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Cats are good (lemmy.world)
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[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 73 points 1 year ago

More people should be cats.

[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 32 points 1 year ago

Idk, when I behave like this people call me toxic.

[-] Pilon23@feddit.dk 27 points 1 year ago
[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 35 points 1 year ago
[-] TachyonTele@piefed.social 11 points 1 year ago

Is a cat, confirmed.

[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Toxic or no you’re never not entertaining to watch cuz

[-] jjmoldy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Listen, you gotta stop shitting in the kids' sand box. It's unhygienic!

[-] Albbi@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

Nonono, they're saying you're infected with toxoplasmosis.

[-] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

And they don't half complain when I bring them something small and dead!

[-] match@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago
[-] KittyCat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Who's next?

[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 52 points 1 year ago

What I like is that they're low maintainance in general but you can still invest a lot of emotional labour if you want to have a closer bond. There's so many levels of how much a cat trusts you. Never gets boring.

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 35 points 1 year ago

Cats know their names after a while but often do not care to react to them (or at least not in the way the human wants)

[-] SupaTuba@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

When his little ears turn backwards to me as soon as he hears his name...

But, alas, I could not name him the sound that treats make in the bag...else he'd be running towards me without fail...

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

they know your name

they just respect the boundary

[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago

Yes. That's why cats get along well with various magical kin. The cat learns their true name, but has the decency never to speak it.

[-] CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They sure know our names as "servant"!

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago

I was thinking the other day how my cat probably has no idea what my name is after four years. I live alone, and she hides whenever someone comes over. Lol

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago

She probably has her own name for you. To which you respond about as well as she responds when you use hers.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

You know what, I always respond to her when she meows and if I can’t see her/she's not at the door, I’ll go and find her, and she does the exact same thing! She’ll chirp at it if she can see me or knows I’m in bed and come find me if not when I call her name. 🥹

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

(in meows) "Hey, asshole, get over here!"

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

In Cat, asshole is a compliment. That's why they show you theirs.

[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Mine picked up on my name quickly. Then I trained him to use buttons and he correctly can understand that the button for my name means he wants my attention / denotes ownership of something. I.e " food" and " food" which means he leaves it alone. Often says shit like " lets play" or " pets ".

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 9 points 1 year ago

My dad would tell the cat we had when I was young that " is home" when I drove past the front window into the driveway and he'd take off to go wait for me at the door. He didn't do that for anyone else. I miss that cat.

[-] ericatty@infosec.pub 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My parents lived next door to my grandma. Mom would say "wanna go to Grandma's" to her cat and he'd jump up on a speaker beside the door to be picked up and carried. Grandma would make him a scrambled egg or give him some tuna.

After Mom passed away, I was visiting Dad and thought I'd try "Wanna go to Grandma's?" He jumped up and let me carry him to Grandma's and back. (After his scrambled egg, of course) He lived to be 21 so I carried to him see Grandma everytime I visited.

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You two need to knock that shit off, I'm at work.

(I'm kidding, I love cats)

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The more I see a posts involving someone making up songs for their cat the more glad i am to know I'm not that crazy since apparently many other people do it too lol

I have made many "widdle kitty" remixes lol

[-] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean define "song". My girlfriend and I are no composers, but we got a lil jingle for our cat that features the word "potato" a lot.

Izzy doesn't bite me. She steps on me a lot but she doesn't bite.

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

mine is more like;

we don't get along. she bites me. we hug. she bites me. I make up little dialogue for her. she bites me. we're best friends. she bites me.

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