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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Cheap cat food. She turned her back on it, made scratching motions as if burying shit, gave me a "look" and stalked away.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

The Washing machine. It was worse but still he's running outside.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Mother's cat hates everyone who is not my mother. She tolerates me enough to let me medicate her (she might like me)

The kitten is terrified of my twin. My identical twin. Kitten likes me. Kitten lets me pick her up and kissy her. My twin? Scariest fucking thing ever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 31 minutes ago)

You possibly look the same but smell different enough to be freaky. Maybe just luck she settled on you 🤔🤔

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Maybe it's like an uncanny valley situation for the poor thing.

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

It might be! Twin does live here, so you'd think kitten would have gotten use to it all by now, but perhaps not! Perhaps she knows they just wants to love her, and being a cat, wishes only upset upon them. This is what they think XD

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

One of my cat dislike it when i touch his foot and tail and thigh too much, so i proceed to touch his foot and tail and thigh so much that he will start to bite me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

Me trying to pick her up.

But once I do, she's like:

Then 5 second later, stuggles to get off me.

But also she never drinks from a water fountain. That fountain is now just collecting dust...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Citrus. He is genuinely offended if you offer him an orange

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago

That’s due to the whole “citrus fruits are toxic to cats” thing!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

One of our cats is called Loki. He's scared of thunder.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Would be funnier if he's called Thor

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

Non consensual belly rubs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

Being picked up. She lets me do it if I need to but only for a second before she starts wriggling and lamenting. Loves to lay on my stomach so it's not that she doesn't want me close but everything has to happen on her terms.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago

Strangers, especially ones who try to pick her up like a dumbass

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The vacuum cleaner. One cat gets really scared and freezes while the other starts hissing at the machine when I bring it out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

Ahh! The beast that screams while it eats! (to quote an old, old reddit comment)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)
  • Camouflage (as in items of clothing with the pattern)
  • Tall boots
  • The color red
  • When you open a plastic bag, such as for garbage (but if they’re left lying around he loves to sit on them) - this doesn’t apply to treat bags
  • Tall men with deep voices - roughly 6’3” (1.9m) or taller
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Ah... the plastic bag.... same here... 😂

[–] [email protected] 12 points 18 hours ago

Kitty kisses!! I always get a stiff paw to the jaw when I go in to steal some...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 18 hours ago

Being ignored.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Birds. Though her favorite thing is also birds. This...can create issues.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I've a cat that sits by the glass door and shit talks the birds, for hours and hours...

"Hey... Hey birb! Imma fuck you up! Hey... Hey other birb!"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

If a ceiling fan is on one of my boys will hide under chairs and couches and basically just skirt around from cover to cover. I think he thinks it is a bird.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

If it's not a bird, how come it has wings?

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

That, uh, huh. I would like to refute that but I don't know enough about birds.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago

Ah yes, the duality of cat

[–] [email protected] 11 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Cat b hated water. Cat a you could put under a shower and he'd be happy.

Cat b hated nail clipping. Well, about three paws might be tolerated but then it'd be enough and you got the teeth. Cat a didn't mind.

Cat b hated trips to the vet. Somehow he knew and would find the strangest hiding places that day and fight all the way into the carrier and out. Cat a would purr and brush against the vet, happy to see new people.

Taking medicine...

It wasn't that cat b wasn't chill or happy to be around people or anything, he was a big softy, really. But I can't think of much that cat a complained about.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 18 hours ago

The other cat.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Cat 1 - being picked up. Usually makes him very squirmy.

Cat 2 - being petted when she didn’t initiate affection.

Cat 3 - interacting with cat 1, she doesn’t like him, especially not in close proximity, which he hasn’t picked up on despite her hissing and smacking him regularly for the last seven years

[–] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago

It's a love/hate relationship with the auto-feeder.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

My phone when I turn on the camera to take her picture or video.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

🫣 So, not a lot of pics and/or videos?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I have learned to be sneaky, but unless she's asleep or bribed with treats, they're mostly like this where she looks vaguely annoyed or disappointed with me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

Naw the first one she looks mad, but the second you can tell she loves you for sure. Cute kitty!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago

😍 Well... let's say... She does not want her beauty to be on picture... Extremely beautiful cat 😍

[–] [email protected] 12 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

An almost empty food dish... My cat starts meowing when there's like 1/4 of the food still in the dish lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Don’t you know? Anything less than full is empty.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago

If the bottom can be seen at all that is completely unacceptable.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago

Fireworks and thunder

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

Tummy rubs, unless my wife does it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago