All Rufus's cocker girl friends do what you describe. His mother does too. When I was researching, before I brought Rufus home, I read a description about this behaviour in cocker bitches which some people find too much. Rufus seeks attention strictly on his terms. When he wants to be stroked or fussed, which is not that often, he uses a paw. If you stop before he wishes you to, he paws you, and occasionallly puts in a whine. The only time he has ever sat on my lap since he was a puppy is when we were round at a friend's and her large chocolate labrador tried to perform an unnatural act on him. He jumped up onto my lap and rammed his bottom against me! Each evening he sleeps downstairs in the lounge or his crate and then comes upstairs and jumps on the end of my bed. In the night he gets further and further up the bed so when I wake he is next to me. At present he is very fragrant in a cockerish way after several wet days, so I am quite pleased he is in an independent mood and sitting on the sofa opposite me.
