Good morning! If you watch carefully at the beginning of this first video, you should notice Dot finishing up my back massage:
Cats moving their paws up and down like that is called “making bread” or “making biscuits.” They did that when they were babies to induce the mother cat to produce milk.
They never outgrow it, and sometimes they’ll do it when they hop up on your lap. But our Greg does it on his blanket:
Boy, Greg—I wish you were an outdoor cat, because a massage like that would loosen my back right up! 🐴