[rockinqsranch]

What am I missing here!? Mrs. RQSR, and myself married almost 35 years, and have had about forty cats (same count for dogs), and currently have three dogs, and sixteen cats.

The only ones in memory that lick us have been the babies. Otherwise they sit on us, and lick themselves incessantly, and gag up hairballs.

Nope the licking is something in our experience is confined to new borns, and up to adolescent. After that they are more layabout, and if they get all lovey they snuggle, rub up against us, and demand we pet them, rub their tummies, and the like.

After as many a cat as have adopted us one might think we’d have been licked thin by now. Not.

THEY lick each other YES. NOT US.

[bgill]

Anytime I settle in my chair for tv watching, mine immediately curls up on me and proceeds to lick my face like crazy. She won’t stop until I make her and then a second later, she starts it up again. We’re in a constant battle of lick, stop it!, lick, enough already!, lick, you’re cute but really!, lick, lick, lick, lick, lick, lick.

[Churchillspirit]

This is really cheating but if you want your cat to lick you scratch him right where the tail joins the body and put your other arm between his mouth and the rest of his body.

I use "him" not "her" because the voluntary "lickers" among my cats have all been boys.