If it is rubbing against the owner, it is expressing its love for you. When it rubs against the owner's face without any scruples, it shows that it has classified the owner as one of its own. When a cat jumps on your lap and rubs its head constantly, it will release a substance called pheromones and leave a smell on your body. This smell will make the cat feel particularly relieved.

Cats have nine large scent glands, five of which are on the head, namely the auricular glands behind the ears, the temporal glands between the eyes and ears, the cheek glands under the eyes, and the glands on both sides of the mouth. There are perioral glands and submandibular glands located in the chin, so they will focus more on rubbing their heads against their owners. But they do not emit a relatively strong smell. This smell is only spread between cats and other animals with very sensitive sense of smell. Humans can hardly smell it, so they will not emit any strange smell if they are rubbed by cats. smell.

If it’s rubbing against something, it may be marking territory. Because cats have a strong sense of territory, apart from excretion, the most important and common way to divide their territory is to mark their territory by rubbing. Cats will not only mark the edges of their territory to express the scope of their territory, but they will also mark objects they like or frequently come into contact with to express their occupation.