Partially. He likes some heavy hugging for five to ten minutes twice a day but apart from that, 'His Majesty' is far to aristocratic for this kind of plebeian activities.

Here I've got one demonstrating his attitude rather well - unfortunately shot with a bridge camera and in the days when I knew absolutely noting about photography.
Anyway - here comes his Royal Highness *gg*:


Starsky... von don_parrot auf Flickr

While our male Pei, McEnroe, is like a cat. As soon as you are lying on the sofa, he comes to you and puts his head on your legs - and if you are in the mood to do so, you can caress him for hours.