Petting A Cat With A Toothbrush Supposedly Reminds Them Of Being Cleaned By Their Mother, Reddit Reacts (Viral Video And Thread)

We, as cat people, understand and have accepted that cats have their own ways of showing affection. They won't come up to you and lick your face (usually), they won't tell you they love you (not that we'd know if they did anyway). They've got their own ways. So instead of waiting for them to love us the way we want to be loved, we try to adjust ourselves to them. We try to slow blink at our cats, because we know that's a sign of love for them. We try to headbutt our cats, even though it might look weird, for the same reason. We try to cuddle with our cats - when they allow it because we know that they do like physical contact. 

We're always looking for more ways to show our cats that we love them, and we may have come across a new one today. Turns out that petting a cat with a toothbrush might remind them of being cleaned by their momma when they were babies. It's a theory, and we're not really sure if it works, but we do know that we wanna try it. 

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