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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah but we chop their balls off soon after. I don't think it works out evolutionarily.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Their many siblings in the wild shall provide the young

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago (9 children)

I keep meowing at hot guys at the bar and none have taken me home yet 😭

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Meow at the moderately acceptably good (minus minus) looking and you may have some luck... but please don't get offended if we start pspspspsing you, it's just a reflex

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Did you try letting them scratch under your collar?

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[–] [email protected] 129 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh sure, when the cat walks into a house and wants to live there, they're all "omg it's so cute" and "let's go buy it food and a bed", but when I do it, they're all "who the hell are you?" and "leave or I'm calling the cops" :(

[–] [email protected] 105 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Have you tried meowing at them?

[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 days ago (6 children)

don't do this. it only made things escalate in my experience

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago

Marking your territory probably didn't help you either

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago

Don't pick a house with a dog next time.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

They don't even meow to each other, just to humans. They know what they are about.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

No, they do sometimes. Some meow in greeting to each other, as seen on cat cams.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

they do sometimes do really low meows to intimidate other cats

[–] [email protected] 144 points 4 days ago (4 children)

People always say they look cute and yea sure,

But did y'all forget the fact that they can literally get rid of all your mice problems?

I got a cat because for companionship and one month later, all those filthy mice are gone.

Being soft and warm to pet, and the beautiful meows, are just the cherry on top of their lovely companionship.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 days ago (6 children)

They -can- do that yes. Whether or not they will choose to, however, is anyone’s guess.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 days ago (2 children)

They rarely need to in the city, also those that weren't taught by other cats most of the time won't kill the mouse just torture it or scare.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Well, whatever my cat did, the mice are gone so... 🤷‍♂️

I did see a few dead mice around the first 2 months, now no sight of mice.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Lmao aint no cat just moonwalking into my house and claiming part of my budget automatically. To the pound with you!!!

[–] [email protected] 102 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Humans are just exceptionally weak to cute. If aliens ever show up and try to conquer us, we're going to be so screwed if they happen to be adorable.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 days ago (15 children)

Speak for yourself, I hope the furry aliens make me their pet.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well, I guess you're getting screwed anyways

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Even if they were horrors beyond our comprehension, a whole lot of people would be still be very sexually aggressive towards them.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That makes it sound like the cat domesticated humanity not "The cat self domesticated itself"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (3 children)

in reality it sure as fuck seems like humanity domesticated humanity, we have a lot of domesticated features like neotony (we look strikingly like chimpanzee children) and we're arguably the most ludicrously social species on earth.

the ironic thing is that cats aren't really very domesticated, they're inherently a social animal and happen to just sorta fit with how humans work.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I never liked cats at all and one did exactly that. Stupid fuck make me fall absolutely in love with it too.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Get another one from the shelter! They have much richer lives if they have another cat to interact with, even if they don't like each other.

Plus having two cats is getting yourself twice the cute and love for very little extra work.

Edit - doesn't this look great?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Be careful, it looks like they're trying to merge and create a Cat King in that first picture!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Are they paying you or something??

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 days ago (3 children)

As of about three weeks ago a stray cat figured out how to use our doggie door.

Now we have a 2nd cat.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

The cat that walked into my house and said "I live here meow."

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago

Lost opportunity to say "I live here meow"

[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 days ago (4 children)

The fact that only two creature in this world that will approach another creature 10 times bigger than them just so they get adopted is pretty impressive. That's how i adopted my 4th cat, little baby dude just came out from under a car and yell at me until i pick him up.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

"Everybody wants to talk about X, nobody wants to talk about Y".
That's not gaslighting, that's whataboutism.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think it's more along the lines of cats gaslighting humans to care for them....that's where I grew the comparison.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (29 children)

That isn't what gaslighting is, though. Gaslighting isn't simply emotional manipulation; it's a specific kind.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (11 children)

I went to disagree untill I remembered there's a ginger cat that lives on my property that I feed sometimes

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I did my best to take a cat home today when I was at the local landfill. I don't even have space for another cat, it's just freezing here and he looked extra pathetic. He decided the dumpster was safer and u honestly can't blame him xD

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There's been a little baby girl coming around here, underweight, some kind of skin problem. She has always been an outside cat and belonged to my neighbor who died. My wife says we already have four so we can't bring a street cat in that's going to fight them.

She's right, but sometimes little girl comes up when I'm smoking and gets warm laying in my lap and I want to keep her so much.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 days ago

They are funny, don't really need a lot of space and training, and look pretty. Ofc I will go and by whatever.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Did cats domesticate humans, or did Toxoplasma gondii domesticate both of us?

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