Trading Treats for Purrs: 28 Cute Cat Children Who’ll Steal Your Heart (and Drain Your Treat Budget)

They often say 'the best things in life are free', but if that is the case then how do you explain the transitional relationship of petting a cat in return for tasty treats. After all, there is hardly a self-respecting feline on this earth who would let someone pet them for an extended period of time without the promise of at least a chimken nuggle. Meaning that the saying that is often uttered is likely only true if you have not had the pleasure of petting a cat and handing over your heart to the council of cats who will subsequently own it and twenty purrcent of your salary going forward.

So if you are unfamiliar with the process take this list as a loving explanation of how this system works, why it is worth investing so much of yourself and your finances into it and why, if you are ever lucky enough to be chosen to join it, you should leap at the opportunity with open arms.

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This is true, although there is a cat-veat. And that is that it is only true so long as you have money to buy treats. The second your cat child senses that you are skimping out on them, or that you are withholding treats for lack of budget, they will wander off and find themselves someone who has not yet burnt through their kitty cash this year. It is a tough world out there, but a cat’s gotta do what a cat’s gotta do.
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This is a purrfect example of what can happen when you try and change the treats-purrs relationship. These fur babies’ pawrent trained them to herd sheep for the pleasure of a tasty treat. But once the pawrent thought they had been trained well enough to perform their duties without the promise of treats, the cat children went on strike and are seen here sitting at the picket line, letting the sheep they were meant to herd, defecate all over their pawrent’s nice new deck.
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