Hahaha...I tend to get a little rough with both of them, which they love. I can slide them across the linoleum floor to the other side of the kitchen, about ten feet, when they are laying on their side.
They jump up, run back. and plop down in front of me again. and I slide them again.
I can pick both up by the tail, which I use when I am lowering them to the ground, and I pick them up by the tail slowly about a foot off the ground, but that is it. I would never in a million years do that to any other cat, but they are both habituated to it and don’t mind because I grab their tails close to the root, and am never abrupt or violent.
The lighter colored one, Admiral Halsey, can get quite carried away simply by nature, he is more rambunctious and aggressive, so I have to be careful with him. He often just starts running around as if he is seeing things I can’t, and his tail, normally slender, turns into a bottle brush, his eyes bulging in some kind of unseen terror or insanity. Then after a few minutes, he is back to licking himself.
The black one, Mr. Inky, is as gentle as can be. Has never drawn blood...