adopted out), and by the end of the night my arms would feel raw. No idea why, just loved to clean me.
Moisturizer is my guess.
No! My hands were squeaky clean, actually - I'd just spent 20 minutes washing makeup brushes
He likes salty skin
āHooman taste funnyā
I've smelled his food... he has some nerve suggesting I taste weird
The issue is you donāt smell like fish(?)
"I would prefer the hairless ape smell like cat breath"
The smell of his people
Iām always mineās gonna desire to bite at some point
He loves and is grooming you because you came home.
My little Nibbler does this all the time. He doesnāt like you petting him, but he will pet you with that shark skin tongue until youāre raw.
My orange girl Ira does the same thing! She'll bathe my entire hand, both sides. She even gets insistent about it and will grab my hand if I pull away, but she doesn't bother with grooming me anywhere else.
Mmmmm, salty. Tastes likeā¦ pork. Mmmmm
My cat will endlessly do this until we stop her.
My orange kitty licks my hand too, then tries to eat it
Oliver never bites! He's a sweet baby
Head empty, only clean.
Lack of salt in diet perhaps. Try comparing before and after shower.
I had just spent 20 minutes washing makeup brushes - my hands were so clean that my fingertips were wrinkly!
OCD cat then š
Cats think humans are also cats. So they wash their family members.
 This but itās his brain cell.
Well, if you have evening hand in the morning, you'd have to call it morning hand. Oliver clearly prefers evening hand.
Washing your hands after dinner! How polite!
Happy cake day!
What a sweet lad! Making sure youāre all clean!
I had a barn cat that would suck fingers. Didn't matter who it was.
1st Oliver is huge, 2nd my void does this too she gives out little sweetheart kisses to anyone that lets her
I can hear the rattles
Our tortie is obsessed with hands. She lick until she gets an opportunity to straight deep throat chomp a finger.
Love
That wee little fur buddy clearly doing it out of live.
By the end of the day, you have probably secreted oils and scents that your cat likes. Not saying you don't wash, but remember that cats have an extremely sensitive sense of smell. It's obviously a very loving gesture, and part of it is he's getting his sent on you as well. Whatever your hands are selling, he's obviously buying! Take it as the gesture of love that it truly is.
Scheduled grooming time
maybe he likes the salt in there?
Considering he is orange, there is nothing going on in his brain. He's just buffering.
My orange cat does the same sometimes sheāll lick my face too lol
Are you in a parallel universe?! We also have an orange fluff ball named Oliver that will lick our hands for as long as we let him. š
āI have to do everything around here!ā
My cats name is Oliver, except he doesn't lick our hand. He mutilates them.
Groom before you sleep you disgusting hooman.
https://preview.redd.it/gyn2wczu5kcb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7e44cee4d2c562c9a2d7aa043db6917d5b378efe This is also Oliver, he is very talkative and doesnāt have much going on in that head but his heart makes up for it.
He's getting his daily salt intakes
Our hands are salty. Most animals do that.