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[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago
[–] Bamboodpanda 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I hated cats. Then a cat decided he lived in my house. He changed my life. Now I have another trash cat living with me and I love them both so much.

[–] MintyFresh 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Bamboodpanda 2 points 14 hours ago

I love that ear fluff!

[–] teamevil 4 points 1 day ago

Same thing happened to me ..Luci is the worst, he climbs on my chest and greets me as soon as I'm up ..then he hunts me all day.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I also love them so much 😻

[–] drunkpostdisaster 4 points 1 day ago

They can also hop on your dad's chest while he is sleeping so he can wake up thinking he is having a heart attack

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

I've been witness to the great cat distribution system.

Our current cat has moved house with us twice. The first house at lived at, we were on the ground floor of the place and this furball just waltzed in and took over. Much to the dismay of the cat we already had.

The preexisting cat was similar. She would hang out at a bus stop that my SO would frequent to get to work, didn't take long before she followed my SO home. She was a shit, but she was cute enough to get away with it. Rest in peace Zora.

Anyways, I would submit that the only reason we haven't had more cats distributed to us is that we lived on the fifth floor of an apartment for a long while. We recently moved into a house so that might change.

[–] ZILtoid1991 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cat meowing is the main reason why I redeveloped my echolalia. Yes, I meow back at cats.

[–] Siegfried 4 points 23 hours ago

You can have deep conversations with siameses. Those dudes are super smart

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

actually what they say is "I live here meow"

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] StopTouchingYourPhone 3 points 23 hours ago

My favourite origin myth for human over-civilization is we're the science project of cats. They saw our ancestors tossing their own feces at each other, and thought, I wonder...

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Further proof that if you're cute enough you can get anything you want.

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

Doesn't work on me, I just shoo them away. Gotta evolve harder if they wanna try manipulating me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] chiliedogg 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For some reason I have the sudden urge to built a carpeted tower...

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

😻 purr purr

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

😾 hissss

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 days ago

I have one cat and a doggy door so it can go in and out as it pleases. A stray cat figured out it could use the doggy door.

I have two cats.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 days ago (10 children)

DO NOT feed strangers cats. Water is fine. If you feed it, at best you're fucking up its diet, at worst you're basically abducting the cat.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (24 children)

Pet cats should live inside, with plenty of toys and people that care for them, not out killing bird populations and risking getting run over, etc. Outdoor cats have much shorter life spans...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

My cat figured out the dog door by watching the dogs. She's inside 80% of the time but prefers to do her business outside if the weather's clear and goes out for an hour or so about twice a day besides that.

Of all things, my part basset hound mix is a bird killing machine despite the stubby legs, broken hip and arthritis. I don't know how she manages to do it, but lots of half eaten bird corpses started showing up in our yard right after we got her, but only in the back yard which she could reach via the dog door. Starting before the cat started using the dog door.

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

Back when my cat was alive I got occasional reports that he would enter various other houses nearby and meow by the fridge until he was given a cold cut.

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[–] JayObey711 46 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Well I mean i would probably take in an alligator if it came through my window

[–] IndiBrony 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Alligator can have the whole house, actually. It's okay, I'll move 👍

[–] RedAggroBest 16 points 2 days ago

But then the alligator will be lonely :(

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

I can’t tell if I hate cats or love cats but they are never neutral. In fact there is a wild one in my house right now

I don’t even know why is he in my house or how it happened but at this point I think we tolerate each other pretty good. He gets the hose sometimes, I get his piss hose on the floor sometimes. He gets the snacks, I get the purr and fluffiness. I guess I can live with this chaotic balance.

I guess for someone who likes to control things cats could be a nightmare as they will never be some obedient pets but that may tell more about the owner than the cat.

Kinda sucks that my floor and sofa is ruined tho, it’s like a mini tiger, wildlife in your house. I guess this is the pleasures of completely feral cats. It’s possible that with this experience I could take on some caracal or serval. Of course I am not crazy nor I approve to do this but I have a glimpse of what mindset and work it would take

The Cat is also a menace that cannot stand sight of any other cat and goes straight for the throat. Little fluffy psycho, quite lovely

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

Might be obvious, but have you ruled out infection? Sometimes cats pee in places they shouldn't if they have a UTI.

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