There’s a reason cats have loose skin on the back of the neck. Called the scruff, that skin is what a new mother uses to pick up her kittens and move them to a different spot, if necessary. It more or less shuts a kitten down, making her unable to resist handling. By the time a kitten is a couple of months old, the mother cat stops corralling her that way. It’s just for the very beginning of a cat’s life.
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