• salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    13 hours ago

    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” :(

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      3 hours ago

      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?

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    13 hours ago

    When I was a kid Mr Kitty unilaterally moved in despite belonging to the neighbors across the street and the stern objections of my father armed with a squirt gun.

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    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

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      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.

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      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.

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    3 hours ago

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

  • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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    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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    8 hours ago

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

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      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.

  • thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 hours ago

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

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    16 hours ago

    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.

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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      i guess that viruses might be evolutionarily very old, dating back to the RNA-world-episode, seeing how primitive they are.

      maybe they could have a use (exchanging DNA segments between individuals) but that is pure speculation on my part.

    • Trailblazing Braille Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Nah, I assume it’s more like some unconscious dude shows up at your house with a weirdly sharp penis, he impregnates the house, and then the house explodes and a bunch of little dudes spill out.