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For your Kitty, petting reduces his stress of being alone all day, reaffirms his importance to you, and creates the desire-to-please-you within your kitty.
When you get home each day, take a few minutes to pet your Kitty. Before you do anything else, stop, drop everything and pet the kitty. Stryper calls it: Paying the Cat Tax.