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Cilla learnt pretty fast to be gentle and use soft paws when playing with humans or climbing onto laps. Cliff learnt a completely different lesson: that humans are nice and cuddly when wearing jeans, but become irrational and noisy when they have any skin showing. He developed something of an aversion to the touch of human skin because he knew if he climbed over bare legs or clung to a bare shoulder he'd get shouted at.

I'm looking after three foster kittens at the moment and it's amazing how rough they can be with each other! They generally know not to scratch people when interacting with them as people, but it all goes out the window when they're treating people as terrain or interestingly wiggly objects.