Luna loves Brutus – she follows him around, tries to nuzzle him, always wants to know what he is doing.  She loves him.

Brutus loves Luna, but more in a best friend “lets play chase but don’t eat my treats” kinda way.  They play, yes, but he sometimes bullies her or chases her away from what he considers “his”.  He is always around her but most of the time when she tries to snuggle him he activates “THE CLAMP”  which is Brutus just grabbing hold of her neck and chomping down. (really hard! His jaw strength is amazing!)

But the other day, Luna made progress in her pursuit of Brutus’ affection!  They both come in the bathroom with me when I shower (as I’m sure your cats do) and Brutus sits in the chair and usually falls asleep. Luna sits on the rug.  After my shower I dried off and sat on the floor next to Brutus’ chair and started to pet him.  Luna became very interested and starting pacing around the chair so I picked her up and put her on the chair.  She sat as far away from Brutus as possible, almost leaning against me.  He opened his eyes to look at her but I kept petting him and eventually he went back to sleep.

After some time, Luna crept closer.  Eventually she put her paws over his paws.  Again he opened his eyes but I kept petting and he went back to sleep.  Luna sat like that for a while, looking very pleased with herself.

After a few minutes, Luna began to inch closer again.  She started to sniff him and even licked his paws abit.  I was taking pictures at this time but every time Brutus would wake up she would go still and wait for him to close his eye again then would continue inching closer.

Then she got close enough that their tails touched!

Closer still…

And finally, she flopped on him! Snuggling as close as she could (basically on top of him) she just pretended to sleep as he woke up and looked at this kitty now laying on him

It’s usually at this point that Brutus will bite or chase Luna away, but this time he started to clean her!!!  She remained perfectly still the whole time and eventually (after looking at me to see why I was being a weirdo taping their snuggle session) Brutus went back to sleep!  They were finally cuddling!

But then Luna’s ear started to inch and although she didn’t want to (it started with a twitch) she had to shake her head. It was at that point Brutus woke up, deployed THE CLAMP and I had to rescue a screaming Luna from the chair.

She didn’t go far though and I told her it was good work for one day.  Little by little she will teach Brutus to cuddle and then he will love her as much as she loves him.