All of our cats do this. My current 3 tolerate it to variable extents before becoming overstimulated and rolling away or smacking with claw retracted. If I kept

All of our cats do this. My current 3 tolerate it to variable extents before becoming overstimulated and rolling away or smacking with claw retracted. If I kept doing it I know the next swipe would be unsheathed, and the cats know that I know this, so we never get to that point. Honestly none of my cats have ever liked having bellies rubbed at all whereas getting purrs and drools out of them is pretty easy massaging in the places they like (behind ears, base of tail, beneath chin, scent gland spots I think)