Cat servants

How does your cat react when you leave the house and return? No matter if we have been gone an hour or all day, the Coon siblings greet us at the door when we return. Heath in particular demands attention. Loving and petting is required. Cali insists, "up, up, lift me up". Heath spent ten minutes lounging in my husband's arms when we returned from church this morning. (It's hard to do much else when you're holding 18 pounds of cat!) They both seem to be getting a little more into cuddles as they mature. It's enough to make a person feel really loved to get such a greeting on our return. Then we realized the bowl of kitty crunchies was empty. True love, or just a play to get the human servants back to work?