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

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

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

So cats are successful squatters?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 hours ago

Lost opportunity to say "I live here meow"

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 hours 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] 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours 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] 2 points 9 hours ago

People always think aliens would want to kill us, but they would rather make us their slaves.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

Now we have a 2nd cat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Covert cat distribution network, working as intended.

In my opinion cats should never be kept as singles. They need social interaction with another cat, even if they don't like each other. It's not as bad as guinea pigs who will literally die from depression if kept alone, but it's similar.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

Cats after entering a human stranger's house: Look at me. I'm the meowner now.

Humans: Yes, oh cute one!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 12 hours ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

What's the other kind of creature? Dogs?

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