Some DO do it for attention. Infact most, if not ALL do it for attention. That is what they need. That is what they are starving from. They want someone to be there for them, they want someone who truely cares.

I, myself, only need attention from a select few people and I'm fine. When I get too much attention, I get angry. Expecially while at school. I hate when so many people come up to say "Hi" to me, when all I really want to talk to is the few people i *love* with all of my heart. I mean, I like all of my friends -- but these few people *almost* mean as much to me as Simba and Nala do. And for me, that's pretty much loving them with all of my heart, and I wouldn't know what to do if they were gone.